Ex-Cisco CEO Chambers’s Next Act: Grandpa Startup Investor
- Cisco Executive Chairman invests ‘substantial’ sum in OpenGov
- He joins investors Marc Andreessen and Joe Lonsdale on board
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On his most recent annual retreat to Davos, John Chambers decided somewhere between cocktails and dinner that he was passionate about government-finance data.
The Cisco Systems Inc. executive chairman spent the evening in January learning all about OpenGov Inc. from co-founder Zac Bookman. The Silicon Valley startup aims to make financial data from governments more accessible and, in turn, more transparent.