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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (19727)	1/31/2024 6:54:51 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19789

Steve Balmer kept Microsoft in the wilderness for about 13 years if memory serves It was around the turn of the century when Ballmer opined that MSFT stock was over priced. It tanked on that and went nowhere for years, as you noted. I should have sold then, but had massive capital gains tax to pay if I did. I had held the stock since shortly after the IPO. Painful lesson learned.. BTW, this latest sell off today is overdone, IMO, and won't last long..

To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (19727)	1/31/2024 7:03:30 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19789

I thought about Apple when I wrote this but I think Microsoft was more dramatic and done by an employee who was foreign born, not part of the original management which Jobs was. Agree what Jobs did was also amazing, and Cook may have been equally impressive but to see how Microsoft lagged for more than a decade at a time it was still a major tech player but without creative leadership due to poor management of Gates and Ballmer was bold and inspirational.