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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Cisco comes up
Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 11:24 Martin Casado Um, the move to the internet, this is why we've got Cisco and Juniper.
Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy
- ▶ 0:27 Andy McCall Like, we had no chance of getting into the largest corporations in the world, Lighthouse, because Cisco and HP had them all tied up.
- ▶ 6:31 Joe Schmidt I mean, um, for, for those that aren't, aren't familiar with, with Andy's background, you know, he's, uh, he's built some of the, the, the best sales organizations that I've ever heard of at Samsara and Meraki.
- ▶ 17:01 Joe Schmidt And I'd be curious how you thought about it at, at Meraki or Samsara.
- ▶ 18:19 Joe Schmidt Uh, and I'm so much enjoying getting you talking about this stuff, but like Meraki, you guys had, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:07 Andy McCall Still part of Cisco. 5 times in the scene
Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- ▶ 1:19:13 Ben Horowitz Atoms is the evolution of Uber, in a sense, in that you kind of said, okay, we're the Cisco of the physical world.
Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | The a16z Show
- ▶ 11:30 Qasar Younis If you look at like, we, we've talked before about, uh, the rise of Cisco and how, you know, networking kind of went from, you know, first individual machines and companies would get network and then entire countries were getting network.
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
- ▶ 11:05 Ben Horowitz Oh, if you're Sequoia, you had invested in Apple, and Cisco, and Yahoo, and Google, and so it's really hard to make up that ground if you're starting in 2009.
The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- ▶ 0:53 Alex Rampell Lots of bubbles along the way, but, uh, some very, very enduring infrastructure companies like Cisco and Akamai, enduring companies in the application.
"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George
- ▶ 3:39 Gavin Baker Um, you know, first, I think, uh, Cisco peaked at a 150 or a 180 times trailing earnings.
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 7:44 Jeetu Patel But we just launched a new piece of silicon as well as a new chip and a system for scale across networking, where you might have two data centers that act as a logical data center that could be up to eight, 900 kilometers apart.
- ▶ 10:41 Jeetu Patel I do think there'll be like this, uh, extreme demand for an integrated system, because like right now we are very fortunate at Cisco where we do everything from the,
- ▶ 20:07 Jeetu Patel Um, and so, one of the big reasons where Cisco is, um, super relevant is you don't just have a Broadcom world with people just wrapping Broadcom, that their systems are on Broadcom, but you will actually have a choice of silicon, and that…
- ▶ 30:50 Jeetu Patel Um, what you should expect from Cisco is, look, truth be told, for the longest time, people thought Cisco was a legacy company. 2 times in the scene
Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
- ▶ 58:26 Martin Casado Like, will Cisco do something interesting? 2 times in the scene
Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
- ▶ 6:16 Dylan Patel Sure, initially they stole, like, Cisco, uh, source code and firmware and all this stuff, but then they rapidly passed them up, as well as every other telecom company.
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
- ▶ 24:31 Guido Appenzeller I mean, like if you look at, uh, early networking days, Cisco was the most valuable company on the planet, right, for a while.
The Current Reality of American AI Policy: From ‘Pause AI’ to ‘Build’
- ▶ 11:15 Martin Casado Think about like Huawei and Cisco, for example, and we as a nation did start to put in kind of import and export restrictions as a result.
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 4:18 Martin Casado Cisco's been such an iconic company for so long. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:56 Martin Casado Cisco in particular has a lot of experience with this type of stuff, and so how do you think, let's say you're like in the AI wave, you're doing something disruptive, let's say you've decided not to do it inorganic, you're doing it… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:39 Jeetu Patel And I think Cisco's going through this right now, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:08 Martin Casado It seems like Cisco's been able to navigate these because the network is such a point of leverage if, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 Martin Casado I would say with Cisco, it's also just good to be king, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:03 Jeetu Patel And what we do is we will, uh, when we start thinking about the, the products, Cisco used to be a very sales led company. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:47 Martin Casado Maybe they're not as big as VMware or Cisco, but like, maybe just a few words of how do you think about navigating these and the opportunity as a bit of guidance
Marc Andreessen Reveals His Biggest Wins and Mistakes at a16z
- ▶ 12:16 Marc Andreessen and I had about Cisco originally, which is just like, some of these companies are really going to rip. 2 times in the scene
What DeepSeek Means For The Future Of AI | Tech Veterans Weigh In
- ▶ 27:37 Steven Sinofsky And of course, that's what gave birth to Cisco.
Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- ▶ 1:11:47 Ben Horowitz Uh, and one of the things, so Cisco, which is probably the most stable, like monotonically increasing company in the industry, um, a lot of the employees did something called exercise their option to convert them to capital gains. 3 times in the scene
Intelligence in the Age of AI with new CTO of the CIA
- ▶ 24:08 Martin Casado And, and to do what we need to do here, I have to program them because, you know, Cisco just doesn't know what we need to do.
Advancing AI, Approaching VC's & Crypto Scandals: Ask Us Anything!
- ▶ 7:09 Marc Andreessen You can kind of pull out the team, you know, Cisco, you can fire the founders, you can put in a professional CEO, um, and then the job of the professional CEO is to run and capture the market.
AI Food Fights in the Enterprise with Databricks' Ali Ghodsi
- ▶ 12:13 Ali Ghodsi And there's just one company called Cisco. 5 times in the scene
A New Golden Age of Space with John Gedmark
- ▶ 5:24 John Gedmark Right, this is real, this chart is, ah, real data from Cisco, where they took networking, ah, data traffic, ah, off, ah, data off of their, ah, network, and they were able to show that the world's demand for broadband data has been growing…
We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
- ▶ 11:37 David Ulevitch In fact, actually, this reminds me of a story at Cisco. 3 times in the scene
Growth, Sales, and a New Era of B2B
- ▶ 1:59 unnamed speaker Like, it's very hard for, like, a Cisco or an IBM or an HP or an SAP to defend against this sort of emotion.
a16z Podcast | Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)
- ▶ 1:15 Sonal Chokshi The first voice you'll hear is Jyoti's, followed by Satish's, talking about the initial insight behind AppDynamics, which was acquired by Cisco last year for 3.7 billion dollars.
a16z Podcast | All About Stablecoins
- ▶ 18:20 Sonal Chokshi And so you have this interesting ecosystem of all these big open source funders from big companies like Cisco and Google and et cetera.
a16z Podcast | M&A and Innovation, Inside Out
- ▶ 31:04 Martin Casado You know, comb the landscape of innovation, talk to as many as possible, and, like, have you explored kind of this tension as you move away from just doing internal efforts to working with partners, and then how can you trade off between,…
a16z Podcast | From Research to Startup, There and Back Again
- ▶ 49:42 Martin Casado I think another interesting example is a company that used it on the board of, which is Cisco Systems. 7 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | High Growth in Companies (and Tech)
a16z Podcast | B2B2C
- ▶ 23:51 Martin Casado And we sell a billion dollars of Cisco gear. 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Internet of Taste, Streaming Content to Culture
- ▶ 1:14 Marc Andreessen We're going to film like a Cisco like router instruction manual.
a16z Podcast | Beyond CES: Connected Home Devices, Voice, and More
- ▶ 31:14 Steven Sinofsky You're insane, like, because if you typed in, buy a hundred shares of, like, which is one of the first voice things I did on Tell Me, I asked for, tell me the stock quote for Cisco, and I'm sitting there on the five 20 bridge, you know, on… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Platforming the Future
- ▶ 26:23 Benedict Evans Your incentive to leave, to quit and live on ramen noodles and go and swing for the lottery ticket to mix my metaphors is different to that, which it might've been if you were at Microsoft or at IBM or Cisco or so on in the past.
a16z Podcast | What Technology Wants, Needs, Does
- ▶ 31:13 Frank Chen Um, I actually think, here's another interesting thing, which is if there were self-driving cars, trucks, robots, shopping carts, there will probably be a Cisco routing service on top of that that can calculate the best way to get object A… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Technology, Mobility, and the American Dream
- ▶ 24:31 Alex Rampell And you want to optimize for the next five-year period where your own, your own compensation benefits, but you're going to have two trillion dollars that comes back to the U.S. from the Cisco's and GE's and predominantly Apple's of the…
a16z Podcast | Startups and Pendulum Swings Through Ideas, Time, Fame, and Money
- ▶ 1:26 Marc Andreessen Like, you can swap the people out, and, and he would cite Cisco as, ah, one of the great case studies of that, which, you know, is actually a Stanford spin-off, ah, husband and wife team, very sharp founders, but they got booted very… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:48 Marc Andreessen And then we would, you know, these giant companies, Oracle, and Sun, and Cisco, and, and so on, would, would, would build these great tools, and then would, would sell them to the customers, and the customer might be a consumer at home,…
a16z Podcast | Trade, Commerce, Manufacturing, Immigration, & Cuba -- with Penny Pritzker
- ▶ 10:40 Penny Pritzker And, and I have found, and we as an administration have found, by going with business leaders and saying this directly to government leaders, so for example, at the ASEAN Leaders Summit that President Obama hosted, we brought Satya…
a16z Podcast | Connectivity and the Internet as Supply Chain
- ▶ 12:22 Parag Khanna A lot of large companies, Cisco, uh, to say nothing of obviously, uh, companies that are leveraging just coding talent in the cloud.
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 11:01 Michael Copeland Generations of companies that were hugely valuable, Cisco being the most obvious, but, you know, companies that made switches that were, you know, just
- ▶ 14:54 Martin Casado Within a couple of years, VMware is going to have more virtual ports than Cisco has physical ports, which totally blew my mind, right?
- ▶ 30:43 Martin Casado Like if they don't, if you don't have an existing relationship, if you're not IBM and you don't have IBM account control, you're not Cisco, you don't have Cisco account control.
a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
- ▶ 29:09 Orion Hindawi We see about twenty billion dollars being spent in what we do today, but what's nice about Tanium is this platform actually is extensible to do probably another 40 things we don't do today because we haven't productized them, and so our…
- ▶ 29:09 Orion Hindawi We see about twenty billion dollars being spent in what we do today, but what's nice about Tanium is this platform actually is extensible to do probably another 40 things we don't do today because we haven't productized them, and so our…
a16z Podcast | Scaling Ideas and Startups in the U.K. and Europe
- ▶ 26:45 Shaq (Shakil Khan) Padmasri Warrior, Indian, the individual who was CTO of Cisco and now is doing a bunch of board stuff there.
a16z Podcast | Quantum Leap
- ▶ 7:36 Ilyas Khan Apple are very interested, and so these are new, Intel we mentioned earlier, these are new entrants, um, Cisco, for example, Hewlett-Packard, uh, Siemens.
a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow
- ▶ 5:06 J.R. Rivers They have VCE that they acquired, you know, wholly owned from Cisco, so they have, you know, exercises in that. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:43 J.R. Rivers I mean, I know when I was at Cisco, I was the VP of systems architecture for UCS, the unified computing system for Cisco, and the, the number one goal was to get EMC to help sell UCS because we weren't quite sure Cisco sales force could… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:48 Peter Levine There was a time when Wall Street was the blueprint for the next-gen data center, and that was, you know, kind of Cisco and EMC and Oracle databases and Sun Microsystems servers, and that was kind of the blueprint, you know, five, 10, 15… 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | AMPLab, the Power of Open Source, and the Future of Systems Software
- ▶ 5:27 Peter Levine Enterprise and infrastructure software, system software, was traditionally done by folks, let's say, leaving Cisco or leaving Oracle and, 3 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 37:50 Chris Dixon To the incumbent, ah, company, like in his case, Cisco, like it was a new networking invention, and literally just offer them for free all of the inventions. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:06 Marc Andreessen They've got, you know, Cisco and Intel and all these companies.
a16z Podcast | Hard Forks, Hard Choices for Bitcoin
a16z Podcast | Why Every Business is in the Data Business
- ▶ 4:31 Peter Levine It was EMC storage, an Oracle database, a Sun Microsystems server, and a Cisco switch.
- ▶ 12:41 Ash Ashatosh Peter was pointing out you had EMC, Cisco, Oracle, and rest of the folks.
a16z Podcast | When Bio Meets Computer Science
- ▶ 29:39 Marc Andreessen It's probably an initial outlay of twenty million dollars to get going, and you had to write big checks to these big companies like Sun and EMC and Cisco and Oracle to just get a website up and running.
a16z Podcast | Is Entrepreneurship a Universal Language?
- ▶ 12:24 Mohsen Malayeri Instead of working, for example, for Cisco or Twitter, maybe they can leverage that knowledge and come back to this emerging market and start doing
a16z Podcast | The Rise of the Quasi-IPO
- ▶ 8:18 Benedict Evans Today, it's much more, you know, these companies, these, you know, if you look at Apple or Cisco or Google, any of those companies, they're kind of valued like real companies.
- ▶ 10:47 Scott Cooper And the biggest thing that, you know, we've seen, and we've published about this a little bit, uh, you know, at other times is when you look at kind of the growth opportunities as a public investor in the public markets, those are fairly…
a16z Podcast | Dealing with Corporate Dealmakers -- When to Talk to Corp Dev
- ▶ 3:27 Tyson Clark If you, if you look at, ah, the corporate development teams on the enterprise side, and so I'm, I'm talking about Oracle, and Cisco, and VMware, and those kind of companies, they tend to be more M&A execution focused, ah, and, and so you,…
a16z Podcast | What Makes the Valley Work
- ▶ 5:16 Marc Andreessen Um, and then that interfered with the mission that we always had, which is how do you build big, enduring, franchise, important, you know, our, our role models were always, you know, Microsoft and Oracle and Intel and Cisco and IBM and…
- ▶ 27:22 Marc Andreessen It's just, it's, at this point, it's 40 or 50 years of history, and you just drive up and down one on one, and it's like, oh, there's Oracle, there's Intel, there's Cisco, there's, you know, Apple, and you just,
a16z Podcast | Mobile Invades the Data Center
- ▶ 13:33 unnamed speaker You know, if you look at a Cisco, for instance, a Cisco operating system, and XOS is their, their data center class operating system, a phenomenally high percentage of that code is open source. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:33 unnamed speaker You know, if you look at a Cisco, for instance, a Cisco operating system, and XOS is their, their data center class operating system, a phenomenally high percentage of that code is open source. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:21 unnamed speaker Kind of contrary to what Cisco says in their X number of big data centers in the world use Cisco gear, you know, BS, let's, let's go, let's stand up the customers and talk about it. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
- ▶ 2:25 Chris Dixon It's kind of crazy to think Facebook is more sophisticated in networking right now than Cisco. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:12 Peter Levine Open source and closed source software on top of commodity servers and turning that into a new switch that is as fast as is, you know, as capable as some of the most proprietary systems that are out there today from the likes of Cisco and…
Going to Market When No Market Exists
- ▶ 16:47 Martin Casado In the past for enterprise sales motion, like, and I actually think the power and the moat of all the incumbents like IBM and Cisco and Oracle,
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 44:47 Chris Dixon He said he, he literally, with every new thing that his lab would invent, they would go to the incumbent, ah, company, like in his case Cisco, like it was a new networking invention, and literally just offer them for free all of the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:13 Marc Andreessen They've got, you know, Cisco and Intel and all these companies.