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In the Elevator With Steve Ballmer

WSJ's Joanna Stern “bumped into" Black Girls Code CEO Kimberly Bryant and found out what the organization does, how it is hoping to change the tech landscape and why big companies are getting involved ... read more

Book of Paul: Seven stories that reveal rare glimpses into Allen's life

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer first met Paul Allen around 1975 when he visited ... “All of the sudden this elevator door opened and there was Paul. I have never seen anybody look so jazzed and so ... read more

Hey, enterprise startups! Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will hear your elevator pitch

Steve Ballmer is no diva, but he kept 100 senior technology executives waiting around today. Microsoft‘s CEO was otherwise engaged listening to founders pitch their startup ideas and offering advice o... read more

Microsoft CEO, Yahoo Chairman Meet in New York

Why did the company's chairman meet Microsoft's Steve Ballmer at the Time Warner Center Thursday, two days after Yahoo named Carol Bartz its new CEO? On my way down the elevator, I was stopped on the ... read more

Benioff and the Great Glass Elevator (with apologies to Roald Dahl)

So riding a glass elevator attached to the outside of the City of London ... So it wouldn’t have happened under Steve Ballmer’s regime, I asked, already knowing the answer which was delivered emphatic... read more

Microsoft CEO Ballmer talks infected feet, profuse sweating, and Windows Vista

Flunky: The reaction seemed about 50-50. Ballmer: At best. “That was elevator chitchat overheard by a Business 2.0 reporter and relayed on a blog by the magazine’s Owen Thomas. Microsoft CEO Steve Bal... read more

Microsoft: A Fat Pitch With Home Run Written All Over It

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) recently announced that its CEO, Steve Ballmer, would be retiring within the next ... Stocks tend to take the stairs up and the elevator down. With the recent geopolitical tens... read more

D Dispatch: All the gang's here

On my way to the elevator I traded hellos with Yusuf Mehdi ... a joint interview with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer. A row behind me investment banker Frank Quattrone and VCs Jim Breyer of Accel Partne... read more

Ballmer’s next job and other gossip from “D”

Then he said Steve Ballmer is another person he’d like to hire to help ... On the way to the evening events, I rode the elevator down with uber investor Roger McNamee, who was questioning the way Wash... read more

In the Elevator With Steve Ballmer

WSJ's Joanna Stern "bumps into" former Microsoft CEO and Clippers owner Steve Ballmer in the WSJ elevator and asks about his time at Microsoft, NFL player protests and his new non-profit USAFacts. Pho... read more

After Steve Ballmer, Will Microsoft Change Approach to Startups?

With Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steve Ballmer this week announcing that he plans to retire next year, some people active in the venture and startup community see a greater role for the software g... read more

Microsoft Won’t Change Its Software Licensing, Says Steve Ballmer

Orlando, Fla. – Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said the company won't change its current software licensing models for software that customers run in their data centers and purchase in multi-year deals. ... read more