Cisco, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Guy Raz 80Sandy Lerner 21Hank and John Green 4Jeff Lawson 2Jamie Siminoff 2Vicky Tsai 1Mike Cannon-Brookes 1Mark Gainey 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Cisco comes up
e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant
Twilio: Jeff Lawson
- ▶ 38:12 Jeff Lawson Like I call like Cisco and say like, Hey, you know, you, it seems like you people know how to make the phone ring. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:37 Guy Raz And you're quoted, um, around this time, maybe it was to, uh, you said, you know, our end goal is to open the black box of telecom and move the world away from the legacy of Cisco and Microsoft's big expensive hardware that you put in your… 2 times in the scene
Complexly: Hank and John Green
- ▶ 49:56 Hank and John Green And the daughter of an executive at Cisco was like, here's my dad, maybe. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:18:52 Hank and John Green Are you treating this episode of How I Built This the way that you did that Vlogbrothers video before the first VidCon, where you were like, hey, does anybody have a kid who works for Cisco who wants to, are you, does anybody want to lead…
Strava: Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath
- ▶ 24:36 Mark Gainey I started, I remember I started calling around to basically Silicon Valley, you know, to the, the big companies of the day, the Intel's and the Cisco's and the Oracle's, because I just assumed they must be handling all of their customer…
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)
- ▶ 0:03 Guy Raz It's from our archives and is truly one of the wildest stories you will ever hear about back-end internet technology, in large part because of the person in question, Sandy Lerner, who co-founded Cisco Systems. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:46 Guy Raz If you use the internet today, or if you're listening to me right now through your smartphone or a computer, there's a pretty good chance that that information is flowing through a network that was developed by Cisco Systems. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:19 Sandy Lerner Cisco was actually the 36th name that we tried to get. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:58 Guy Raz Okay, so Sandy, based on whatever, this is, this is really where the story gets a little complicated here, so I'm gonna try and abbreviate things, and just say that during that period, you, I think you, you leave Stanford, and then Len… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:30 Guy Raz When we come back, how Sandy and Len finally did get their funding for Cisco Systems, and why they both eventually walked out of the company they built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Guy Raz So by the mid-nineteen-eighties, Cisco Systems was up and running, and Sandy and Len went through a bunch of different investors trying to get their router company funded, until finally, they found the guy they needed. 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:51 Guy Raz But essentially there was a lot of tension at Cisco, and it, it seems pretty clear that there was somebody or some group of people who wanted, who wanted you out. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:46 Guy Raz You, you're ousted from Cisco, um, and then I guess in the mid-nineties, you started a cosmetics company, Urban Decay, which is a complete, like, total, totally different direction, right?
- ▶ 51:41 Sandy Lerner I mean, I was the one who said that Cisco would be a billion dollar company, and I knew that that was, as long as those people stayed there, even without me and Len, they had a technology legacy that they would be successful. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:30 Guy Raz Sandy Lerner, co-founder of Cisco Systems and founder of Urban Decay Makeup. 3 times in the scene
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
- ▶ 11:47 Mike Cannon-Brookes This was in the sort of late nineties where networking equipment, Cisco, you know, this was a real hot, hot area.
Tatcha: Vicky Tsai
- ▶ 44:19 Vicky Tsai I think he was with Cisco.
Ring: Jamie Siminoff
- ▶ 16:15 Jamie Siminoff I have this network, but I didn't understand really how to run it, and across the street from my apartment in New York was a Barnes and Nobles, and I went over and I bought this Cisco how-to voice over IP book, which was like, 700 pages. 2 times in the scene
Squarespace: Anthony Casalena
Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner
- ▶ 0:37 Sandy Lerner I had to go get another job besides Cisco, and we had only my income, and we were mortgaged the house to the hilt, which we might have lost at any particular time, and we had creditors up the wazoo, and I had people calling me at two in…
- ▶ 1:37 Guy Raz If you use the internet today, or if you're listening to me right now through your smartphone or a computer, there's a pretty good chance that that information is flowing through a network that was developed by Cisco Systems. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:11 Sandy Lerner Cisco was actually the 36th name that we tried to get. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:35 Sandy Lerner So I would say that I was ready for something else, but, you know, it's a complete misunderstanding of the times to think that Len and I had huge dollar signs in our eyes and knew that this company was going to go public and make a… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:07 Guy Raz And how are you, first of all, how are you funding your company? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:11 Guy Raz Why didn't you just go and get some investors to put some money into the company? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:07 Guy Raz So by the mid-nineteen-eighties, Cisco Systems was up and running, and Sandy and Len went through a bunch of different investors trying to get their router company funded, until finally, they found the guy they needed. 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:36 Guy Raz So this is, this is another part of the story where it's, it's a little complicated, and there are obviously different versions of, of, of what happened, but essentially there was a lot of tension at Cisco, and it, it seems pretty clear… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:18 Guy Raz Their argument, Cisco's argument was, look, you guys are now rich. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:37 Guy Raz You spent a couple years in the Bay Area after you, you're ousted from Cisco, um,
- ▶ 52:37 Sandy Lerner And it wasn't really that we didn't believe in the company. 7 times in the scene