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Diane Greene

08/09/17

@ Y Combinator

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

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Diane Greene's Advice for Founders

@ Y Combinator

08/09/17

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Diane Greene

08/09/17

@ Y Combinator

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.

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Diane Greene

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

I co-founded VMware in 1998, creating the virtualization industry, which allows multiple operating systems to run on a single computer or across computers.

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Diane Greene

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

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.

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Diane Greene

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

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.

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Diane Greene

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

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

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Diane Greene

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

IBM, which invented virtualization in the 1960s, had x86 servers that were struggling to sell due to a lack of demand for large workloads.

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Diane Greene

08/05/17

@ Y Combinator

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.

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Bret Taylor

05/08/25

@ Sequoia Capital

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

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Diane Greene

10/26/13

@ Y Combinator

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