Oct 7th, 2008
Watching TV
People asked why do I come to Juniper. “Because the way I watch TV now.”
Just a few months ago, I routinely fired up BitTorrent at night to download episodes of my favorite programs (House, Heroes, Grey’s Anatomy). I had no choice. Those programs are not aired in China. When I moved back to the US, I don’t wait anymore. I watch those programs from the official web sites: fox.com, nbc.com, etc. I will hook up my laptop to the new 52″ 1080p HDTV. Many programs play in full-screen mode (Fox is better) and I will soon forget that’s not live TV. I laughed so hard on Tina Fey’s SNL performance on my laptop, displayed on my TV set, Sunday afternoon — no need to stay up Saturday night.
Internet never busted. Many Internet companies went under, but the net kept on growing. Billions of people around the world are waiting to get online. Internet these days are several times larger than the bubble days and sees no sign of slowing down.
And which companies are to ride the wave? The one that produce the biggest, meanest, and fastest routers for the mass. There are other players, but Juniper is at the center of this stage.
Juniper is large enough to make a difference and small enough to experience explosive growth. Juniper’s executives are all on-board for this vision. Everyone focuses on the customers, the market, the revenue, the products: not on internal politics.
When I watched SNL, I noticed the page said more than a million viewings and counting. This is main-street behavior now. It takes lots of networking to deliver millions of viewings.
Can’t think of another company that is readier.