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Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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Don Valentine and Sequoia CEO John Morgridge

Don Valentine brought in John Morgridge to run the company. He wanted a professional CEO of the good of the company, says Cisco co-founder Len Ahn. The first thing he said was: "I hear you're everything that's wrong with Cisco" Ahn and his wife had given up their lives for this company; they thought it would be best if someone hostile took over.

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