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The "Kiss of Death" That Kills 90% of Startups | Nikhil Gupta, ArmorCode Sep 8, 2026 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 8:34 Nikhil Gupta and then I stuck around there, this company was acquired, hung around there, like, 2012 or so, and then as soon as, you know, I got my green card and all, joined Cisco, ah, Cisco, I was running data center business over there, 3 times in the scene

The Hidden Layer Every Al Product Needs Today | Atin Sanyal Founder, Galileo Jul 9, 2026 · 11 mentions

  • ▶ 1:04:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, you know, last of all, uh, big congratulations, uh, on the exit, uh, right, our monumental life journey, you know, and milestone the life of a founder, right, uh, and getting acquired by, let's say, a Fortune 50 company, uh, like… 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:07:36 Atin Sanyal They have products such as AI defense, which is solid core security.

Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath Jun 11, 2026 · 1 mention

Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital Mar 26, 2026 · 9 mentions

  • ▶ 3:03 Ashmeet Sidana It became Cisco Intelligence.
  • ▶ 27:58 Ashmeet Sidana You know, I can call up people at Google, or Meta, or Cisco, or Salesforce, and have a conversation with them, and that's critical when you're doing diligence, or when you're trying to get a company sold, or perhaps signing a partnership…
  • ▶ 49:20 Ashmeet Sidana You know, we thought we'd be selling to banks, and then we thought we'd be selling to, you know, consumer, and then we thought we'd be selling to, you know, big tech, and so we were kind of chasing all of these things in the beginning, but… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:13:34 Ashmeet Sidana Notice that I mentioned that Yaron and Kojin were at Harvard when they started the company and Cisco acquired them. 3 times in the scene

Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups? Feb 13, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 8:23 Umesh Padval Like Nvidia, Salesforce, Cisco, AMD, Deutsche Telekom, um, LG, um, Fujitsu.
  • ▶ 36:06 Umesh Padval And also doing chips for companies like Cisco and Sun Microsystem and, uh, Silicon Graphics and others which were leading providers and Apple.

From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC Dec 5, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:22 Aditya Agarwal So I went and I found, um, you know, somebody who had just sold kind of their company to Cisco.

How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC Nov 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 32:57 unnamed speaker Uh, American companies, whether it's Oracle, whether it's LinkedIn, whether it's Yahoo, whether it's Google, whether it's Facebook, have had phenomenal, and you know, before that Cisco analog devices has had amazing core product team…

6sense Did What Google Couldn’t : Targeting Companies, Not People | Viral Bajaria Oct 24, 2025 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 15:16 Viral Bajaria And she had found in Cisco and NetApp that, hey, if we can do all these things and we can predict your next sale is amazing.
  • ▶ 21:06 Viral Bajaria Like at that time it was Cisco, NetApp. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 30:35 Viral Bajaria Our customers were taking big companies, Cisco and others were taking 90 days to launch a campaign.

Former SOFTBANK CFO: My Honest Experience Working With Masayoshi Son | Alok Sama | The Neon Show Nov 29, 2024 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 33:05 Alok Sama Cisco as a provider of the plumbing for the internet is the closest comparable. 2 times in the scene

Indian SaaS, AI Wave, IPO & Best Country For Co. Registration | 2024 Insights With SaaS Founder Aug 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 1:10:15 Shashank Bijapur That said, look at, let's say a zoom info versus a, uh, you know, uh, Apollo.io or look at Cisco versus zoom, right?

Flipkart’s Success Secrets, VC Power Law, And IPO Market : RTP Global Partner, Nishit Garg Jul 20, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 54:13 Nishit Garg For corporates you have in offices, the corporate, the Cisco's and all their systems and all.

American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show Dec 9, 2023 · 1 mention

UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show Nov 10, 2023 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 9:21 Sharad Sharma And no matter how good Jio becomes, or how good Airtel becomes, they won't become a Juniper, or a Cisco, or a, or a, uh, or a Nokia, or a Ericsson, because they are fundamentally different DNAs for innovation. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 28:36 Sharad Sharma So if you go and ask in the US, they'll say maybe Cisco will be that or Maveneer is another company that is doing well.

Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati Sep 1, 2023 · 1 mention

The Process & Preparation of IPO Ft. Tracxn Technologies Founders Neha Singh & Abhishek Goyal Oct 25, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 34:52 Abhishek Goyal As a country, we want to build companies like Apple or Cisco, we have to, or Salesforce, we have to stop selling our companies.

Inside the mind of Abhishek Goyal, Co-Founder, Tracxn | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast | Top Podcast Ep Apr 19, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 46:37 Abhishek Goyal So think about Salesforce, things about Cisco, like even after 30 years, you, it would, it would have still made sense to stay put, like, and, and closer to home, like, think about infee, think about Wipro, not even a private market.

Jon Sakoda, Founder, Decibel Partners on importance of having a coach for early-stage founders Feb 1, 2021 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 1:24 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Decibel is an independent venture capital firm created in partnership with Cisco to push the conventional boundaries of early stage investing.
  • ▶ 8:56 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Don, you choose Cisco as a partner. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:13 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So you, you're saying Cisco is a deep partner and one of the LPs in the fund so that all your interests are not just aligned with one LP, but you bring out best of their strengths.

Jishnu Bhattacharjee, Managing Director, Nexus VP on the success recipe of Druva and Postman Oct 26, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:13 Jishnu Bhattacharjee The idea was, you know, Webex and others didn't have the experience, and this gentleman out of Hyderabad started this company, and, uh, we, we sold in 2011 when Zoom started.

Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies Jun 29, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:36 Siddhartha Ahluwalia AppDynamics, which has been acquired by Cisco.
  • ▶ 34:47 unnamed speaker And we also probably overestimated the ability of the incumbents, namely Cisco, uh, and others to, uh, beat the startups.

Understanding Exits and Investing in High Growth Startups with Dhruv Kapoor, Sistema Asia Capital Jun 21, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:36 Dhruv Kapoor They managed to raise, uh, actually get John Chambers, ex CEO of Cisco on their, uh, on their cap table.

Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing Jun 1, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:47 Anand Chandrasekaran Um, we largely, kind of, take out, uh, companies that, uh, that were previously using Cisco or Avaya, uh, gear and move them to FiveNine.
  • ▶ 38:47 Anand Chandrasekaran Uh, Sunil Mittal at Bharti, uh, and, uh, you know, most recently I worked for an incredible leader, Rowan Trollope, uh, who led a big turnaround at Cisco, uh, when he was there over a six year period.

Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work Apr 19, 2020 · 1 mention

100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures Aug 16, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 18:57 Karthik Reddy I don't think as yet a Cisco or a Microsoft or a, you know, Salesforce is coming to India and buying a business for three billion dollars.
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