VMware, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where VMware comes up
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.