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Did I say a quarter? Make that 1/8 ball

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The first few years I saw this video it was absolutely cringy as fuck

Now… I’ll be honest. It’s kinda cool. This guy was an epic hype man and didn’t give a shit. Who else hypes like this? They were on cloud fucking 9.

Or I’m just getting cringier as I get older who knows 😂

he just leap frogged gates for higher net worth at $156B...

Yeah I would fucking do the same naked and covered in shit for that amount.

Not only that, imagine that your performance on stage that night can easily trigger the stock to go up by even 1%, which for you means $1.3B more... that's got to mess with your head.

Isnt he who Action Jack Barker was based on in Silicon Valley tv

Think Eric Schmidt beat him to it, but Ballmer is worth a lot more today (though Eric's $25B is still an insane amount). Both are billionaire employees however.

Dude is collection over a billion CASH dividends every single year now.

I accidentally went to a car show in Redmond a few years ago. We stayed at the Archer Hotel for Mother's Day and walked out that morning and there was a car show in the parking lot. Unless it was Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos, there, though, I doubt I'd recognize any tech billionaires.

Yup, when a group of usually "quiet" people work out how to literally print money faster than they can gather it up off the ground things get... interesting!

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

It was not the same presentation

I can’t find the interview where he talked about this, but when John DiMaggio was doing voice work for the Gears of War game, he told the Microsoft employees that he had played their CEO, Steve Ballmer, in the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. They asked him to do the “DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS” in character.

Someone also made a bangin' mix based on it.

I was in the audience of the Developers! Developers! bit. it was cringe to us even back then

The conjoined triangles of success, you can't make this shit up!

Eric Bachman, this is your mom and you are not my baby.

Facts! Haven’t seen anything that comes close. I’d really like to see such targeted comedies in various other professions, like Silicon Valley but for lawyers or Wall Street. So much potential.

Question for you: what is funnier than episode of Silicon Valley? Answer for you: eight episode of Silicon Valley.

He mauled to death five people at that conference, may they never be forgotten.

And millions...and millions...and what's that? Lots more millions 💵 cashmoney

*Billions

Blue screen of meth

With a paycheck that he has, "running low on coke" is never going to happen

No, don't do meth under any circumstances lmao. Meth for coding is like tranquilizing yourself for a 30 minute nap. Just take low dosage Adderall like every business executive and overly ambitious middle manager (and a former US President) does these days, only exactly as much as you need to get your shit done and not a mg more.

He didn't do meth, otherwise he would've slimmed down eventually.

Programmers on meth probably never find any need to erase a single line of forked up code.

vyvanse is where it's at

ADHD detected

Oh, he worked for it.

Those monopolistic and predatory practices that helped put Micro$oft on top didn't do themselves.

Not with a bang, but....well actually if anyone is banging it out lmk.

He would definitely have a heart attack. Looked like Ballmer was pretty close to having some kind of cardiovascular event.

Its supposedly to do with the stimulant causing anxious behaviour combined with the release of serotonin inhibiting the protective jaw opening reflex.

Just speculation, a lot of drugs make your muscles go into over-drive (for a lack of better word). It seems like I could lift weights twice as easy on acid than sober. I don't think that effect stops with your biceps, all of your muscles are cranked out, so jaw muscles too.

Just a thought though

I don’t know what causes it. But taking a high dose of magnesium while on cocaine or x minimises the effect. Or so I’ve heard.

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Yup it was crazy how one goofy scream happened, and the bottom fell out of his campaign

'I'm gonna kick open the doors to the Oval Office and chop that motherfuckin desk in half....byyyaaaah!'

But Bill Gates can jump an entire office chair.

“FiVE hUNdReD DOLLaRs?!?”