Global networking solutions provider Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) recently announced its second quarter results that outpaced market expectations. Cisco continues to focus on providing solutions for the hybrid workspace and leveraging generative AI capabilities into its existing offerings portfolio.
>>>Jay talks about Gorilla’s Smart City system integration business that heavily focuses on IoT security, analytics, and workflow. In the end, we discuss open problems that could warrant new entrepreneurs building startups around.
Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?
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This feature by Christopher Mins on The Wall Street Journal looks at how artificial intelligence is automating the knowledge industry and jobs and roles in the software industry.
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Sramana Mitra: What is the financial engineering that makes all this possible?
Bob Allison: They were cash and stock, but mostly stock. We used valuation methodologies and acquired the companies usually in their 100% state, so we didn’t eliminate people and would just buy the tech. We typically bought the people because we thought they were important to delivering expertise.
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Sramana Mitra: This is also very interesting from a technology entrepreneur’s point of view. Let’s say you focus on one of these specific use cases and you want to build a full-stack product to bring to market. That is a very dangerous path because it’s very expensive.
Very often, the people who have the technical expertise don’t have the B2C marketing expertise. Going with the credibility and the existing brand and feeding your technology expertise into the hands of people who do have that marketing expertise and brand presence is a very interesting way to go to market.
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