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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. 16 years later it’s just another software company. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these.

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