I’ve just finished watching the CiscoLive keynote webcast of Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers from San Francisco. All this talk of video, collaboration and virtualization makes much sense to me as I’m a whopping 45 miles away in San Jose and still getting much the same experience. The following are notes I jotted down while watching the webcast.
SVP Carlos Dominguez (@carlosdominguez on twitter) was funny in his intro and welcome…said this was his 17th year at Cisco and the great executive perks that he gets are limited to having a better executive photo and has now ended up with one that looked a bit like this. He said frugality and Cisco culture is really a legacy of Former CEO and Chairman Emeritus John Morgridge.
Morgridge (who is AWESOME, by the way) walked through the early history of Cisco…founded at Stanford University…operated out of a living room in Atherton, CA…listening to customers…giving back…and hiring John Chambers in 1991. He said, after good engineers, a start-up needs t-shirts, pizza and beer.
Chambers followed and asked a lot of questions that he is hearing in the marketplace and from customers. He asked “Are 30 market adjacencies too many for us to be going in to?” He asked one partner attendee the same question…response: “not if you have the right partnering strategies.” He thanked the over 10,000 CiscoLive attendees and 3,000 virtual attendees for their hard work and passion and said, “We have to earn your trust, confidence and commitment every day.”
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