Bad Boy Ballmer - Hardcover

Maxwell, Fredric Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0066210143 ISBN 13: 9780066210148

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2002

Synopsis

A portrait of Microsoft's charismatic new CEO is based on interviews with company insiders and describes his bombastic personal style, relationship with Bill Gates, and ruthless business tactics.

About this title

Synopsis:

Steve Ballmer has been with Bill Gates from the beginning when the bespectacled computer geek convinced him to drop out of Stanford Business School. The grandson of a Russian Czarist soldier and the son of a Swiss immigrant father, Ballmer is the Microsoft wizard's main man - the only American to become, by 40, a decabillionaire while working for someone else. He is a man known for his ruthless negotiating tactics and a management style that has earned him the nickname "The Em-Balmer". In this revealing biography - based on in-depth study and interviews with Microsoft insiders - Fredric Alan Maxwell provides fascinating new insights into the longstanding "marriage" between this odd couple of Ballmer and Gates. Maxwell also tells the full story of a man so shamelessly arrogant that he told reporters "to heck with Janet Reno", so intense and aggressive that he ripped his vocal cords by talking too loudly. Eye opening and thorough, BAD BOY BALLMER is a shocking look at one of the masterminds of the technological age.

About the Author:

Fredric Alan Maxwell is a researcher and writer whose work has been published in Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Harper's. He divides his time between Seattle, Missoula, Montana, and south Florida.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0066210143
• ISBN 13: 9780066210148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320