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October 6, 2025

Silicon Valley leader who navigated the internet’s boom and bust sees another wild ride with AI

Former Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers learned all about technology’s volatile highs and lows in the internet’s early boom days and the ensuing meltdown.

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
AP Technology Writer

AP Photo/Jeff Chiu/File

John Chambers, former Cisco CEO, is shown here speaking at the Fortune Global Forum in 2015.





SAN FRANCISCO — Former Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers learned all about technology’s volatile highs and lows as a veteran of the internet’s early boom days during the late 1990s and the ensuing meltdown that followed the mania.

 
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