Today,Steve Ballmer is a billionaire with a net worth of $28.5 billion. But back when the now 62-year-veteran was 24, he dropped out of the MBA program at Stanford to catch a job at his former Harvard classmate Bill Gates' new company Microsoft. That gamble paid off. Read more: From $50K A Year Assistant To Billionaire: The Steve Ballmer fable
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