Cisco gives a 27-year-old EzDubs co-founder unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of its legacy code
Jeetu Patel pulled Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy from five levels down after the EzDubs acquisition and gave him four weeks to prove the 24-month plan.
By Ryan Merket · Published
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Why it matters
Cisco acquired EzDubs for translation, then put one of its founders on a company-wide legacy-code rewrite with no AI token cap. The move tests whether an acquired seed-stage founder can challenge a large engineering hierarchy, and whether agentic coding can be controlled at the scale of a decades-old code base.
Cisco President and Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel has given Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, a 27-year-old co-founder of the acquired translation startup EzDubs, responsibility for rewriting 98% of Cisco's legacy code within 24 months, according to reporting by Fortune summarized by [Tom's…
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