During an update during Microsoft's annual shareholders meeting, another side of the company co-founder briefly emerges.
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
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So much for the stereotype of the four-eyed nerd with a calculator for a heart. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates struggled to fight back tears as he told shareholders Tuesday that the company has met with "a lot" of CEO candidates in its hunt to find a replacement chief executive for the outgoing Steve Ballmer.
"It's a complex role to fill," Gates said, adding that both he and his lifelong friend and business associate Ballmer "share a commitment" to securing the right CEO to lead the company, choking up momentarily.
It had to be a bittersweet moment for one of the world's legendary business leaders. He and Ballmer worked hand-in-hand through the decades to form one of the most successful one-two pairs in American business history. However, the company is now at a crossroads where there's new urgency to reshape Microsoft amidst a technology landscape where the shift to mobility presents myriad new challenges to the company's Windows-centric business strategy.
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