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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. "
Aneel Bhusri
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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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" 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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You
Thought
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Five
" Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't. "
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Go
" 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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People
You
" 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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Need
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Mentor
Leader
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Team
Work
Run
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Way
Hope
Run
" I liked business. I found it fascinating. "
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Liked
Found
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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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Think
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High
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Laptop
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Help
Great