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Steven Anthony Ballmer grew up in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, Michigan. His father, an executive for Ford, taught him about corporate loyalty, the same loyalty that Ballmer today expects from his employees at Microsoft.

In 1974, Ballmer met Bill Gates at Harvard's Currier House in Gates' sophomore year. They went to the movies together, a double bill of A Clockwork Orange and Singin' In The Rain. That was the beginning of what was to be a very long friendship, both personal and professional. Ballmer graduated from Harvard in math and received an offer from Stanford. He deferred and went to work at Procter & Gamble, where he redesigned food-mix boxes to make them more competitive. From there he decided to seek his fame and fortune in Los Angeles, but when plans didn't go as expected, Ballmer eventually accepted Stanford's offer. He dropped out later after encouragement from Gates.

In 1980, Gates and Paul Allen hired Ballmer as Microsoft's ...

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