“While much of the tech world has spent the last week handicapping who Microsoft will choose to replace outgoing CEO Steve Ballmer, one British bookmaker is taking actual bets,” Ina Fried reports for AllThibgsD.
“Ladbrokes (ladbrokes.com) has posted its list online, and the Top 10 picks are all either current or former Microsoft executives,” Fried reports. “Nokia CEO (and former Microsoft Office unit head) Stephen Elop is the favorite at 5 to 1, followed closely by current COO Kevin Turner at 6 to 1.”
Ladbrokes’ Next Microsoft CEO current odds:
Stephen Elop – 5/1
Kevin Turner – 6/1
Steve Sinofsky – 8/1
Julie Larson-Green – 8/1
Qi Lu – 10/1
Kiril Tatarinov – 12/1
Terry Myerson – 12/1
Satya Nadella – 14/1
Tony Bates – 14/1
Paul Maritz – 14/1
Kevin Johnson – 16/1
Reed Hastings – 16/1
John Donahoe – 20/1
Dale Lee – 20/1
Vic Gundotra – 25/1
Jeff Raikes – 25/1
Robbie Bach – 25/1
Scott Forstall – 33/1
Marissa Meyer – 33/1
Sheryl Sandberg – 40/1
John Legere – 40/1
Sir Jonathan Ive – 40/1
Jack Dorsey – 40/1
Bill Gates – 50/1
Tim Cook – 100/1
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MacDailyNews Take:
Oh, please, please, please, Microsoft BoD, please install that idiot Turner into the executive suite posthaste.
We’ll settle for Elop, but Turner would likely be much funnier. Either would continue ramming the iceberg with abandon.
As long as it’s not Marissa.
And Ladbrokes might as well make Jony Ive and Tim Cook ∞/1.
We’ll bet on anything, we will
Easy. Look for someone on the Microsoft campus walking with a pronounced limp leaning towards his right side – he’ll be the one with the missing left nut and therefore Microsoft’s CEO in waiting.
Oh by the way if I were Tim Cook, I’d cash out my stock options over the next twelve months and use the resulting proceeds to place a $500 million bet with Ladbrokes on being the next Microsoft CEO. At 100/1 odds, I’d stand to make $50 billion on my bet, clean out Ladbrokes and become richer than Bill Gates, all in one fell swoop.
Falling right into Steve “Lex Luther” Ballmer’s trap, as he reveals he’s staying on as CEO and he and Ladbrokes chop up all of Cook’s money, laughing their evil laughs all the while.
I would love to see Stephen Elop become the next CEO.
Kevin Turner reminds me of Don Carlton from Monsters University.
Bill Gates is a long shot? Less likely than Jony Ive? I have Gates as my favorite to take over, at least as the interim CEO (“iCEO”). I’ll take some action on Gates at 50/1.
I don’t think so.
Gates will stay where he is.
Chairman of the board and thats it.
It’s precisely BECAUSE he’s the BoD Chairman that I think he will take over as CEO, at least “temporarily.” Either that, or he should step down as Chairman and Board member, and not play a part in making the “next CEO” decision.
Since Microsoft seems to follow the footsteps of the Apple game plan once Microsoft is shown the way, be it their Zune thanks to Apple’s iPod, their Windows Phone thanks to Apple’s iPhone, their Surface thanks to Apple’s iPad, their device and services company reorganization plan thanks to Apple’s tight integration called the Apple ecosystem, maybe there should be odds placed on Microsoft, the fake Apple, hiring the Fake Steve Jobs! No?!
http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/34288/Why-I-Hired-the-Fake-Steve-Jobs.aspx
Ronald McDonald—couldn’t be any worse.
=:~)
Well, he sure is dressing the part.
Lad-broke betting? Almost as good as Moron-go Casino in CA.
lol @ 100/1 for Tim Cook! I actually laughed.
Kevin Turner: imbecile…
I’ll bet he is the next CEO.
Wow. Let it be THIS GUY. 🙂
Holy crap, this guy went to the Steve Ballmer school of speach making.
How come Jerry Seinfeld is not on the list?
Let us not forget Steve Sinofsky’s Surface Demo:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QRWa68MtLc&w=560&h=315]
Reed Hastings, please! He’d be Ballmer II.
Bernie Madoff (got plenty of time on his hands)
Dubbya (so he’ll stop painting)
Henry Kissinger (war criminals rock)
Anyone who ever worked for Enron
Dick Cheney (shoot the other foot)
Why is Steve Forstall only 33/1, and after reading the BusinessInsider biography of Marrisa Mayer, she might do some good at Microsoft especially at the UI level.
I hear a Dr. Assad is looking for a new position. He has extensive large scale management expertise and interesting connections with government.
Looks like lads on that site are idiots. Why would Stephen Elop return to Microsoft? Only because he once was a Microsoft? I don’t see that…