Qualcomm CEO Shares the Company's Disruption Strategy

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4.7 • 17 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Under CEO Cristiano Amon, semiconductor company Qualcomm is bringing its technology to multiple industries. This conversation was recorded on May 28, 2025. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Race the rudder, raise the sails, raise the sales!
0:05.0	Captain, an unidentified ship approaching. Over.
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0:13.0	Reach sales professionals, not professional sailors.
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0:34.7	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ad Barons. I'm'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest, Cristiano
0:39.8	Amman, CEO of Qualcomm. Cristiano, nice to see you. Nice to see you too. I want to ask you
0:45.8	about the business model of Qualcomm because it's a little complicated maybe. Tell us about
0:51.1	how the model works. Simple. It's actually not complicated.
0:55.0	Okay.
0:56.0	I knew you were going to say that.
0:57.0	Quakom has a licensing business model, and I think that's the old business of Qualcomm.
1:03.0	It's a great business.
1:05.0	It will continue to be a great business, but that's relatively simple.
1:09.0	I think it's when Qualcomm came up with the technologies,
1:12.6	they were the foundation for 3G, 4G, 5G, soon 6G, we decided to openly license so everybody
1:20.6	can build it versus we being on building the technology, and then people pay royalty, which is licensed on fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory
1:31.7	way to the wholesale price of the phone. Now, that was the main business of Qualcomm several
1:37.1	years ago, but now it's the legacy business of Qualcomm. It's a great business, but most
1:43.4	of the growth of the company and the large-scale business of Qualcomm. It's a great business, but most of the growth of the company
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