480: Former Cisco CEO John Chambers discusses:

• John’s experience with previous financial crises 
  
• The playbook he is running with his 18 startups through the current pandemic. 
  
• Why John went into venture capital after his time at Cisco
  
• Why John is partnering with 18 startups, rather than just one 
  
• How the current crisis has impacted John’s investment theses. 
  
• The playbook John ran when making acquisitions at Cisco
  
• The successes and failures he has experienced with digital transformations
  
• The impact COVID is going to have long-term including how 
  
  • COVID has and will continue to accelerate the shift to digital
    
  • Why the top ten companies in each industry will be shuffled, and
    
  • Why we won’t have an environment where everyone works from home
    
  
  

Among a variety of other topics.

This episode was recorded live at the 2020 Metis Strategy Digital Symposium.

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This episode is sponsored by Zoho.