Dave Duffield is back in a cubicle after building PeopleSoft into a giant, then losing it in a brutal takeover battle with Larry Ellison. How at 70 he's planning his return — and his IPO.
David Duffield has earned a comfortable retirement; over the course
of his nearly 70 years he’s started several companies, helped define
today’s business software market, and become a billionaire. But you
won’t find him on the golf course. Not only is Duffield still a working
stiff, he’s in the Silicon Valley startup game as co-CEO of Workday.
Why would a guy with a billion dollars in the bank still report to his cubicle every morning? (Yes, it's an actual cubicle.) For one thing, he says his latest business idea was just too good to pass up. But mainly, he just seems to love working.
After he lost his last company – human resources software maker PeopleSoft – to Oracle in a brutal takeover battle, it only took a couple of months before he and old buddy Aneel Bhusri began laying the groundwork for another venture. Here’s Workday in a nutshell: It’s the software you need to manage people in a big company, but delivered through a web browser. Think of it as Salesforce.com for employee records.
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Author: Jon Fortt
