Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: "Make Data Great Again"

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft CEO and one of the world’s richest men, to talk about retiring with a $33bn fortune (1:55), launching his new project USA Facts (3:00), losing his shirt investing in Twitter (3:55), starting as employee number 30 at Microsoft (5:20), what disruption looked like in 1980 (9:20), the most important negotiation of his life (11:25), being Microsoft’s biggest investor (13:00), why he started USA Facts (15:05), on “Making Data Great Again” (16:05), fake news (17:00), on whether he wants to run for office (22:10), spending $2bn on the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers (24:00), when he tried to buy Yahoo for $45bn (27:20), his biggest mistake (29:15), and the next big thing (30:20).

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0:00.0	Yo!
0:01.0	Technology.
0:03.0	What is it all about?
0:05.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Balmer!
0:08.0	Ah!
0:09.0	Woo!
0:10.0	Ah!
0:11.0	Ah!
0:12.0	Ha!
0:13.0	Ah!
0:14.0	Ah!
0:15.0	Steve Balmer is famous for a few things.
0:18.0	Running Microsoft for most of the 21st century, which helped make him the 20th richest man on the planet
0:24.6	with a fortune of $32 billion at last count.
0:28.6	He was also known for buying the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team for $2 billion in cash,
0:35.6	and of course for his off-the-charts intensity.
0:39.3	I want to end with this song.
0:42.3	Respectful, a song that talks about what you've met to me and what you've done for me.
0:50.3	You've made this the time of my life.
0:55.0	He's a few years removed from those days rousing the troops, though he can still be seen court-side at Clippers games, turning purple with rage or literally jumping up and down with excitement.
1:06.0	I sat down with Balmer recently in his brand new offices of the Balmer Group on the 30th floor of a skyscraper in Bellevue, Washington.
1:14.9	His corner office has sweeping views of the Olympic Mountains and Mount Rainier.
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