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Ginni Rometty

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1429 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And at its core, it's about doing things that are really important to the world becoming running and being better.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Yes, secure in this world.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

That's like everything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And in fact, when I started, I almost felt people were looking for what that was.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And together we sort of, in a word, was to be essential.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And the reason I loved that word was, I can't call myself essential.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

You have to determine I am, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

So it was to be essential, even though some of what we did is exactly what you said, it's below the surface.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

So many people, because people say to me, well, what does IBM do now, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And over the years, it's changed so much.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And today, it's really a software and consulting company.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Consulting is a third of it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

And the software is all hybrid cloud and AI.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

That would not have been true, as you well know, back even two decades ago, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

So it changes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

But I think at its core, it's that be essential.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

You said moonshot.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

Can't all be moonshots because moonshots don't always work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

But mission critical work.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#362 – Ginni Rometty: IBM CEO on Leadership, Power, and Adversity

You would, for lots of reasons.