Gillian Tans Quotes

Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable.

Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.

Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.

Everything starts with the customer.

We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

So in 2000, when we changed the business model and started really focusing on that triangle and putting the customer in the center, we decided we should hold off - we've done enough consolidation; we've got enough critical mass.

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

I have always been very tech-focused, which you may almost say is the traditional CEO in Silicon Valley.

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invented an advertising business which has provided great economics that allows us to build the servers, hire the employees, create value.

We are driven by providing technology to enterprise customers.

The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.

A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem.

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

Suning from a management concept and technology point of view isn't simply an appliance company.

There's tonnes of room for more people in the tech market, and there are lots of content gaps that have still not yet been tapped into.

Back when I was a student, I had Steve Jobs over to my house for a fireside chat with the GSB High Tech Club.

I didn't set out to be at the top of technology companies. I'm just geeky and shy, and I like to code.

The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.

Alibaba is Alibaba. We are going to keep on, you know, having Alibaba as our core company in our family.

I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.'

For what we want to accomplish in the future, we have to be able to view everything from the eyes of the customer.

We recognized that for our future, and for the way the customer was now shopping, we had to have one point of view. All roads lead back to the customer.

Going forward, we will focus on building the very best Windows phones on a quicker timeline. We will also focus on the channels and markets that offer the best returns. This is a similar approach to the one we have taken with Surface, which has been very successful.