Aneel Bhusri Quotes

Aneel Bhusri

Profession : Businessman

Birth : February 14, 1966

There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud.

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You don't see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve.

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There's nothing slowing down about the shift to the cloud. I don't see anything on the horizon that is changing that.

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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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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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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.

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

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You can't replace luck and timing. With Workday, our timing was perfect. We started in 2005 right as cloud computing was beginning to take off.

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NetSuite was a really good company.

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I sit on the board of Cloudera, a big vantage point of big data.

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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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What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.

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I liked business. I found it fascinating.

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Oracle is not known for its high levels of customer satisfaction.

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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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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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If I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.

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

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