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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”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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…”