John Chambers
person on 12 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes · said 45 times in 19 episodes since 2017
20VC 14 
American Optimist 9 
Top Founders 8 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 3 
the a16z Podcast 3 
My First Million 2 
the Neon Show 2 
Innovators & Investors 1 
Cheeky Pint 1 
BigDeal 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
Masters of Scale
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20VC 14American Optimist 9Top Founders 8the Official SaaStr Podcast 3the a16z Podcast 3the Neon Show 2My First Million 2the MAD Podcast 13 more shows
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 14 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- $2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
- From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- Anthropic Raises $30B from Microsoft & NVIDIA & NVIDIA’s Core Business Faces TPU Threat · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
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2024 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
2021 6 mentions in 1 episode
2020 8 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- TrueFace Won't Sell Mass Surveillance System to China, Breaks $1m in Revenue
- Lessons from Logikcull: $0 to $10M in 19 Months: The How, When & Why + 10 Mistakes Along the Way
- Understanding Exits and Investing in High Growth Startups with Dhruv Kapoor, Sistema Asia Capital
- 1708 You're telling me your MRR is $7.5m with 35 Employees?
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2018 3 mentions in 1 episode
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4 statements about John Chambers, every show
Zoom might have been built inside Cisco if John Chambers had known
“If he knew that, very likely I would probably still be at Cisco, right, to build a solution, right?”
Chambers: Cisco grew from $70M to $48B and created 10,000 employee millionaires
“We went from a company that had seventy million in sales when I joined, and it went to forty-eight billion. Ah, we were number one or number two in 15 of 18 product areas, number three in just three. We created 10,000 millionaires among our employees, so we sh…”
Kapoor: Former Cisco CEO John Chambers invested in and joined Uniphore board
“They managed to raise actually get John Chambers, ex CEO of Cisco on their on their cap table. He personally invested in that company and he's on the board and he's guiding the company pretty much on a regular basis.”
Wilson: John Chambers based Cisco M&A acquisitions on core values
“I had dinner once with John Chambers at Cisco and I asked him like, why didn't you buy this company? And why did you buy this company? And every question he just kept coming back with was core values. That company didn't align with our core values.”