Steve Ballmer
$146.0B
Born
Mar 24, 1956
Age
69
Source of Wealth
Microsoft
Residence
Hunts Point, Washington
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
3
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Harvard University; Drop Out, Stanford University
- Steve Ballmer is the high-energy former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014.
- He joined Microsoft in 1980 as employee No. 30 after dropping out of Stanford's MBA program. He first met Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates when the two were undergrads at Harvard.
- Ballmer oversaw Microsoft after the first dot-com crash and through efforts to catch up to Google in search capabilities and Apple in mobile phones.
- In 2014, the year he retired from Microsoft, he bought the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion; Forbes now values the team at $5.5 billion. He spent another $2 billion building a stadium.
- Ballmer, who owned 4% of Microsoft stock when he retired, has held onto most of his stock and has said he's the company's largest individual shareholder.
- He has ramped up his philanthropy since 2014; to date the Ballmers have given away more than $5.7 billion.
- Ballmer created a website called USAFacts.org for people to look up and understand where the government is spending money.
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