[tsurkoprt]

So he was founding engineer of WebEx, build the team, build the product, but the product was not good enough because "of its older architecture, particularly a lack of usability, reliability, and video quality" !?! Wasn't that his responsibility as VP of WebEx ?

[toyg]

The hint is in his complaints: he probably lobbied Cisco for budget to have a Big Rewrite and they said no. So he upped sticks and did it elsewhere.

Are you proud of your code from 20 years ago? He probably wasn’t either.

[taude]

Once Cisco bought, it sounds like a lot of control was removed from his hands? New company (Cisco) didn't want to invest in what they thought was a mature product that serviced the market well enough?

[Jare]

How many enterprise web tech products from 1997 do you think survive today with a healthy architecture and usable design?

Plus that whole "I told Cisco leadership, but they didn't listen" surely was not the first time it ever happened.

[agsamek]

I'm sorry you were downvoted for an interesting remark. It resonates with me that sometimes you are stuck within a structure that was created by you and need to completely change environment to be able to achieve new goals. Quite interesting point here.