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Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

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371 points greggyb | 1 comments | 28 Oct 24 21:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.247s | source
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underdeserver ◴[28 Oct 24 22:18 UTC] No.41977063[source]▶
I read the entire article, and I love how virtually every comment here is what Dan wrote about.
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underdeserver ◴[28 Oct 24 22:20 UTC] No.41977083[source]▶
Also, I agree with the gist of the article, in that a lot of Nadella's success is stuff that takes more than 3-4 years to execute.

Ballmer, or Microsoft under Ballmer, had to have been laying the groundwork for Azure, TypeScript and VS code before they took off under Nadella.

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1. al_borland ◴[28 Oct 24 23:23 UTC] No.41977642[source]▶
But weren't those the areas Nadella was over before becoming CEO? One could argue that Nadella was laying his own groundwork.