Steve Ballmer announced last August that he would be gone from Microsoft company within a year, and in February 2014 company, Microsoft’s heir to the CEO position, Nadella Satyanarayana, took over as the CEO of Microsoft. Ballmer oversaw many years of growth at Microsoft, and generated $120 billion in profit, but will leave behind a legacy of having fallen behind Google, Apple and others in the post-PC mobile era. The post-Steve Ballmer Microsoft era will look quite different in the coming years. Just days after announcing his retirement, Microsoft spent and estimated $7.2 billion to buy Nokia.
Steve Ballmer was the second person to become worth a billion dollars based on compensation he received as an employee of C-Level status with a corporation, in which he was neither a founder, and or, relative of a founder of any corporation in the United States of America. Steve Ballmer is the 51st richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $20.7 billion. While CEO of Microsoft in 2009, Steve Ballmer earned a total compensation of $1,276,627, which included a base salary of $665,833, a cash bonus of $600,000, no stock or options, and other compensation of $10,794,
Following the Los Angeles Clippers scandel in May 2014, Steve Ballmer was the highest bidder in an attempt to purchase the NBA Los Angeles Clippers for a reported price of $2 billion, which is the second highest bid for a sports franchise in North American sports history (after the $2.15 billion sale of the Dodgers in 2012). After a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling to sell the team, it was officially announced on August 12, 2014 that Steve Ballmer would become the NBA Los Angeles Clippers owner.
THE MYBOYSAY NATION’S NBA ENTHUSIAST WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE THE NEW OWNER OF THE SAN DIEGO CLIPPERS, STEVE BALLMER, ON HIS ACQUISITION, AND ALSO, DOC RIVERS ON HIS CONTRACT EXTENTION THAT HE RECEIVED TO REMAIN AS THE PRESIDENT OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS, AND HEAD COACH.
