Ginni Rometty

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1,854 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2023 last heard 21 Feb

Ginni Rometty’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So I have to tell you, it's a different definition for me now.

It's about being present for those that matter.

I have to say it would be having some impact that matters to someone else.

Well, quickly, how I got there, we'll end where we started our conversation, was my mom.

She'd only had a high school degree.

My mom was not dumb.

My mom was smart.

She had aptitude.

She had no access to education.

And I learned that my mom never did get a college degree, but finally got a job that she could pay, raise a family with.

And I found that just by happenstance with IBM.

I realized 95% of our jobs required a PhD or a university degree.

Yet when it came to cybersecurity, we didn't need that to get started.

I would just learn that by happenstance.

So it set us down a journey to look at how many of our jobs actually could get started without a college degree.

I then learned, well, 65% of Americans don't have a college degree.

65% of humans in all developed countries don't have a college degree.

80% of black Americans don't have a college degree.

You start to say to yourself, I'm overlooking huge talent pools in the world.

by putting a false barrier of a college degree.

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