Cisco, every mention
10 scenes (2026), the whole family · ← back to Cisco
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every year 2026 anyone Martin Casado 39Marc Andreessen 12Jeetu Patel 11Peter Levine 8Joe Schmidt 8J.R. Rivers 6Chris Dixon 6Andy McCall 6Ben Horowitz 5Ali Ghodsi 5
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.