EMC

“I like to think about Airbnb as kind of distributed storage, but not for bits, or images, or sound, or video. It's distributed storage for people. You know, you can have a EMC big drive like on-prem in your enterprise, Or you can have things distributed, and i…”

“I spent almost nine years at a company called Data Domain, where I joined 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 acquisition in 2009.”

“Yeah, but imagine buying a company at the time, five hundred and fifty million in revenue, 75, 80% margins for two billion dollars.”

“That company inside of EMC, we drove it to a billion that first year, and two billion dollars in the second.”