Cisco chief found a 27-year-old ex-founder ‘buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic’—now the Gen Zer is rewriting 98% of its code

Meet Paddy, the 27-year-old Cisco’s president calls an “energizer bunny.” He’s been given unlimited AI tokens and told to “go nuts.”

Fortune · 2026-10-30T03:00:00.000Z