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This was likely always the path forward for Isovalent. Thomas Graf was at Cisco prior to building Isovalent (where I believe he was working on eBPF stuff too).
by sargun 3y ago
This was likely always the path forward for Isovalent. Thomas Graf was at Cisco prior to building Isovalent (where I believe he was working on eBPF stuff too). Their series A had Cisco in it: https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/covalent-io-series-a--7d4b7999 https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/covalent-io-series-....
Cisco has this idea of spin-ins, that they executed on for sometime, although I believe it's no longer fashionable: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-ciscos-star-engineers-defends-155955255.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-ciscos-star-engineers-def...
- fuzztester 3y agoThis is a somewhat common startup acquisition pattern; seen it before many times, and not just by Cisco: >Thomas Graf was at Cisco prior to building Isovalent >Cisco has this idea of spin-ins, that they executed on for sometime Generalized: Work at parent company, create something innovative, start child company to develop that, get noticed by the world, parent buys you ... profit! That is, you profit - if you're smart, and not bamboozled by their acquisition terms.