One of the happiest times of my life, I lived in a tent on a porch on Hawaii.
This whole cloud phenomenon is gaining steam pretty rapidly, and it's really become a strategic imperative for people.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
Google is committed to open source and open APIs, and part of that is creating a partner-friendly place.
I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.
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.
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.
Google went in a consumer direction, and VMware was system infrastructure. But there are a lot of parallels and similarities.
If I had to have my druthers - the best technology, the best cloud... if I had to choose between that and building out a sales force and building out customer support... I would pick the latter.