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AMD CEO holds 3 degrees in engineering, but running the company is her "dream job"
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12/18/2024
AMD CEO Lisa Su told Fortune in 2019 that she sometimes missed being an engineer but her dream job was to run a semiconductor company.
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It was actually my dream job to run a semiconductor company and many people would say,
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well why would you want to do that? It's what every little girl wants. Yeah, that's right.
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Like I said, it's all about making bets. Sometimes you make the wrong bets and hopefully most of the
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time you make the right bets, but the important thing is sticking to those bets because the
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life cycle of semiconductors are so long. Do you miss being an engineer? Sometimes. Sometimes I miss
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being an engineer, but I have the luxury of being able to go into
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the labs and see what we're doing at any given time, so that's fun.
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