Ginni Rometty
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I mean, we had to find our way on cloud, right?
We were late to it.
So we had to find our way.
And eventually that led us to hybrid cloud.
We did a lot of work with Red Hat back in 2017.
Oh, we'd always done a lot of work with them.
Actually, we were one of the first investors when they were first formed.
But that was 2018.
You know, we took quite a hit for even, you know, oh, it was the largest then software acquisition ever.
But it is the foundation, right, of what is our hybrid cloud play today and doing very, very well.
So...
But I had to take a short-term hit for that, right?
Short-term hit for a very large $34 billion acquisition.
But it was, for all of us, it was the right thing to do.
So I think when you get really centered on, you know it's the right thing to do, you just keep going, right?
So we didn't always have exactly the right, you know, this wasn't a straight arrow, but...
Stay down.
You know, you're right.
Keep going.
Okay.