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257 ‘Diamonds and Turds’: How Hock Tan Turned Broadcom Into an AI Juggernaut

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Wayne Ma @ The Information · 12/05/2025 12:02 EDT

‘Diamonds and Turds’: How Hock Tan Turned Broadcom Into an AI Juggernaut

Early last year, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan decided to host what he likes to call a “coffee chat” with the employees of VMware, the software giant that the Broadcom CEO had recently purchased for $84 billion. The companywide meeting was Tan’s effort to introduce himself and answer questions from those employees about life at the semiconductor firm.

At that time, VMware’s Palo Alto, Calif., campus sprawled over 18 buildings and 100 acres of delicately pruned gardens, an outdoor amphitheater and a turtle pond. Em

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