Debunking the myths of the origins of Cisco. I never believed Bosack and Lerner developed critical or all-important technology by themselves in their living room, though it's easy to see how the other Stanford developers could get left out of the legend. The part of the story I remember best is how the company founders didn't properly handle their agreements with venture capitalists and got screwed (though I believe I've only heard that part of the story via Nerds 2.0.1 anyway).
December 5, 2001