Audrey MacLean — American Businesswoman

Audrey MacLean is an American businesswoman and entrepreneur. She has been featured on Forbes’ Midas Touch List, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women and Business Week’s Top 50 Business Women in America... (wikipedia)

I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.
I am instinctively a network infrastructure plumber.
You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.
The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then the higher the valuation goes because the risk has been dramatically reduced.
You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the price and the functional differentiation competitive points that are going to allow you to be disruptive.