Name: This Is What Steve Ballmer Learned as an NBA Owner
Uploaded: 2016-03-10
Duration: 1 min 25 s
Description: A little different than owning a tech company

What have you learned in your time as an owner? Well, I'd say a few things. Number one, it is really exciting to own a basketball team. I go to games anyway, the high school games in Seattle. If it's your kid's game, that's the best If it's not your kid's game, having something you can feel like you're close to, you'll understand, you watch on a regular basis, you know the people, that's fun. I really enjoy that. Number two It's not like trading baseball cards. You know, phoom, phoom with your kids. You've traded baseball cards to build these fantasy teams. Doesn't work like that. [ LAUGH ] Basically, I'll say it in text speak. There's a major product wave once a year, and then there's a point one kinda upgrade once a year. So you do all product development for you major releases. Basically form the end of the season through about July 15th, and whether it's business or players, you've got about a six week window, And then around the all star break, you can do a point release. [ LAUGH ] Again business or players. You know because there's a trade deadline, blah, blah, blah. And that's about it. You know you've got about five or six weeks to work on everything and then the rest is just operations. [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

This Is What Steve Ballmer Learned as an NBA Owner

A little different than owning a tech company