Steve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft. He was the CEO of Microsoft from January 2000 to February 2014. He got all of his wealth from being an employee of Microsoft, while he was neither the founder nor a relative of the founder of the company. He is in the list of the richest people in the world published by Forbes magazine.

With assets equivalent to 15.2 billion dollars in 2013, he is ranked 51st in the world. He was born to a Swiss immigrant father and a Belarusian Jewish mother. 
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During his tenure, Microsoft released major software products like Windows XP, Windows 7, and Office 2010.