Having guys that have been through it, like Diane Greene had for Nicira, is very valuable.

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Nine years ago I was on the wrong side of this argument with Diane Greene, founder of VMWare.

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But none of them applies to Diane Greene, the chief executive of VMware.

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Investors include VMWare founders Diane Greene and Mendel Rosenblum are investors, as are Chamath Palihapitiya, a vice president at Facebook, and Jeff Huber, a senior vice president at Google.

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And although you won't spot VMware's notoriously private founder and chief executive, Diane Greene, on the covers of any national magazines, she told Forbes.com she is confident about her company's future.

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Guests at the event included former Citigroup Chairman and CEO John Reed, who now serves as Chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and VMware cofounder and former CEO Diane Greene, an MIT trustee.

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VMware (nyse: VMW - news - people ) had hardly finished announcing that its chief executive, Diane Greene, was stepping down when the company pulled references to the co-founder off its Web site and put up the bio of its incoming chief executive, Paul Maritz.

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