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Paul Jacobs

Chief Executive Officer, Globalstar

Search every verified Paul Jacobs interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In 2013, Paul Jacobs, then CEO and chairman of Qualcomm, gave two public lectures. At the Computer History Museum in August, he discussed Qualcomm's role as a "Switzerland" in the mobile industry, supporting multiple operating systems, and described the company's work on "digital brains" that function like a human brain and can be taught rather than programmed. He advised the audience to take risks and not settle for a comfortable life, emphasizing the importance of pushing oneself to change the world. In an October Regents' Lecture at UC Berkeley, Jacobs spoke about applying mobile technology to disrupt healthcare, noting that healthcare is a $6.5 trillion business compared to mobile's $1.5 trillion. He argued that connectivity could increase productivity and lower costs, particularly in developing countries facing an aging population with a shortage of doctors. He described Qualcomm's efforts to build a hub system for medical devices to communicate and share data in a HIPAA-compliant manner, and mentioned the company's "1,000X Challenge" to radically reduce the cost of generating wireless bits and expand connectivity to remote areas.

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