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The Chip That Changed Coolstar’s Mind
A Silicon Valley chipmaker set out to license a transistor. The harder lesson was that the useful product was the whole radio-frequency chip - and the heat it could spare a crowded Wi-Fi box.
Boingo’s $854 Million Lesson for Infrastructure Builders: Own the Places Where Wireless Breaks
Boingo began by making airport Wi-Fi easier to buy. Twenty-five years later, its real product is the invisible layer beneath airports, bases and ballparks - a lesson in moving from a convenient app to infrastructure that is painful to replace.
Eero Made Wi-Fi Boring - and Built a Hardware Playbook Worth Stealing
The San Francisco startup survived a year-long shipping stumble by making the router feel less like equipment and more like an appliance. A decade later, its real product is not the white box - it is fewer reasons to think about Wi-Fi.
The Blinking Box in Your Closet Is Quietly Becoming a Software Company
NETGEAR has spent 30 years making the box that blinks in your closet. Now it is trying to turn that hardware into recurring revenue - and in 2025, for the first time in five years, the bet moved the numbers.
The Internet Company Digging Its Way Out of Cable's Past
Ziply Fiber inherited an old Northwest telephone network and made a blunt bet: keep digging until fiber reaches the places larger providers skipped. Now the same company selling home broadband is carrying 400-gigabit traffic between Seattle and Chicago.
Omni Design Technologies, Inc.
Omni Design Technologies builds high-performance, ultra-low-power semiconductor IP - the data converters and mixed-signal blocks that move information between the analog and digital worlds. Its Swift family of ADCs, DACs and analog front-ends sits inside SoCs for AI infrastructure, 5G/6G, Wi-Fi 7, automotive lidar/radar, satellite links, and quantum control, fabricated on processes from 28nm down to advanced FinFET nodes.
Ed Meyercord
Ed Meyercord is President, CEO, and Director of Extreme Networks (NASDAQ: EXTR), a publicly traded enterprise networking company with 2,700 employees and over $1.1 billion in annual revenue. He took the helm in April 2015 after serving as Chairman of the board since 2011, steering Extreme from a hardware-centric also-ran into a cloud-managed, AI-native networking platform. Under his watch the company now powers the wireless networks at Old Trafford, the Burj Khalifa, Taylor Swift concert tours, and Samsung's global operations, while its SaaS ARR has grown dramatically. Before Extreme, Meyercord ran Talk America (a publicly traded telco), Cavalier Telephone, and Critical Alert Systems, after starting his career as an investment banking VP at Salomon Brothers. He is also known for bringing improv comedy principles into corporate leadership and for his advocacy for people with intellectual disabilities through SKIT Programs.