Comments on: A mysterious CEO change at Stoke

By: Redback

Redback — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:06:51 +0000

Once a fortune teller looked at Randall's palm and said whatever gamble Randall do, he will succeed. This is the week before he decided to leave Redback and work for Procket.

I have been tracking Randall since then, also to verify how accurate the fortuner teller is.

By: ExProcketeer

ExProcketeer — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:50:36 +0000

Waitaminute! Granted Randall ran Redback's sales during its boom years. His prior act at Cisco was nothing more than average--there are many like him at Cisco and elsewhere--and his track record since Redback (Procket, Stoke) clearly says something too. That history isn't any remarkable other than one success (for which the 1997-2000 economy takes a big bite for credit) and a couple blowups involving $350M and still counting. How does this qualify him to be a legend? I hope we don't devalue legends by granting that status too freely.

Has he come up with a vision? built something and created value from nothing? shown the ability to perservere through tough times and taken the ship to port? done it all on a dime, showing frugality and a sense of entrepreneurship readily seen in innumerable immigrants and successful entrepreneurs? ...

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:19:19 +0000

Randall is a legendary networking guy - lot of history here. that is why its curious, because he is well known in the telecom circles. Which is why anyone paid attention to this company, and also I am guessing was one of the main reasons the company got funded. Maybe he is cooking up something new?

By: chris

chris — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:10:48 +0000

How is this different from 2/3+ of the CEO changes amongst venture funded companies?