Diane Greene

7 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 4, 2017 by Diane Greene · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2014 · across every show →

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Jessica Livingston at Female Founders Conference 2014 · Y Combinator Mar 12, 2014 · 2 mentions · from 15:15
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Aug 4, 2017 neutral

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Greene: VMware easily attracted engineers, but struggled to hire business talent

“It wasn't that hard to get engineers, because we were such deep technology, they understood what we did, but getting business side people was pretty much impossible.”

Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 2:21 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator

Aug 4, 2017

Assertion Supported

Marc Andreessen joined Bebop's board shortly before its acquisition by Google

“Yeah, we had just raised a lot of money from A-A-A-X-Teen-Z, and Mark had joined my board.”

Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 17:05 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator

Aug 4, 2017 negative

What-if

Greene: VMware cofounders would have thanked her for not selling to EMC

“My co-founders wanted to sell, and I thought it would be selfish not to, although they would have thanked me had I not”

Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 8:47 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator

Aug 4, 2017 positive

Insight

Greene: Having three female board members makes a huge difference over two

“And so I'm the third woman to join that board, which is, it makes a huge difference to have three instead of two.”

Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 11:07 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator

Aug 4, 2017 positive

Insight

Diane Greene: Founders should target wealthy investors with deep domain expertise

“And this is sort of advice I've always given people is, you want to find investors that really deeply understand what you're doing. And so, and you want to get rich people that deeply understand what you're doing.”

Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 5:29 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator

Aug 4, 2017

Disclosure

Greene managed global travel by hiring hotel nannies for her daughter

“Like, when we got more advanced and started having customers and partners all over the, you know, selling all over the world, ah, she went all over the world with me, and then I would just stay at a really high-end hotel and have them hire a really high-end na…”

Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 7:56 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator

Aug 4, 2017 positive

Disclosure

Greene used written memos instead of slide decks for VMware board meetings

“My board meetings, I never wrote slides, I just wrote a document, and it had a few metrics about how we were doing, if, you know, we were doing well, but the whole rest of it was things I was worried about or trying to figure out.”

Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 20:57 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator

Diane Greene

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