StarZero All shows Try the podcast clipper →

Diane Greene

6 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Diane Greene · said 11 times in 7 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Diane Greene's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

Mentions by year

brought up most by Ben Horowitz (5), Margit Wennmachers (3), Martin Casado (1), Marc Andreessen (1), Chris Dixon (1)

tap a year for its mentions
003253201720182019202020212022202320242025episodesmentions
023201720182019202020212022202320242025episodes it came up in
001.31.52.53201720182019202020212022202320242025episodesmentions per episode
2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2019 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2017 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode

every mention, scene by scene, with the transcript →

Everything said about Diane Greene, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 negative
Disclosure
Greene: Startup boards are either unnecessary or ignored during crises
“The reason I don't go on startups is my experience with being on startup boards is either they don't need me at all because everything goes so great. Or they really need me, and they don't want to listen to me.”
Diane Greene Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:01 a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Greene: Prescriptive board members require strong management teams to filter bad advice
“You need a really strong management team if you're gonna do things like that. You have to be really careful if the management team isn't strong enough to handle, you know, because they have even more context.”
Diane Greene Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:36 a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Greene: VMware required board members to offer annual resignations
“Thing is that you make sure, and I did this in my startup, and I don't know if startups do this, but I adopted the big board practice of you resign every year. You offer your resignation every year.”
Diane Greene Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:40 a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
Jan 2, 2019
Insight
Greene: Board directors should never directly make operational suggestions to management
“I don't ever suggest something. That's like a golden rule.”
Diane Greene Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:12 a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Disclosure
Greene: It took a full year to understand Google's board
“My first year at Google, it was just so much stuff. I felt like I didn't have anything to offer because I was in such absorption mode, and, ah, you know, it just, it almost took a whole year to get up to speed,”
Diane Greene Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 46:37 a16z Podcast | The Truth about Serving on Boards (with Diane Greene and Marc Andreessen)
Nov 26, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Diane Greene was ousted from Google over an innocent satellite contract
“Diane Greene was ousted from Google for like a very innocent contract who'd look at pictures, I mean, satellites, right?”
Margit Wennmachers Nov 26, 2025 ▶ 40:06 The Secret Marketing Strategy That Built a16z: From Zero to Legendary VC Firm
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 1,000 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.

Try the podcast clipper Learn more