A Bit Personal Podcast

Four grad students. 400 Intel engineers. One much better chip.

John Hennessy, founder of MIPS Technologies, Chairman of Alphabet, and former president of Stanford, recalls how he and a team of four outbuilt one of the biggest engineering teams in the industry, and the business lessons they had to learn the hard way once they started a company.

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Every young founder needs to hear this.

John Hennessy, Chairman of Alphabet and former president of Stanford, shares the advice he gives young people who want to start a company but don’t have a technology yet.

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“The billion dollars can be taken away from you, but what you learn can’t.”

Jeetu Patel of Cisco explains why “billionaire by 30” is the wrong metric for success, and why the lessons you collect along the way are worth more than any number.

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The goal was $1 billion. It became $9.3 billion.

Jeetu Patel of Cisco shares how a billion-dollar target turned into something far bigger, and why the smartest play during a gold rush is selling the picks and shovels.

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Minimum wage. A $250,000 ask. Thirty seconds of silence.

Jeetu Patel of Cisco recalls the moment he asked a customer for a quarter million dollars to buy into the business he was working for. What happened next shaped the next 17 years of his life.

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