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Mike Volpi is a longtime venture capitalist who joined Index Ventures in 2009 to establish the firm's San Francisco office and North American operations. Prior, he was Chief Strategy Officer at Cisco, overseeing a run of acquisitions still studied today as a model for technology merger strategy. Mike invests primarily in artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and open-source companies, and currently serves on the boards of multiple companies including Aurora, ClickHouse, Cockroach Labs, Cohere, Confluent, Covariant.ai, Kong, Scale, Sonos, and Wealthfront.\xa0\xa0 \xa0 In this episode, Kevin and Mike discuss Mike\u2019s early childhood, how he got interested in the study of engineering, and his career experiences\u2014including what led to Mike\u2019s long career at Cisco and his current Partner position at Index\u2014including his board experiences with multiple companies. \u202f \xa0 Mike Volpi | Index Ventures\xa0 Kevin Scott\u202f\u202f\xa0 Behind the Tech with Kevin Scott\u202f\u202f\xa0 Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts.\u202f\u202f\u202f\xa0