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  • JOHANNA WRIGHT: So now I'm so excited to

  • introduce Diane Greene.

  • Diane Greene is the latest member of

  • Google's Board of Directors.

  • She's also a board member for Intuit and MIT.

  • Diane is probably most well known for founding VMware.

  • VMware went on to define the visualization industry.

  • Diane was the CEO of VMware from 1998 to 2008.

  • She took the company to $2 billion in revenue, and she

  • took the company public.

  • When I heard that I got to be on the same panel as Diane

  • Greene, I was flabbergasted, and so excited.

  • Despite how intimidating her resume sounds, Diane Greene is

  • actually quite approachable.

  • I heard her speak last year at a Google event and I went up

  • and introduced myself afterwards, and she was very

  • friendly and nice.

  • So if you get the opportunity afterwards, I would encourage

  • you to shake her hand.

  • Diane is also a national champion sailor.

  • And with that, Diane.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • DIANE GREENE: Thank you for that introduction.

  • She went further than I suggested she go.

  • So how did I manage to do these things?

  • What I thought I would do is take you on a whirlwind tour

  • of my life and try and highlight where I thought I

  • learned valuable things.

  • And I grew up sailing, racing sailboats.

  • And when you race a boat, first you have to build a

  • team, and you have to get your team all aligned on a single

  • goal, which is to win the race.

  • And then you need your strategy to win the race.

  • You have to understand what the wind's doing, understand

  • what the currents are doing, and pay attention to your

  • competitors.

  • And if your competitors surprise you or you get a wind

  • shift, you have to immediately react and handle that and

  • continue winning the race.

  • And the last thing is the engineering around sailing.

  • You have to prepare your boat.

  • It has to be ready to go fast.

  • Then you have to tune it while on the race course to keep

  • going fast.

  • And I think that's what led me to train.

  • I trained as a mechanical engineer and

  • then a naval architect.

  • I came out to the Bay Area to San Francisco

  • for my first job.

  • And the first thing I was given to do was analyze some

  • mooring, a mooring for an offshore oil platform that was

  • used for firefighting.

  • And there was a big Fortran program that looked like it

  • was the way to model this.

  • And so that's when I learned how to program.

  • And it was just this incredibly

  • powerful tool, software.

  • You could do anything with it.

  • Got pretty excited about it.

  • Was not very excited about sitting inside behind a desk.

  • I really came to the Bay Area for the windsurfing.

  • And so I quit that job and I moved to Hawaii where I think

  • I've had perhaps one of my favorite periods of my life.

  • I lived sort of in a commune where we were exploring.

  • Windsurfing was sort of an early

  • microcosm of the tech industry.

  • We were just inventing all kinds of things--

  • new sails, high aspect sails, new shapes

  • of boards, new materials.

  • And all we did was build and test this equipment every day.

  • It was really tremendous.

  • And from there, I went and ran engineering for Windsurfing

  • International.

  • That was the company that had the patent on the windsurfer,

  • which also taught me how abused patents can be, because

  • they tried to control a very rapidly expanding industry

  • with their patents.

  • I left that.

  • Well, all this time, I continued to study software.

  • I went back up to the Bay Area and enrolled in a graduate

  • program in computer science at UC Berkeley.

  • Berkeley was a pretty happening place at that point.

  • The grad students had a lab full of brand new Sun

  • workstations that were based on this Unix, a relatively new

  • open operating system.

  • Richard Stallman, who wrote the GPL license,

  • was hanging out there.

  • I got to see the first graphical user interface, and

  • it was just very exciting.

  • And I knew it's what I wanted to keep doing.

  • I did still yearn for adventure.

  • I've always really loved adventure, so I took a brief

  • interlude and used my computer skills to be the computer

  • expert on a marine archaeology expedition in Sipan where we

  • excavated a Spanish galleon and found gold.

  • And then I came back to the Bay Area and went to work at a

  • succession of companies in the tech industry.

  • The first one was Sybase, where I really got hit over

  • the head with the value of having engineers across

  • companies work together.

  • I made friends with an engineer at Sun, it turned out

  • he was a windsurfer, and we spend a few months windsurfing

  • and writing software and were able to get sort of an order

  • of magnitude performance increase in the Sybase system

  • running on Sun.

  • And I really used that when I built VMware.

  • All three companies were quite an education in how important

  • it is to embrace change and always go forward, invest in

  • the future.

  • Sybase didn't want to rework their system to support

  • symmetric multiprocessing processing, and that's sort of

  • why Oracle eclipsed them.

  • I went to work at Tandem that had the world's best database

  • management system, but it ran on proprietary hardware and

  • proprietary operating system.

  • And it was too hard to see the business model for moving to

  • commodity open systems, and they sort of sailed into

  • oblivion, getting bought by Compaq and then by HP.

  • And then I went to work for SGI, which was a pretty

  • aggressive tech company at that point in time and worked

  • on interactive television, which was a

  • really exciting project.

  • But again, the internet was happening and it

  • was starting at SGI.

  • But instead, the founder of SGI, Jim Clark, left and

  • founded Netscape, and a number of us

  • left and started companies.

  • And that's when I finally just decided

  • to stick with startups.

  • And so I did two successive smaller startups.

  • They both had great visions.

  • I would say they maybe executed too early.

  • Nice financial outcomes.

  • The first one was streaming video over the internet, low

  • bandwidth, because there wasn't much bandwidth.

  • And the second was internet ad serving, interestingly enough.

  • At that point I took a little time off and decided to found

  • VMware, which was based on some work my husband was doing

  • at Stanford around virtualization.

  • And there's a few things I can kind of relate to what we did

  • at VMware to what I had already learned.

  • For instance, Sun Microsystems introduced these workstations.

  • People loved these workstations, and then brought

  • their servers into the companies.

  • And at VMware we used the same strategy.

  • We had a workstation software.

  • People loved our workstation software, and then when we

  • came out with the server product, were pretty

  • quick to adopt it.

  • We did amazing.

  • Our engineers worked with the hardware vendors.

  • They worked with the chip vendors.

  • They worked with the storage vendors.

  • And then we worked with all of those vendors

  • to take it to market.

  • And I'm just a huge believer in

  • collaboration in the industry.

  • And it was really effective for VMware, but it was always

  • hard to convince other companies to trust us and

  • partner with us.

  • But I think we always won, jointly, together.

  • And then the last thing was just sort of how to adapt, how

  • to embrace change.

  • My job changed considerably from zero to sort of 6,000,

  • 7,000 people the company was when I left.

  • And it's just sort of recognizing, OK, this isn't

  • working and constantly sectioning out parts of my job

  • that I just didn't have time for anymore and hiring someone

  • to do those things.

  • VMware was just a totally fun adventure, building it with

  • all those people and seeing the impact that it had.

  • And what I would say is, it's not so important how.

  • There's just sort of an infinite number

  • of ways to do things.

  • But when you see something that you're very interested

  • in, that you think it can have some real impact, the thing

  • that's important is to codify that vision, see that vision,

  • enjoy the adventure of building that vision.

  • And if you do enjoy it, it makes it fairly easy to be

  • fearless about it.

JOHANNA WRIGHT: So now I'm so excited to

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Google I/O 2013 - Diane Greene - 7人のテックメーカーとマイク (Google I/O 2013 - Diane Greene - 7 Techmakers and a Microphone)

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