Cisco's annual sales conference in Las Vegas hosted an unusual guest: Tim Cook.
The sales conference is where Cisco gathers its throng of 20,000 sales people and fires them up in the new fiscal year. CEO Chuck Robbins drove the crowd wild by launching the conference with a big announcement, that Cisco and Apple signed a huge partnership deal to make iPhones and iPads work better on Cisco networks.
And then Tim Cook shocked the crowd when he strolled on stage.
So Cisco trotted out its own celebrity exec, former CEO John Chambers who retired last month to become executive chairman, to interview Cook. (It says something about Chambers' hold on power at the company that he did this interview, not the newly crowned CEO, Robbins.)
Chambers, who married his high-school sweetheart Elaine, talked about how corporate partnerships are like marriages.
Cook, who is openly gay and extremely private about his love life, quipped, "I can't talk about marriage much."
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