Aneel Bhusri Quotes
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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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What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.
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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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There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud.
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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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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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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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Because everybody else was investing in the consumer Internet, I did, too.
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NetSuite was a really good company.
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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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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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Happy employees build great products, and they take care of customers.
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I think, in general, data protection really matters.
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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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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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If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.
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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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Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.
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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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When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy.
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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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You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.
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I liked business. I found it fascinating.
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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.