The mystery of the missing video of Cisco co-founders Bosack and Lerner discussing their termination
By Brad Reese on Sat, 12/20/08 - 1:55am.
Reflecting back upon on all things Cisco over the past year, it appears that 2008's most fascinating video about Cisco has vanished.
 Venture Hacks in a blog posting headlined "Terminating Cisco Founders," featured a rare video interviewing Don Valentine - founder of Sequoia Capital as well as Cisco co-founders Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner about their termination from Cisco. |
You may know that Sequoia helped fund Cisco at the very beginning. However, the video was taken down by Google, according to an update to the Venture Hacks post. The post still has quotes from the video. However, yours truly believes that I have solved the mystery as to why the Google video went missing ...
 It was Valentine's fellow Sequoia Capital partner - Michael Moritz, who provided the venture capital that funded Google when it was a startup. |
"Google was a rare co-investment with John Doerr of rival venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and the initial public offering of the company in 2004 made him one of Wales' richest men."
In the personal opinion of yours truly, a simple phone call to Google from an assistant to Moritz would have been sufficient enough to have the rare Google video removed.
But why would Sequoia Capital want Google to remove the video?
Once again, this is only the personal opinion of yours truly:
| "Based on the quotes cited by Venture Hacks from the video, none appear to me as too flattering towards Sequoia Captial." |
So if you have a copy of this rare video or its transcript please contact Venture Hacks (nandn@venturehacks.com), thanks!
Do you concur with my opinion?
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They got what they
They got what they deserved!!!
Long live Bill Yeager!
What exactly did they deserve?
Interesting comment indeed, but what "exactly" did they deserve?
According to Bill Yeager:
"Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack were in love and they had to go out and invent routers so they could talk across campus.
"What a joke. And I'm like one of these bulldogs, you know, I get a hold of these guys' pant's leg and I won't let go of it.
"I'm sort of a persona non grata down there at Cisco. But it was fun. I was very passionate about this stuff. I'm always passionate about what I do. And I learned a lot about how corporations work and these guys were great capitalists and obviously they turned out with a great company."
In a Mar. 27, 2006 Network World story:
Router man
Although Mr. Yeager did give credit to Andy Bechtolsheim, Yeager gave absolutely no credit to the following individuals:
Benjy Levy
Bill Yundt
Chuck Hendrick
Greg Satz
Jeff Mogul
Kirk Lougheed
Les Earnest
Nick Veizades
Niels Reimers
Ralph Gorin
Richard Troiano
Steve Hansen
Steve Nowicki
Tom Rindfleisch
For its original $2.5 million venture capital investment, Don Valentine and Sequoia Capital received a 32% ownership share
in Cisco.
After the Sequoia investment, Bosack and Lerner together were left holding a combined total 30% ownership of Cisco's shares.
Sincerely,
Brad Reese
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Video
You can find the video interview you describe on the PBS special - Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet (1998)
http://www.amazon.com/Nerds-2-0-1-Brief-History-Internet/dp/6305128235/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=video&qid=1231280255&sr=8-2
Thank You
Thank you TK44 for the link, although the video is not free, an Amazon.com customer review about the video states:
"The video has Sandy sitting in front of her English country mansion, and also Len, speculating on the existence of sentient beings elsewhere in the universe."
Once more TK44, thank you!
Sincerely and most gratefully yours,
Brad Reese
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