The only way this is going to change is if someone loves Cisco enough to change it from ways the employees could not due to the people (Chuck) in the ivory tower.
Maybe if Cisco stock hit 30 or 25 and takes our market Cap to 100 billion would be enough parts for someone big to take a look at saving us.
An activist shareholder is a shareholder that uses an equity stake in a corporation to put pressure on its management. A fairly small stake may be enough to launch a successful campaign. In comparison, a full takeover bid is a much more costly and difficult undertaking.
We need someone... is there a superwoman or Superman with enough balls to take on Chuck and his inability to lead Cisco?
Remember we had WebEx and didn’t get the lions share for COVID (Marketing s—s and a little company called Zoom knew to advertise what a concept)
We had the WFH and didn’t get the lion share with our solution (we invented this ... like coming up with the mouse at Xerox and giving it up to apple)
We had the best support and k–ling everything we can for money but not customer satisfaction (those customer already spent money on smartnet for those high end Tac engineers which Cisco just LR in SJC and Sydney)
The list goes on. Chuck has had 5 year to right the ship and instead he is sinking it. I can’t tell if this is on purpose or if he really is just that bad of CEO.
The laughing about all this on the calls doesn’t help either. It shows you have cash in your home ivory tower as the rest of the serfs do the rat race to pay mortgages, child care, education loans and continue to get behind.
If you invested 1000 dollars in Cisco when chuck started you have about 750 dollars today.
The stock but backs, the lack of engineering, and the lack of cloud is a major black eye