 This is Silicon Angle Media's theCUBE Star Flagship program, we go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, my co-host this week, Stu Miniman, the three days of wall-to-wall coverage. Our next guest, Michael Dell, welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you. Super excited to be with you and obviously super excited about the formation of Dell technology. Here we are in the middle of Silicon Valley and what this part of the country has done to change the culture of the entire world. The world's economy in the last 20 years, 25 years is nothing short of incredible. What problem are we trying to solve? One of these industries work, I think you take all this great technology and actually help a non-technology industry improve and go digital. So that's that nexus of technology and business. That's where we sit. That's what we do, swing those two things together. So you've served eight presidents, six of whom had a great sense of humor. Why is it important for leaders to have a sense of humor? Well, I think a sense of humor reflects balance. It reflects a perspective on the world that is healthy. Being a leader and being right a lot means that you get to the right answer regardless of who's idea it was at the beginning and regardless of how many times you change your mind along the way. Great leaders change their minds when they get new information. We have extraordinary vision and leadership of our fields and so much of this starts at the top and he truly believes that Ford is perfectly poised right now to help people make their lives better and we think we can do that through mobility. So we are breaking out of our comfort zone. What makes kind of where we are now in technology so important? Yeah, I think one, I'm very excited about the open, right? The ability for everyone to participate has created such a, it's almost a much more rapid innovation cycle than we've ever seen before. You know, some of the brightest brains in the world are involved in the creation of new technology. I just think they need to be focusing a bit more of that intellectual rigor towards the impact they're having on society and how they could do it better because I think it's too much of a technocratic solution, right, technologists say, we can do this? The question is, should they? Back to the point about innovation in cloud is yes, it's lower cost, it's better economically, yes, it's simpler, but it also drives more innovation at the same time and it's really the combination of all these factors that do the trick. You know, we made it more inclusive than most of the companies would do because typically, IPOs are more elitist events where like a few execs show up and so on. And we worked really hard to say, look, with the more the merrier. We're going to talk about the human condition and what's happening in the world and how to affect change. So, you know, tell us a little bit about, you know, your background and some of the challenges that you had to overcome. Coming out of that experience and the struggle against above-date has been foundational for me in terms of looking at how terrible our world can be and how amazing our world can be and the people who take the time and the commitment to change the terrible into good. Freedom of speech is not something theoretical. It's not something academic. It's not a great idea that the forefathers came up with. It's something that lives and breathes in my blood and in my DNA and in my dreams and in everything that makes me human. And so it's, I hate it when people say, oh, you're an adrenaline junkie. You like to go to war. I don't like to go to war. I like to go to places where those values are being tested. Young ladies always ask me, did you have a problem being a black woman and engineering? And I always tell them that I don't have a problem with being a black woman and if other people do then that's their problem. I'm totally embraced it. Ten year anniversary from the first information on demand, the first data conference. So here we are now 10 years later this morning. I recapped a bunch of the promises that we made at the start of that and I had no idea all the progress we would make. I mean, we not only kept those promises, but along the way we introduced new capabilities like Watson, Watson analytics and reinvigorated the whole market around artificial intelligence.