Cisco, every mention
5 scenes (said by Dan Scheinman), the whole family · ← back to Cisco
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Harry Stebbings 68Rob Salvagno 59Dan Scheinman 8Michael Eisenberg 6Jason Lemkin 6Sanjit Biswas 5Andrew Feldman 4Deven Parekh 3Ben Einstein 3Barry Eggers 3
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Cisco comes up
20VC: Why The Days of Spray and Pray at Seed Are Over, How To Compete In A World of Sequoia Seed Funds & Why Price Doesn't Matter with Dan Scheinman, Angel Investor @ Zoom & Arista Networks
- ▶ 2:54 Dan Scheinman So I was at Cisco early, about 20 months after the public offering and stayed until it hit around forty billion in revenue. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:38 Dan Scheinman The worst situation is, one time I was at Cisco and I got a call. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:05 Dan Scheinman Maybe it's less true now, but there are still groups or things that are harder to raise, and if you can stay focused on those things, you know, I used to get taken out every once in a while for the patronizing lunch, where someone would… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:03 Dan Scheinman Personally believe, and I actually, quite frankly, I know from my days at Cisco running M&A that it's the EQ that drives success.
- ▶ 20:32 Dan Scheinman Okay, so when I was at Cisco, I took over CorpDev in 2000, and let me just say that after a bubble burst, you have a lot less to do, and I had a brilliant analyst working for me, and I said, can we go back over our portfolio of deals and…