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Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder ‘buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic’—now he's upgrading 98% of its code

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Meet Paddy, the 27-year-old Cisco’s president calls an “energizer bunny.” The Gen Z ex-founder has been given unlimited AI tokens and told to “go nuts.”

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  1. 2026-10-30 07:00 · Fortune AI
    Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder ‘buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic’—now he's upgrading 98% of its code

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