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joining me, chief executive officer of siemens joe kaeser.hank you so much for speaking to bloomberg. joe: sure. francine: can you tell us a little bit about that first day you started at siemens? joe: it has been a while, obviously, but i remember i was coming into siemens and i thought, oh, my god, they have abbreviations for everything. and i was thinking to myself, i don't know nothing anymore about what i studied. so it was quite an experience. francine: did you remember going into it, what did you think? did you think this is a company i want to work for for a long time? joe: i had multiple opportunities. i was interviewing a different places, but then i thought siemens at that time was still in the semiconductor business, the electronic business. i thought this is really cool. they were just about to develop this one megabit chip. now we are at gigachips. so it felt pretty cool. so i said, yeah, siemens. that is where i want to be. francine: how has the company changed? joe: it is like day and night, really. i was coming into a manufac

joining me, chief executive officer of siemens joe kaeser.aking to bloomberg. joe: sure. francine: can you tell us a little bit about that first day you started

joining me, chief executive officer of siemens joe kaeser. thank you so much for speaking

joining me, chief executive officer of siemens joe kaeser.