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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: 0.203s | source
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bjoveski ◴[29 Oct 24 04:08 UTC] No.41979282[source]▶
If you want to learn more about MSFT during Ballmer era, i highly recommend the acquired podcast:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/microsoft-volume-ii

They come to the same conclusion as Dan - that Ballmer did a ton of things right and he was actually a much better CEO than the credit he's given today.

Part 1 of the podcast focuses on Bill Gates' era - both episodes are super engaging, the research and preparation they do is remarkably good.

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1. funksta ◴[29 Oct 24 04:27 UTC] No.41979376[source]▶
Great podcast and I really enjoyed their MSFT episodes.

I thought their pro-Ballmer angle was interesting at the time too (it was the first long-form defense of his tenure that I had heard), but I wasn't sure how much of that was due to him being a primary source for the podcast's material.