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Alyson Shontell

Why Workday’s CEO studied the Steve Jobs playbook for returning founders

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Good morning. Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell writing this morning. In 2005, at age 39, Aneel Bhusri cofounded Workday. The enterprise solutions company now ranks No. 430 on the Fortune 500 and generated about $9.6 billion in revenue last fiscal year. So when Bhusri handed the CEO role to his co-CEO, Carl Eschenbach, in early 2024 and stayed on as executive chair, he felt his role in securing Workday’s future was complete.

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