WDAY

Workday, Inc.

A maker of cloud software that helps organizations manage people and money, Workday runs human resources, payroll, finance, and planning on one AI-powered platform used by businesses and schools worldwide. It was founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, who reunited after Oracle bought Duffield's earlier company PeopleSoft. Their first meeting happened over breakfast at a diner in Truckee, California, and the company name simply reflects the everyday "workday" its software is built to run.