Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner
How I Built This with Guy Raz
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What Are Some of the Problems at Stanford?
Stanford was trying to build its own computer network, and that wasn't working. So what, in the meantime, we built one, you were doing a shadow network yourselves. That is true. But the reason was that it was so new, you entered into this unholy alliance with the vendor and they would help you. Some departments had IBM, some had decks, some had some other Wang, whatever was around. They were aligned to themselves and they bought what they wanted. Which is typical of universities, right? Everybody wants autonomy.
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