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Diane Greene
American
Businesswoman
Born:
1955
Cloud
Everything
Google
Lot
People
You
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I only use a Chromebook now. I never thought I could do that, but I love it.
Diane Greene
Love
Thought
Only
Could
Never
Use
Now
Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.
Diane Greene
Clouds
Every
Run
Wants
Customer
Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.
Diane Greene
You
Lose
Everything
Kids
Adventure
Curious
Then
I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.
Diane Greene
Family
Weekends
Never
Over
Lot
Any
Help
Chores
I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.
Diane Greene
You
Enterprise
Never
Had
Partners
Always
Been
Where
Customers
Your
At VMware, we did the virtualization, which is now used extensively across the cloud. Virtualization layers - and containers - are what facilitated the cloud originally.
Diane Greene
Cloud
Layers
Did
Which
Across
Used
Originally
Now
Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.
Diane Greene
Ram
Through
Knew
Industry
Still
Intel
While
Former
Paul
CEO
Worked
Tech
If I had to have my druthers - the best technology, the best cloud... if I had to choose between that and building out a sales force and building out customer support... I would pick the latter.
Diane Greene
Best
Technology
Building
Cloud
Latter
Out
Would
Had
Pick
Support
Between
Force
Sales
Customer
Choose
If I could inexpensively pick up a killer sales force without a lot of the other things that I don't necessarily need, yeah, I'd be all there.
Diane Greene
Other
Killer
Could
Pick
Force
Without
Yeah
Sales
Lot
Up
If I Could
Things
Necessarily
Need
When we were small, the idea of VMware wasn't well defined, and convincing people to join was difficult. Each person we hired at that time was a big deal.
Diane Greene
Time
People
Big
Difficult
Defined
Small
Join
Idea
Well
Deal
Big Deal
Hired
Were
Person
Convincing
Each
It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.
Diane Greene
Good
You
Remember
Will
Drop
Easier
Scale
Good Thing
Never
Also
Hiring
Get
Should
Your
Standards
Thing
If you had a hobby, family, or wanted to do things besides work - you should join VMware. We didn't have nearly as long hours as Google given our customers worked normal business hours.
Diane Greene
Work
Family
You
Business
Long
Google
Our
Besides
Given
Long Hours
Join
Had
Hours
Normal
Hobby
Wanted
Customers
Worked
Should
Nearly
Things
Almost every customer that I talk to is talking about how they're using APIs, and what a step function they are for their business.
Diane Greene
Business
Every
About
Step
Almost
Talk
Talking
How
Customer
Using
Function
Now we're in an environment where women are increasingly having a huge impact and adding a lot of value to our industry. And women are celebrated if they raise their hand and say, 'Hey, you're missing my value. You're not recognizing what I'm doing.'
Diane Greene
You
Women
Value
Increasingly
Adding
Our
Hey
Say
Recognizing
Impact
Having
Environment
Missing
Industry
Doing
Hand
Lot
Huge
Women Are
Celebrated
Huge Impact
Where
Now
Raise
I'm pretty transparent and clear about things. The things I do and the way I act are no different than I would expect of others. Mostly it's about being very clear about what we are trying to do and communicating a lot and showing absolute consistency and integrity about what I say and do.
Diane Greene
Integrity
Consistency
Others
Way
Say
Would
Pretty
About
Absolute
Clear
Mostly
Lot
Very
Expect
Than
Trying
Being
Different
Communicating
Act
Transparent
Showing
Things
Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.
Diane Greene
Building
Like
Sailboat
Much
Racing
Company
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