Cristiano Amon has chaired and directed Qualcomm since June 2021, the North American multinational creator of the chips (semiconductors) present in more than 2,000 devices that, without these circuits, would be nothing more than paperweights. This engineer, born in São Paulo (Brazil) 52 years ago, is enthusiastic about martial arts. His collaborators say that this hobby has taught him not to belittle his rivals. He is the first to arrive at the office and harangues his most direct employees (the company has 45,000 workers worldwide) with the metaphor of the gladiator in the Roman coliseum: “Only if you win, do you have the opportunity to return to the arena ”.
The company that runs Amon is one of the mothers of mobile connectivity (since the old…
