Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came close to selling his entire stake in the company around 2015 or 2016, after his departure, before two people on his team made the case to keep his stock.

Former Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer makes $1 billion a year from Microsoft dividends. The huge tech company has a dividend of $3.32 per year. Ballmer is the sixth richest ...

A $1,000 investment in Microsoft stock on Jan. 13, 2000—the day Ballmer became CEO—would have been worth only about $915 by the time he stepped down. Today, however, that same investment would ...

Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980 and became chief executive in 2000. During his 14-year tenure, Microsoft’s revenue tripled. As Ballmer left, Eric Jackson at the hedge fund Ironfire Capital told ...

Ballmer’s legacy, however, is equally marred by his missteps, including Microsoft’s $6 billion purchase of online ad firm aQuantive in 2007, which led to a $6.2 billion write-down five years ...

Former Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer disclosed a previously unknown rift with co-founder Bill Gates that left the tech executives not speaking for an entire year during Ballmer's transition to ...

Ten years into his ownership of the LA Clippers, former Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer reflected on how wealth and power have “fundamentally changed” him and his life. What ...

Microsoft’s latest “I’m a PC” advertising campaign kicked off pretty well, but someone, somewhere, thought it was missing something. And by “something” we mean the lunacy of Steve ...

Steve Ballmer must be spinning more than one of his Clippers NBA team's basketballs. But, today's Microsoft is a long, long way from Ballmer's "Linux is a cancer" Microsoft .

I compare Apple Inc. today to Microsoft under Steve Ballmer, noting Apple’s single-digit growth and rich valuation, similar to Microsoft’s “dead money” phase in the late 2000s and early 2010s.

F ormer Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came close to selling his entire stake in the company around 2015 or 2016, after his departure, before two people on his team made the case to keep his stock.

Ballmer’s net worth is so high because he held Microsoft stock long after leaving the CEO position in 2014. He joined the tech company in 1980 and became CEO in 2000. During his 14-year tenure ...