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“Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.”
“Really, we don't look at deals as 'big' or 'small': we look at things that will solve a problem for us.”
“I'm an electrical engineer, and when I first started out, there was nobody who looked like me out there. I worked at Qualcomm, and I remember coming into meeting rooms, and I could never get the floor. I could never get my opinion across.”
“Women themselves are an emerging market.”
“We have such a huge demand for engineers in this country, both male and female. We need to find a way to do a better sales job on these young girls so we can get them interested in a field that is very rewarding.”
“We try not to look at everything through a competitive lens.”
“Very early in my career, I thought I had to conform to one style of leadership - lead by being the loudest one in the room, with the sharpest elbows.”
“I would try to be super-assertive in meetings and, you know, pound my hand off the table, and it never ended well. People would say, 'What are you beating the table for?' It's not natural for me.”
“As the world continues its love affair with smartphones and tablets, mobile has become so essential to our lives that most people couldn't imagine life without it.”
“We want to ensure that as a user is moving through their world, their data is following them in an appropriate manner.”
“A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we're missing out on the full range of talent.”
“Gaming provides us with some very good signals about consumers and what they're interested in.”
“When a culture is broken, the cracks show - morale is weakened, but so is profit and performance. That's why culture has to be at the core of any business transformation.”
“Once I was able to be my more authentic self, I felt like that's when my career really took off. I was just my own voice.”
“The industry trend is that everything is moving to the cloud, and most of our customers are in this very heterogeneous world.”