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Diane Greene

Board Director, Stripe · 1 appearance on the record.

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Greene co-founded and led virtualization pioneer VMware as CEO from 1998 to 2008, overseeing its acquisition by EMC and its 2007 IPO. She later served on the board of Alphabet and led Google Cloud as CEO from 2015 to 2019 following Google's acquisition of her startup Bebop.

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3 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 5 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 4 assertions · 2 insights · 3 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 5 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Diane argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Prediction Held up
Greene: Enterprise tech will consolidate into four clouds immune to startup disruption
“Everything's going to be in just a few, maybe four clouds or so, you know, there's not going to be that many of them, because like, we spend about ten billion a year in infrastructure, and so it's not going to Get disrupted by a startup, unless they invent qua…”
Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 18:05 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator

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Everything Diane Greene said on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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
Prediction Held up
Greene: Enterprise tech will consolidate into four clouds immune to startup disruption
“Everything's going to be in just a few, maybe four clouds or so, you know, there's not going to be that many of them, because like, we spend about ten billion a year in infrastructure, and so it's not going to Get disrupted by a startup, unless they invent qua…”
Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 18:05 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
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
Disclosure
Greene: Google spends about $10 billion annually on infrastructure
“We spend about ten billion a year in infrastructure”
Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 18:05 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
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
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
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
Assertion Partly supported
Diane Greene: Andy Bechtelsheim invested $300,000 into VMware's seed round
“Yeah, we got 300,000.”
Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 6:43 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
Assertion Supported
Greene: VMware raised from angels, Dell, and banks instead of VCs
“Well, we didn't have VCs. So, you know, we didn't have VCs. So I took money after, after we took the money from Andy and David And John, we, ah, we raised money from Dell, and from Dell and a few banks that were wanting to take us public.”
Diane Greene Aug 4, 2017 ▶ 9:15 VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
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
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

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Appearances (1)

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VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Aug 4, 2017 17m
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