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Counterpoint: Maybe the departure of Steve Ballmer added $850B to Microsoft?

• ur-whale 7y ago
  Counter-counterpoint: but there's a lot less onstage dancing and screaming.
  • notmyaccount 7y ago
    Counter-counter-counterpoint: That erased 850b in value. It could have been 1700b but Nadella doesn't dance or scream. Just stares angrily.
    • cheez 7y ago
      You leave IT Ghandi alone.
      • notmyaccount 7y ago
        Your Windows is gonna spontaneously explode killing all of humanity.
  • croon 7y ago
    > but there's a lot less [...] screaming Far-far aside: I watched his recent appearance on the daily show. Regardless of your views of him (he gave off a more sympathetic sheen as a basketball team owner and public service contributor [usafacts] than he did as a business man), but man does he not have an inside voice. He (or rather anyone around) would not function in an open plan office.
    • WorldMaker 7y ago
      Semi-related to your aside, but I sometimes feel like the impression that people hold against Ballmer as CEO at Microsoft, was that he was a bit of a "basketball team owner". He was absolutely fired up with team spirit (sometimes to a fault). He never really "played" (wasn't very technical), but he loved to watch the sport and figured he knew good plays when he saw them. In the end, he needed to have better "coaches" working for him on the team, or to stop incentivizing (stack-ranking) the "coaches" to play mostly safe plays. Good/bad/and indifferent a lot of the takes on Ballmer seem to reflect how much you think a tech company needs a "basketball team owner".