In January 2000, Bill Gates gave his vast responsibilities and title of Microsoft CEO to his best friend Steve Ballmer, a man relatively unknown to the public. Based on in-depth study and interviews with classmates and Microsoft insiders, Fredric Alan Maxwell vividly brings to life one of the technology industry's most colorful and controversial figures: Steven Anthony Ballmer. From Ballmer's relatively humble suburban Detroit beginnings (where he and his archrival Scott McNealy went to competing high schools) and his 1974 meeting with Gates in a Harvard dorm, Maxwell richly details how the competition addicts Ballmer and Gates have worked together for the past twenty years to form Microsoft's ego and id. The up-by-the-bootstraps saga reveals both the good boy Ballmer -- the dedicated son, great friend, and supportive schoolmate -- and the bad boy Ballmer -- the ruthless businessman who earned the nickname "The Em-balmer."
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The unauthorized biography of an immigrant's son whobecame a multibillionaire working for Bill Gates, and probably the highest-paid employee in American history.
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Fredric Alan Maxwell is a New Yorker-profiled researcher and writer whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Harper#146;s, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He can be reached at BadBoyBallmer@yahoo.com
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If you hate MS then this book is for you!,
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This review is from: Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft (Paperback)
I bought this book, expecting to get a serious description of Steve Ballmer, but it turns out this is just another book in the infamous serie "We who hate/envy Microsoft!". In this book all competitors, such as Sun, Netscape and IBM, is presented as a nice group of companies that all follow the rules, and never offend anyone. At the same time this book says muliple times that Bill G and Steve B run their business as Nazi leaders; the book does comparisons with the war criminal Slobodan Milosovic, and the author does a lot of irrelevant personal comments. This is not what I expect from a serious book - It could have been a very interesting book, if just the author was more neutral. There are a lot of other good books that explains MS and their business methods, if you are interested.
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Ballmer and Gates make a perfect combination,
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When the name Microsoft is brought up, Bill Gates comes to mind, but few realize how important Steve Ballmer is to Microsoft's success. Ballmer is the current CEO, and he makes things happen at Microsoft. He has passion and truly loves his work. The author writes that the Ballmer's truly extraordinary accomplishment is putting up with Bill Gates because Microsoft's co-founder Paul Allen could not. Gates and Ballmer took the company from 30 to 50,000 employees. They make a perfect combination because Gates is the tech guy and Ballmer is the business guy. This book is a great story of a man that has always been in the shadow of Bill Gates.
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A nice rehashing of the Microsoft story,
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Microsoft's CEO Steven Ballmer is the subject of "Bad Boy Ballmer". It traces Ballmer and Gates friendship back to their days at Harvard University. It uses primarily secondary sources to give a nice rehashing of the Microsoft story. We learn of Ballmer's Jewish heritage, Detroit roots and even have a mention of Robin Williams. We learn of Ballmer's enthusiasm, tearing his vocal cords, ascension to the CEO position, and his arrogance. While technically a biography, it is more a history of Microsoft with Steve Ballmer as the focal point. Read and reviewed by Jimmie A. Kepler.
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Thirty years ago and twenty-three hundred miles apart, Detroit, where fifteen-year-old Steve Ballmer was being raised, and Seattle, where he'd end up, were vastly different places. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monopoly police, code monkeys, predatory monopolist, revenue river, antitrust trial, antitrust case, antitrust division Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Country Day, New York, Wall Street, Paul Allen, Fred Ballmer, Cameron Mhyrvold, Sun Microsystems, Farmington Hills, Supreme Court, Currier House, Gary Kildall, Seattle Computer Products, Silicon Valley, Bea Ballmer, Jeff Raikes, United States, Bob Metcalfe, Business Week, James Fallows, Ken Auletta, Stanford Business School, Washington Post, World War New!
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Thirty years ago and twenty-three hundred miles apart, Detroit, where fifteen-year-old Steve Ballmer was being raised, and Seattle, where he'd end up, were vastly different places. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
monopoly police, code monkeys, predatory monopolist, revenue river, antitrust trial, antitrust case, antitrust division Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Country Day, New York, Wall Street, Paul Allen, Fred Ballmer, Cameron Mhyrvold, Sun Microsystems, Farmington Hills, Supreme Court, Currier House, Gary Kildall, Seattle Computer Products, Silicon Valley, Bea Ballmer, Jeff Raikes, United States, Bob Metcalfe, Business Week, James Fallows, Ken Auletta, Stanford Business School, Washington Post, World War New!
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- Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace on page 129, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse on page 31, and Back Matter
- A History of the Jews by Paul Johnson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- How the Web Was Won: The Inside Story of How Bill Gates and His Band of Internet Idealists Trans- Formed a Software Empire by Paul Andrews in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove on page 208, and Back Matter
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