Bad Boy Ballmer

by Fredric Alan Maxwell

1st Edition

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Book desription: William Morrow & Co, 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Brand New. 9.30 x 6.30 x 1.00. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 19.2 oz. In January 2000 Bill Gates gave his responsibilities and the title chief executive officer of Microsoft to his best friend, Steve Ballmer, who had been at Gates's side almost since the company's earliest days. The news sent shock waves throughout the technology and computer worlds, making many people wonder about the man who was now entrusted with Bill Gates's baby. -- The life of Steve Ballmer is an incredible story of tremendous ambition, genius, arrogance, and charisma, an up-by-the-bootstraps saga of how the child of immigrants growing up in suburban Michigan became the only American billionaire to acquire his wealth working for someone else. -- Bad Boy Ballmer -- also reveals a man so arrogant that after the Department of Justice filed its antitrust suit against Microsoft, Ballmer stood onstage in San Jose and proclaimed to hell with Janet Reno, a man so intense and aggressive that he once ripped his vocal cords by yelling too loudly. -- In this revealing biography -- based on in-depth study and interviews with Microsoft insiders -- Fredric Alan Maxwell provides the complete, controversial narrative of one of the technology industry's most influential, talked-about figures: Steven Anthony Ballmer, the awkward Detroit Country Day School valedictorian who rose to become Microsoft's president, and in the past two years, its CEO. Together with Bill Gates, Ballmer leads the company he and Gates took from less than 30 employees to some 50,000, and annual revenues from $12 million to more than $20 billion and rising. A balanced portrait, this book reveals the good boy Ballmer -- the dedicated son who once took three months off to care for his ailing parents, and the bad boy Ballmer -- the ruthless businessman who at the same time devised and led a scorched earth policy against other software developers, a policy that earned him the nickname The Em-balmer. -- Bad Boy Ballmer -- is also the definitive story of the Bill Gates/Steve Ballmer relationship, from their 1974 meeting at a Harvard dorm to the present. Providing fresh insights into the longstanding bond between this odd couple, who describe their relationship as a marriage, the book will show how Ballmer and Gates work together to form Microsoft's ego and id. Or, as former competitor, Novell's Ray Noorda calls them, the Pearly Gates and the Emballmer: one promises you heaven, the other prepares you for the grave. One half of the new economy's most powerful partnership, Ballmer's greatest accomplishment, -- Bad Boy Ballmer -- shows, may be putting up with Gates for over two decades. -- Eye-opening and thorough, Bad Boy Ballmer is a shocking look at one of the masterminds of the technological age. A biography of the colorful and controversial Steve Ballmer, a Microsoft president who in the year 2000 became that company's C.E.O. Maxwell is the kind of writer who has trouble resisting the irrelevant aside (the connection, say, between Hitler and Harvard football) or the accretion of obvious detail. To be fair, the paucity of new revelations is not entirely Maxwell's fault. Ballmer refused to cooperate with him, and Maxwell had to do battle with Microsoft's public relations army. Any journalist who has covered Microsoft can sympathize with his complaint 'in 15 years of professional writing I have never come upon a less helpful group of public affairs people.' -- New York Times Book Review - Adam Cohen (09/22/2002). .

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