Gerstner identifies AI as the third major platform disruption he has managed, following the web and mobile/cloud eras.
“think in moments of major platform disruptions, and this is the third that I've managed through.”
Gerstner recounts Bill Gates telling Meg Whitman in 2015-2016 that innovation wouldn't truly start until machines could think.
“Bill Gates is speaking here later today. I heard Bill say in 2015 or 2016, Meg Whitman said to him, haven't all the interesting things been done?”