Ballmer: Google's growth strategy is 'insane' Video

Video description: Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer says the key to longtime business success is to continually come up with successful ideas. Speaking at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, he says Google is still in an early phase, in which it can milk its "one good idea." Ballmer was also asked why he dropped out of Stanford to work at Microsoft.

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