Curry takes on Silicon Valley, Day 2: VMware, Netapp - 3/9/2015

I fell asleep writing the blog last night, so I’m finishing it in the morning.

Yesterday was our first day in the Valley. We visited VMware at around 10:00 or so. I was exhausted and fell asleep on Greg a few times in the van. We met with Jeff Goodall at VMware. Everybody picked up on his energy and enthusiasm. He took us around the campus and the facilities. The campus was built as a resort on a college campus, which seems completely accurate. We were all surprised as to how green the campus was. Every building, piece of furniture, and material was built from recycled material.

We hit Netapp that afternoon for lunch. Netapp has a very different, much more corporate feel than VMware’s resort-on-college-campus feel. We spoke with some Netapp employees over lunch and discussed the company, their backgrounds, and the internship program. We took a tour around the Netapp buildings. One of the university relations employees (or whatever it’s called), Justin Rowland, presented to us and the end of our time at Netapp. He spoke about the internship program which was interesting.

After Netapp we stopped at some place and had a few hours of free time. So far I’m having the most fun spending time and hanging out with the group, whether exploring San Jose, or sitting by the pool eating dinner and having drinks.