He told few years back that he is trying to see juniper for a stand-alone success. Now what happened? Don’t tell me that he made money and won the game.
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The leader of a company is measured by those he hires and manages. If you measure RR by those he empowered, specifically in sales, it becomes clear his leadership is weak (sorry, it is just a fact). For the last 10 years it's been a revolving door of incompetent CRO hires (or promotions) that has ki-led go to market. What has kept Juniper afloat is a few really good region managers and some great sales people. The parade of CRO's that come through Juniper bring even worse second level leaders with them (or in one case brought back toxic PO) which has poisoned the well even more. When they acquired companies that had great leaders the old guard felt threatened when new ideas were introduced so they sent them down the river (that is another fact, I can give you a list). I had been at Juniper for 10 years, left in 2022 and to this day feel bad for what is happening to some great sales people who keep the lights on for Juniper. These sales people will be out looking for a job while RR and the other id--ts buy vacation homes. Truly sad!
Forget Satya, look at Nikesh at PANW. That company recruited almost half of juniper folks in last 5 years and look where is it right now and that to just focusing on cybersecurity business.
Yes a pretty strong exit. None of the few nitwits prior to RR could raise the stock price. And beats the bejeezus out of being bought by Ericsson.
RR is a an incompetent guy. He is smooth talking and conducts himself well, but in the last 10 years, he couldn't move the needle. Another guy who became the CEO around the same time was satya nadella of Microsoft. Look at the growth that guy showed vs RR.
depends on how one defines the success. I think, given the circumstances where the revenue was flat for a long time so was the stock price while being able to penetrate to SP and enterprise markets and have variety of products is a success, and being able to sell the company 10+% higher than the market price is even a bigger success. lets get real. pretty much the 90% of the companies exit plan dream out there.