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58-year-old Ballmer owns over 333 million shares
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who last year expressed his desire to continue “as one of Microsoft’s largest owners,” is now officially the Redmond-based company’s largest individual owner, having just overtaken its co-founder and former chairman Bill Gates.
Microsoft CEO for a 14-year period stretching from January 2000 to February 2014, Ballmer became the company’s largest shareholder after Bill Gates sold off 4.6 million shares in April. As a result of that sale, Bill Gates now owns 330.1 million shares, which is just a shade behind Ballmer’s 333.2 million.
In an interview he gave to The Wall Street Journal in March, Ballmer said he wasn’t sure how much longer he would continue as a Microsoft director, a post he clung onto despite some opposition. Interestingly, Microsoft shares have climbed nearly 25 percent since Ballmer announced his retirement.
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