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b"My guest this week is John Chambers. John was the CEO of Cisco from 1995 to 2015 where he helped grow Cisco from $70 million to $40 billion in annual revenue. In this conversation we discuss the best business lesson he learned from long time GE CEO Jack Welch, his key lessons from acquiring over 180 companies with Cisco, pattern recognition and playbooks, capitalizing on market transitions enabled by new technologies, the value of team offsites, and a lot more. I was immediately drawn into John's magnetic personality and it's easy to see how he was so adept at running a 40,000 person company for 2 decades. I hope you enjoy this great conversation with John Chambers.\\n This episode is brought to you by\\xa0Microsoft for Startups. Microsoft for Startups is a global program dedicated to helping \\u201centerprise-ready\\u201d B2B startups successfully scale their companies. If you\\u2019re a founder running a B2B company targeting the enterprise, you should definitely check\\xa0them out.\\xa0\\n \\xa0This episode is also sponsored by\\xa0Vanta.\\xa0\\xa0Vanta\\xa0has built software that makes it easier to both get and maintain your SOC 2 report, at a fraction of the normal cost.\\xa0Founders Field Guide listeners can redeem a $1k off coupon at\\xa0vanta.com/patrick.\\xa0\\n \\xa0\\n For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.\\n Sign up for the book club and new email newsletter called \\u201cInside the Episode\\u201d at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub.\\n Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag\\n \\xa0\\n Show Notes\\n (2:04) \\u2013 (First question) \\u2013 Why companies need a near death experience\\n (6:37) \\u2013 The way his leadership changed between 1999 and 2003\\n (11:34) \\u2013 His career before and leading to his time joining Cisco\\n (17:51) \\u2013 What Cisco was like when he joined\\n (21:02) \\u2013 Role that pattern recognition plays in his management\\n (24:16) \\u2013 Lessons learned from the spate of acquisitions they took on under his tenure\\n (30:46) \\u2013 Pricing deals and using Cisco\\u2019s scale to be successful\\n (33:09) \\u2013 Lessons he learned in terms of distribution\\n (35:10) \\u2013 What he learned from his relationship with Shimon Peres\\n (42:08) \\u2013 His role in helping young entrepreneurs\\n (46:00) \\u2013 Transformation on his team building trips to Alaska\\n (50:42) \\u2013 Transitions in the world he is focused on right now\\n (52:542) \\u2013 Kindest thing anyone has done for John\\n \\xa0\\n Learn More\\n For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.\\n Sign up for the book club and new email newsletter called \\u201cInside the Episode\\u201d at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub.\\n Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag"