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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to have my druthers - the best technology, the best cloud... if I had to choose between that and building out a sales force and building out customer support... I would pick the latter.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could inexpensively pick up a killer sales force without a lot of the other things that I don't necessarily need, yeah, I'd be all there.
- Machine
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot that machine learning can't do that humans can do very, very well.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were small, the idea of VMware wasn't well defined, and convincing people to join was difficult. Each person we hired at that time was a big deal.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you had a hobby, family, or wanted to do things besides work - you should join VMware. We didn't have nearly as long hours as Google given our customers worked normal business hours.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
Google is committed to open source and open APIs, and part of that is creating a partner-friendly place.
- Customer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every customer wants to run on all the clouds.
- Components
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- Nov 07, 2020
We believe that cloud will be based on significant open-source components that are offered as services. People don't want to be locked into a single provider.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm super partner-oriented. That's how I built VMware.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have pretty set rules that I go home for dinner every night unless I am traveling.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a lot of help to do chores so I can be with my family, and I never have any help over the weekends.
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty transparent and clear about things. The things I do and the way I act are no different than I would expect of others. Mostly it's about being very clear about what we are trying to do and communicating a lot and showing absolute consistency and integrity about what I say and do.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sail successfully, you need to observe with great care. You need to identify what the wind and the water are telling you and then find a way to execute, to reach whatever goal you've set, be that simply making it home or winning a race.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you race a sailboat, the selection of your crew is just completely paramount. It's impossible to be an effective skipper if you don't have the right people working harmoniously in the right roles.
- Curious
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you know where you are going, you have this sixth sense about if everything you do along the way is lined up with that.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020