The Ousted Founders

Diane Greene, VMware
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Diane Greene was a founder of VMware, a computer virtualization company, and the CEO from 1998 to 2008. She was also ranked No. 22 on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list. She had helped VMware to grow from a start up to a full-fledged business software firm. But she was fired from her job as CEO in July 2008 after the company's stock dove 60 percent.