Aneel Bhusri

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

We spend a lot of time looking at the things we like: Amazon, Google, Facebook. ”

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.' ”

Because everybody else was investing in the consumer Internet, I did, too. ”

There's talent everywhere; we just have to make technology accessible to them. ”

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. ”

I have long been fond of comparing Workday strategy to the process of sending a rocket to the moon. ”

When you get big, there's a tendency to get caught up in process and bureaucracy. ”