Bill Gates says Steve Ballmer was the business partner he badly needed — so he gave up 4% of Microsoft to recruit him
Steve Ballmer mirrored Bill Gates' energy, boosted his social life, and became the round-the-clock business partner he needed ...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on why he gave 4% of his shares to ‘future CEO’ Steve Ballmer
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer's partnership at Microsoft began at Harvard, with Gates offering Ballmer a 4% stake to join the ...
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Bill Gates says Steve Ballmer was the business partner he badly needed — so he gave up 4% of Microsoft to recruit him
Bill Gates details his early relationship with Steve Ballmer in his new "Source Code" memoir. Ballmer mirrored Gates' energy, boosted his social life, and became the business partner he needed.
Bill Gates sacrificed big to hire Steve Ballmer; here's what he gave up and the reason why he recruited him
In his quite new memoir, Bill Gates revealed something surprising that he sacrificed really big to eventually hire Steve ...
Microsoft alums were surprised by the sheer scale of its success, new oral history project shows
Even with Microsoft's hard-driving culture, and its vision for a computer on every desk and in every home (running Microsoft ...
Bill Gates says he'd "hide from the press" if former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer traded "the new and hot OS" for Windows 10
In a recent interview with Bill Gates, Mark Cuban compared The Mavericks trading Luka Doncic to Microsoft trading Windows 11 ...
Bill Gates regretted leaving Harvard: I spent Microsoft's first year trying to get a friend to ‘take charge,' so I could return
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates struggled intensely with the “stay or go” decision that ultimately made him a billionaire. Here’s how he processed it.