What does it really take to turn strategy into execution inside one of the world's largest tech companies?

In this episode of The Varun Kapur Show, Varun sits down with Jason Andrews, Vice President of Strategy and Planning at Cisco, who leads engineering operations for Cisco Networking - a $40B+ business with over 22,000 people, a million square feet of lab space, and 2.4 million devices across 300 locations.

Jason opens up about the moment that changed his career trajectory, the setback that taught him never to chase titles and paychecks, and why "working hard is not a strategy." He breaks down how leaders at scale decide what deserves a yes and what gets a firm no, why feature velocity is the most overrated metric in engineering, and what being truly "AI-first" means beyond faster  ...