ESRogs comments on Competent Elites - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 September 2008 12:07AM

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Comment author: ESRogs 09 September 2013 10:17:40PM 4 points [-]

There are some extremely intelligent people in business (by which I mean high IQ, not just wise or experienced), but you tend to find them in the corners of the business landscape [...] Steve Ballmer - for instance - might deafen you, but he would not dazzle you.

No comment on his ability to dazzle, but Ballmer certainly does have a high IQ:

In high school, Ballmer scored a 1600 on his SATs and was a National Merit Scholar.

As a college sophomore, Ballmer finished in the top 100 in the prestigious Putnam national math competition, and ended up graduating magna cum laude in applied math and economics.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/6/4/personable-ballmer-leads-college-extracurriculars-microsoft/