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> Ballmer was good at sales but horrible at running a company From Wikipedia: Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue surged from $25 billio
by hackuser 11y ago
> Ballmer was good at sales but horrible at running a company
From Wikipedia:
Under Ballmer's tenure as CEO, Microsoft's annual revenue surged from $25 billion to $70 billion, while its net income increased 215 percent to $23 billion
May all companies suffer equally incompetent CEOs.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoOver the same period Apple was going from $8 billion to $182 billion in revenue and Google was going from $3 billion to $66 billion in revenue.
- waterlesscloud 11y agoGoogle is a completely unfair comparison as that was their prime growth stage.
- jliptzin 11y agoYou could say the pie was just getting a lot bigger. Why should one company be expected to eat it all?