Ginni Rometty
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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You have clients whose businesses don't run if you don't perform, et cetera.
And shareholders, of course, right?
And so...
But I also am really clear, this was perhaps the largest reinvention IBM ever had to undertake.
Had a board that understood that.
In fact, some of the headlines were like, this is existential, right?
I mean, nobody gives you a right to exist forever.
And there aren't many techs.
You're the student of it.
They are gone.
They are all gone.
And so if we didn't reinvent ourselves, we were going to be extinct.
And so...
Now, but you're big and it's like changing, what's that old saying?
Can I change the wheels while the train's running or something like that?
Or the engines while the plane's flying?
And that's what you have to do.
And that took time.
And so, you know, Lex, do I wish it would have been faster?
Absolutely.