Steve has 112 billion reasons not to care what people think

@Shadow9c32s

5 ай бұрын

what an iconic comment

@shinygoomy2460

5 ай бұрын

By that logic i have a hundred reasons not to care what people think... which sounds like a lot...

@vaughnreedjr6592

5 ай бұрын

112 billion in most stocks Not right liquidity money

@menachempike4489

5 ай бұрын

@@vaughnreedjr6592msft stock is liquid for all practial purposes because he’s not even an insider anymore

@barros2485

5 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

developers, developers, developers, developers

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

Yes sir

@aymane.bencheikh

8 ай бұрын

**profusely sweating in the process**

@capybaratherealoneNL

8 ай бұрын

developers

@Kratargon

8 ай бұрын

Developers

@KingsleyOkeze

8 ай бұрын

Developer!

He's the most underrated billionaire, He launched Xbox, Azure, Office 365 and windows 7, Currently Microsoft most revenues are from Xbox, azure and 365 so maybe a little bit research will make you realise he's earned every penny of those billions.

@JK360noscope

25 күн бұрын

The secret is he didn't launch anything, the employees did

@showtek826

19 күн бұрын

​@@JK360noscopeI guess you do not understand what role the CEOs are actually doing. Employees are clueless unless they recieve a concrete vision and specifically and strategically provided roadmap, that employees almost always wont be able to see.

@phamchithien

14 күн бұрын

@@JK360noscope lmao employees cant do anything if he doesnt approve it .... if the employees are so smart they can do start ups .... the ceo is responsible for at least 70% of the company success ....employees are just employee, they cant do shit with out the company other wise they would be a big start ups like face book and tesla

You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

@TeodorLojewski

8 ай бұрын

Can go both ways!

@kevinren3228

8 ай бұрын

that means you get what you deserves.... Basic economics

@MartinWasTaken

7 ай бұрын

@@kevinren3228not what the word deserve means but sure... basic language

@ThePARTY126

7 ай бұрын

I learned it the hard way :(

@ThePARTY126

7 ай бұрын

Just like the way Steve finessed that sale to IBM. It's about how you present yourself, what you have to offer, and then you negotiate for yourself.

I work for Microsoft. Whenever the conversation about Microsoft history opens up, I get to hear that Satya saved the company that was on the road towards failure, and I need to defend Ballmer and remind them of Azure, XBox, and various developer frameworks and SDK that started those days. Windows Phone did not succeed, but it was an OS with a fresh design never seen elsewhere. I somehow feel that we stopped taking huge risky bets after Ballmer and all our focus and attention is dedicated towards improving on stock value.

@TheChees1996

8 ай бұрын

That what happened when Indian CEO take over companies they stop looking to innovate stuff and just be safe meaning cutting stuff and Jobs.

@ravitejaknts

8 ай бұрын

@@TheChees1996 I don't know how are you able to generalise 1/6th of the world popular with just one person, but I don't think that is an Indian mentality or style in general. People consider Satya has good CEO not because he did some innoivations, rather they consider him good because he changed the people's perspective on Microsoft. That is what a company like Microsoft need right now.

@jeetmehta2254

8 ай бұрын

Don't forget office 365 and windows 7. Steve Ballmer is more of a legend than Satya Nadella. Developing strong products is super hard and Steve Ballmer is pretty damn good at it.

@jeetmehta2254

8 ай бұрын

​@@TheChees1996as an Indian I hate to say I agree. We need more Tim cooks than nadellas. Cook is behind apple services, apple watch, airpods and apple silicon. He made apple a lifestyle brand with apple fitness, music, etc.

@JatinSanghvi1

8 ай бұрын

@@TheChees1996 I do not agree that Indians have propensity towards playing safe in general. You see Gates and Ballmer were more like company founders. Satya (and other Indian CEOs) are hired specifically to ensure that company stocks stay in best possible health, and that is exactly what they have been doing. All of these Indians have stable families (unlike Gates, Musk and Bezos) and are sure to do nothing offensive that will hurt their or company reputation, however filthy rich you make them, and this makes them great CEO candidates.

if you listen to the really bright microsoft guys from the 90-2000 era, you realize, every single one of them admire steve. he sure does deserve his stock.

@geezerbutler4582

8 ай бұрын

Does that include the ex-DEC VMS team that wrote Windows NT?

@RFGSwiss

8 ай бұрын

@@geezerbutler4582 it includes daveC

@4evertrue830

7 ай бұрын

Are you saying they admired him for bringing forth Windows Vista to the market? 😂😂😅😊

@GoogleDoesEvil

6 ай бұрын

@@4evertrue830 Windows Vista was a miracle given the history of Longhorn. Windows 7 under the hood is very similar to Vista.

Realistically he was given an 8% share of the company before it was worth 1 billion dollars. He could have taken that money out a lot sooner and it would have been worth a lot less than 112 billion dollars. So after the vesting period of the shares he was given, he deserves his fortune as much as any other investor.

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

Facts. When he was given the shares, they may not have even been worth $1 million.

@michaelxz1305

8 ай бұрын

@@LogicallyAnswered but your video makes it seem like he got the billions as compensation for being CEO.. the video says something like "or did he really deserve the billions of dollars of compensation"

@Sam60420

8 ай бұрын

Big facts, that's the beauty of investing

@yonis-kin7966

7 ай бұрын

Buying the rookie card is some Ground Floor Returns.

@mitchellmullen472

7 ай бұрын

So he is a genius

As someone who's an employee at Microsoft, Steve cared immensely for his workforce & was extemely loved. He's also the person who signed off on the idea of Azure, which is Microsoft biggest revenue source today.

People love to crap on Balmer but he was instrumental in some key changes to MS that were way overdue under Gates. Vista is seen as his biggest failure but it needed to happen. MS's security model was a disaster before Vista and when he took over Vista was already 5 years late. Add to that their total lack of innovation on the phone and tablet OS having sat on CE for a decade and being sideswiped by the iPhone he was in a really tough spot. Despite all these setbacks he still managed to increase sales and drive revenue. Sure he did it at the expense of the stock price but he still did it. He then set up his successor as the saviour of microsoft with Azure, windows 10 and Windows 10 phone, oh wait scratch that last one. To Microsoft Steve Balmer is very much the hero they needed not the one they deserved. Edit. I couldn't remember the word "blindsided" and I agonized at that point in my comment and ended up using "sideswiped". It came to me just now so I am editing the comment but I don't like revisionist history and as such am not editing what I wrote but instead adding this edit clarifying my intention

He got a perfect score on the Putnam(hardest math exam in the world/US) and went to Harvard lucky is an understatement the man was a genius from the start

@aildriktquetzel5385

4 ай бұрын

He was a smart idiot. He laughed at the iPhone launch; he literally couldn't see what was right in front of his eyes, and scoffed at what became a massive success for Apple.

@Wary_Of_Extremes

2 ай бұрын

I couldn't find a link for that. You? They say it's only been done 5 times, and often people get 0-1 out of 120. Wikipedia doesn't have him as a Putnam Fellow...

@rdl6236

Ай бұрын

He did not get a perfect score on the Putnam nor is the Putnam the hardest math exam in the US.

@vigilant_1934

24 күн бұрын

He got a perfect score on his math SAT high school test according to an article from 2007. That same article mentions that he scored higher than Bill Gates on the Putnam test when he was at Harvard but I checked the previous winners list that the Mathematical Association of America keeps and Steve apparently didn't score high enough to make the top 5 individually. Harvard was in the top 5 as a team in 1973 and 1975 but I'm unsure which year Steve took the test (he graduated in 1977). Either way stop spreading misinformation.

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@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

😂

@mrkitty777

8 ай бұрын

Did i tell you about him getting some Deodorant 🤷🤔🤔🤔

@phakada3787

5 күн бұрын

No deodorant would stop that tsunami of sweat

If you're a ceo for 1 and a half decade and people say you're lucky then they've no idea the hell they went through just to make sure everything looks great and stays great. He was behind Xbox, azure, windows 7 and office 365. And he was lucky lol.

@lonyo5377

7 ай бұрын

Only one company managed to remain as one of the 10 biggest on the world from 2000 to now. No other company was able to stay in the top 10.

@billytringuyen1

5 ай бұрын

or maybe he have great people working under him

You, Modern MBA and How Money Works are all anyone needs to watch to understand business both from the past and in today's climate.

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

🙏

@sisandatech

8 ай бұрын

Super accurate

@jeremyharvey9841

8 ай бұрын

YES

@backupdancer3720

8 ай бұрын

@sixteenjets Compliment with hyperbole... All of these channels are great, but they cover individuals and businesses much more than they cover strategies used... For example, this video skims over the QDOS/MS-DOS origin story because it cannot offer greater insight...another commenter touched on SB's 8% being worth less than $1m when issued...

Steve Baller was the "Louis Litt" of Microsoft... Nice one

@jeetmehta2254

8 ай бұрын

Nope he was better.

Really appreciate this analysis. He certainly suffers from a poor public image due to his antics, but he is smart nonetheless.

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

Underrated dude

@warrenarnold

8 ай бұрын

​@@LogicallyAnswered"I LoVe ThiS ComPaNieeee!!!Yeeeaaaaaah🤟" he basically has my spirit if i was made ceo of a billion dollar company 😂

@masternobody1896

8 ай бұрын

devolopers developers developers - bomer@@LogicallyAnswered

@MartinWasTaken

7 ай бұрын

@@warrenarnoldHis PR was ahead of time, he would have killed it if he did all that now on Tik Tok

@pugboi8017

7 ай бұрын

That guy almost topped the putnam math exam as a kid lol, his naysayers could try that for a few decades and maybe not even manage that

Tech media loved to hate on Microsoft and Ballmer. Short sellers also did their part claiming the era of the PC and Microsoft was over. I took the opportunity wah back then to gobble up as much MSFT stock as I could. Anyone could see that they were making big money with big margins. Plus, they were investing in the cloud. Also, Ballmar was the one who found and promoted Satya

Excellent presentation. Dialog pacing was MUCH BETTER than the last vid you did. Enjoyed this very much, keep it up!

Steve Balmer one of the few examples of bleeding for a company actually paying off. Becoming a multi billionaire and owning your own NBA team soon your own arena in Los Angeles that pretty nice life if you can get it

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

Facts

@id01_01

8 ай бұрын

Get there by becoming a CEO and bleed out a megacorp. Win win.

Developers, Developers, Developers! Whatever your thoughts on Ballmer, there's no deying he was an very entertaining CEO.

@NotSoMuchFrankly

8 ай бұрын

It gave me a wut-lol. Read the room, Steve.😆🤨🤔😐

From this video, I can tell he liked developers a lot

he also managed to hire Microsoft best developer the man spearheaded Windows NT. and still works there today at 81 coding

I love your videos. The production quality is so high

Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!!!

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

Developers!

Really appreciate this analysis. This video unveils the fascinating journey of the world's 'luckiest' billionaire.

His energy is unmatched

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

No doubt

Great stuff! He made the biggest difference when it mattered the most- and that's all that counts.

Argument very well presented and Steve seems worthy of the prize money for his contributions over 3 decades.

That ad placement was smooth

"chief cook and bottle-washer" is an idiom meaning someone forced to do all tasks because of a lack of assistance. Great profile of Ballmer, thank you.

It took for him to be the right man, with the right background and intelligence and the right connection. Good for him!

What's lucky is Microsoft having that guy.

Steve is actually brilliant. Supposedly, he knew the quarterly numbers for every quarter Microsoft ever had! Unfortunately, he was too in love with their old business model of selling Windows licenses for $100/pop. He was unable to adapt Microsoft to new market realities, and had to be removed.

@lonyo5377

7 ай бұрын

The Microsoft that pivoted to cloud while he was CEO and he said it was going all in on the cloud, when he was CEO? Hint: 2010

@ginzo666

7 ай бұрын

@@lonyo5377 He's the "don't fuck Windows" guy.

Which AI tool did you use to create your face-cam footage?

he seems to be as someone who can pull up his sleeves and do the hard work, he deserve it.

Steve was a great business operator and help Billy to run Paul Allen out of the leadership of the company, he organized Microsoft and converted the idea into a profitable business

@siriusman6169

5 ай бұрын

Running Paul Allen out of the Company was dumbest idea for Gate, because Allen is the Kernel of Ideas, please read his "memoir Idea Man "

Steve Balmer is often ridiculed for his over the top, in your face personality who is generally dismissed by many as the Microsoft CEO responsible for Microsoft’s years of stagnation. Your video is one of the few videos on KZread that acknowledges the important role Balmer played in Microsoft’s past successes as well as how Balmer’s keen business instincts led to Microsoft investing heavily in the cloud, thereby setting up Satya Nadella to realise Balmer’s investments in the cloud as one of Microsoft’s key businesses - Azure. Many people attribute Microsoft’s success with Azure to Nadella, and to be clear Nadella had his part in making Azure successful. However, without Balmer’s foresight identifying cloud services as the next big thing in IT and investing heavily in cloud infrastructure towards the end of his run as Microsoft CEO, Microsoft could well have missed the cloud market in the same way it missed the mobile market in 2007 when Apple launched the iPhone. Microsoft’s current status as a revitalised, resurgent, innovative tech giant is as much due to Balmer’s contributions when he was CEO as it is due to Gates’ founding vision for Microsoft and Nadella’s ongoing strategy for Microsoft’s future.

The fact that he retained his shares since inception means his loyalty is paying off...

Great video as always. Also, someone's watching suits nowadays

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

Ah yes hahaha

Damn, I really miss Windows Phone. Thanks, Ballmer...

The career of Ryan Graves, Uber's first employee and billionaire CEO, was launched by a single tweet.

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

Oh really? Sounds interesting, will have to look into that

@martinketchum

8 ай бұрын

@@LogicallyAnswered yeah he was the fastest person to reply to Travis' twitter hiring post, so he become Uber's first ever employee

Steve Ballmer brought the most beautiful and underrated mobile OS for smartphone IMO, Windows Mobile had so much potential but it didn't had anyone with a real desire to make it a success other than Ballmer himself. With the right people behind Windows Mobile, Microsoft could easily replicate Apple ecosystem, and considering the commitment of Microsoft in the gaming industry, having a mobile version of some games would be an insane attraction to users which would attract developers.

This guy was a total nut... but man he was entertaining and had energy.

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

😂

Did you already make video about this a few years ago?

The only Microsoft CEO linux users acknowledge. You can kill the book writer but you can't kill a passionate person going all in.

We have to appreciate the amazing developer dance, I mean come on, that was an iconic moment from the mid 2000's

@bowmore6938

8 ай бұрын

Dad by day I seen the amazing work done by #benefitwithhannamacko putting smiles on individual faces globally

He was given the opportunity to hit a single to tie the game and, instead, hit a grand slam. He rose to the occasion.

And now he’s by far the richest NBA owner, and also the most enthusiastic

Steve clearly had contacts, he got lucky thats all.

I couldn't watch it because of fast changing frames and rotating pictures. Why would you do that?

Lol, he was a vampire who bled the company dry

That was the best low-key advetisement for the bonds app

Hey Hari, I am Harsh, from India. Bro let me tell you, the type of qualiy content you make here is astonishing bro, it feels like a history tv documentary, literally.😁😁😁😁

Not to mention right after XP, Steve pulled money from the Windows team and started Azure. Steve left at the right time, I think the corporation outgrew his management style, but he more than Gates grew the corporation into an overwhelming market leader it still is.

From just these few clips, I like the guy already. I want to read more about him.

I would love to know the conversation Bill had with Steve after these goofy conferences like “DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS”. Did Bill ever think, “my goodness we need to get rid of this goon”.

@Tomi97_videos

7 ай бұрын

They danced together on stage for launch of windows 95 kzread.info/dash/bejne/nnWf16yRd8_KorA.html He knew what he was getting when he made him the CEO

Gotta admire it. Microsoft has had a crazy run.

"This is Steve Ballmer." Oh, I know him. I've drank and coded with him. Love that Peak.

His leadership started and encouraged the development azure, which basically makes all their money now, lol. He sunk that cost during his tenure. That was long-term thinking, rather than short-term thinking .

0:17 elon on top? Are we 12 again? My man invented the elixr of youth

Ballmer created an extremely strong framework for the MSFT you see today. He created a fundamentally strong MSFT. Satya has taken that and added to it a socially exciting MSFT. The core business has really just continued in the same model but people have become much more supportive of MSFTs vision and that has increased the stock value.

Due to his decisiveness, Balmer is credited as well to have saved the Xbox brand itself after the Red Ring of Death fiasco

I love his passion, just very genuine.

Antics aside, under his leadership we got XP and 7, the two best versions of Windows. I don't care at all about how much value the company is generating for shareholders, I care about having a usable OS that doesn't force unwanted features and telemetry on the user. We didn't know how good we had it back then.

Good report 🎉

“$500 for a phone that doesn’t have a keyboard? Bah humbug!”

Success depends on the actions or steps you take to achieve it. Building wealth involves developing good habits, such as regularly setting aside money for sound investments.

@juandelaoz9883

8 ай бұрын

I am excited 😊 my life has totally changed. I have been benefiting $10,250 from my $4,000 investment every 14days

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8 ай бұрын

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8 ай бұрын

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8 ай бұрын

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@outdoormusic2388

8 ай бұрын

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This video got you a sub!

remember when he is releseased windows 7 it was a banger under his leadership

The IBM PC architecture made it possible to build computers compatible with IBM but royalty free with a reverse engineerd BIOS. Having MS-DOS available which was 100% compatible with PC-DOS (the MS-DOS made for IBM) . Microsoft knew that Compaq was working on a 'clone' PC as where many others. They seized the x86 with DOS market

a suits reference? hell yeah!

I noticed Blackrock has a 7% stake. @12:34 Can you make a video about that?

Interesting video! On a personal note: I don’t like how you included your sponsor. This merge into the narrative feels strange… It would be better to just show the word “sponsored” during the sponsored segment

Had to double tap for 10 sec rewind to be sure I heard Balmer is Microsoft's "Louis Litt" 😂

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

😂

Damn, these transition animations make my head spinning

I think Steve balmer is portrayed as Jack Barker in SIlicon Valley show.

Something not too obvious but anyway real. Despite Windows popularity, Microsoft was not a company the “elite” loved. They were ridiculed for the OS flaws and constantly accused of monopoly. Despite this, Balmer grew the company immensely, they suffered products’ setbacks but also had many more success runs. And by the way, someone asked me in 1992 which, in my opinion, was the OS of the future and I answered OS2, but I still preferred Windows 3.1

He was there for Halo 1, 2, and 3. So in my eyes he deserves every cent.

The Biggest Winner.Congratulations you are the winner. In USA they called Microsoft. In Malaysia we called MichaelSoft(Bully Movie).

I have 4 words for you! "I LOVE THIS COMPANY YES"

@pradeep7479

Ай бұрын

He was a total idiot...

"I LoVe ThiS ComPaNieeee!!!" he basically has my spirit if i was made ceo of a billion dollar company 😂

He was great at his job. I'd take someone with some personality over a robot like Zuckerberg.

Louise Litt of Microsoft, love it!

I believe you made an error. The initial deal with IBM also included 50 cents per machine sold with MS DOS and the rights to sell to others.

Steve Ballmer is the John Sculley of Microsoft. 😅 Procter versus Pepsi. Mass market marketing applied to High tech. It does not work. After all Sculley launched the Newton, which failed but was the ancestor of the iPhone 😂

I love this guy, atleast he's a real person and not a robot that simply gets paid billions.

"I LoVe ThiS ComPaNieeee!!!Yeeeaaaaaah🤟" He Was A True American!!!!!!!!!😂😂

Steve is the reason microsoft was growing and is in the map

@cadenboucher9741

8 ай бұрын

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He beat Bill Gates at a math competition at Harvard. He is insanely intelligent and analytical. Guy earned his keep, barely sold stock (until the last little bit) so he deserves it.

Wasn't there Xenix before MS-DOS?

@LogicallyAnswered is Silo only for Us residents???

@LogicallyAnswered

8 ай бұрын

For the time being, yes

Well..let's look at it this way: Would Windows exist without the efforts of Steve Ballmer? If not, then he deserved every single dollar.

Why you can't tell, if he deserves it? It is a super easy question to answer. How did he get the money? Through his work and most importantly through his success within the company. Did the money come from free market or from some government subsidies? They came from the free market economy. Then, it is 100% deserved. Of course, Microsoft was involved in a lot of shady deals with governments, other big tech and even educational institutions, like universities, colleges, etc. where they were pushing their products in use. At least some of these practices were not fair, to say the least. But the same can be said for most big tech today. From that perspective - maybe part of this success was not acquired in a fair way. And unfortunately, we do not live in a perfect or fair world. With that said, for the most part he deserved his money, earned it. And was a huge contributor to Microsoft's success without any doubt.

Wow, $112 billion for luck? That's a whole new level of lottery win! But hey, if luck can bring in billions, sign me up for the next lucky streak!

Dud he casually referred to louis litt from suits

There is an interesting difference portrayed here between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Bill Gates resected Ballmer and thus rewarded him into the future, never forgetting what Ballmer did. If Bill Gates had instead been Steve jobs then Ballmer would have been cast aside and forgotten.

The fact that we get free videos on KZread by Logically Answered is truly a gift. 👍👍👍

Just think of the advancements that would have been possible if it weren't for Microsoft holding us back.

He wasnt paid that much, he was paid a lot less than that. Stock price has been amazing

It’s easy to mock Balmer but can't deny MS real revenue and profit growth under him. Perhaps Balmer only appear like a clown by pitting his weakest ability (consumer) against the strongest Jobs. Meanwhile, MS's growth in server space was steadily growing. It was just not yet fashionably rewarded by wall street during his tenure. Judging Balmer for MS's lack of consumer success is incomplete, including his business product+services growth would be a more fair assessment.

@tiefensucht

7 ай бұрын

The question is if that has something to do with Ballmer.