• UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
    295·
    22 days ago

    Balmer was a terrible CEO by nearly every measure

    Steve Ballmer has an estimated net worth between $130 billion and $145 billion, consistently ranking among the top 15 wealthiest people in the world

    What other measure is there?

    • sunbrrnslapper
      45·
      22 days ago

      Under his watch MS missed the smartphone boat, waffled between consumer and commercial products, Windows Vista, Bing, stack ranking employees, organizational silos, pushed a know it all mindset (as opposed to a learning mindset), etc.

      The next CEO did a lot of cleanup for many years.

      • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        21 days ago

        Yeah? But how much money did he earn the shareholders? Innovation doesnt matter if your making bank already

    • nightwatch_admin
      11·
      22 days ago

      His net empathy was -53647863919406 but it never went up, so it was not a usable measurement.

      • UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
        71·
        22 days ago

        I believe he was Microsoft’s single biggest shareholder, after Gates diversified.