Many companies don't exist after 25 years. It's a rarity. Or if they do exist, they're like IBM, with a totally changing personality.
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There are a lot more companies with a lot younger people. It is just like 23-year-olds are starting companies, and they are scaling really quickly.
You cannot have companies where many of the largest ones lose money indefinitely without someone finally waving the white flag, and IBM is the most recent example of that.
I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.
Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.
Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.
At IBM, if we kept our same leadership for 36 years, we'd be bankrupt.
You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.
The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.
IBM has a very solid business image.
You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.