The Steve Ballmer Interview
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Alright. So, David, Steve gave us the signed Clippers jersey with the name acquired on it. There's only one jersey. What are we gonna do about this? Should
we rock paper scissors for it? What what you know what? No. No. You keep it. There's no Seattle basketball team. Oh. Keep it there up north. Alright.
Alright. It'll it'll go in, acquired museum north. Great. Perfect. Alright. Let's do it. Let's
do it. Who
got the truth? Is it you? Is it you? Is it you? Who got the truth now? Is it you? Is it you? Is it you? Sitting down,
Welcome to episode one of the summer twenty twenty five season of Acquired, the podcast about great companies and the stories and playbooks behind them. I'm Ben Gilbert.
I'm David Rosenthal. And
we are your hosts. Steve Ballmer is, among other things, arguably the very best investor of the last twenty years. It sounds a little funny to frame it that way, but here are the numbers. In 2014, when Steve left Microsoft, his net worth was $20,000,000,000, almost entirely comprised of Microsoft stock. Today, eleven years later, it is a staggering 30,000,000,000 according to Forbes. It is incredibly rare to reach this stratospheric level when you are, a, not the founder of the company, and, b, no longer CEO or even employed by the company. And all of this comes from just one investment decisi
Incredible. We, chat about it with him in the conversation to come. Now
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