Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Amon is not a morning person, so the meetings that decide the most get scheduled last, when nothing has to end on time.
Ryan Patel spent a day with Amon at Qualcomm’s San Diego campus: a ride in the 1973 Bronco he rebuilt, thirty minutes inside an all-hands where his own employees pushed back on the company’s bets, and a walk through the 6G and robotics labs. Amon joined Qualcomm as an engineer in 1995.
Also covered: why he says Qualcomm still gets no credit for its data center and industrial businesses, and the one thing he says a CEO can never delegate.
Timestamps
0:00 Change is certain. What we become next is a choice
1:14 He picks Ryan up in the 1973 Bronco he rebuilt
2:25 The one trait he thinks other leaders should copy
3:15 What he does when the job gets hard
4:18 Inside a Qualcomm all-hands, as an honorary employee
4:45 Answering his own employees on whether Qualcomm can execute all of it
5:26 Why he calls himself one of the team rather than the CEO
5:42 Licensing to chips to phones to cars to AI data centers
6:44 In the 6G lab, where the network sees everything that flies
8:41 When he decides to become the bottleneck on purpose
9:22 What a robot needs that a phone already has
10:33 The empty store built to teach robots retail
13:11 What nobody sees a CEO actually do
13:59 Why data can tell you about the past and not the future
15:44 Mobile, computing, automotive, data center: the credit ladder
17:18 “The company is about proving people wrong”
18:39 Not a morning person, so the big meetings go last
19:09 The one thing he would never delegate
19:21 The biggest misconception about being a CEO
19:48 Reinvention is in Qualcomm’s DNA
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