#487 Innovation & the Pursuit of Happiness with Amanda Blevins, CTO of VMware Americas

Today we’re talking to Amanda Blevins, VP and CTO of VMware Americas; and we discuss how to design your career path around what makes you happy, how to encourage everyone at your company to innovate and pursue new ideas, and how people may not remember what you do, but they’ll always remember how you made them feel.

All of this right here, right now, on the Modern CTO Podcast! 

In case you missed it: check out our previous episodes with VMware's CTO Kit Colbert and Chief Technologist of VMware HCI Duncan Epping

About Amanda Blevins:

I believe in Doing the Right Thing: helping others to be happy and achieve their goals, creating and augmenting technology to solve new problems, and sharing knowledge to enable others. I enjoy leading and being a part of a diverse and authentic team that shares these values. I work hard and smart and enjoy life!

About VMware:

At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our compute, cloud, mobility, networking and security offerings form a digital foundation that powers the apps, services and experiences that are transforming the world.

Since our founding over two decades ago, our 24,000+ employee community and ecosystem of 75,000 partners have been behind the technology innovations transforming entire industries – from banking, healthcare, and government to retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, and transportation.

Every day, we work to solve our customers’ toughest challenges through disruptive technologies like edge computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, Kubernetes and more – to define the digital foundation that will accelerate the next wave of innovation.