How LA Clippers exec beat out 30 candidates for the job

Fortune

LA Clippers owner and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer hired Halo Sports and Entertainment CEO Gillian Zucker to help launch the Intuit Dome. At #FortuneCOOSummit, Zucker explained how she's implementing tech—including facial recognition—throughout NBA fans’ experience.

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00:00It's a better question for Steve Ballmer who actually made the decision but I

00:03think ultimately like he he's a very process oriented person and I think he

00:07had a process where he met a lot of people including people who weren't

00:11interested in the job at all just to understand somebody who's A plus in the

00:15role that they're in running a professional sports facility what does

00:18that look like and what are the skill sets that are needed in order to be

00:21successful in the job and that helped him formulate an opinion about what he

00:24was looking for and then I think there's always a chemistry that's part of this

00:28is you know do you have somebody that you know you think is going to be capable

00:31of achieving the vision that you have and do you have somebody who is going to

00:35possess the skill sets that you find important and I guess I was lucky enough

00:38to impress him that I was and ten years later I think we've done some pretty

00:41incredible things together I'm so grateful for the opportunity to work

00:44with him and all I've learned

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