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J.R. Rivers

Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Rivers co-founded Cumulus Networks in 2010 and served as its CEO and CTO prior to its acquisition by NVIDIA in 2020. He has held pivotal engineering and architecture roles at 3Com, Google, Cisco, and Amazon Web Services.

What they said4 Shows1

Everything J.R. Rivers said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Rivers: Public markets would never permit Dell's $67B acquisition of EMC

“When they went private, their market cap was twenty four billion dollars. So tell me in what public market you're going to find a twenty four billion dollar company acquiring a sixty seven billion dollar company. Not going to freaking happen.”

J.R. Rivers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:38 a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow

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Rivers: Cisco relied on EMC's sales force to sell UCS

“When I was at Cisco, I was the VP of systems architecture for UCS, the unified computing system for Cisco, and the number one goal was to get EMC to help sell UCS because we weren't quite sure Cisco sales force could pull it off.”

J.R. Rivers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:43 a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow

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Rivers: Dell effectively paid only $20 billion net for EMC

“How much did Dell really pay for EMC? About twenty billion dollars. Because the rest of it, I mean, if they took VMware and spun it out, they'd, you know, they'd make back at least 40.”

J.R. Rivers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:56 a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow

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Rivers: EMC has one of the few world-class enterprise sales forces

“Count on your hands how many people have, like, well-vetted, truly, undeniably, world-class enterprise sales forces. There aren't that many, right? And I think you have to say EMC's got one of them.”

J.R. Rivers Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 5:28 a16z Podcast | Dell + EMC -- Why the Python Just Ate the Cow

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens J.R.'s full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	Senior Principal Engineer, Amazon Web Services	1	4	—	full record on the a16z Podcast →