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2 Jun 2025 Acquired The Steve Ballmer Interview
“I think you might say three in revenue and probably closer to four plus, five maybe even on profit.”
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- 2 Jun 2025
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- The Steve Ballmer Interview
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…Okay, so three plus times in revenue. I think you might say three in revenue and probably closer to four plus, five maybe even on profit. About the same time the dot-com bubble busts. You have two problems. Number one, now we’re showing our books all this expense for stock options. Okay. But people don’t value those things what we have to expense. And the stock is flat, so they value them even less. This is a really insidious problem.…
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