// PERSON
Dave Duffield
ROLE CO-FOUNDERAT WORKDAYMENTIONS 2LAST SEEN APRIL 30, 2026
// BIO
Co-founder of both PeopleSoft and Workday; canonical example of a domain-expert founder who leveraged incumbent displacement to build the next-generation platform.
// RECENT MENTIONS
// SIGNALS
2 SIGNALS
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mention·The a16z Show·APRIL 30, 2026
“You see them come back and say, 'We see this shift. We just lost our baby. We know exactly what to build.' They were the perfect founding team.”
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mention·The a16z Show·APRIL 30, 2026
“We know all of the edge cases that you need to solve for... These guys are amazing entrepreneurs. They saw this opportunity and they built the cloud native version of what they had just built at PeopleSoft.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.