Bill Gates Reflects on Steve Ballmer

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Bill Gates says Steve Ballmer was the business partner he badly needed — so he gave up 4% of Microsoft to recruit him

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates met Steve Ballmer in a Harvard economics class in the fall of 1976 .

Ballmer shared his "excess energy" with Gates , he writes in his new memoir, "Source Code: My Beginnings" Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft CEO in 2000 and still owned 4% of the company.

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