The Ledger

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Assertion Supported
Varanasi: Academic RCTs prove management directly drives superior factory outcomes
“We have really great RCTs and A-B tests essentially of same problem, same factories, half management, half without management, and outcomes being entirely different.”
Anil Varanasi Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 58:16 Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
Assertion Supported
Varanasi: Cisco built its hardware stack via acquisitions, unlike Meter
“So if you look at our industry, Cisco has a rack like ours where they have, you know, 10 different pieces of hardware. But majority of that was done through acquisition. So they bought their switching business called Crescendo in the nineties, et cetera, Merak…”
Anil Varanasi Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 6:58 Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
Assertion Contradicted
Varanasi: Apple Silicon switched to two shared software-defined radios
“When they did that, usually hardware had three separate radios for like, 2.4 gigahertz, five gigahertz and Bluetooth. When they moved, they were using what this thing called software defined radio, which is using two radios for all three of those things.”
Anil Varanasi Dec 10, 2025 ▶ 9:42 Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
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