Honest question, it appears that every member of the C suite are just company men and women. People who worked as employees for various companies, but no one who has actually created one. Surely with all these acquisitions we have some vault full of the original founders somewhere, can't we put some of those people in the C suite? It just seems like the current batch of office drones running things are just taking a business as usual approach with zero vision or plan for the future.
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There was actually an internal CEC video with a a woman interviewing a room full of the acquired founders. I guess they are all just exiled to the roof just like those shunned employees at Hooli. They just doing rest and vest while at Cisco, they understand that driving any major change or initiative at Cisco would be a hopeless endeavor. Also just an fyi, the Cisco executives are managers, they are not leaders.
The ones from big acquisitions or who got acquired small but grew into big bu are mostly of the sweatshop foremen kind , the mpls crew, the co founder of aris...
Focus has also shifted internally to just doing up large pieces of code at bad quality , create a splash in poc mode and then dump it on others to make stable for real customer use. Good enough for pe/de promos bad for the rest
Acquisitions are not even the size of a Cisco BU. Most of those leaders are not strong enough to lead their own BU either.
Short answer is no.
Founders like to move on and found again, and not stay at a place full of politics and process.