Steve Ballmer handed off the top job at Microsoft on his own volition, according to Steve Ballmer. But he acknowledged there were some «dustups» and hard discussions around his pursuit of Nokia, the mobile phone maker.
«Nobody wanted me to leave as CEO. We had a lot of tough discussions about whether to buy [company]Nokia[/company] … it’s a big decision … we had some dustup type discussions,» Ballmer said on an interview on CBS This Morning. He said the two scenarios were to buy Nokia and make the leadership transition or, if the board didn’t want to do the deal, do the transition then.
The rest is history. Microsoft bought Nokia’s handset business in 2013 and Ballmer said he decided the time was ripe for change. Satya Nadella was ultimately named CEO in February of this year. It should be noted that a vocal group of shareholders were definitely interested in moving Ballmer out of the…
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