The Motley Fool Interviews IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh

In this podcast, Motley Fool co-founder Tom Gardner and contributor Matt Frankel speech with IBM Chief Financial Officer Jim Kavanaugh astir the caller IBM.

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Jim Kavanaugh: Over the past 3 positive years, we've created much worth for our shareholders than the anterior 111 years combined.

Mac Greer: That was IBM Jim Kavanaugh. I'm Motley Full shaper Mac Greer. Now, Motley Full co laminitis and CEO Tom Gardner and Motley Full contributor Matt Frankel precocious talked with Kavanaugh astir the caller IBM and astir what AI means for IBM's future. Now, I should enactment that this interrogation was recorded connected February 10, anterior to the large diminution successful IBM's banal terms implicit concerns astir Anthropic' caller CBA coding tool. Hope you bask the conversation.

Tom Gardner: Well, hello, Fools. We're truthful excited to walk the adjacent fractional hr oregon truthful with the Chief Financial Officer of IBM, Jim Kavanaugh and Matt Frankel, our Hidden Gems concern analysts helping retired passim Jim. Thank you truthful overmuch for this time.