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▶ 1:00:56 David Rosenthal Either via standalone new devices like the Flip Cam that's coming out from, uh, Flip was a startup, right, and then Cisco bought it?
▶ 2:09:04 Ben Gilbert I remember that because I remember sitting in North Carolina at my Cisco office, and I remember reading the Chrome comic, which I actually just read a couple nights ago for this episode, this, like, amazing webcomic.

▶ 41:12 David Rosenthal Cisco had just acquired Granite for two hundred and twenty million, and so Larry and Sergey are like, oh, okay,

▶ 1:05:35 David Rosenthal The great story behind it is that, uh, when Mike was taking over for Don Valentine with, with Doug, he was sitting and looking at Sequoia's returns and he was looking at fund three or four, I think it was four, maybe that had Cisco in it.

▶ 1:13:00 Ben Gilbert Cisco.
▶ 1:13:29 Ben Gilbert I knew, at least as of 2009, that the Lockheed campus in Sunnyvale was large, because when I was interning at Cisco, I went on a run one morning, and I was just sort of like exploring around, and I ran into, uh, Lockheed's campus,

▶ 26:49 Ben Gilbert I mean, I had a co-worker at Cisco.
▶ 26:58 Ben Gilbert I just remember seeing the device at my co-worker's desk at Cisco and thinking like, I need one of these things.

▶ 2:07:36 Jason Calacanis I mean, look at, I mean, the stories about Don Valentine and Atari and other places where he was at Cisco.

▶ 14:36 David Rosenthal There was, of course, Sequoia, and Don had done Cisco.
▶ 1:58:37 Ben Gilbert And of course, there's companies that were never in their portfolio, but are other big successful tech companies like Cisco.

▶ 14:47 Ben Gilbert That had Cisco, Oracle, Apple, these unbelievable venture returns, never before seen venture returns, and they were asking themselves, going, you know, my god, what if I got myself into, how are we ever going to top this?
▶ 39:03 Ben Gilbert It was funding veterans of the Cisco's of the world, uh, and, and, you know, the, the Fairchild's of the world who had designed, you know, five chips before to go start a new company and build the sixth chip of their life, you know, in…

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