VMware

“In my area in particular containers are now the new thing. So you see companies like Mesosphere and Docker and CoreOS coming up and really Trying to supplement, but truly the, what they're trying to do is completely replace very, very large companies like VMwa…”

“We ended up bootstrapping Hyperic actually for two years before we raised money ultimately from Excel and Benchmark who were great investors. And helped us take this thing to you know, ultimately a four hundred and twenty million dollar acquisition by VMware, …”

“You had to deliver every quarter, and then you had to report to the street your performance every quarter, and that was at a ninety-day clip, so while you try to focus on being quite strategic in how you build your business plan and your operating model and wh…”

“As for Carl, prior to Sequoia, Carl was president and CEO at VMware, where he grew the team from 200 to 20,000 people.”

“And I think if you look at HPE, for example, they also resell VMware, even though VMware is mostly owned by Dell EMC.”

“Carl talk to you, who's scaled VMware from forty million in revenue to six billion.”

“Mark and Ben saved the company. We ended up selling that about four years later to VMware.”