Since leaving Microsoft, ex-CEO Steve Ballmer has devoted his life to the Los Angeles Clippers, transferring his enthusiastic, often scary keynote energy into pure, sport-oriented hype. What’s replaced Windows “developers, developers, developers” in the heart of the man who’s spending around $1.8 billion to build the new Intuit Dome arena in Inglewood? “I’ve become a real obsessive about toilets,” Ballmer shared at the groundbreaking for the new arena. Ballmer’s new dome sounds like a predictably over-the-top affair. “We’re putting a whole lot more toilets than anyone else in the NBA.”

Source: The Nation September 22, 2021 18:11 UTC