Diane Greene -- who is on the boards of Google and Intuit -- has some golden rules when it comes to serving on boards. No 1: “You don’t want to tell them how to do strategy, whether it’s a big company or a small company,” she says. “That’s not your job. Your job as a director is to ask questions.” Lots of questions. In this segment of the a16z Podcast, a16z's Marc Andreessen and VMware co-founder and former CEO Diane Greene have a candid conversation about their experiences on boards from the perspective of both company founders and board directors. “I’ve almost never seen a problem that couldn’t be solved by better communication and consistency,” Greene says. That's rule No. 2. [This talk took place as part of a training program in corporate governance that a16z organized with the Director’s College at Stanford on March 5, 2015.]
Diane Greene at Startup School 2013
Diane Greene is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware. This is her talk from the 2017 Female Founders Conference. Read the transcript here: http://blog.ycombinator.com/diane-greenes-advice-for-founders/
Diane Greene is SVP of Google Cloud and she was also the CEO and cofounder of VMware. Jessica Livingston is cofounder of YC.