Cisco, every mention
10 scenes (said by Marc Andreessen), the whole family · ← back to Cisco
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Cisco comes up
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
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.
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 | 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 | The Role of Academia in the Startup World
- ▶ 42:06 Marc Andreessen They've got, you know, Cisco and Intel and all these companies.
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 | 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,
Marc Andreessen and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 49:13 Marc Andreessen They've got, you know, Cisco and Intel and all these companies.