Arvind Krishna
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Arvind Krishna presents as a Pioneer throughout this interview, consistently pointing IBM toward frontiers that others have yet to fully commit to. He frames quantum computing not as a distant aspiration but as a measurable progression, citing specific milestones from five atoms to twelve thousand in a matter of months, demonstrating a data-driven belief in breakthrough timelines.
“Now, but my point being not all of that will see a return. By the way, if I go back to the fiber world, I would look at you and say, if I look at fiber optics in the ground back in the year 2000, not all of those people got a return. However, this is the beauty of capitalism, and I'm calling it a beauty. We spend the money.”
“Triangulat So we asked a couple of our friends in the consulting world, BCG McKinsey, hey, tell us, if we can arrive at some utility point, what do you think the value is? They both came back and gave us a pretty consistent answer, very slightly.”
“It's a belief that one company is going to be the only company that gets the entire market. I got it, that's a belief. That's what some people like to chase. And I understand that from their perspective, that's different than agree with. Understand is different than agree. And so I think it's fine. I mean, like they're chasing it.”
“It to really get deployed. That was really the big inflection we made. So as opposed to trying to do lots of things. So that meant I used the word innovation. So that meant commodity services have to leave the company because you can't do both.”
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