Recode Decode: BlackBerry CEO John Chen

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Business, Technology

4.2 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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BlackBerry CEO John Chen talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about how the once-pioneering mobile phone company has happily pivoted into a new business model, focusing on enterprise security and embedded technology for connected cars. Chen says “somebody should make” a new version of the BlackBerry Bold 9900, explaining that there’s still a sizable audience of professionals and government workers who want their phones to be ultra secure. He also discusses why he took the CEO job in 2013, why he just committed to another five years and how governments should direct their regulation of self-driving cars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Karraswisher, executive editor of Recode.
0:03.6	You may know me as someone who actually had a blackberry in my hand when I was having
0:06.9	my son 16 years ago, which was a really problematic thing for the doctors.
0:11.6	But in my spare time, I talked tech and you're listening to Recode decode from the box Media
0:15.3	Podcast Network.
0:16.9	Today in the red chair is John Chen, the CEO of Blackberry.
0:20.7	Before joining Blackberry in 2013, he was the CEO of Sybase.
0:24.6	He also serves on the boards of Disney, Wells Fargo, and the National Committee on U.S.
0:28.7	China Relations.
0:29.7	We'll have a lot to talk about there, John.
0:31.6	Welcome to Recode decode.
0:33.1	Thank you.
0:34.1	So we talked on the stage at the Code Conference, or all things D, I guess, back then.
0:38.5	When you got there, when you first got there, let's review your background really quickly
0:43.2	for people who don't know you and then talk about what you've been doing at Blackberry
0:46.3	since.
0:47.3	Okay, my background.
0:48.3	Well, I was born in Hong Kong.
0:51.0	Grub in Hong Kong came over to the United States with schooling, went to Brown University
0:55.9	for a electrical engineering degree, went to Caltech, followed by Master of the electrical
1:00.5	engineering.
1:01.5	Pretty good places.
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