Cisco

“So we had one customer in, I think it was L'Oreal or I don't know, one of the cosmetics companies in American Express and Cisco, like different industries, and there was no way we could scale it because everybody had their own lingo, the way they thought about…”

“Why are we not in business to consumer tech at Cisco? Right? Like why, why are we not going out and building things that are very, very B to C? Because I don't think we have a distribution channel that actually is within our DNA. I don't think that we've got p…”

“Timing trumps market, market trumps team, team trumps product, product trumps brand, brand trumps distribution. You don't have all six. You don't win.”

“I mean, we just had our first product that we think we will be in the next two weeks, 100% written with AI.”

“And the thing that I learned about infrastructure is you don't always get the glory, but you always get the blame.”

“When I got this new job to run all product for Cisco, there's zero chance I would have been able to do it if AI wasn't there. Because I didn't know anything about so many domains that we were in. And I had to get an accelerated, you know training course within…”

“We have 90,000 employees. 43,000 watched the stream.”

“My perspective has always been that the absence of scale is way harder than scale.”