How'd you go from Arthur, North Dakota, to Stanford Business School? In college I started a business sweeping chimneys. The newspaper wrote a story with a photo of me sitting on top of an icy chimney. This caused a stir in the Stanford admissions office: "Hey, there's a chimney sweep from North Dakota that applied!' At Stanford, you met Steve Ballmer. Got to know him very well. Steve was a rock star. He'd been to Harvard, then P&G.
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