Getting to know former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

Microsoft Corporation CEO Steve Ballmer smiles during the Microsoft Shareholders Annual Meeting November 19, 2013 in Bellevue, Washington. Bellevue, Washington. The meeting was the last for Steve Ballmer as CEO, of which there have only been two in Microsoft's history.
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Take Two® | May 30, 2014

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As we've been discussing this morning, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has agreed to pay 2 billion dollars for the L.A. Clippers.

For a little more insight into who Mr. Ballmer is we turn to the Wall Street Journal's Monica Langley. Last fall, she spent a few days with him as he was getting ready to leave Microsoft.

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