Juniper Networks

“He was on the Juniper list for the first, he was on the Midas list the first time for Juniper and he's on the Midas list this year for OpenAI. And there's 30 years between those two events.”

“They told me in 1996 when we started Juniper, they would never adapt TCP IP.”

“And I do believe if Pradeep Sindhu and I hadn't started Juniper, there would be no TCP IP in the public internet.”

“F-one today is more tech than it ever has been. And you look at the sponsors, it's the likes of Juniper, it's the likes of Salesforce, AWS, Oracle, like every other sponsor is a giant tech sponsor.”

“His largest return to date, maybe we'll talk about this today, was Juniper Networks, where the firm's three million dollar investment in the nineties earned seven billion dollar”

“We invest in Juniper, which by the way, Was a 2500 X return, a seven billion dollar return for us on a three or four million dollar investment.”

“By the way, they get paid three to five percent just for that, right, for delivering that technology and improving efficiency, which historically has been a very manual, you know, process for a lot of these providers with, you know, a couple of folks in the ba…”

“Literally, so sometimes configuration information for all the routing equipment, those routing equipment guys, Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Juniper, all of them, they change their stuff all the time. And occasionally we get So they upgrade our softw…”

“When I was actually studying Kleiner Perkins' returns history, when I was at the firm in the year, the nineties and the 2000, I think one of the highest IR investments that Kleiner ended up ever making was not Google. It was not Amazon. It was Juniper networks…”

“What they are doing is taking commodity hardware, putting a layer of 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 …”