Workday, Inc.
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Company History
Founded 2005 in Pleasanton, California
Workday was founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri after Oracle acquired PeopleSoft. The company was built as a cloud-native alternative to legacy on-premise HR and finance systems.
Aneel Bhusri is the co-founder, CEO, and Executive Chair of Workday, Inc. Born in 1966, Bhusri holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and economics from Brown University and a MBA from Stanford University. He spent six years at PeopleSoft in senior leadership roles including vice chair of the board and senior vice president of product strategy, business development, and marketing, before joining Greylock Partners in 1999 as a venture capitalist. At Greylock, he invested in companies including Facebook, Dropbox, and Airbnb, gaining deep insight into platform business models and network effects. He co-founded Workday with Dave Duffield in 2005 and served as co-CEO from 2009 to 2014, then as sole CEO from 2014 to 2020. In 2020, he became co-CEO alongside Carl Eschenbach who was expected to succeed him as sole CEO in March 2024. However, in February 2026, Eschenbach stepped down and Bhusri returned as CEO. Bhusri serves on the boards of Stanford University, Cruise, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Eat. Learn. Play. and is an advisory partner at Greylock Partners. He has also served on the boards of General Motors, Intel, Pure Storage, and Okta. Bhusri's strategic focus has been on maintaining Workday's product innovation velocity and expanding from HCM into financial management and AI-driven workforce planning.
Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri found Workday after Oracle acquires PeopleSoft.
Workday launches its early cloud HCM product, betting that large enterprises will trust HR data to a multi-tenant cloud system.
Workday goes public and becomes one of the defining enterprise cloud software IPOs of the early SaaS era.
Workday acquires Adaptive Insights, expanding into planning and analytics.
Aneel Bhusri moves to executive chair while Carl Eschenbach becomes CEO, marking a planned succession phase.
Workday announces Aneel Bhusri will return as CEO effective February 1, 2026.
Workday reports FY2026 revenue of $9.552B and subscription revenue of $8.833B.
Workday reports Q1 FY2027 revenue of $2.36B and announces the acquisition of Pipedream for AI agent workflow capabilities.
Add cloud business planning and analytics.
Add employee engagement and listening capabilities.
Add AI-driven recruiting and talent orchestration.
Add AI agent workflow and integration capabilities.
Since its establishment in 2005, Workday, Inc. expanded from an early-stage venture into a recognized leader in Enterprise Cloud Software, Human Capital Management, Financial Management, and AI Applications, overcoming key market challenges.
Over its history, Workday, Inc. executed decisive strategic pivots toward scalable monetization and digital distribution, securing its current market leadership.
By continually modernizing operations and embracing workflow automation, Workday, Inc. maintains resilience through changing technological and economic cycles.