Who will be our next CEO? It was supposed to be GS since he sliced and diced Splunk and got us to pay far too much for it. But now that he’s in Cisco it’s clear he’s just kind of a doof. Maybe Fran?
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Chambers was here 3 years too long.
Chambers drove the stock from $82 to $8 and it appears to have had an average price under $25 from the downfall until he "left to spend time with his family" which newsflash, was not Cisco. The irony is Cisco was still seen as a solid business in the early 2000s and could have attracted a new CEO with both technical and business chops so they wouldn't have bled so much business to their competitors.
Chuck doubled the stock in his first few years as CEO which is more impressive than any of you give him credit for, but let's face it, there is no clear path for any CEO now to meet the long term stock market average growth of 10% by doubling in value over the next 7 years. Timmy started falling down the 100 mile deep well of technical debt 40 years ago and it's decades too late to lift him out in perfect health.
Chuck is retiring is the new 'RTP is closing'
Did I miss something? Chuck is retiring?
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G2 for sure
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You guys would make better points if you just edited out "woke" and "lib" comments. All the time, you just can't help it.
Gary cannot communicate well enough to be CEO of Cisco. Got lucky with Proofpoint in the vacuum of us flubbing the Ironport acquisition.
Fran isn't qualified to be getting coffee for my left shoe. Chambers was here 3 years too long. I guess he needed chuck to turn csco into WANG for him and he has about matched it. chuck should have been walked 2 hours after maria. Being over the top, left coast woke put this pig in the ground with chuck. That crew still believes they can keep the lib funding source rolling and brainwashing at max level and they will keep it up until it goes under or the entire leadership is fired.
Fran?? LOL She is probably the least qualified of all ELT Member. The one-eyed will be king or queen amongst the blind.
I can't wait for the 10% pop in the stock if/when this is announced
this will be the final insult for CR...the market short-term celebrating his departure
of course the stock will correct downward again if the next CEO is an internal hire
the market wants the next CEO to be external, but sadly for us employees the market probably just wants the next leader to chop up and sell off this antiquated company once and for all
That's been the question raised many times over many years here. The answer is always nothing along with a bunch of down votes because the task of digging out 40 years of technical debt while tackling new business segments requires someone who is insanely capable and yet willing to commit career su1c1d3. Most of us can only name zero candidates.
As and when he goes, the board need to bring someone in from the outside who can see the confusing, incoherent clusterfu-k for what it is. The last thing Cisco needs is another promoted-from-within sales weasel in charge. Musical chairs within the totally clueless and woke ELT will leave us in the same sh-t we are in now.
Gpooh will eliminate more US jobs and shutdown more offices so he can buy more watches and designer goggles I mean glasses.
Rumor has it, cr could be putting Liz in his place… god mercy.
If it’s G2 then lawd have mercy. Imagine our current product portfolio but with 3x as much vaporware.
I mean other than all the obvious positioning of Gary - has there been some announcement of cr rolling out?
G2 is an id--t..can even beat zoom
Chambers had zero vision just got lucky with www bo-m
So sad Chambers totally ruined csco with CR..Flip...SA....Telepresence...and so on