AMD CEO holds 3 degrees in engineering, but running the company is her "dream job"

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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00:00It was actually my dream job to run a semiconductor company and many people would say,

00:05well why would you want to do that? It's what every little girl wants. Yeah, that's right.

00:10Like I said, it's all about making bets. Sometimes you make the wrong bets and hopefully most of the

00:14time you make the right bets, but the important thing is sticking to those bets because the

00:19life cycle of semiconductors are so long. Do you miss being an engineer? Sometimes. Sometimes I miss

00:26being an engineer, but I have the luxury of being able to go into

00:30the labs and see what we're doing at any given time, so that's fun.