Thu, 06 Dec 2018 07:33:32 +0000

When she was 48 years old, she got a buyout offer from a larger company that she couldn’t refuse. It was from the giant EMC for $625 million in cash. They wanted to buy her company, VMware.

It a good offer and Di accepted. But after EMC took VMware public, the CEO of EMC pressured the board to fire Di.

The market revolted and VMware stock went down 24% in a single day. Three top executives quit their jobs at the company in protest.