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</div> </a> <ul id="toc-Google-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sports" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sports"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 5 Sports </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sports-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wealth_and_taxes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wealth_and_taxes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6 Wealth and taxes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wealth_and_taxes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Philanthropy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Philanthropy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Philanthropy </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Philanthropy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-USAFacts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 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id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox " aria-label="Toggle the table of contents" > <label id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-label" for="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" class="vector-dropdown-label cdx-button cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only " aria-hidden="true" > Toggle the table of contents </label> <div class="vector-dropdown-content"> <div 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data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AD_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0" title="স্টিভ বলমার – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="স্টিভ বলমার" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%9E_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%8D%D1%80" title="Стыў Балмэр – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Стыў Балмэр" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B2_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%8A%D1%80" title="Стив Болмър – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Стив Болмър" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1" title="استیو بالمر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="استیو بالمر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%ED%8B%B0%EB%B8%8C_%EB%B0%9C%EB%A8%B8" title="스티브 발머 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="스티브 발머" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A9%D5%AB%D5%BE%D5%A5%D5%B6_%D4%B2%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%B4%D5%A5%D6%80" title="Սթիվեն Բալմեր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Սթիվեն Բալմեր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B5_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0" title="स्टीव बाल्मर – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="स्टीव बाल्मर" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%91_%D7%91%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%A8" title="סטיב באלמר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="סטיב באלמר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%95_%E1%83%91%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="სტივ ბალმერი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სტივ ბალმერი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C4%ABvs_Bolmers" title="Stīvs Bolmers – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Stīvs Bolmers" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mai mw-list-item"><a href="https://mai.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AD_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0" title="स्टिभ बाल्मर – Maithili" lang="mai" hreflang="mai" data-title="स्टिभ बाल्मर" data-language-autonym="मैथिली" data-language-local-name="Maithili" class="interlanguage-link-target">मैथिली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B5_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0" title="स्टीव बाल्मर – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="स्टीव बाल्मर" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1_(%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84)" title="ستيف بالمر (رجال اعمال) – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ستيف بالمر (رجال اعمال)" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1" title="استیو بالمر – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="استیو بالمر" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%85%E1%80%90%E1%80%AD%E1%80%97%E1%80%BA_%E1%80%98%E1%80%B1%E1%80%AC%E1%80%9C%E1%80%BA%E1%80%99%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8" title="စတိဗ် ဘောလ်မား – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="စတိဗ် ဘောလ်မား" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AD_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%B0" title="स्टिभ बाल्मर – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="स्टिभ बाल्मर" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC" title="スティーブ・バルマー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="スティーブ・バルマー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Steve Ballmer" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer" title="Steve Ballmer – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Steve 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Steve Ballmer</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Steve_Ballmer_2014.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Steve_Ballmer_2014.jpg/220px-Steve_Ballmer_2014.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Steve_Ballmer_2014.jpg/330px-Steve_Ballmer_2014.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Steve_Ballmer_2014.jpg/440px-Steve_Ballmer_2014.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1536" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Ballmer in 2014</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Steven Anthony Ballmer</div> (1956-03-24) March 24, 1956 (age 68) <div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>, Michigan, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a> (dropped out)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td 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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Connie Snyder</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1990)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/File:Steve_Ballmer_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Steve_Ballmer_signature.svg/150px-Steve_Ballmer_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Steve_Ballmer_signature.svg/225px-Steve_Ballmer_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Steve_Ballmer_signature.svg/300px-Steve_Ballmer_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="338" data-file-height="149" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> Steven Anthony Ballmer (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈbɔːlmər/</a>; March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who served as chief executive officer of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> from 2000 to 2014.<a href="#cite_note-cnnbio-1">[1]</a> He is the owner of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Clippers" title="Los Angeles Clippers">Los Angeles Clippers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> (NBA). He is a co-founder of <a href="/wiki/Ballmer_Group" title="Ballmer Group">Ballmer Group</a>, a philanthropic investment company.<a href="#cite_note-:1-2">[2]</a> As of November 2024, <a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_Billionaires_Index" title="Bloomberg Billionaires Index">Bloomberg Billionaires Index</a> estimates his personal wealth at around $145 billion, making him the tenth-<a href="/wiki/Lists_of_people_by_net_worth" title="Lists of people by net worth">richest person in the world</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Bloombergb-3">[3]</a> At the same time <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a> ranks him as the eighth-richest person with a net worth of $123 billion.<a href="#cite_note-Forbes_net-4">[4]</a> Ballmer was hired by <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a> at Microsoft in 1980, and subsequently left the <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administration" title="Master of Business Administration">MBA</a> program at <a href="/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University">Stanford University</a>. He eventually became president in 1998, and replaced Gates as CEO on January 13, 2000.<a href="#cite_note-ms_bio-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-6">[6]</a> On February 4, 2014, Ballmer retired as CEO and was replaced by <a href="/wiki/Satya_Nadella" title="Satya Nadella">Satya Nadella</a>; Ballmer remained on Microsoft's board of directors until August 19, 2014.<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-nadella-8">[8]</a> Under Ballmer's leadership, a 14-year period, the company tripled sales and doubled profits, but lost its <a href="/wiki/Market_dominance" class="mw-redirect" title="Market dominance">market dominance</a> and missed out on <a href="/wiki/21st_century_skills" title="21st century skills">21st-century technology trends</a> such as the ascendance of <a href="/wiki/Smartphone" title="Smartphone">smartphones</a> in the forms of <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhone</a> and <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> Players and sportswriters generally consider Ballmer's ownership of the Clippers as an improvement over previous owner <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sterling" title="Donald Sterling">Donald Sterling</a>, citing his willingness to acquire superstar players and finance the construction of <a href="/wiki/Intuit_Dome" title="Intuit Dome">Intuit Dome</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education">edit</a>]</div> Steven Anthony Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956, in <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>, Michigan, as the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederic Henry (Fritz Hans) Ballmer, a manager at the <a href="/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company" title="Ford Motor Company">Ford Motor Company</a>.<a href="#cite_note-cnnbio-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-14">[14]</a> Frederic (1923–2000) was from <a href="/wiki/Zuchwil" title="Zuchwil">Zuchwil</a>, Switzerland, and arrived in the United States in 1948.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] He is Jewish. Steve's mother was the daughter of Samuel Dworkin, a Russian Jew who fled to the United States in 1914 and became a merchant for a glass store.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Through his mother, Ballmer is a second cousin of actress and comedian <a href="/wiki/Gilda_Radner" title="Gilda Radner">Gilda Radner</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:2-14">[14]</a> Ballmer grew up in the affluent community of <a href="/wiki/Farmington_Hills,_Michigan" title="Farmington Hills, Michigan">Farmington Hills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>. Ballmer also lived in Brussels from 1964 to 1967, where he attended the <a href="/wiki/International_School_of_Brussels" title="International School of Brussels">International School of Brussels</a>.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> In 1973, he attended college prep and engineering classes at <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Technological_University" title="Lawrence Technological University">Lawrence Technological University</a>. He graduated as <a href="/wiki/Valedictorian" title="Valedictorian">valedictorian</a> from <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Country_Day_School" title="Detroit Country Day School">Detroit Country Day School</a>, a private <a href="/wiki/University-preparatory_school" class="mw-redirect" title="University-preparatory school">college preparatory school</a> in <a href="/wiki/Beverly_Hills,_Michigan" title="Beverly Hills, Michigan">Beverly Hills</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a>, with a score of 790 on the mathematical section of the <a href="/wiki/SAT" title="SAT">SAT</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> and was a <a href="/wiki/National_Merit_Scholarship_Program" title="National Merit Scholarship Program">National Merit Scholar</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nationalmerit-18">[18]</a> (He eventually became a member of the school's board of directors.) Ballmer, the first in his family to graduate from college,<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> attended <a href="/wiki/Harvard_College" title="Harvard College">Harvard College</a>, where he was a manager for the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Crimson_football" title="Harvard Crimson football">Harvard Crimson football</a> team and a member of the <a href="/wiki/Fox_Club_(Harvard)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fox Club (Harvard)">Fox Club</a>, worked on <a href="/wiki/The_Harvard_Crimson" title="The Harvard Crimson">The Harvard Crimson</a> newspaper as well as the <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Advocate" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvard Advocate">Harvard Advocate</a>, and lived down the hall from fellow sophomore <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a>. He scored highly in the <a href="/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathematical_Competition" title="William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition">William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition</a>, an exam sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_Association_of_America" title="Mathematical Association of America">Mathematical Association of America</a>, scoring higher than Bill Gates.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> He graduated <a href="/wiki/Magna_cum_laude" class="mw-redirect" title="Magna cum laude">magna cum laude</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">Bachelor of Arts</a> in <a href="/wiki/Applied_mathematics" title="Applied mathematics">applied mathematics</a> and economics in 1977.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> Ballmer worked as an assistant product manager at <a href="/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble" title="Procter & Gamble">Procter & Gamble</a> for two years, where he shared an office with <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Immelt" title="Jeff Immelt">Jeff Immelt</a>, who later became CEO of <a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a>.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> After briefly trying to write screenplays in Hollywood,<a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-25">[25]</a> he started attending the <a href="/wiki/Stanford_Graduate_School_of_Business" title="Stanford Graduate School of Business">Stanford Graduate School of Business</a> for his MBA (where <a href="/wiki/Mukesh_Ambani" title="Mukesh Ambani">Mukesh Ambani</a> was his classmate<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a>), but dropped out in 1980 to join Microsoft.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_with_Microsoft">History with Microsoft</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History with Microsoft">edit</a>]</div> Ballmer joined <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 30th employee and the first business manager hired by Gates.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> Ballmer joined Microsoft with a salary of $50,000 plus 10% of the profit he generated and no equity.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> However, Ballmer's profit-share started to balloon out of control as Microsoft grew. When Dave Marquardt suggested for Microsoft to reorganize as a corporation instead of a private partnership, he proposed that Ballmer own 8% of the company in exchange for cancelling the profit-sharing model. <a href="/wiki/Paul_Allen" title="Paul Allen">Paul Allen</a> initially disagreed, but Gates and Allen reached an agreement when Gates agreed to fund an outsized majority of Ballmer's 8% stake.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> When Microsoft was incorporated in 1981, Ballmer owned 8% of the company. In 2003, Ballmer sold 39.3 million Microsoft shares for about $955 million, reducing his ownership to 4%.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> The same year, he replaced Microsoft's <a href="/wiki/Employee_stock_option" title="Employee stock option">employee stock options</a> program.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> In his first 20 years at the company, Ballmer headed several Microsoft divisions, including operations, operating systems development, and sales and support. In February 1992, he became Executive Vice President for Sales and Support. Ballmer led Microsoft's development of the <a href="/wiki/.NET_Framework" title=".NET Framework">.NET Framework</a>. Ballmer was promoted to President of Microsoft in July 1998, making him the de facto number two after the chairman and CEO, Bill Gates.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chief_executive_officer_(2000–2014)">Chief executive officer (2000–2014)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Chief executive officer (2000–2014)">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Steve_Ballmer_MWC_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Steve_Ballmer_MWC_2010.jpg/170px-Steve_Ballmer_MWC_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Steve_Ballmer_MWC_2010.jpg/255px-Steve_Ballmer_MWC_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Steve_Ballmer_MWC_2010.jpg/340px-Steve_Ballmer_MWC_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1596" data-file-height="1671" /></a><figcaption>Ballmer at the Mobile World Congress 2010</figcaption></figure> On January 13, 2000, Ballmer was officially named the chief executive officer; he would shed the title of president in February 2001.<a href="#cite_note-ms_bio-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-6">[6]</a> As CEO, Ballmer handled company finances and daily operations, but Gates remained chairman of the board and still retained control of the "technological vision" as chief software architect.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> Gates relinquished day-to-day activities when he stepped down as chief software architect in 2006, while staying on as chairman, and that gave Ballmer the autonomy needed to make major management changes at Microsoft.<a href="#cite_note-businessweek1-36">[36]</a> When Ballmer took over as CEO, the company was fighting an antitrust lawsuit brought on by the U.S. government and 20 states, plus class-action lawsuits and complaints from rival companies. While it was said that Gates would have continued fighting the federal suit, Ballmer sought to settle these, saying: "Being the object of a lawsuit, effectively, or a complaint from your government is a very awkward, uncomfortable position to be in. It just has all downside. People assume if the government brought a complaint that there's really a problem, and your ability to say we're a good, proper, moral place is tough. It's actually tough, even though you feel that way about yourselves."<a href="#cite_note-tech.fortune.cnn.com-37">[37]</a> Upon becoming CEO, Ballmer required detailed business justification to approve new products, rather than allowing hundreds of products that sounded potentially interesting or trendy. In 2005, he recruited <a href="/wiki/B._Kevin_Turner" title="B. Kevin Turner">B. Kevin Turner</a> from <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a>, who was the president and CEO of <a href="/wiki/Sam%27s_Club" title="Sam's Club">Sam's Club</a>, to become Microsoft's chief operating officer.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> Turner was hired at Microsoft to lead the company's sales, marketing, and services group and to instill more process and discipline in the company's operations and salesforce.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> Since Bill Gates' retirement, Ballmer oversaw a "dramatic shift away from the company's PC-first heritage", replacing most major division heads in order to break down the "talent-hoarding fiefdoms"; in 2012, this led <a href="/wiki/Businessweek" class="mw-redirect" title="Businessweek">Businessweek</a> to say that the company "arguably [had] the best product lineup in its history". Ballmer drove Microsoft's "connected computing" strategy with acquisitions such as <a href="/wiki/Skype" title="Skype">Skype</a>.<a href="#cite_note-businessweek1-36">[36]</a> Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's share price stagnated<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> even as the company's annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income increased 215% to $23 billion, and its gross profit of 75 cents on every dollar in sales was double that of <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a> or <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>.<a href="#cite_note-wsj2-41">[41]</a> With the company's total annual profit growth of 16.4%, Ballmer's tenure at Microsoft surpassed the performances of other well-known CEOs such as <a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Jack_Welch" title="Jack Welch">Jack Welch</a> (11.2%) and <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Louis V. Gerstner Jr.">Louis V. Gerstner Jr.</a> (2%).<a href="#cite_note-businessweek1-36">[36]</a> These gains came from the existing Windows and Office franchises, with Ballmer maintaining their profitability, fending off threats from competitors such as <a href="/wiki/Linux" title="Linux">Linux</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Open-source_software" title="Open-source software">open-source</a> <a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">operating systems</a> and <a href="/wiki/Google_Docs" title="Google Docs">Google Docs</a>.<a href="#cite_note-newyorker-42">[42]</a> Ballmer also built half a dozen new businesses,<a href="#cite_note-wsj2-41">[41]</a> such as the data centers division and the <a href="/wiki/Xbox" title="Xbox">Xbox</a> entertainment and devices division ($8.9 billion),<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-Fortune-44">[44]</a> and oversaw the acquisition of Skype. Ballmer also constructed the company's $20 billion Enterprise Business, consisting of new products and services such as <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Exchange_Server" title="Microsoft Exchange Server">Exchange</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Server" title="Windows Server">Windows Server</a>, <a href="/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_SQL_Server" title="History of Microsoft SQL Server">SQL Server</a>, <a href="/wiki/SharePoint" title="SharePoint">SharePoint</a>, System Center, and <a href="/wiki/Dynamics_CRM" class="mw-redirect" title="Dynamics CRM">Dynamics CRM</a>, each of which initially faced an uphill battle for acceptance but have emerged as leading or dominant in each category.<a href="#cite_note-Fortune-44">[44]</a> This diversified product mix helped to offset the company's reliance on PCs and mobile computing devices as the company entered the <a href="/wiki/Post-PC_era" title="Post-PC era">post-PC era</a>; in reporting quarterly results during April 2013, while <a href="/wiki/Windows_Phone_8" title="Windows Phone 8">Windows Phone 8</a> and <a href="/wiki/Windows_8" title="Windows 8">Windows 8</a> had not managed to increase their market share above single digits, the company increased its profit 19% over the previous quarter in 2012, as the Microsoft Business Division (including <a href="/wiki/Office_365" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 365">Office 365</a>) and Server and Tools division (cloud services) are each larger than the Windows division.<a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-wsj2-41">[41]</a> Ballmer attracted criticism for failing to capitalize on several new consumer technologies, forcing Microsoft to play catch-up in the areas of tablet computing, smartphones and music players with mixed results.<a href="#cite_note-businessweek1-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-wsj2-41">[41]</a> According to <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a>, under Ballmer's watch, "In many cases, Microsoft latched onto technologies like smartphones, touchscreens, 'smart' cars and wristwatches that read sports scores aloud long before Apple or Google did. But it repeatedly killed promising projects if they threatened its cash cows [Windows and Office]."<a href="#cite_note-wsj2-41">[41]</a> Ballmer was even named one of the worst CEOs of 2013 by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> As a result of these many criticisms, in May 2012, hedge fund manager <a href="/wiki/David_Einhorn_(hedge_fund_manager)" title="David Einhorn (hedge fund manager)">David Einhorn</a> called on Ballmer to step down as CEO of Microsoft. "His continued presence is the biggest overhang on Microsoft's stock," Einhorn said in reference to Ballmer.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> In a May 2012 column in <a href="/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a> magazine, Adam Hartung described Ballmer as "the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company", saying he had "steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets (mobile music, headsets and tablets)".<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> In 2009, and for the first time since Bill Gates resigned from day-to-day management at Microsoft, Ballmer delivered the opening keynote at <a href="/wiki/Consumer_Electronics_Show" title="Consumer Electronics Show">CES</a>.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Steve_Ballmer_-_MIX_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Steve_Ballmer_-_MIX_2008.jpg/220px-Steve_Ballmer_-_MIX_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Steve_Ballmer_-_MIX_2008.jpg/330px-Steve_Ballmer_-_MIX_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Steve_Ballmer_-_MIX_2008.jpg/440px-Steve_Ballmer_-_MIX_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption>Ballmer at <a href="/wiki/MIX_(Microsoft)" title="MIX (Microsoft)">MIX</a> in 2008</figcaption></figure> As part of his plans to expand on <a href="/wiki/Computer_hardware" title="Computer hardware">hardware</a>, on June 19, 2012, Ballmer revealed Microsoft's first ever computer device, a tablet called <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Surface" title="Microsoft Surface">Microsoft Surface</a> at an event held in Hollywood, Los Angeles.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> He followed this by announcing the company's purchase of <a href="/wiki/Nokia" title="Nokia">Nokia</a>'s mobile phone division in September 2013,<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a> his last major acquisition for Microsoft as CEO. On August 23, 2013, Microsoft announced that Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months. A special committee that included Bill Gates would decide on the next CEO.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> There was a list of potential successors to Ballmer as Microsoft CEO, but all had departed the company: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Allchin" title="Jim Allchin">Jim Allchin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brad_Silverberg" title="Brad Silverberg">Brad Silverberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Maritz" title="Paul Maritz">Paul Maritz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Myhrvold" title="Nathan Myhrvold">Nathan Myhrvold</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greg_Maffei" title="Greg Maffei">Greg Maffei</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pete_Higgins_(businessman)" title="Pete Higgins (businessman)">Pete Higgins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Raikes" title="Jeff Raikes">Jeff Raikes</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._Allard" class="mw-redirect" title="J. Allard">J. Allard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robbie_Bach" class="mw-redirect" title="Robbie Bach">Robbie Bach</a>, Bill Veghte, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Ozzie" title="Ray Ozzie">Ray Ozzie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Muglia" title="Bob Muglia">Bob Muglia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Steven_Sinofsky" title="Steven Sinofsky">Steven Sinofsky</a>.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> <a href="/wiki/B._Kevin_Turner" title="B. Kevin Turner">B. Kevin Turner</a>, Microsoft's <a href="/wiki/Chief_Operating_Officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Operating Officer">Chief Operating Officer</a> (COO), was considered by some to be a de facto number two to Ballmer, with Turner having a strong grasp of business and operations but lacking technological vision.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> On February 4, 2014, <a href="/wiki/Satya_Nadella" title="Satya Nadella">Satya Nadella</a> succeeded Ballmer as CEO.<a href="#cite_note-nadella-8">[8]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Public_image">Public image</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Public image">edit</a>]</div> Although as a child he was so shy that he would hyperventilate before <a href="/wiki/Hebrew_school" title="Hebrew school">Hebrew school</a>,<a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-25">[25]</a> Ballmer is known for his energetic and exuberant personality, which is meant to motivate employees and partners,<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a> shouting so much that he needed surgery on his vocal cords.<a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-25">[25]</a> Ballmer's excited stage appearances at Microsoft events were widely circulated on the Internet as <a href="/wiki/Viral_video" title="Viral video">viral videos</a>.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a><a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> One of his earliest known viral videos was a parody video, produced for Microsoft employees in 1986, promoting <a href="/wiki/Windows_1.0" title="Windows 1.0">Windows 1.0</a> in the style of a <a href="/wiki/Crazy_Eddie" title="Crazy Eddie">Crazy Eddie</a> commercial.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> Ballmer and <a href="/wiki/Brian_Valentine" title="Brian Valentine">Brian Valentine</a> later repeated this in a spoof promotion of <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP" title="Windows XP">Windows XP</a>. A widely circulated video was his entrance on stage at Microsoft's 25th anniversary event in September 2000,<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> where Ballmer jumped across the stage and shouted, "I love this company!"<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-buzzblog-2015-64">[64]</a> Another viral video was captured at a <a href="/wiki/Windows_2000" title="Windows 2000">Windows 2000</a> developers' conference, featuring a visibly perspiring Ballmer repeatedly chanting the word "developers".<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relationship_with_Bill_Gates">Relationship with Bill Gates</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Relationship with Bill Gates">edit</a>]</div> Ballmer was Gates' <a href="/wiki/Best_man" class="mw-redirect" title="Best man">best man</a> at his wedding to <a href="/wiki/Melinda_French" class="mw-redirect" title="Melinda French">Melinda French</a>, and the two men described their relationship as a marriage. They were so close for years that another Microsoft executive described it as a <a href="/wiki/Mind_meld" class="mw-redirect" title="Mind meld">mind meld</a>. Combative debates—a part of Microsoft's corporate culture—that many observers believed were personal arguments occurred within the relationship; while Gates was glad in 2000 that Ballmer was willing to become CEO so he could focus on technology,<a href="#cite_note-leibovich20001231-25">[25]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported that there was tension surrounding the transition of authority. Things became so bitter that, on one occasion, Gates stormed out of a meeting after a shouting match in which Ballmer jumped to the defense of several colleagues, according to an individual present at the time. After the exchange, Ballmer seemed "remorseful", the person said. Once Gates leaves, "I'm not going to need him for anything. That's the principle", Ballmer said. "Use him, yes, need him, no".<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> In October 2014, a few months after Ballmer left his post at Microsoft, a <a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)">Vanity Fair</a> profile stated that Ballmer and Gates no longer talk to each other due to animosity over Ballmer's resignation.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> In a November 2016 interview, Ballmer said he and Gates have "drifted apart" ever since, saying that they always had a "brotherly relationship" beforehand.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> He said that his push into the hardware business, specifically <a href="/wiki/Smartphone" title="Smartphone">smartphones</a>, which Gates did not support, contributed to their relationship breakdown.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Retirement">Retirement</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Retirement">edit</a>]</div> After saying in 2008 that he intended to remain CEO for another decade, Ballmer announced his retirement in 2013, after losing billions of dollars in acquisitions and on the Surface tablet. Microsoft's stock price rebounded on the news.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> Ballmer says that he regretted the lack of focus on <a href="/wiki/Windows_Mobile" title="Windows Mobile">Windows Mobile</a> in the early 2000s, leaving Microsoft a distant third in the smartphone market [in 2013].<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> Moreover, he attributed the success of the expensively-priced <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhones</a> to carrier subsidies.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> He went on to say,<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">People like to point to this quote where I said iPhones will never sell, because the price at $600 or $700 was too high. And there was a business model innovation by Apple to get it essentially built into the monthly cellphone bill.</blockquote> Ballmer called the acquisition of the mobile phone division of <a href="/wiki/Nokia" title="Nokia">Nokia</a> his "toughest decision" during his tenure.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> Ballmer hosted his last company meeting in September 2013,<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> and stepped down from the company's board of directors in August 2014.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> On December 24, 2014, the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Seattle Times">Seattle Times</a> reported that the <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_v._Internal_Revenue_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft v. Internal Revenue Service">IRS sued</a> Ballmer, <a href="/wiki/Craig_Mundie" title="Craig Mundie">Craig Mundie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Raikes" title="Jeff Raikes">Jeff Raikes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Allchin" title="Jim Allchin">Jim Allchin</a>, Orlando Ayala and David Guenther in an effort to compel them to testify in Microsoft's corporate tax audit. The IRS had been looking into how Microsoft and other companies deal with <a href="/wiki/Transfer_pricing" title="Transfer pricing">transfer pricing</a>.<a href="#cite_note-seattletimes-77">[77]</a> In 2015, he and his wife co-founded <a href="/wiki/Ballmer_Group" title="Ballmer Group">Ballmer Group</a>, a philanthropic investment company that aims to help children, particularly those in poor families, achieve <a href="/wiki/Economic_mobility" title="Economic mobility">economic mobility</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:1-2">[2]</a> In December 2023, <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> estimated that Ballmer was set to collect $1 billion in dividends from his ongoing ownership of Microsoft stock, after the company announced an increase in its dividend to $3 per share.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_positions">Other positions</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Other positions">edit</a>]</div> Ballmer was a director of <a href="/wiki/Accenture" title="Accenture">Accenture</a> and a general partner of Accenture SCA from 2001 to 2006.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[80]</a> Details about his remuneration in these positions remain undisclosed.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="On_competing_companies_and_software">On competing companies and software</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: On competing companies and software">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Apple">Apple</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Apple">edit</a>]</div> In 2007, Ballmer said, "There's no chance that the <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhone</a> is going to get any significant market share. No chance."<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> Speaking at a conference in NYC in 2009, Ballmer criticized Apple's pricing, saying, "Now I think the tide has turned back the other direction (against Apple). The economy is helpful. Paying an extra $500 for a computer in this environment—same piece of hardware—paying $500 more to get a logo on it? I think that's a more challenging proposition for the average person than it used to be."<a href="#cite_note-slashgear-83">[83]</a> In 2015, when Apple had become the world's most valuable company, Ballmer called Microsoft's decision to invest in Apple to save it from <a href="/wiki/Bankruptcy" title="Bankruptcy">bankruptcy</a> in 1997 as the "craziest thing we ever did".<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> In 2016, Ballmer revisited his <a href="/wiki/IPhone" title="IPhone">iPhone</a> statements, saying, "People like to point to this quote...but the reason I said that was [that] the price of $600–$700 was too high". He said he did not realize that Apple was going to have phone carriers build the cost into the customer's monthly bill.<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Free_and_open_source_software">Free and open source software</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Free and open source software">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_and_open_source" title="Microsoft and open source">Microsoft and open source</a></div> In July 2000, Ballmer called the <a href="/wiki/Free_software" title="Free software">free software</a> <a href="/wiki/Linux_kernel" title="Linux kernel">Linux kernel</a> "<a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a>"<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> and further claimed that it infringed with Microsoft's intellectual property.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> In June 2001 he called Linux a "cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches".<a href="#cite_note-viral-88">[88]</a> Ballmer used the notion of <a href="/wiki/Viral_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Viral license">"viral" licensing terms</a> to express his concern over the fact that the <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a> (GPL) employed by such software requires that all derivative software be under the GPL or a compatible license. In April 2003 he even interrupted his skiing holiday in <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> to personally plead with the mayor of <a href="/wiki/Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> not to switch to Linux.<a href="#cite_note-Munich1-89">[89]</a> But he did not succeed with this and Munich switched to <a href="/wiki/LiMux" title="LiMux">LiMux</a>, despite his offering a 35% discount at his <a href="/wiki/Lobbying" title="Lobbying">lobbying visit</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Munich2-90">[90]</a> In March 2016, Ballmer changed his stance on Linux, saying that he supports his successor <a href="/wiki/Satya_Nadella" title="Satya Nadella">Satya Nadella</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Open-source_model" class="mw-redirect" title="Open-source model">open source</a> commitments. He maintained that his comments in 2001 were right at the time but that times have changed.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Google">Google</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Google">edit</a>]</div> In 2005, Microsoft sued Google for hiring one of its previous vice presidents, <a href="/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee" title="Kai-Fu Lee">Kai-Fu Lee</a>, claiming it was in violation of his one-year non-compete clause in his contract. <a href="/wiki/Mark_Lucovsky" title="Mark Lucovsky">Mark Lucovsky</a>, who left for Google in 2004, alleged in a sworn statement to a Washington state court that Ballmer became enraged upon hearing that Lucovsky was about to leave Microsoft for <a href="/wiki/Google" title="Google">Google</a>, picked up his chair, and threw it across his office, and that, referring to then Google Executive Chairman <a href="/wiki/Eric_Schmidt" title="Eric Schmidt">Eric Schmidt</a> (who had previously worked for competitors Sun and Novell), Ballmer vowed to "kill Google."<a href="#cite_note-Heats_up-93">[93]</a> Lucovsky reports:<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">At some point in the conversation Mr. Ballmer said: "Just tell me it's not Google." I told him it was Google. At that point, Mr. Ballmer picked up a chair and threw it across the room hitting a table in his office. Mr. Ballmer then said: "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google."<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a></blockquote> Ballmer then resumed attempting to persuade Lucovsky to stay at Microsoft. Ballmer has described Lucovsky's account of the incident as a "gross exaggeration of what actually took place".<a href="#cite_note-Heats_up-93">[93]</a> During the 2011 <a href="/wiki/Web_2.0_Summit" title="Web 2.0 Summit">Web 2.0 Summit</a> in San Francisco, he said: "You don't need to be a computer scientist to use a Windows Phone and you do to use an Android phone ... It is hard for me to be excited about the Android phones."<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a><a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> In 2013, Ballmer said that Google was a "<a href="/wiki/Monopoly" title="Monopoly">monopoly</a>" that should be pressured from market competition authorities.<a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sports">Sports</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Sports">edit</a>]</div> On March 6, 2008, <a href="/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Seattle" class="mw-redirect" title="List of mayors of Seattle">Seattle mayor</a> <a href="/wiki/Greg_Nickels" title="Greg Nickels">Greg Nickels</a> announced that a local ownership group involving Ballmer made a "game-changing" commitment to invest $150 million in cash toward a proposed $300 million renovation of <a href="/wiki/KeyArena" class="mw-redirect" title="KeyArena">KeyArena</a> and were ready to purchase the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics" title="Seattle SuperSonics">Seattle SuperSonics</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Professional_Basketball_Club_LLC" class="mw-redirect" title="Professional Basketball Club LLC">Professional Basketball Club LLC</a> in order to keep the team in Seattle. However, this initiative failed, and the SuperSonics <a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics_relocation_to_Oklahoma_City" title="Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City">relocated</a> to <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma" title="Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a>, where they now play as the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Thunder" title="Oklahoma City Thunder">Oklahoma City Thunder</a>.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> In June 2012, Ballmer was an investor in <a href="/wiki/Chris_R._Hansen" title="Chris R. Hansen">Chris R. Hansen</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Sonics_Arena" title="Sonics Arena">proposal to build a new arena</a> in the <a href="/wiki/SoDo,_Seattle" title="SoDo, Seattle">SoDo neighborhood</a> of Seattle and bring the SuperSonics back to Seattle.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> On January 9, 2013, Ballmer and Hansen led a group of investors in an attempt to purchase the <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Sacramento Kings</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Maloof_family" title="Maloof family">Maloof family</a> and <a href="/wiki/Failed_Relocation_of_the_Sacramento_Kings#Seattle" class="mw-redirect" title="Failed Relocation of the Sacramento Kings">relocate</a> them to Seattle for an estimated $650 million. However, this attempt also fell through.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> Following the <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sterling#Racist_remarks_and_lifetime_ban" title="Donald Sterling">Donald Sterling scandal</a> in May 2014, Ballmer was the highest bidder in an attempt to purchase the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Clippers" title="Los Angeles Clippers">Los Angeles Clippers</a> for a reported price of $2 billion, which was then the second-highest bid for a sports franchise in North American sports history (after the $2.15 billion sale of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Dodgers" title="Los Angeles Dodgers">Los Angeles Dodgers</a> in 2012). After a California court confirmed the authority of <a href="/wiki/Shelly_Sterling" class="mw-redirect" title="Shelly Sterling">Shelly Sterling</a> to sell the team, it was announced on August 12, 2014, that Ballmer would become the Los Angeles Clippers owner.<a href="#cite_note-nbcnews-102">[102]</a> On September 25, 2014, Ballmer said he would bar the team from using <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a> products such as <a href="/wiki/IPad" title="IPad">iPads</a>, and replace them with Microsoft products.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> It has been reported that he had previously also barred his family from using iPhones.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> In March 2020, Ballmer agreed to buy <a href="/wiki/The_Forum_(Inglewood,_California)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Forum (Inglewood, California)">The Forum</a> in <a href="/wiki/Inglewood,_California" title="Inglewood, California">Inglewood, California</a>.<a href="#cite_note-The_Forum-105">[105]</a> The purchase would allow him to build <a href="/wiki/Intuit_Dome" title="Intuit Dome">Intuit Dome</a> in the nearby area since plans for a new Clippers' arena were opposed by the former owners of The Forum.<a href="#cite_note-The_Forum-105">[105]</a> In a survey conducted by <a href="/wiki/The_Athletic" title="The Athletic">The Athletic</a> in December 2020, Ballmer was voted the best owner in basketball.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wealth_and_taxes">Wealth and taxes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Wealth and taxes">edit</a>]</div> In 2021, <a href="/wiki/ProPublica" title="ProPublica">ProPublica</a> documented how Ballmer is using his ownership of various sports teams as a means to lower his federal income tax to as low as 12%, compared to around 35% for the athletes playing in the team. The report exposes how the Clippers were profitable before their acquisition by Ballmer, but then reported $700 million in losses for tax purposes in following years.<a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> In 2023, ProPublica did another report, about Ballmer's usage of <a href="/wiki/Wash_sale" title="Wash sale">wash sales</a> helped by <a href="/wiki/Goldman_Sachs" title="Goldman Sachs">Goldman Sachs</a>, under the label "Tax Advantaged Loss Harvesting", resulting in tax savings of more than half a billion dollars over 5 years<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a><a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> As of October 2023, <a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_Billionaires_Index" title="Bloomberg Billionaires Index">Bloomberg Billionaires Index</a> estimates his personal wealth at around $115 billion, making him the fifth-richest person in the world.<a href="#cite_note-Bloombergb-3">[3]</a> On 1 July 2024, Ballmer surpassed <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a> to become the sixth-richest person in the world, driven by a 21% rise in Microsoft shares. Ballmer's $157.2 billion net worth, mostly in Microsoft stock, exceeded Gates's $156.7 billion, which is diversified and heavily donated to philanthropy.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philanthropy">Philanthropy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Philanthropy">edit</a>]</div> On November 12, 2014, it was announced that Ballmer and his wife Connie donated $50 million to the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oregon" title="University of Oregon">University of Oregon</a>. Connie Ballmer is a University of Oregon alumna and previously was on the institution's <a href="/wiki/Board_of_Trustees_of_the_University_of_Oregon" class="mw-redirect" title="Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon">board of trustees</a>. The funds will go toward the university's $2 billion fundraising effort, and will focus on scholarships, public health research and advocacy, and external branding/communications.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a> On November 13, 2014, it was announced that Ballmer would provide a gift, estimated at $60 million, to Harvard University's computer science department. The gift would allow the department to hire new faculty, and hopefully increase the national stature of the program.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> Ballmer previously donated $10 million to the same department in 1994, in a joint gift with <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a>.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> In 2022, Ballmer donated $425 million to the University of Oregon to fund a new institute for <a href="/wiki/Clinical_psychology" title="Clinical psychology">children's behavioral health</a>.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> Ballmer is on the World Chairman's Council of the <a href="/wiki/Jewish_National_Fund" title="Jewish National Fund">Jewish National Fund</a>, which means he has donated US$1 million or more to the JNF.<a href="#cite_note-jnfworldschairmancouncil-117">[117]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="USAFacts">USAFacts</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: USAFacts">edit</a>]</div> Ballmer launched <a href="/wiki/USAFacts.org" class="mw-redirect" title="USAFacts.org">USAFacts.org</a> in 2017, a not-for-profit organization whose goal is to allow people to understand U.S. government revenue, spending and societal impact. He is reported to have contributed $10 million to fund teams of researchers who populated the website's database with official data.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Steve_Ballmer&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> In 1990, Ballmer married Connie Snyder. 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