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Diane Greene is nothing if not unassuming and humble. She hates talking about herself and won't reveal any details about her family. But she will talk about her passions: VMware, the server-virtualization company she heads that EMC acquired in 2003, sailing, windsurfing and backcountry skiing.
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Greene was raised in Annapolis, Md. Her father was an engineer, and her mother was a teacher. "Our house was on the water, and I had tremendous freedom," Greene says. "From a very early age, we could go [boating] with our friends, and crabbing, sailing and ice skating."
She recalls her first paying job - catching crabs for $5 a dozen from the piers lining the Annapolis shore. "You get in a boat, the crabs attach to pilings along the shore, you sneak up behind them and pick them up," Greene describes. "You need to be sure that you don't let them bite you. Then you dump them out into whatever you are keeping them in and sort them by size."
Greene, who loves the sound of the ocean, finds much of her inspiration from the sea.
That engineering and love of the water are in her blood show in Greene's educational and career choices. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in naval architecture from MIT, Greene took her first official post-college job designing offshore oil rigs. She then traveled to Hawaii to design windsurfing gear. From there, Greene returned to the University of California at Berkeley for a master's degree in computer science. Being away from the sea and locked in academia didn't deter her; though Greene doesn't speak of them, there are stories of her hunting for treasure near a sunken Spanish galleon.
Then high-tech called, and Greene held a succession of jobs at Sybase, Silicon Graphics and Tandem before founding streaming-media company Vxtreme in 1997. After Vxtreme was sold to Microsoft in 1997 for about $75 million, Greene co-founded VMware with her husband, Mendel Rosenblum, and three others.
Leading VMware is an important part of Greene's life, though a part that she clearly separates from her life at home.
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