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Not the person you just spoke to, and I don’t have any skin in this game, but technically speaking we don’t know if it tripled because of him or despite him, ri

Not the person you just spoke to, and I don’t have any skin in this game, but technically speaking we don’t know if it tripled because of him or despite him, right? The truth is likely somewhere in the middle, but who knows where exactly.

rwmj 1y ago
Or if another CEO could have done better. While Microsoft was a mature company at the time, it's still part of a very high growth industry. He was CEO for 14 years, so just tripling the revenue (and that's in nominal terms, not counting inflation) isn't exactly spectacular.
- ThrowawayR2 1y ago
  Well, there's the CEOs of IBM, Sun, Yahoo, HP, DEC, Compaq, AOL, Palm Computing, and other formerly high flying competitors to compare against. I'm sure people could suggest a few others. Whatever else might be said about him, he didn't crater Microsoft while on the job.
  - jama211 1y ago
    That is true, objectively he didn’t fuck it up I suppose
    - HaZeust 1y ago
      Nay-sayers will justify their low-cost, unfounded pre-conceived notions to the death, I swear.
DoesntMatter22 1y ago
Okay but we do know it did triple under him which in general is pretty good.
- jama211 1y ago
  Fair
twoodfin 1y ago
If you take the time to listen to this excellent interview, you will definitely be able to form your own opinion.