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NetSuite was a really good company.
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Good Company
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I liked business. I found it fascinating.
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Fascinating
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I would be amazed if Oracle does not buy NetSuite.
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Amazed
Oracle
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I think, in general, data protection really matters.
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Data
Protection
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The enterprise cloud is a very secure cloud at this point.
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Secure
Cloud
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If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.
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If I Could
Office
Laptop
Tablet
Throw
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I sit on the board of Cloudera, a big vantage point of big data.
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Data
Vantage Point
Board
Vantage
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I'm not a stock expert by any means. Stocks go up; they go down.
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Stock
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There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud.
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Finance
Cloud
No Question
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Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction.
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Levels
Satisfaction
Customer
Oracle
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Happy employees build great products, and they take care of customers.
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Happy
Care
Customers
Products
Take Care
Build
Employees
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Because everybody else was investing in the consumer Internet, I did, too.
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Investing
Consumer
Everybody Else
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What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.
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Ipad
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There's talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them.
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Accessible
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When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.
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Bureaucracy
Caught
Tendency
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Success begets success in terms of customer deployments and having truly happy customers.
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Begets
Deployment
Customer
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The debate between the cloud and on-premise is largely dead. The cloud has become mainstream.
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Debate
Cloud
Largely
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In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.
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Data
Economy
Cloud
Companies
Provides
Slower
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We work as a team, and that is a huge part of why we have been successful; we run fast as a team.
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Huge
Successful
Team
Run
Fast
Huge Part
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Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.
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Intuitive
Tablets
Estate
Laptop
Pc
Real Estate
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I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon.
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Moon
Strategy
Comparing
Fond
Rocket
Sending
To The Moon
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If you've got five or six cloud apps, do you want a different user ID and password for each one? No.
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Apps
Cloud
Each One
Id
User
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Workday is constantly looking into the future and, you know, building applications that stay modern and relevant.
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Relevant
Applications
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There's nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don't see anything on the horizon that is changing that.
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Horizon
Slowing
Cloud
Shift
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The best way to avoid bureaucracy is to have small teams who are empowered to make decisions and get their work done.
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Best Way
Bureaucracy
Empowered
Decisions
Best Work Way
Best Work Done
Avoid
Teams
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I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.
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Copying
Enterprise
New Generation
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I think the bring-your-own-device is the best thing that ever happened to CIOs. Now employees are paying for their own devices.
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Devices
Employees
Paying
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I started to invest in very-early-stage companies where, even though I wasn't the founder, I could help shape the early strategy and culture.
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Strategy
Invest
Founder
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You can't replace luck and timing. With Workday, our timing was perfect. We started in 2005 right as cloud computing was beginning to take off.
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Computing
Luck
Timing
Cloud
Replace
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If you stay very focused on customers and customer success, people pay attention to that - and in turn, they also want that same type of success.
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Attention
Focused
Pay
Pay Attention
Type
Stay
Customer
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All you can worry about as CEO is making sure your company continues to build great products, deliver the revenue, and keep your customers happy.
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Ceo
Revenue
Great Your Keep
Deliver
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Every time you see a new paradigm emerge, it's always new vendors that lead it. I can't think of one case where an incumbent led a paradigm shift.
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Paradigm
Vendors
Time Always New
Emerge
Time New Always
Incumbent
Shift
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When we started Workday, we were originally very focused on the core HR system. Then we added payroll, and then we got into performance management.
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Management
Payroll
Added
Originally
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The iPad is an amazing phenomenon. It is disrupting the enterprise. If you are an average employee, you can do anything for HR and Finance on the iPad.
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Finance
Phenomenon
Ipad
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I found a great mentor early on in my career, Dave Duffield - a legendary software innovator, great individual, and a wonderful leader and human being.
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Dave
Found
Individual
Leader
Legendary
Software
Wonderful
Career
Early
Human Being
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I hired a guy named David Sze to do consumer investing at Greylock. And he went on to invest in Facebook and LinkedIn. So I guess I did something right.
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Investing
Linkedin
David
Named
Invest
Consumer
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What I hope is, over time, users should not have to read a training manual. They should say, 'I totally get the Workday iPad app, because it runs the way my consumer apps run.'
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Apps
Training
Users
Totally
App
Consumer
Ipad
Manual
Runs
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To really disrupt a big market, you have to look at the marketplace from a long-term perspective. You have to move very fast but knowing that disruptive solutions just take time to build.
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Disruptive
Long Term
Marketplace
Solutions
Disrupt
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We invest very heavily in the employees. We get the return, and the employee gets the return if they stay with us for a while. So, we focus on people that will commit to us for the long run.
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Commit
Invest
Employees
Long Run
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The goal isn't just to make transactions: it's to make better decisions in the way you run your business. If that's not at the top of every executive's priorities, then they shouldn't be an executive.
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Priorities
Transactions
Business Better Your
Executive
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People like me, when we're interviewing, we're not going back to our desktop to fill out a recruiting form. If I can quickly submit my evaluation through an iPhone or an iPad, that makes me a lot more productive.
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Desktop
Evaluation
Submit
Me People More
Me People Back
Fill
Interviewing
Ipad
Recruiting
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San Francisco is a wonderful city, but you do have housing issues. If tech companies don't do the right thing, they can dislocate a lot of what makes San Francisco special. At Workday, we want to be on the right side of that.
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Housing
San Francisco
Do The Right Thing
Francisco
Right Side
San
Tech
Tech Companies
The Right Thing
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I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.
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Cases
Venture
Venture Capital
Almost All
Capital
Quite A Bit
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Every employee at Workday thinks about how they are going to help customers be successful. It is a simple formula, but a lot of companies go out, and they don't listen to their customers; they don't try to solve hard problems, making it tougher for themselves to create a great business.
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Business
Customers
Employee
Great Business
Simple
Solve
Successful
Try
Companies
Create
Formula
Help
Making
Problems
Themselves
Thinks
Tougher
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Candidly, when you go back to '07 or '08, it was hard to sell cloud. We started out by focusing on large enterprises on day one. Everybody thought cloud was for SMBs (small and mid-size businesses), but we made the leap that it was going to be for large enterprises, that they were going to replace their core systems.
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Leap
Cloud
Day One
Enterprises
Focusing
Replace
Systems
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I would have loved to invest in Salesforce when I was active in venture. I didn't know the founder, Marc Benioff, well enough, and he didn't really rely on venture capital, but I remember the first time I met him and got to talk about Salesforce when they were still private. I thought, 'Damn, that is going to be a huge company.'
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Active
Damn
Rely
Venture
Venture Capital
Time Remember First Time
Capital
Invest
Founder
Marc
Well Enough
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