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every year anyone Harry Stebbings 9Jerry Chen 6Javier Soltero 4Pat Grady 2David Helgason 2Ravi Gupta 1Martin Casado 1John Vrionis 1Glenn Solomon 1Doug Leone 1
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20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 47:13 unnamed speaker Today they have 50,000 after buying CA, Symantec, VMware, and they have the same size support team across ITHR and a bunch of other functions with the help of Moveworks.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
a16z GP Martin Casado: How I Went from Engineer to VC; Lessons from Chris Dixon | 20VC #956 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:53 Martin Casado We ended up selling that, um, about four years later to VMware.
20VC: Sequoia's Doug Leone on What Has Been Instrumental To Scaling Sequoia Over Generations, How Sequoia Think About International Expansion and What They Learned From China and India & Why When You Lose Pre-Seed You Become Private Equity
- ▶ 28:40 Doug Leone In Bogomil, who did the same at VMware,
20VC: Unity Founder David Helgason on The Hypergrowth Early Days of Unity, Why Running A Company Is Like A Liberal Art, The Secret To A Successful CEO Transition and What Makes Roelof Botha Such A Special Board Member
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings Thrive, DFJ, Silver Lake, and then incredible individuals like Max Levchin and VMware's Diane Green.
- ▶ 25:38 David Helgason So that was Diane Green, founder of VMware. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Sequoia's Ravi Gupta on His Lessons From The Hyper-Growth of Instacart, The Key Question To Ask When Building or Evaluating Teams & The Importance of Investing In and Detecting Slopes Rather Than Intercepts
- ▶ 16:55 Ravi Gupta That means that if you need help with go-to-market, we're going to have Carl talk to you, who's scaled VMware from forty million in revenue to six billion.
20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
- ▶ 2:17 Harry Stebbings Dell Technologies includes Dell EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA, Virtustream, and SecureWorks, and Dell Tech Capital came out of stealth in 2017 as an early stage investor in enterprise technology startups, and it's since announced investments…
- ▶ 36:12 Harry Stebbings Dell EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA, Virtustream, and SecureWorks.
20VC: How To Think Through Portfolio Construction and The Business Model of VC, Why You Cannot Grow Ownership In Your Best Companies Over Time & How To Make The Space for Serendipity To Strike in VC with Adam D'Augelli, Partner @ True Ventures
- ▶ 2:06 Harry Stebbings Dell Technologies includes Dell EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA, Virtustream, and SecureWorks.
- ▶ 30:47 Harry Stebbings Dell Technologies includes Dell EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA, Virtustream, and SecureWorks.
20VC: Unusual Ventures' John Vrionis on Why We Need To Raise The Bar In Venture, Why Taking Multi-Stage Money At Seed Is Not In The Best Interest of Founders & Why To Be The Best, You Have To Specialise To Be The Best
- ▶ 4:29 John Vrionis And so when I was about to graduate from business school, I had been working on startup idea that VMware then ended up acquiring.
20VC: Lessons From Slack and Opendoor on Price Sensitivity, Why The Best CEOs Are Able To Manage Momentum and Why Being A Board Member is a "Full Contact Sport" with Glenn Solomon, Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
- ▶ 26:27 Glenn Solomon And rise of things like continuous delivery of software and containerization, but it's really exciting to me because I think the world is, is about to see who becomes the next VMware, who becomes the next Akamai, the next Palo Alto…
20VC: Greylock's Jerry Chen on The 2 Fundamentals To Assessing Startup Risk, Why Good Investors Have To Be Optimistic & Why VCs Get In Trouble When They Move Outside Their "Strike Zone"
- ▶ 0:48 Harry Stebbings And prior to joining Greylock, Jerry was vice president of cloud and application services at VMware, where he was part of the executive team 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:46 Jerry Chen I spent, it was 10 years at VMware shipping product from a couple hundred employees to 15,000 and like over five billion in revenue. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:55 Jerry Chen I think growing up as a son of immigrant parents, I learned a lot about grit and hard work from them, but I would say more recently in my professional experience that was transformational was being at the New York Stock Exchange when… 2 times in the scene
20VC: The Biggest Growth Opportunities for Young People in Tech Today, Why Distributed Workforces Are The Secret To Beating Incumbents & Why It Has Never Been Easier To Operate A Company Than Today with Andy Pflaum, Founder & CEO @ Astro
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings A three hundred and fifty million dollar acquisition by VMware, where he then spent time on the other side of the table before moving to Chile to manage a family winery for one and a half years.
- ▶ 5:03 Andy Pflaum Satish, Roland, and Ross, and Zimbra was a leading open source collaboration suite for enterprise customers, and that was also a successful company, and through some interesting M&A activities, it took me through a couple years, first at…
- ▶ 6:22 Harry Stebbings You also experienced it in the form of kind of incumbents like VMware and Yahoo, and now founding companies.
20VC: Sequoia Partner, Pat Grady on Why Data Is The New Oil, Why We Will See The Return of The Apprenticeship Model in VC & The Defining Characteristics of The Next Generation of Great Software
20VC: Accel's Brian O'Malley On The Prioritisation Of Growth, The Metrics That Show True Customer Retention & Why The Most Interesting Companies Create A Market
- ▶ 31:40 Brian O'Malley Um, they've hired a head of, head of engineering who built a very similar, uh, content product out before to cop off by, you know, VMware.
FF 012: Acquired by Microsoft for $200m with Javier Soltero @ Microsoft
- ▶ 3:33 Javier Soltero We were, uh, at the time when we, uh, uh, sold it in 2009, close to ten million in revenue, uh, uh, thousands of customers, deeply, deeply adopted open source product, uh, and a pioneer in some new business model elements, and then end up…
- ▶ 5:43 Javier Soltero Um, and, uh, helped us take this thing to, uh, you know, ultimately a four hundred and twenty million dollar acquisition by VMware, which was a really good deal.
- ▶ 17:45 Javier Soltero I had gotten to know Satish over the years, and then he was the one who kind of, uh, uh, convinced me to leave, uh, VMware and, uh, uh, come over and spend time with, with the folks at Redpoint, and, and it was a great, great experience.
- ▶ 28:07 Javier Soltero My career highlight was having, uh, after the sale of Hyperic, uh, having a, a very, uh, young and early employee that we hired send me a note thanking me, telling me he was leaving VMware, but thanking me for having given him the…