Nilay Patel
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Siemens is a huge company.
It has a long history.
You've been in a lot of businesses.
You've been out a lot of businesses.
You have worked there since the 90s.
The world is...
very complicated right now, and Siemens is a very big, very complicated multinational operating in that world.
I'm curious how you are thinking of all that.
Let me just start at the start.
Siemens isn't a consumer company.
I think a lot of Decoder listeners have seen the logo, but maybe don't understand the company.
How would you describe Siemens today?
What is the company?
I listen to that and I experience Siemens everywhere.
I'm the person who pays attention to how is this building automated.
I talk to a lot of car CEOs.
I hear about Siemens as a supplier to the car industry quite a bit.
It sounds like what you are describing basically is...
you operate things for people, right?
Or you build technologies or products that operate other things for people.