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kottke.org posts about steveballmer

Scott Rosenberg quotes Steve Ballmer as saying

Scott Rosenberg quotes Steve Ballmer as saying that only 4 out of the first 30 Microsoft employees were good…the rest “weren’t as good โ€” they just weren’t pushing as much”. Here are some of the schlubs in question. Ballmer pushed pretty well, I guess…he showed up late to the party and, somewhat controversially, got $15 billion out it.