Cisco Systems & Urban Decay: Sandy Lerner (2018)

Okay, so on to today's show. It's from our archives and is truly one of the wildest stories you will ever hear about backend internet technology. In large part because of the person in question, Sandy Lerner, who co-founded Cisco Systems. It's a company that probably helps you do what you do without you even knowing it. But the story is also interesting because Sandy founded the punk aesthetic makeup brand, Urban Decay. and went on to build one of the largest private libraries of Jane Austen books on earth. Yep.

All that and more in this one, we first ran the story in October of twenty eighteen. Enjoy. I had to go get another job besides Cisco. And we had only my income, and we were mortgaged the house to the hilt, which we might have lost at any particular time. And we had creditors up the wazoo and I had people calling me at two in the morning complaining because they didn't have their routers.

Yeah, it was very hand to mouth. In a way that I think that people who want to be entrepreneurs these days Really don't understand. From MPR, it's how I built this.

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