Lisa Su
Chair and chief executive of Advanced Micro Devices
Run toward the hardest problems. At the time, I didn’t fully understand what that meant. But over time, I realized this was the best advice I ever received. Hard problems teach you what you're capable of. Fast forward a bit … 12 years ago, I got a chance to put that lesson to the test. I had the opportunity to become CEO of AMD. AMD had enormous potential, but the company had been through some tough years. Some of my mentors thought taking the job was risky. But for me, this was my dream job. This was what I’d been training for all those years. The opportunity to work at the bleeding edge of technology on problems that really mattered. The first thing we had to figure out was what we wante