In CNET's laborious blow-by-blow of Microsoft's acquisition of Tellme, there's one halfway decent anecdote. Ballmer, the Redmond software behemoth's notoriously bullish chief exec, got so excited about the target's voice recognition software that he knocked over a can of sparkling water on Mike McCue, Tellme's founder. At least he didn't show his enthusiasm by, say, screaming, or, to pick another random example, picking up a chair and throwing it at the Tellme founder.
Steve Ballmer’s enthusiasm
In CNET's laborious blow-by-blow of Microsoft's acquisition of Tellme, there's one halfway decent anecdote. Ballmer, the Redmond software behemoth's notoriously bullish chief exec, got so excited about the target's voice recognition software that he knocked over a can of sparkling water on Mike McCue, Tellme's founder. At least he didn't show his enthusiasm by, say, screaming, or, to pick another random example, picking up a chair and throwing it at the Tellme founder.
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