Steve Ballmer said he never tried to buy Twitter while at Microsoft, during his interview with Kara Swisher at the Code Conference at the Terranea Resort in California.
Ballmer: ‘We never tried to buy Twitter while I was at Microsoft’
The former Microsoft CEO discussed Twitter at Code Conference.
Rani Molla was a senior correspondent at Vox and has been focusing her reporting on the future of work. She has covered business and technology for more than a decade — often in charts — including at Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.
The former Microsoft CEO and current LA Clippers owner is a well-known Twitter investor, holding about 4 percent of the social media company. Though he didn’t try to buy it, he said, “There is a real opportunity to make that a valuable economic asset.”
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
