Ballmer recalls Microsoft undertaking: Gates once worried about pay

Microsoft CEO Ballmer (Sina Science and Technology map) Sina Science and technology news Beijing time February 7 afternoon, according to foreign media reports, Microsoft CEO Ballmer (Steve Ballmer) February 6 in the United States House of Representatives of the Democratic Party delivered a speech, reviewed the early history of Microsoft, Bill Gates, he said, had been worried about paying employees. According to the statement, published by Microsoft's official blog, Mr. Ballmer recalled at the meeting that when I first joined Microsoft, I used to live with gates because "we don't have the budget for our staff to stay in the hotel", "Every time I'm sitting in a corner, like a couch and a table, I find some little pieces of yellow paper, It was full of Bill's handwriting, with many names, company names and numbers. Mr. Ballmer said he couldn't figure out what yellow paper was for, so he asked Gates, "he said: ' Steve, I'm always worried about not having enough cash to pay for my staff." So every night I write down the names and salaries of the people who worked for us, each contract and amount we signed. I have to be careful and that's why I hired you here. 2 weeks ago, Microsoft unveiled its first corporate layoffs, and Mr. Ballmer spoke about the financial tsunami sweeping the world: "In the current economic environment, whether it is a business or a consumer, I think everyone has their own yellow notes, carefully calculating the money in hand." "I think that the brutal truth is that excessive borrowing by the private economy, businesses and consumers are dazzled by a lot of things, such as the idea that house prices will always go up, can get loans at low interest rates," The bubble has broken, we can no longer through the provision of refinancing or cheap loans in the way to promote consumption, This has indeed had a huge impact on the growth of the economy. Ballmer also takes RCA broadcasting as an example of how companies can withstand the effects of the Great Depression by ramping up research and development. RCA went through the Great Depression of the late 30 and became a television company, and in the later electronics era, "although RCA slashed costs to survive during the Great Depression, it never reduced its investment in research and development, and it paid off." At the end of the Great Depression, under the company's leadership, the United States maintained a 25-year lead on television technology "," despite the harsh economic environment, our company will continue to invest more than 9 billion dollars a year in research and development, because we believe that research and development spending will ensure that we are in the industry's leading position. Ballmer also called on lawmakers to "invest human resources in investing in American citizens", especially in the development of science education such as mathematics. (Sean)