His startup was acquired by Cisco so not weird for Cisco's CPO to know the startup's founder/CEO. That said, not sure how knowledge on speech translation means he's totally qualified on rewriting infra/networking/cybersecurity (Cisco's primary fields of operation) code. Unless the legacy code expected to be rewritten is constrained on related services/solutions, e.g. CVP or/and WebEx.
replyHis job isn’t to rewrite all the code. His job is to make the market satisfied that Cisco is “more AI” than competitors.
replyI sincerely hope this is what is actually happening behind the scenes
replyThe entire story sounds very weird.
replyThey met each other by chance and began work rewriting the entire company's codebase over a firm handshake
replyYou forgot to mention the translation company he helped found was also acquired by this same CEO. :))
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