Jeetu Patel: The Intern Who Borrowed $250,000

A Bit Personal with Jodi Shelton · Oct 29, 2026 · 57m

Cisco just closed its fiscal year with $63.3 billion in revenue, up 12%, according to its own results. The man running its products started with a very different kind of number: as an intern, he borrowed a quarter million dollars to buy into the company he worked for.

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s President and Chief Product Officer. This week’s episode is about the people who bet on him early, and what he does with that now.

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