Cisco's AI orders hit $9.3B as Jeetu Patel explains running 32,000 engineers like a startup
Y Combinator · youtube · 2026-10-08
Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel joins YC's Jared Friedman:
- Cisco's AI infrastructure business (GPU cluster networking to agent security) reached $9.3B in orders in two years
- How to bring startup speed to 32,000 engineers adopting AI
- He argues AI should unlock new ideas rather than just cut costs, and expects to need more engineers, not fewer
- He doesn't think we're overbuilding data centers
- Career lessons: from India to waiting tables at Sizzler, choosing learning over ego
Related event: Cisco's AI Infrastructure Orders Hit $9.3B in Two Years(4 posts)→
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