In this episode from October 2021, Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell
Technologies and one of the longest serving founder-CEOs in the technology
industry, joins a16z general partner Martin Casado, a16z co-founder Marc
Andreessen, and host Sonal Choksi on the occasion of Michael’s book,
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Nice to Win: A CEO’s Journey from Founder to Leader.There are lots of challenges in being public while trying to innovate, and
limits to being a private company as well; but it's rare to see a company go
public then private then back to public again. As is the case with Dell
Technologies, one of the largest tech companies -- which went private
2012-2013 and then also pulled off one of the most epic mergers of all time
with Dell + EMC + VMWare 2015-2016 (and which we wrote about
here at the time).
Is there a method to the madness? How does one not just start, but keep, and
transform , their company and business? Michael, Marc, Martin and Sonal
debate these questions, as well as the impact of the cloud wars, how
innovation happens when a company is private and when its public (something
Michael knows well, having taken Dell public to private to back to public
again), whether you can actually play nice to win as a leader, and more.
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In this episode from October 2021, Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell
Technologies and one of the longest serving founder-CEOs in the technology
industry, joins a16z general partner Martin Casado, a16z co-founder Marc
Andreessen, and host Sonal Choksi on the occasion of Michael’s book,
https://www.amazon.com
/Play-Nice-But-Win-Journey/dp/0593087747/ref=asc_df_0593087747/" target="new">
Play
Nice to Win: A CEO’s Journey from Founder to Leader.There are lots of challenges in being public while trying to innovate, and
limits to being a private company as well; but it's rare to see a company go
public then private then back to public again. As is the case with Dell
Technologies, one of the largest tech companies -- which went private
2012-2013 and then also pulled off one of the most epic mergers of all time
with Dell + EMC + VMWare 2015-2016 (and which we wrote about
here at the time).
Is there a method to the madness? How does one not just start, but keep, and
transform , their company and business? Michael, Marc, Martin and Sonal
debate these questions, as well as the impact of the cloud wars, how
innovation happens when a company is private and when its public (something
Michael knows well, having taken Dell public to private to back to public
again), whether you can actually play nice to win as a leader, and more.
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