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		demondemidi on July 4, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AI's $600B Question It still blows my mind that Microsoft is the most valuable company in the planet because of the cloud and Balmers long term vision. I thought they would have gone the way of IBM.

fragmede on July 4, 2024 | [–]

Which, IBM booked about $62 billion in revenue for 2023.

I thought Nvidia recently took that crown recently though.

hollerith on July 4, 2024 | [–]

Agree. Ballmer seems to have done his job well.

alberth on July 4, 2024 | [–]

While I agree, he also admits his biggest miss was phone/hardware (which is what catapulted Apple).

https://youtu.be/v9d3wp2sGPI?feature=shared

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