David Duffield

Chairman and Cofounder, Workday
$13.37B
$164.7M (1.2%)
as of 10/03/24

About David Duffield

David Duffield cofounded not just one, but two successful enterprise software companies after age 40: PeopleSoft and Workday.

He resigned as chairman of Workday in April 2021; he cofounded the HR and finance software firm in 2005 and took it public in 2012.

Duffield cofounded PeopleSoft at age 47 in 1987 and sold it to Oracle for $10.7 billion in cash in 2005.

He founded his sixth enterprise software company, Ridgeline, in 2017, and is CEO of the cloud software firm for investment managers.

He granted some $850 million to animal welfare, education and other causes, mostly via his family foundation and Maddie's Fund.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Business software

Residence

Incline Village, Nevada

Marital status

Married

Birth date

09/21/40 (age 84)

Number of children

10

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Cornell University; Master of Business Administration, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Self-made

self-made

David Duffield’s fortune is worth

223K

troy ounces of gold

206K

median U.S. household

134K

median U.S. income

0.267%

U.S. credit card volume

0.053%

GDP of the United States

0.039%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Duffield mortgaged his home to bootstrap PeopleSoft in the 1990s.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | WDAY-US

Workday, Inc.

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