Ginni Rometty

The biggest challenges I think are not in running them, it's in changing them.

And that idea to know what you should change and what you should not change.

Actually, people don't always ask that question.

What should endure, even if it has to be modernized, but what should endure?

And then I found the hardest part was changing how work got done at such a big company.

I'd be interested.

Do you have a perception of what you think it would be?

Yeah.

No, it isn't.

Well, certainly the research part itself, right.

Is over 3000.

So it's not that small.

That's a pretty big research.

But the part that should endure ends up being, you know, company that does things that are essential to the world, meaning, um,

Think back, you said you're romantic.

It was the 30s, the social security system.

It was putting the man on the moon.

It was, to this day, banks don't run, railroads don't run.

That is at its core, it's doing mission-critical work.

And so that part, I think, is at its core, it's a business-to-business company.