Post #3522502
2026-07-01 23:52 UTC
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?
Replies (3)
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-07-02 00:00
How much money they made shareholders.
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@sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 00:07
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.
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@nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 2026-07-02 00:54
His net empathy was -53647863919406 but it never went up, so it was not a usable measurement.