"My dad said, "What the heck is software?" and my mom said, "Why would a person ever need a computer?" They said, "OK, OK, we hear you, but if it doesn't work out, you'll go back to business school right?" And I said "Right," and I never came back."
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CNBC: "How Steve Ballmer went from making $50,000 a year as an assistant at Microsoft to becoming a billionaire" (27 July 2018)
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Steve Ballmer
US-amerikanischer Manager, Microsoft CEO 2000 bis 2014
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