The Commander
Decision under pressure, front of house, leads visibly from the front.
Steve Ballmer reads as The Commander because he pairs raw decisional force with a rare capacity to mobilise people behind a shared cause.
“And then imagine like some of these companies that go from, and I and I see them all the fucking time because this is all relative. Companies that go from 30 million to 100 million or 30 million to 200 million because they got government contract or some shit like that like these waste management companies all these type of things or what…”
“Remove Microsoft Edge off my fucking. That's how much better Google is than like Bing, right? You would think, like, even with iPhone, part of the reason why they got such a lock is because all the hardware connects to it, right? Like people almost get Max because it's so integrated with your iPhone.”
“The episode of the Pocker Watch segment of the week. Steve Balmer. Who's Steve Ballmer? Who's Steve Balmer? Steve Balmer is a man that made a billion dollars this year doing nothing. How do you make a billion dollars this year doing nothing? He owns four percent of Microsoft. How does he own 4% of Microsoft? Steve Balmer.”
“One thing though so Steve, like we're talking about Steve Baum or whatever, he left 2017 and part of the reason that they mentioned is because he was struggling to catch up with Google in the online era, right? So like he was really good from 2017, did a bunch of shit, but probably 20. 11 ish to 2017.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Steve Ballmer”
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