Data Domain, every mention

David Schneider: Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs" & VC Value Add - Is it Real? | E1200 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Sep 11, 2024 · 11 mentions

• ▶ 1:32 David Schneider Uh, almost nine years at a company called Data Domain, where I joined, uh, at zero dollars in revenue, and by the time I left, we'd gone through an IPO, took it to about a billion dollars, and then we got acquired by EMC in a hostile… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 3:44 David Schneider Uh, EMC takes full-page ads out in the Wall Street Journal in the local paper, was driving trucks around our office saying, can't wait to work with you people at Data Domain. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 13:01 David Schneider And I want, I, I called it at data domain, the land of the misfit toys.
• ▶ 20:54 David Schneider It's a special place in my heart on this issue, because on my journey at Data Domain, there was a moment in time where Frank could have brought in somebody else to run sales.
• ▶ 55:54 David Schneider So for example, when I led the review of any portion of ServiceNow or Data Domain, I started with the three things that were working, that were really green, and the three things that were red.
• ▶ 59:02 David Schneider Um, who no longer does this as a living cause he started Workday, but he was on my data domain board and he was awesome because of all the people he convinced the engineering and product team before they started putting hands on keyboard…
• ▶ 1:01:15 David Schneider I can compare, because I worked with Frank at Data & Main was his first CEO job, and how he was, and what he was doing to drive urgency.
• ▶ 1:04:39 David Schneider Um, early days at Data Domain, I was, um, 2 times in the scene