The Fortune 500 list for 2024 has arrived, and along with mainstay companies like Walmart and Apple, there are a few fresh faces. Among the newcomers is Workday, a finance and HR software company that now ranks number 490 out of the largest U.S. companies by revenue.
Workday had a breakout year, pulling in $7.3 billion in revenue and grossing nearly $1.4 billion in profits. But it started out 19 years ago as just the kernel of an idea between founders David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri that a software company could be “born in the cloud” and support HR and finance operations, according to the current CEO Carl Eschenbach. At the time, the founders wrote down six “core values” that the company still uses today: employees, customers, innovation, integrity, fun, and profitability.
