Microsoft's ex-CEO Steve Ballmer now ranks as the world's fifth-richest person with $117 billion in wealth, according to Bloomberg's latest figures. Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates is currently the world's fourth-richest person with a net worth of $122 billion. Hired by Gates in 1980 as Microsoft's first business manager, Steve Ballmer served as the company's CEO from 2000 to 2014.
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31 Oct