Billionaire Steve Ballmer bought the LA Clippers in 2014 after a run as Microsoft's CEO. These days, he's focusing his energy on the Intuit Dome — the Clippers' new home — and on getting an NBA title.
With all the subtlety of the Kool-Aid man crashing through a wall, Steve Ballmer entered the NBA in 2014…. after a run as Microsoft 's CEO, Ballmer bought the perpetually lousy LA Clippers for the has-he-lost-his-mind price of $2 billion. Since then: the franchise's value has more than doubled. The Clippers haven't had a losing season. Ballmer has seen his net worth soar north of $120 billion.
We had a lot of our talented engineers tied up elsewhere. Number two, we thought about it as too much like what we had done with Windows. It didn't really-- wasn't gonna work. We had to have different thinking earlier on. And yet during Ballmer's tenure as CEO, revenue more than tripled. He hung on to most of his stock and today, is consistently ranked among the world's 10 wealthiest billionaires. Not that you'd know it.
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