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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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