One of the best business interviews I have come across over a long time. Above and beyond my expectations. Saved it into my playlist. Steve appears to be very open and straight to the point. I am investor and lot of the business-related concerns Steve shared resonated with me, which gives insights into CEO office and proves that my view of the business world/concepts is accurate. Indeed there are hundreds of questions to cover and understand in business (accounting, people management, sales, marketing, etc.), but that's impossible to focus, let alone excel, in all of them. In this interview Steve shares his view of what is important and crucial to focus on in doing business - rest is just details. And not only his view resonates with my experience, but also supported by his 30+ years of senior executive experience at Microsoft. Regarding his recent CEO performance and "exaggeration" of his role in Microsoft success. Yes, it looks like Steve is more executive rather than a leader and that's why, probably, Microsoft wasn't performing great under his stewardship. Well, on the other hand, he has never been seen as a great visionary. He tried, did his best, but it didn't work out so great - not bad, the company is still around, but in today's highly competitive tech industry it's just not enough what he has done - and he decided to retire. Fair enough - we all learn as we go. Lastly, regarding his role in early Microsoft success. In my view that's not exaggeration what was said. Bill Gates is great visionary and business strategist, but that's not evident that he would pull Microsoft off all by himself without Paul (technical expertise) and Steve (sales, particularly to businesses). In this respect, it's fair to say that without Steve (as well as without Bill Gates and Paul Allen) there would have not been Microsoft.

You Have to love this guy!!

Rare to see from the wonderful opened mind successor how to be he.Thank you so much for your acknowlege, sir.

Yes. I Love this MAN!!! Excelent and very very veryyyyy best conversation

Who chose those chairs? Neither of those men can sit comfortably in them and they look awkward they way they have to sit.

Steve doesn't get his followers, he is one of the BEST CEOs ever

Amazing interview especially it’s connection to Microsoft being his 4th child

Love this guy. In some way he reminds me of the late Chris Farley living in a van down by the river.

Energetic speaker !

Great opinions thanks for this video.

if you're viewing from AT, the one trick pony question is at 42:42 and it ends around 48:00~.

thank you

Interesting point of view

I would like to start learning about business, I don't know were to start, all I can do is ask. Can someone recommend some good books, articles etc for a beginner or something that focus's on these points specifically *understanding of the financial statements of a company *commercial law, particularly the law of contract *contemporary economic principles and theories *roles and responsibilities of management *marketing principles *business communications *Learn how to analyse financial statistical data Message would be great, thanks ;)

How poor of the interviewer to refer to him as Bill at the start of the interview and later on aswell. Embarassing.

Bill?

I think he is about to reveal something really interesting at 20.08.. but we will never know!!!

No.... He's magic: telekinetic vibrations at 17:26

1:08 He just about said Bill Gates. I know he just about did.

@RevEdIndia

5 жыл бұрын

😂

Steve Ballmer as Agent 47

Steve ballmer

LMFAO. Steve Ballmer is like a comedian attempting to troll a CEO, but in actuality, Steve Ballmer IS the CEO. hahaha. I love this man.

what has Steve Ballmer actually done?

@alwaysoutnumber4d

9 жыл бұрын

what have you actually done?

Marketing/business is the school that teaches you to be materialistic. Not a positive lifestyle.

@BrightRomeo

9 жыл бұрын

***** Maybe the words ''selfishness'' or ''greed'' that can connect your comment with mine.

in all honesty he'd make a good used car salesman if hadn't met bill gates.

"BILL ehm STEVE" FAIL@1:13:42

@shekharmaela2308

10 жыл бұрын

uh*

What an embarrassing overstatement of Ballmer's importance. Takes over the reins of a company in a near-monopoly position, fails to improve anything, buys small companies with good ideas but fails to produce anything with them, almost destroys Microsoft's flagship product twice, engages in anti-competitive practices and lies about rivals. Listen to him blathering on as though he's got a history of great decisions. Buying Nokia wasn't a mistake after all - no, Ballmer should have pushed Microsoft to get into that area earlier and then they would definitely have dominated the phone market. He even deludes himself. But then he was the guy who was going to "kill Google" He joined Microsoft at the right time out of sheer dumb luck and then happened to be the guy in the next office when Bill Gates quit. Despite having a near-monopoly in desktop computing, Microsoft has halved in value under Ballmer as he's led them out of lucrative markets in which they had an early lead and wasted billions on useless acquisitions. Yeah, let's see what we can learn from one of the worst CEO's of all time.

@manco828

10 жыл бұрын

Agreed, he's a failed salesman. At least Gates was a true visionary.

@johnhuskisson2444

10 жыл бұрын

***** I wouldn't say he was. he didnt exactly fail, he helped microsoft come from a small set up to a multi billion $ company probably makes him a very good salesman don't you think? Microsoft have missed tricks, but look at companies like apple it took them a very long time, alot of R and D and only in the last decade they have really come in to their own.

@kodabar

10 жыл бұрын

John Huskisson Did he help though? Most of Microsoft's early revenues came from being able to sell MS-DOS to other companies and users because it wasn't precluded from doing so in their contract with IBM. Was that a deliberate Microsoft strategy? Was Ballmer behind that? By pulling out of the OS/2 project with IBM and selling Windows instead, Microsoft set themselves up to make the bulk of their money. Was that Ballmer's doing? The answer to those questions is no. And that's where the bulk of Microsoft's early billions came from. But when it came to lying about Linux, falsely suggesting Microsoft would sue them, locking PC manufacturers into contracts that force them to buy Windows for every machine they make, illegally building Internet Explorer into Windows to kill Netscape, hiding half the Windows programming API, constantly changing file formats to prevent competition and buying smaller companies to kill off their competing products... that was all Ballmer. He's done a few good things too like creating the enterprise section of Microsoft and the data centres division, but overall he's been a failure. Stock traders and hedge fund managers have been calling for him to step down for years because his presence was depressing Microsoft's share price. When Microsoft announced Ballmer would be stepping down the share price rose. When he actually left, the share price rose again. Forbes magazine called Ballmer "the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company", saying he had "steered Microsoft out of some of the fastest growing and most lucrative tech markets" Just because Ballmer was there when Microsoft first became successful doesn't mean that success can be attributed to him. He's had far, far more failures than successes and most of those successes have come as a result of shady practices. It makes one question what the Said Business School is teaching when they invite Ballmer along. Apple is a poor comparison. They changed their business in order to enter new markets. When they were just a computer maker, their business was stable and successful. The move into music, phones and apps was a departure from their core business.

@pillsberrydopeboy851

3 жыл бұрын

Hussein Serhan he’s kinda right, it all comes down to its numbers over the years under his supervision

@adityag485

2 жыл бұрын

@@kodabar actually looking back he was pretty successful some of Microsoft’s biggest hits now we’re started and developed under him and his best hires are now leading the company, he was the one that started the development of Office 365 Azure and Surface and it wasn’t his fault his hands were tied because of the government so since his hands were tied they were limited in terms of the development of what they could do

Somebody needs to delete 5 minutes of unusable background sound at the beggining.

Check out that smug guy sitting in the front row with his Mac!

@akryssov

10 жыл бұрын

lol, I noticed that too! Little salt in the wound?

Steve Balder!

Steve Jobs was a man with a mind and vision, Ballmer is a bald guy who blindly runs the course people told him to run.

@azss4421

7 жыл бұрын

Paladin Goo Fuck that Steve was a capitalist and moreover a dreamer. He had a vision

@azss4421

7 жыл бұрын

Andrew Bacon Sure he was a ruthless businessman but cmon you think the cookie cutter cook who is running apple now will bring about what Steve did.

this guy is worth 20billion ?

@micropenny6056

3 жыл бұрын

74 billion now lmao

Is he talking like Bill Gates or is Bill Gates talk like him?

Ballmer is Clown

he's drunk

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