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

Steve Blank

In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Increasingly, a hands-on product/customer, and business model-centric CEO with an entrepreneurial vision of the future may be the difference between market dominance and Chapter 11. The result?

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

Steve Blank

In 2014, Microsoft finally announced that Ballmer would retire, and in early 2014, Satya Nadella took charge. Increasingly, a hands-on product/customer, and business model-centric CEO with an entrepreneurial vision of the future may be the difference between market dominance and Chapter 11. The result?

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