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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

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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

Topics: Ceo Former Industry Intel Knew Paul Ram Still Tech Through While Worked

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At VMware, the engineers worked very closely with our customers, closely with the field, and it was exciting for everyone. So, one of things I did here at Google when I arrived was to combine sales, marketing, engineering, and product.

~Diane Greene

Topics: Arrived Closely Combine Customers Did Engineering Engineers Everyone Exciting Field Google Here Marketing Our Product Sales Things Very Worked

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Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

~Diane Greene

Topics: Consumer Direction Google Infrastructure Lot Parallels Similarities System

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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

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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

Topics: Could Force If I Could Killer Lot Necessarily Need Other Pick Sales Things Up Without Yeah

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There's a lot that machine learning can't do that humans can do very, very well.

~Diane Greene

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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

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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

Topics: Besides Business Customers Family Given Google Had Hobby Hours Join Long Long Hours Nearly Normal Our Should Things Wanted Work Worked You

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When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.

~Diane Greene

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businesswoman

Born: Unknown

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