Jeetu Patel
@jpatel41
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Technology Executive & Board Member. President & CPO, Cisco. Proud dad. Love design. Views are mostly my own, but sometimes not entirely my own ;-)
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Joined October 2008
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Some sources of alpha that require no real skill: - having longer time horizons than others - being much more focused or much more bundled - believing the consensus thing harder than others - placing no value on status
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This is pretty profound!
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The world is a museum of passion projects is such a good thing to remember! Thanks @patrickc for the perspective and the reminder.
I was walking to the office in New York this morning and noticed an arrestingly beautiful high-rise above me. Turns out it was the Woolworth building, which I'm a bit embarrassed to say I'd never noticed or heard of before. It was the tallest building in the world for 16 years
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Three levels of AI maturity most people experience: Level 1 Maturity: AI is going to take my job. Level 2 Maturity: AI won’t take my job, someone that uses AI better than me will take my job Level 3 Maturity: I can’t even begin to imagine how I would do my job without AI
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“Every job will be reconfigured because of AI” and “Humans will never be obsolete” are both true statements and not mutually exclusive conditions. AI’s impact and human creativity both can’t be overstated enough.
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Debating the Obvious vs. Deliberating the Irreversible One of the simplest ways to gauge the responsiveness and agility of a company is to look at how it spends its decision-making time. If a company spends countless hours debating and deliberating things that are blindingly
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Insane! 👇🏾
If you get 70,000 people to sing your song 33 years after your death you're not a singer, you're a legend đź‘‘
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Most relationships don’t die from conflict. They die from lack of context. We all know this truth: The quality of your life is deeply tied to the quality of your relationships. But here’s something we don’t talk about enough: The speed with which we build trust in those
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Delighted to be a strategic investor in Thinking Machines Lab. @miramurati we can’t wait to work closely with you at @Cisco. Congratulations and looking forward to the possibilities ahead.
Thinking Machines Lab exists to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. We're building multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world - through conversation, through sight, through the messy way we collaborate. We're
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Great to see you again Minister @JM_Scindia. We look forward to doubling down on opportunities that we can jointly pursue and get technology in the hands of more and more people to ensure that we make it an inclusive future for all.
It was a pleasure to meet @ChuckRobbins, CEO of Cisco and his team. Deliberated on deepening Cisco’s tech footprint in India, expanding into Tier 2 & 3 markets, strengthening cybersecurity, and co-creating solutions that truly touch lives at the grassroots. With India rising
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The future will have more people in the world that spend time in code because of AI but less people physically writing code. The outcome is more code per human, more involvement from humans with coding but less humans actually coding therefore driving more innovation per
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Congratulations to @ChuckRobbins and great decision by BRT. Proud day for @Cisco today!
BRT is proud to announce that the BRT membership has voted to extend the term of BRT Chair @ChuckRobbins through 2026. We’re grateful for Chuck’s leadership and the commitment of the full @Cisco team to advancing a strong U.S. economy.
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Designing Products for the AI-Native Era This was a super insightful post from Andrej Krapathy but also pretty timely with what might happen next week at CiscoLIve :-). Here is what he posted yesterday: “Products with rich UIs and no scripting support, built on opaque binary
Products with extensive/rich UIs lots of sliders, switches, menus, with no scripting support, and built on opaque, custom, binary formats are ngmi in the era of heavy human+AI collaboration. If an LLM can't read the underlying representations and manipulate them and all of the
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We all get so used to the constant rate of innovation, that the time to normalization of something that felt like utter magic the first time you saw it becomes extremely mundane so fast. This time scale has gotten really compressed. The first time you sit in a Waymo, it feels
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Congrats @shishirmehrotra
I'm excited to announce that @Grammarly has closed $1 billion in financing from General Catalyst! 🚀 Since integrating with @coda_hq earlier this year, we've evolved into an AI productivity platform serving millions daily. This investment will help us accelerate our growth. The
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There are few people in the world that one can enjoy flying with for 19 hours. @brett_mcgurk is one of those people. What a thrill it is to have you be a special advisor to @Cisco for the Middle East & International Affairs. Brett. I think I speak not just on behalf of
Thrilled to welcome @brett_mcgurk to @Cisco as a Special Advisor for the Middle East & International Affairs! He’s already making an impact and was instrumental in our recent AI partnership announcements in the Gulf and globally:
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The Shift for Developers is More Radical Than We Think Over the next 24 months, the very identity of a software engineer won’t just be reshaped—it will be redefined from the ground up. We’re moving from a world where mastery meant syntax… …to a world where mastery means
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This is so freaking good! 👇🏾
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Great Board conversations don’t sell—they stretch your thinking Having spent time both as a member of the management team working with the Boards and as a Board member myself, I’ve seen a few common pitfalls that even seasoned leaders fall into. Here are three that stand out:
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One of the biggest lessons I learned when I first moved to Silicon Valley was the following: “Sometimes, extremely rational people can make very logical decisions for exactly the right ethical reasons and those decisions end up killing companies.” The other big lesson I’ve
I heard this internal memo of mine is being leaked right now, so here it is:
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