Zitat des Tages von Diane Greene:
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.
Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.
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.
We believe that cloud will be based on significant open-source components that are offered as services. People don't want to be locked into a single provider.
Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.
Google is committed to open source and open APIs, and part of that is creating a partner-friendly place.
I have pretty set rules that I go home for dinner every night unless I am traveling.
I'm super partner-oriented. That's how I built VMware.
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.'
This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.
I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.
I only use a Chromebook now. I never thought I could do that, but I love it.
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.
Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.
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.
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.
If you know where you are going, you have this sixth sense about if everything you do along the way is lined up with that.
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.
