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You can’t replace luck and timing. Hard working entrepreneurs who adopt a beginner’s mindset and are intellectually curious tend to be more lucky and at the right time and right place.

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If the problem you’ are solving is not hard, then it’s not worth doing. You don’t see a lot of great companies built on easy problems to solve. In many cases you see a startup and people say, ‘wow, that looks too hard of a problem to solve’ and that’s when I say go do it because that is where real opportunities get created. If you are successful, you are no...

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Our very simple philosophy is that we really take care of our employees and they take care of our customers. Every employee at Workday thinks about how they are going to help customers be successful. It is a simple formula but a lot of companies go out and they don’t listen to their customers, they don’t try to solve hard problems, making it tougher for themselves to create a great b...

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The beauty of the cloud model is that it brings you closer to your customers and that customer intimacy is mutually beneficial for both customer and company.

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Many of today’s tech companies are ‘cloudish’ and not really cloud. To keep up with today’s innovation velocity, companies must adopt true multi-tenancy cloud technologies and architectures. You cannot write new powerful machine learning algorithms against data-sets if the systems are not running the same exact version of the software configured - a true cloud model.

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To cultivate a culture that celebrates diversity means having a proactive process that is focused on leadership succession and building the next generation of leaders. Great companies are always identifying the next set of great leaders.

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It’s important to have intellectual curiosity, so all of these new technologies that are emerging, it’s helpful to always check them out because you learn something from that