About Me
I am Vittorio Viarengo. This is my professional blog and my detailed profile is on LinkedIn
I have been working in software product companies all my career. After my beginning as the founder and CEO (and part time software developer) of my own start-up (ViVi Software), I have been spending all of my career sitting between a development team and marketing, sales, analysts, and customers either as product manager or running a development team directly. I worship great engineers (who indeed make the world go round) and I respect and listen to customers.
I learned most of what I know about teams, passion for people, products and customers working in my father’s bakery and many friends and colleagues still call me “a simple baker from Italy“, which makes me proud.
Since my partner Carlo Innocenti (AKA Minollo) and I sold our start-up to Object Design in 1998 and moved to the US, I have been blessed with the opportunity to work with amazing people at Object Design, BEA, Oracle, Keas.com and now VMware. I believe that this is the best country in the world for people who are willing to take risks and work hard and despite the recent economic crisis, I do think that this country still remains the land of opportunity.
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Date a Cesare da leggere: Virtualization Journey - luca bonesini weblog (il bone) →
April 21st, 2010 → 6:52 am[...] in english, tech on apr.21, 2010 “Virtualization Journey” è il blog di Vittorio Viarengo, imprenditore Italiano e cofondatore di ViVi Software (Genova), oggi Vice President/ Program [...]
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Product Manager Interview Questions: Leadership and Team Skills →
April 25th, 2012 → 1:09 am[...] interact with the sales team. Here are some great sales-oriented interview questions adapted from Vittorio Viarengo’s Guerilla Guide to Interviewing Product Managers post: Can you talk to me about the sales model of a [...]
Vince Conroy
February 10, 2010
Loved your preso at PEX on Tuesday afternoon. We are a national VMware partner and part of the vCloud program as a hoster. Can you send me your preso from the event.
Good stuff, we aren really use this as a framework.
Vince Conroy
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Scott Key
June 29, 2010
Vittorio, look forward to joining you in the journey
Francesca Borghi
November 4, 2010
buonasera Vittorio!
ho assistito oggi pomeriggio (3 novembre 2010) all’incontro legato al Silicon valley tour in villa cambiaso e volevo ringraziarti… Mentre parlavate tu, Paolo Marenco e Mario Marinucci non ho potuto fare a meno di sorridere pensando al mio recentissimo viaggio negli states (vacanza da neo laureata) ed a quanto sia effettivamente importante ascoltare i “racconti” di chi, come te, è riuscito ad avere un tale successo lavorativo al di fuori della realtà italiana. Grazie davvero, sicuramente la tua esperienza sarà per me (e non solo) un ottimo spunto di riflessione ed una lezione preziosa.
Francesca Borghi
vittorioviarengo
November 7, 2010
Bene!! Vittorio
E. Jacob Hayes
February 3, 2011
Oh no! Your not scheduled to speak at VMware Partner Exchange 2011?? Your session back in 2010 was one of the best.
vittorioviarengo
February 10, 2011
Thanks. No PEX for me this year. I am busy back here at the ranch