I would get up in the morning, put on a suit, go to the bank and sit in a cube with your suit on, and program. The first management job I interviewed for I didn’t get, and that was a defining moment for me. I was competing with a guy who had a lot more experience than me and was probably the right guy for the job. Not long after you joined Cisco, in 1997, the company got hit hard when the dot-com bubble burst. But I think that what’s clear now is that what we were doing had sustainability and it was very valuable, obviously.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2019 09:56 UTC