Blog - Betty Junod

It can be hard to tell what’s real these days between the productivity/token maxxing and robot apocalypse - terrorizing our eyeballs with messages that the machine is either perfect or complete garbage.

Defining one’s ICP (ideal customer profile) to maximize the opportunity within a total addressable market and to focus product roadmap is often an epic exercise.

Whether you call it Vibe Coding or find that phrase too cringe or Agentic [something] – whatever you call it, it is everywhere right now on Feb 28, 2026.

Generative AI’s ability to use natural language for its user interface is possibly the single biggest disruption in making the creation of technology accessible to more people, especially non-technical people.

It’s August and here in my hometown of San Francisco, it’s finally summertime (Sept/Oct) and new beginnings with kids going back to school and yours truly going back to work. 2024 has been a year of many changes with my VMware chapter closing, a major knee

The phrase “measure what matters” is good guidance, but in marketing I often find folks in an exhausting dance largely around leads…the definition of them, the scoring system, the quantity, the source…as the primary measure of marketing value.

One of my employees once told me “Betty, I think Powerpoint is your sand zen garden” and I think she’s right.

Words matter.

I have been a fangirl of the container ecosystem since 2014, when I started working at this new startup named Docker, but it's time to talk about where we are today, how we got here, and what matters most going forward.

In my 20+ years spent in marketing, I’ve had the opportunity to traverse across the many different disciplines that make up a marketing department from webinars, paid search, social to events, campaigns, and more – but I’ve spent the longest amount of time

Recently I had the opportunity to join Shelly Kramer and Sarbjeet Johal in an episode of the AnalystANGLE, for a conversation centered on AI reskilling and exploring the intersection of society and technology we are navigating following an announcement ma…

In recent years, I’ve lost count on how many times I have had the imposter syndrome talk with someone.

(collage by DALL-E generated images) I recently went down an AI image generator rabbit hole.

Today is my last day at VMware, for the second time around.

(Reposted from original Medium post dated Dec 21, 2020) On the journey to destination cloud… In the last almost 20 years, cloud and containers have left an indelible mark on technology in a way that spans across all industries.