In Data We Trust | Interview: Steve Ballmer

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The Dispatch

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4.4 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Why does one of the world’s wealthiest men want to fund a database full of U.S. facts and figures? Steve Ballmer, former Microsoft executive and founder of USAfacts.org, joins Jamie at Dispatch HQ to discuss his philanthropic efforts. The Agenda: —Saying no to Mitt Romney (back in the day) —Figures on immigration, healthcare, and debt —Data-based decision-making —The aftermath of Hamas’ October 7 attack —The impact of AI —Funding Harvard Show Notes: —The Atlantic: The Golden Age of American Jews is Ending The Dispatch Podcast is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non-partisan, conservative perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including members-only newsletters, bonus podcast episodes, and weekly livestreams—click here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the dispatch podcast. I'm Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is Steve Balmer.
0:06.7	After meeting Bill Gates as a student at Harvard, Balmer would be ultimately recruited early on to Microsoft,
0:14.4	where he spent over 30 years of his career
0:17.2	rising to the role of CEO
0:20.0	and ultimately becoming one of the 10 wealthiest people on the entire planet.
0:25.6	Today, these days, he is the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers
0:30.1	NBA basketball team and spends much of his time working on philanthropy
0:34.2	including the organization USA Facts which he founded and was the reason he was in
0:39.8	Washington DC this week and the reason he sat down with me at the dispatch headquarters to talk about
0:46.2	that organization the importance of it why he started it as well as other issues
0:51.2	including the future of artificial intelligence,
0:54.3	his thoughts on the October 7th
0:56.6	tax in Israel and their after effects here
0:59.6	in the United States,
1:01.0	and his influences among many other things.
1:04.1	I think you're going to enjoy this podcast, but without further to, I give you Mr. Steve
1:08.8	Balmer. Steve Bamaama, welcome to the Dispatch Podcast.
1:26.2	Pleasure being here.
1:27.2	Thanks for having me.
1:28.2	Steve, I want to get into why you're in town, but first we did a off-the-record dinner last night, but he gave me permission to bring up this story because I found it so interesting.
1:37.0	You were, I guess at Stanford graduate school. You were trying to, you were being recruited by Bill Gates to go to Microsoft and there was another gentleman at the same
1:44.7	time recruiting you to go elsewhere who was Mitt Romney.
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