VMware. Diane Greene funded it with the proceeds from her (much smaller) startup VXtreme, sold to Microsoft. The first outside capital we took, IIRC, was in 200

VMware. Diane Greene funded it with the proceeds from her (much smaller) startup VXtreme, sold to Microsoft. The first outside capital we took, IIRC, was in 2002 or so, when VMware was already hundreds of employees, profitable, with several products, etc., and it was from Dell and IBM rather than typical VC firms.