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Cisco

also referred to as: cisco systems

includes Cisco Meraki, Cisco Spark, Cisco Webex

18 statements across 15 episodes · 8 bullish · 4 bearish · 15 people on the record · first statement Mar 4, 2016 by Shaan Puri · said 102 times in 51 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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brought up most by Nathan Latka (32), Eric Yuan (10), Kevin Zickerman (5), Daman Chen (5), Gil Allouche (3), Gavin Wheeldon (3), Sean Moore (2), Sati Hillyer (2)

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2019 7 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
2018 43 mentions in 13 episodes 3 per episode
2017 13 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
2016 10 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode

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Everything said about Cisco, oldest first

Mar 4, 2016 bullish
Assertion Supported
Puri: ESPN, UFC, Adobe, IBM, and Cisco use Blab
“We've got people as, you know, we've got people who are just sitting in their basement, and they're nobodies, but all the way up to reality TV stars, ESPN, UFC, Adobe, IBM, Cisco, big brands that have also come on and use the platform.”
Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 8:31 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185
Sep 10, 2016 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Collin: Cisco uses Front across teams of hundreds of people
“We have so we have companies of two users, and then we have companies as big as Cisco using the product and so teams of hundreds of people.”
Mathilde Collin Sep 10, 2016 ▶ 4:23 EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp
May 30, 2017
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Artesian serves 30,000 paying seats across 100 enterprise customers
“We're at about 30,000 paying subscribers, got over a hundred large enterprise customers companies like Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp, American Express, Lloyds, Barclays, HSBC, Ernst & Young, KPMG.”
Andrew Yates May 30, 2017 ▶ 3:48 675: Would you acquire Mattermark? Artesian $700k MRR, $40M Raised w/ CEO Andrew Yates
Jun 1, 2017 bearish
Assertion Partly supported
Shamia: Call center market is $22B dominated by legacy incumbents
“The call center space is a twenty-two billion dollar market. It's still dominated by old players like Avaya and Cisco and Genesis that sell the same system for 2030 years.”
Gadi Shamia Jun 1, 2017 ▶ 4:18 677: Talkdesk Passes 50,000 Seats, $25M Raised To Be Your More Efficient Call Center with COO Gadi Shamia
Jul 12, 2017 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Korber: BreezoMeter helped enterprise clients increase sales by over $1B
“We already helped our customers, leading companies like GE, Dyson, Cisco, Motorola, to increase their sales by more than one billion US dollar last year.”
Ran Korber Jul 12, 2017 ▶ 2:15 718: Air Pollution is Deadly, How Isralei Entrepreneur Is Cashing In
Sep 21, 2017 neutral
Disclosure
Accel Partners and Cisco are the primary investors in Mobstac
“Axel Partners is our primary investor. We have a strategic investor in terms of Cisco, and we have a bunch of angel investors who basically also invested along the way.”
Sharad Potharaju Sep 21, 2017 ▶ 12:29 789: Google Bought Their Beacons to Distribute Free Wifi in India
May 4, 2018 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cisco doubted Zoom's vision, believing enterprise collaboration belonged in social networking
“At that time, they saw it is, you know, they focused on the social networking. At that time, they saw the overall, the collaboration strategy should be around the social networking. I have a different opinion, and they probably thought, I do not understand the…”
Eric Yuan May 4, 2018 ▶ 5:39 1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR
May 4, 2018 positive
Disclosure
Yuan: Zoom will not sell, contrasting with WebEx's early acquisition
“No, no, no. We don't want to sell the company. And by the way, you know, I was not a CEO, right? So WebEx, you know, the two co-founders and You know, they are already a public company. They wanted to sell the company back in, you know, in our case, you know, …”
Eric Yuan May 4, 2018 ▶ 3:16 1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR
May 4, 2018
Assertion Supported
Top WebEx engineers left Cisco to join Zoom shortly after launch
“I left at Cisco end of June of 2011, and that's how I started Zoom, and one month later, some top Webex engineers, they quit and followed me to start, to join Zoom.”
Eric Yuan May 4, 2018 ▶ 5:19 1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR
Jul 7, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nick Mason: Turtl serves around 50 customers including Bloomberg, Cisco, and Oracle
“So we have in the region of 50 customers, ranging from Bloomberg, Cisco, Oracle economists, people like that, down to smaller businesses.”
Nick Mason Jul 7, 2018 ▶ 5:30 1078 How agile content marketing solution Turtl hit $125k/mo
Oct 1, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Montgomery: Cisco employees spend full workdays developing the Mycroft open-source stack
“For example, we found full-time employees at Cisco systems that are spending their entire day working on the Mycroft stack so that they can bring that technology into the parent company.”
Josh Montgomery Oct 1, 2018 ▶ 7:31 1164 Want Your Own Alexa, Without Amazon Influence? Mycroft Raises $8m For Opensource Voice Stack
Nov 21, 2018 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Cloudability plans to IPO by 2023 to become a consolidation platform
“So sometime in the next five years or mature, we will probably be an IPO. We can use our currency to combine or join a combined entity and go out there and just become something akin to a new version of Cisco or SAP.”
Matt Ellis Nov 21, 2018 ▶ 15:48 1215 Cloudability CEO: We're Past $20m in ARR, 11% of Total AWS Spend
Dec 1, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cisco has between 150,000 and 250,000 employees using Alfresco.
“One particular customer, for example, Cisco might have between a 150,250 thousand people using us.”
Bernadette Nixon Dec 1, 2018 ▶ 9:18 1225 Enterprise Management Company Alfresco Passes $100M ARR, IPO Next?
Sep 8, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mehta: Gainsight serves about 700 customers, including Okta and Workday
“We have about 700 customers now, and it's kind of a who's who in technology, so publicly traded SaaS companies like an Okta or Workday or Twilio or DocuSign, big companies that have gone to the cloud like an IBM or an Adobe or a Cisco, as well as companies in …”
Nick Mehta Sep 8, 2019 ▶ 6:11 1506 Gainsight: We'll Hit $100m Revenue in 2020, $60m+ Now
Dec 5, 2020 negative
Insight
Rothrock: RedSeal faces churn playing catch-up with vendor updates
“Literally, so sometimes configuration information for all the routing equipment, those routing equipment guys, Cisco, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Juniper, all of them, they change their stuff all the time. And occasionally we get So they upgrade our softw…”
Ray Rothrock Dec 5, 2020 ▶ 11:37 RedSeal Sold 50%+ For $60m This Year doing $50m in Revenues in CyberSecurity Space
Nov 1, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Payne: 30 top security firms use Code42, including CrowdStrike and Cisco
“There's probably 30 security companies using code 42 today, and they're the big names in this space. It's people like CrowdStrike, and Okta, and Ping, and RapidSeb, and Splunk, and Cisco, and so it's, we have really, really good customers.”
Joe Payne Nov 1, 2023 ▶ 14:00 He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?
Nov 1, 2023 negative
Opinion
Payne: Big tech firms like Cisco and Oracle cannot execute stolen ideas
“I think sometimes entrepreneurs are worried that if they talk to a big company, if they talk to, you know, a Splunk or a Cisco or Oracle or somebody like that, that they're going to steal their ideas. And in my experience, those companies have trouble executin…”
Joe Payne Nov 1, 2023 ▶ 24:53 He hit $120m in ARR Then Sold $70m Unit for $250m, Today His Secrurity SaaS is Cash Rich... whats next?
May 28, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Even channel-dominant companies like Cisco keep direct sales to prove traction
“You can't go all channel immediately. All the companies that sell predominantly through channel have a direct arm as well. Even Cisco, which I think is about 90% channel, has a direct team, and that's because you need to prove to the channel that this stuff wo…”
Dror Liwer May 28, 2024 ▶ 9:07 Coro Announces $100m Live on the Show, Their Partnership Playbook
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