# 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

- Source: Fortune | FORTUNE
- Published: 2026-10-30T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/cisco-chief-found-a-27-year-old-ex-founder-buried-away-in-the-organiza-0653db/

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

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