
He graduated as valedictorian from Detroit Country Day School, a private college preparatory school in Beverly Hills, Michigan, with a score of 800 on the mathematical section of the SAT and was a National Merit Scholar. In 1973, he attended college prep and engineering classes at Lawrence Technological University. Ballmer also lived in Brussels from 1964 to 1967, where he attended the International School of Brussels. Ballmer grew up in the affluent community of Farmington Hills, Michigan. Through his mother, Ballmer is a second cousin of actress and comedian Gilda Radner.
His father was a Swiss immigrant who predicted that his son, at eight years old, would attend Harvard.
2.1 Chief Executive Officer (2000–2014)īallmer was born in Detroit, Michigan he is the son of Beatrice Dworkin and Frederic Henry Ballmer (Fritz Hans Ballmer), a manager at the Ford Motor Company. His tenure and legacy as Microsoft CEO has received mixed reception, with the company tripling sales and doubling profits, but losing its market dominance and missing out on 21st-century technology trends such as the ascendance of smartphones in the form of iPhone and Android. On February 4, 2014, Ballmer retired as CEO and was replaced by Satya Nadella Ballmer remained on Microsoft's Board of Directors until August 19, 2014, when he left to prepare for teaching a new class. He eventually became president in 1998, and replaced Gates as CEO on January 13, 2000. īallmer was hired by Bill Gates at Microsoft in 1980, and subsequently left the MBA program at Stanford University. As of December 2021, Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimates his personal wealth at $114.7 billion, making him the seventh richest person on Earth. He is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Steven Anthony Ballmer ( / ˈ b ɔː l m ər/ March 24, 1956) is an American businessman and investor who served as the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014.