Aneel Bhusri

“I found a great mentor early on in my career, Dave Duffield - a legendary software innovator, great individual, and a wonderful leader and human being.”

“Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.”

“I started to invest in very-early-stage companies where, even though I wasn't the founder, I could help shape the early strategy and culture.”

“I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them.”

“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.”

“What I hope is, over time, users should not have to read a training manual. They should say, 'I totally get the Workday iPad app, because it runs the way my consumer apps run.'”

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

“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.”

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