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I wonder what Bill Gates thinks of the character Jack Barker.

• idontpost 8y ago
  I thought he was more a send-up of Ballmer than Gates, although that might just be the physical resemblance.
  • dmschulman 8y ago
    He is a Steve Ballmer sendup, but Gates and Ballmer worked closely for many years at Microsoft and had many fundamental disagreements about the direction the company should take. Ballmer refocused Microsoft from software to hardware when he became CEO (hence "The Box" joke on the show). Ballmer himself probably doesn't like the caricature (he's a bit of an internet darling, isn't he? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14b-C67EXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14b-C67EXY), but would someone who worked with Ballmer find it accurate? Likely. Not to mention, Gates wrote the article about Silicon Valley linked in this thread.