Tom Mendoza Presents with Carl Eschenbach with QA

Tom Mendoza talks with Carl Eschenbach on October 16, 2020 as part of the Mendoza College of Business speaker series "Tom Mendoza Presents."

Carl M. Eschenbach focuses on infrastructure technologies, cloud and SaaS investments. He is a director of Armis, Aurora, Cohesity, Gong, Palo Alto Networks, Snowflake, ThousandEyes, UiPath, Workday and Zoom. He is involved with Sequoia Capital portfolio companies including Github, Medallia and StackRox. Eschenbach has 30 years of high-tech industry experience including infrastructure software, networking, telephony and storage. Prior to Sequoia, he was president and COO of VMware, where he helped grow the company from $31 million in his first full year to $7 billion in revenues and from 200 employees to 20,000. Prior to joining VMware, Eschenbach held various sales leadership positions with Inktomi, 3Com EMC, and Lucent Technologies. He is passionate about leadership and the importance it plays in building iconic companies.

Tom Mendoza Presents is a webinar series hosted by Tom Mendoza, retired vice chairman of NetApp.

Join Tom as he interviews top business executives about their journey to success, what they learned along the way in forging great companies and their advice to students and professionals as they build their careers.

[CliffWeitzman]

Fantastic talk. Incredibly inspiring. Love the pull technique for leadership and the decisions from the heart.

[davetharp]

great words of advice and inspiration from two living legends of Silicon Valley! Thanks guys.