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Cisco and Sun: Cheriton, Bechtolsheim, Joy and the decade that decided everything

Most networking companies ended up inside Cisco. The relationships that produced this architecture ran through the same rooms, and several of them are still reachable.

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A Nobel laureate introduced Hare to Cisco's chief executive. Five meetings at headquarters later, he was introduced to the next one.
The path

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Each stop is a page in the graph. The order is an argument — but every one of them is also a door into the rest of it, so you can leave the path wherever it stops being useful.

01Michael Spence, Nobel laureate: why he took Vice Chairman and not the chairVice Chairman of Consilient, and the introduction to John Morgridge.→02John Morgridge gave me five meetings at Cisco headquartersFive meetings at headquarters, then the introduction onward.→03John Chambers and the Cisco acquisition machineTwenty years of acquisitions, which is why so many threads in this graph converge on one company.→04Ed Kozel, twice Cisco's CTO and a Santa Fe Institute regularCTO more than once, and Hare's favorite among them — a friendship formed at Santa Fe rather than in a meeting.→05Padmasree Warrior heard the pitch that produced our first commercial customerThe pitch at Resilient that produced the first commercial customer, focused on supply chain resiliency.→06Sun Microsystems: Bechtolsheim, Joy, and the networking decadeThe other half of the era: Khosla, Bechtolsheim's design, Joy's operating system, and the tagline.→07ATM versus IP: the elegant protocol that lost, and whyCheriton was right, angrily and early. The elegant protocol lost to the one that composed better.→
Where it lands

What the path is for

The point

Supply chain resiliency in 2010 and coordination resiliency now are the same problem at different layers. The people who built the first internet are the ones best placed to judge whether this is the second.

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