Now we're in an environment where women are increasingly having a huge impact and adding a lot of value to our industry. And women are celebrated if they raise their hand and say, 'Hey, you're missing my value. You're not recognizing what I'm doing.'

Diane Greene

Google is committed to open source and open APIs, and part of that is creating a partner-friendly place.

Diane Greene

Paul Otellini, the former CEO of Intel, I worked with while I was still with VMware. I knew Ram Shriram through the tech industry.

Diane Greene

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

Diane Greene

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.

Diane Greene

Almost every customer that I talk to is talking about how they're using APIs, and what a step function they are for their business.

Diane Greene

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.

Diane Greene

Now we're in an environment where women are increasingly having a huge impact and adding a lot of value to our industry. And women are celebrated if they raise their hand and say, 'Hey, you're missing my value. You're not recognizing what I'm doing.'

Diane Greene

One of the happiest times of my life, I lived in a tent on a porch on Hawaii.

Diane Greene

This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.

Diane Greene

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.

Diane Greene

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.

Diane Greene

It's a good thing to remember that hiring will get easier as you scale - but you should also never drop your standards.

Diane Greene

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.

Diane Greene

More than anything, I think my connection to the sea has really helped me develop my independence and a sense of the importance and value of my own vision.

Diane Greene

Building a company is so much like racing a sailboat.

Diane Greene

I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.

Diane Greene

I only use a Chromebook now. I never thought I could do that, but I love it.

Diane Greene

At VMware, we did the virtualization, which is now used extensively across the cloud. Virtualization layers - and containers - are what facilitated the cloud originally.

Diane Greene

At VMware, the engineers worked very closely with our customers, closely with the field, and it was exciting for everyone. So, one of things I did here at Google when I arrived was to combine sales, marketing, engineering, and product.

Diane Greene

Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.

Diane Greene