Cisco, every mention
12 scenes (2018), the whole family · ← back to Cisco
tap a year for its mentions
every year 2018 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 Founders Should Not Always Be Raising, How To Build Relationships with VCs In A Condensed Timeframe, Why The Founder To VC Relationship Is Not Like A Marriage with Dave Vasen, Founder & CEO @ Brightwheel
- ▶ 3:52 Dave Vasen So I started my career doing online learning with Cisco I,.
20VC: What It Takes To Found and Scale A Global Venture Firm Like Lightspeed, 3 Ways Firms Do Not Succeed in Generational Transition & What Makes The Truly Special Board Members Like Jim Goetz with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partn
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings As for Barry himself, he's led investments in Snapchat, Metasolve Software, which was acquired post-IPO by Oracle, Callista Technologies, which was acquired by Microsoft, Arbor Networks, acquired by DHR, Growth Networks, acquired by Cisco. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:21 Barry Eggers I just so happened to go to Cisco early on in the 19 nineties, and started doing acquisitions, and was recruited by my partner Chris Sheppy, who was a classmate of mine at Stanford, and he recruited me, and I joined the firm, and together,…
20VC: Elad Gil's High Growth Handbook on The Commonalities of The Truly Great CEOs, How To Hire The Very Best Execs, Why Cash is A Defensible Moat Today & The Pros and Cons of M&A and IPOs
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
- ▶ 0:39 Harry Stebbings And prior to angel investing, Dan spent 18 years at Cisco in numerous roles, including Senior VP of Corporate Development, where he rebuilt CorpDev as a growth enabler for Cisco, and Dan was also the Senior VP and General Manager of the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 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…
20VC: Why The Current Crop Of VC Does Not Understand Design, Why Product Market Fit Is A Liquid Not A Solid & How Graduates Can Optimise Their Career for Personal Development with Steve Vassallo, General Partner @ Foundation Capital
- ▶ 0:45 Harry Stebbings Before that, Steve was a project leader at IDEO, where he developed more than a dozen successful products for companies including Cisco,
- ▶ 12:22 Steve Vassallo And my case examples of this, you know, I did a lot of work with Cisco back when I was at IDO.