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Steve Ballmer

February

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella played a key role in keeping OpenAI from self destructing.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has become a Steve Jobs-like tech giant

Now a Wall Street hero, Nadella initially faced scepticism that he could change Microsoft’s combative culture after 22 years inside the company.

  • Matt O'Brien

July 2021

Billionaire Steve Ballmer.

Steve Ballmer becomes ninth member of the $US100b club

The former CEO of Microsoft was already fabulously wealthy - but now he’s entered the billionaire stratosphere.

  • Scott Carpenter

July 2020

eBay founder Pierre Omidyar made a billion dollars in just three years.

How long it took 11 of world's richest people to become billionaires

Sports betting firm OLBG found it takes the average self-made billionaire 21 years to join the three comma club after starting out, but some get rich faster.

  • Taylor Nicole Rogers

February 2020

The ever-expressive (and loaded) Steve Ballmer walks among us.

Microsoft's mega-rich Steve Ballmer jets into Sydney

Why has America's ninth richest man, former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, flown into Sydney in his Gulfstream 650?

  • Joe Aston

November 2019

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella

Microsoft chief says not all big tech is the same

As US presidential candidates debate breaking up big tech giants, Microsoft's Satya Nadella says his firm is not the same as some of its peers.

  • Paul Smith and James Thomson
Satya Nadella: 'My father taught me how to be intellectually curious, and then my mother more so.'

'I represent it all': In conversation with Microsoft's Satya Nadella

This is an edited transcript of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaking with The Australian Financial Review's Chanticleer columnist Tony Boyd.

Microsoft boss Satya Nadella

No regrets for Nadella over heading for the cloud

With cloud revenues on the increase and mobile phone revenues on the decline, Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella's decision to choose the cloud over the phone is paying off.

  • John Davidson

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