Raghu Raghuram
Raghu Raghuram is a managing partner and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm's global expansion initiatives and serves on the Growth and Infrastructure investing teams. He is best known for his two-decade tenure at VMware, where he held leadership roles including COO and CEO, helping grow the company into a global cloud infrastructure platform with over $13 billion in revenue and 300,000 customers. He led VMware through its spinout from Dell and its $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom before joining a16z.
“Raghu Raghuram, Former CEO of VMware. Leading a16z's international go-to-market efforts.”
Source→“In order to capitalize on the opportunity at scale, things don't change. You still have to be in region. You still have to understand the market structure of the region that you want to operate in. You have to understand partnerships. You have to build relationships. Lots of other countries have very relationship-based economies, not transaction-based economies.”
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