I co-founded VMware with my husband, who was a professor at Stanford, after realizing the value of his research and the need to take it to market.

At VMware, we launched the virtualization revolution in 1998 and took the company public in 2007, achieving a market cap of $19.1 billion on the first day.

At VMware, we aimed for our virtualization technology to be ubiquitous by the year 2000, and although we missed that target by six years, we eventually achieved it.

We self-funded VMware initially, allowing only immediate family to invest, and later sought angel investors who were technically sophisticated and understood our vision.

I was approached by someone who thanked me for VMware, highlighting the importance of bringing a product to market that people love.

At VMware, we created a tool that seamlessly migrated workloads from physical to virtual machines, which significantly boosted our sales.

I co-founded and was the CEO of three startups, starting with V-Extreme in 1995, where we developed low bandwidth streaming video technology that was sold to Microsoft for $75 million in 1997.

We created the VMware Preferred Hardware Vendor program, which helped us gain traction in the market as other vendors signed up to meet our requirements.

The virtualization of infrastructure and advancements in software development have significantly reduced the overhead for starting a company today.