joining me today, steve mollenkopf. thanks for being here. steve: thank you.mily: you fended off a hostile takeover, a failed deal this past year, what did i miss? steve: you haven't missed anything. we are at the center of a lot of key technology, which tends to make us both interesting from a partner point of view -- we don't tend to do anything small. when i look at it, this year, if anything, krugman the importance of the technologies we work on. emily: would you have taken the job if you had known the complex situations you're doing with? steve: yeah. i have been with the company for over to you for years. when i became ceo, it was clear -- what were we going to do next? a lot of these things were issues we know about that we had to deal with. we were knocking them off the list. emily: you had an inkling that it would be a hard few years. aeve: anytime you are at technology company, you have to be prepared for up send downs. what you tend to do as a ceo is live your life further out in the future than where you are living because you are betting on big te

joining me today on "bloomberg studio 1.0," is qualcomm ceo, steve mollenkopf. eve, thanks for being here. steve: happy to be here. emily: you made it. steve: i did. emily: i know you have a few things going on. you are in bitter lawsuits with apple around the world. you fended off a hostile takeover of your company, you had a failed deal this past year. what'd i miss? steve: well, you haven't missed anything. it has been interesting. i would say we are at the center of a lot of key technology, which tends to make us interesting from a partner point of view. we don't tend to do anything small. but also, when i look at it, if anything proved the importance of the technologies that we work on. emily: so, would you have taken the job if you had known of all the complex situations you would be dealing with? steve: i have been with the company for 24 years. when i became ceo, it was clear we knew what we wanted to do next and so a lot of these things were issues that we know about and we had to deal with. we're knocking them off the list. emily: you had an inkling it