Early days of Cisco Len Bosack & Sandy Lerner PT 1

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Cisco Systems founders Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner borrowing off their credit cards started
assembling routers in their living room on Oak Grove Ave in Atherton California.
From Nerds 2.0.1: 'A Brief History of the Internet' broadcast in 1998.
A three-hour documentary film written and hosted by Robert X. Cringely and produced
by Oregon Public Broadcasting for PBS.
Only released on VHS and some schools and libraries in Oregon got the tapes.
My tapes are from a Oregon public library that I transferred to DVD's.
This clip is one of my favorites and I never get tired of watching
this amazing series including the first one 'Triumph of the Nerds' from 1996.

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@robbiePlanetaSano 2 жыл бұрын

I worked there just as Len and Sandy were exiting. It was really an adventure. Sandy was extraordinary, I am a huge fan. Len was not around much, I think he worked at home mostly. I used Sandy’s office, full of cat art. They really created a whole new world .

@glenrostie Жыл бұрын

That really must have been an adventure Robbie; some of the best years of my life was working with start-ups in the data networking world throughout the 90's including Cisco; although they were not really a start-up compared to companies like Grand Junction or even later the Gigabit ethernet start-ups, Cisco had the same energy throughout their early years of growth. You folks really were a special bunch.

@robbiePlanetaSano Жыл бұрын

@@glenrostie I joined when there were 80 employees, as the engineering recruiter. Hiring the engineers when the founders ran out of friends to hire. I hired several hundred of the engineers who made Cisco successful. Went on to work for VCs starting brand new companies, recruiting the founders. It was so awesome . The best job ever, making new networking companies . Many went on to be successful. I moved to Costa Rica and started a whole new life. Now I run nonprofits in sustainability and Permaculture, in Costa Rica and east Africa. The experience opened so many doors for me. It was an amazing journey . On the program about the nerds of Silicon Valley, I have worked directly with almost everyone featured in the documentary. Stellar human beings, a fabulous journey for a girl who grew up in trailer parks ❤️ no one could have imagined it ☺️

@aguafria9565 5 жыл бұрын

There is an amazing interview with sandy on NPR called how I built this.

@anythinginteresting7472 5 жыл бұрын

Aguafria Just listened to that! Great episode, thanks for the recommendation

@KingSlimjeezy 3 жыл бұрын

that is a great one

@xOpTii Жыл бұрын

We owe them everything.. along with Kirk & Yakov..

@abhishekchatterjee7184 3 жыл бұрын

Sheldon Cooper character is partly influenced by bosack, and many other guniuses combined. Anyway big admirer of Len-founder of Cisco.

@ScottHogue 11 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is a great documentary. I've never gone this far back. I knew about the early days of John Chambers and when Cisco and Bay Networks sales reps threw leads for switches and routers back and forth, but not this. No wonder they still have such a Herculean work ethic.