Steve Ballmer

“We had done the early work that got Gates and Bomber focused on Google as a threat to the business, and at the time, back then, they were more focused on the enterprise side and on the threat that Linux kind of represented, and so we had gotten the company pre…”

“I remember Steve Ballmer asked me if I'd bet my career on Facebook being worth ten billion, which is what my team and I had kind of come up with, and we didn't have much downside, so we were willing to take the bet”

“But, you know, in the early days of that battle, when they had way better product, Google had a way better product, Balmer would, and Balmer's still CEO at the time, would show up in companies and say, I'm here. Is Larry Page going to come visit? And of course…”

“The Steve years were not great for Microsoft's stock price. They were fantastic for Microsoft's earnings and earnings growth.”

“Steve Ballmer does not get anywhere near enough credit for having built Microsoft's into the powerhouse that it is right now.”

“Even while I was at Tell Me, we were fighting, I was personally fighting Balmer on recruiting Harvard graduates and MIT graduates. I would call a student, He would call a student. I would call them back. He would call them back. And he knew that this was happe…”

“Steve Ballmer. You know, the decade that he was CEO of Microsoft, Microsoft was completely just flat, right? And he's now richer than Bill Gates, right?”