Big Thinkers Series - Steve Ballmer - S2EPI - 155

Steve Ballmer Owner, Los Angeles Clippers $99.8B$551M (0.55%)Real Time Net Worth as of 8/15/23#10 in the world today About Steve Ballmer

• Steve Ballmer is the high-wattage 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.
• 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.
• The same year he retired from Microsoft he bought the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion.
• He has ramped up his philanthropy since 2014, putting over $2 billion into a donor-advised fund, with a focus on economic mobility.
• In 2022, he and his wife Connie donated some $425 million to the University of Oregon to create an institute aimed at the behavioral and mental health needs of children in the state.