Cisco, every mention
24 scenes (2020), the whole family · ← back to Cisco
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every year 2020 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: Reid Hoffman on Investing in Airbnb and Passing on Stripe, The Different Styles of Truly Great Leaders, How To Think Through Ownership and Price in Venture & How To Ensure Venture Partnerships Always Have Trust and a Learning Mindset
- ▶ 41:21 Reid Hoffman He was the person who built Cisco's, like, corp dev practice and so forth, but also knowledge about what he knows and what he doesn't know, and so, you know, he basically is like, when he goes, okay, this is really what you need to do, or…
20VC: Accel's Dan Levine on The Current State of Seed & Series A, The Rise of Pre-Emptive Rounds, Solo Capitalists and Multi-Stage Funds Entering Seed & Market, People and Product; What To Prioritise?
- ▶ 40:30 Daniel Levine It's kind of a very, very popular project that's been adopted by huge companies like Cisco, Uber, Cloudflare, Century, Mux, Instana, Segment, Tencent, ByteDance, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
20VC: The Implications of a Biden vs a Trump Administration on Venture and Startups, How The Rise of Rolling Funds, SPACs and Solo Capitalists Will Impact Venture & What We Can Do To Swing the Race Pendulum in VC with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner @ Ligh
- ▶ 3:41 Barry Eggers I was working at Cisco and I started doing acquisitions for Cisco and really enjoyed that and bought a few companies. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Roelof Botha on His Biggest Lessons Working Alongside Don Valentine, Mike Moritz and Doug Leone, Leading Sequoia's US Business and What Sequoia Do To Retain Their Edge at the Top & The Crucible Moments That Define Startup Success
- ▶ 2:36 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash
- ▶ 40:21 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC.
20VC: Cyan Banister on Her Relationship To Money, Risk, Her Investment Decision-Making Process, Why We Will See A Reckoning in the Early Stage Market, Her Biggest Takeaways from HQ Trivia & The Future of Silicon Valley
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC.
- ▶ 3:46 Cyan Banister There's like four or five that failed before I won the startup lottery, which was a company called Ironport and Ironport exited to Cisco for a sizable amount.
- ▶ 52:20 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 2:39 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash
- ▶ 47:00 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash
20VC: Arlan Hamilton: "We Have Come For Cake, Not The Crumbs", Arlan's Plan To Return $1Bn in 10 Years, Why Arlan Plans To Giveaway or Invest 90% of Her Wealth & What The LP Class Can Do To Ensure More Under-Represented Managers Get Funded
- ▶ 2:44 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC.
- ▶ 36:06 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC.
20VC: Biggest Lessons From Scaling Houseparty To Millions of Users, Why Today's Metrics Are Insufficient To Determine Product Success & What Breaks with Scale From Team To Product with Ben Rubin, Co-Founder @ /talk & Houseparty
- ▶ 1:02 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com.
- ▶ 42:03 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com.
20VC: Why Entrepreneurs Care Less About Firm Brand at Seed, How LPs Should Think About GP Commit & How The World of LPs and Fundraising Will Change Post COVID with Apurva Mehta, Managing Partner @ Summit Peak Investments
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC, and check this out.
- ▶ 37:42 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco
20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
- ▶ 1:31 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC, and check this out.
- ▶ 5:44 Dev Ittycheria Lo and behold, those companies got bought by people like Cisco and others, and obviously the founders did really well, and what struck me was that these founders were having a lot of fun, they'd obviously done well financially, and they…
- ▶ 40:58 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC, and check this out.
20VC: Steve Jurvetson on 20 Years of Friendship with Elon Musk, How To Analyse Market Timing, Why Venture Does Not Scale & Why He Has Never Sold A Share in Any Company He Holds
- ▶ 1:26 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco build for growth using Amplitude, and visit amplitude.com forward slash two zero VC, and check this out.
- ▶ 53:08 Harry Stebbings See for yourself how companies like Twitter, DoorDash, and Cisco
20VC: True Ventures' Toni Schneider on How Being CEO @ Automattic (Wordpress) Made Him A Better Investor, The Biggest Lessons from Automattic on Running Successful Remote Teams and The Right Way For Investors To Show Founders They Have Their Support (Note
- ▶ 24:17 Tony Schneider Ring.com to Amazon, Duo Security to Cisco, and most recently, the Peloton IPO.
20VC: Vinod Khosla on What Venture Assistance Really Means, Why Many VCs Are Not Qualified To Advise Founders & Why Startups Can Innovate So Much Faster Than Incumbents
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings ...corporation, which was ultimately acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999 for 7.2 billion dollars.
20VC: Portfolio Construction, Optimising SPVs, Opportunity Investing "Between Rounds", Being Distribution-Centric Over Product-Centric and Capital Concentration Within Funds With Sumeet Gajri, Chief Strategy Officer @ Carta
- ▶ 28:04 Sumit Gajri Yeah, honestly, the biggest and best companies ever, you know, generational businesses today, the Cisco's, Facebook's, Apple's, Amazon's of the world, they don't rely on those channels very much.