Jul 28th, 2008
Do you guys do this every quarter?
Once a quarter, Juniper has a company-wide pizza-lunch. Around lunch hour, Sunnyvale-based employees go to a big hall across the street for about an hour of company all-hands. Pizzas and drinks will be provided. Since we are a networking company, anyone can also watch the event via live streaming.
Scott Kriens, CEO for 12 years, introduced the new CEO, Kevin Johnson. Mr. Johnson talked for about 15 minutes and gave us a glimpse of his personality and style. He is about 4 things: passion, get out of comfort zones, investing on people, and facing up big problems. His credentials are impressive: having brought Microsoft from roughly where Juniper is today to where Juniper wants to be. Both Scott and Kevin were proud to be members of the “0.00″ club: Juniper’s stock price did not change when the news broke. That’s a perfect balance: stock market acknowledge both Scott’s past contribution and Kevin’s future potential.
Scott then gave a very touching short speech on his 12 years at the helm. He talked, passionately, about his two children and described his emotional tie to the company the same as to his children love. Standing ovation.
The event ended with Scott embracing Pradeep Sindhu, founder and CTO, and Kevin Johnson.
Hey, do you guys do beer busts too?