How Jeetu Patel Runs Cisco Like the World’s Largest Startup
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From the show’s notesCisco is building AI infrastructure, from networking GPU clusters to securing agents, with its hyperscaler AI business reaching $9.3 billion in orders in two years. Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel joins Y Combinator Managing Partner Jared Friedman to discuss bringing startup speed to 32,000 engineers, why AI should unlock new ideas rather than just cut costs, and why he expects to need more engineers, not fewer. He also explains why he doesn’t think we’re overbuilding data centers and shares career lessons on choosing learning over ego.
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