Steve Ballmer to startups: ‘take a long-term view’

As Microsoft charts a new course under Satya Nadella, the company’s former head and now Microsoft board member, Steve Ballmer, has been candid about his experiences at the Redmond software giant. The ex-CEO’s latest public words came via a fireside chat hosted by Professor Peter Tufano, a long-time friend of Ballmer’s and Dean of the Saïd Business School, part of England’s Oxford University.

We’ve extracted some entrepreneurial gems from the talk, but if have an hour to kill, the school has made the entire session available online — it’s worth the watch.

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