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Workday

Workday

software
Last discussed Sep 10, 2026

A cloud-based software vendor that specializes in human capital management and financial management applications.

How Workday compares

4 creators weighed in
Salesforce Direct rival
cloud sales and marketing platform

Both are core enterprise tools people aren't ripping out. Seema says Workday, like Salesforce, makes it hard to fully access your own data via its API.

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Vas

"Build on top of NetSuite, make it much better, and integrate that NetSuite with your Salesforce, with your SAP, with your Concur, Expensify, Gong — every other piece of software, Workday."

Listed alongside NetSuite, SAP, Salesforce, Concur, Expensify, Gong as part of enterprise software stack

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Seema Amble

"Workday has had APIs that you could work with. But can you really actually extract all of the data out of Workday in a clean way and just operate without using Workday? No. Workday makes it extremely difficult to actually get access to t..."

Compared to Salesforce as another example of an incumbent that doesn't fully expose its APIs

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Nikesh Arora

"Perhaps it's the next iteration of Salesforce, next iteration of SAP, or the next iteration of Workday that is going to help me do that."

Mentioned alongside Salesforce and SAP as existing enterprise SaaS platforms

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Amjad Masad

"We're not seeing people rip out Salesforce or workday or like really fundamental system of record type SaaS tools"

Listed alongside Salesforce as fundamental enterprise infrastructure

What creators say

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a16z
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"Silver Lake potentially buying Workday, for example, just doing more provocative things in private equity land when you have the capabilities to potentially infuse and bring them into the future."

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"I have a great idea. I'm going to do background checks for new employees as part of onboarding and I'm going to integrate with Workday — Workday be..."

"it's been a long-standing tension point with the likes of Workday and SAP and stuff like how much API access to have"

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Amol Jain
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Praised: Operates in regulated payroll industry; takes on compliance risk on behalf of... vs: Used as example of SaaS that survives AI disruption vs. pure UI-over-data Saa...

"Workday stands because paying people is a regulated industry. You need to pay it right, they're taking on that risk — that's valuable."

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Gavin Baker
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vs: Software stock that dropped from ~$300 to ~$100 and has only partially recove...

"Silverlake may be buying Workday. Workday is up 17%. And if this is true, I think this is a significant moment for the stock market. Software has been in a death spiral."

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Aaron Levie
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vs: Contrasted with AI agents as the new focus of IT implementation work

"You will spend some time implementing Salesforce and Workday, etc., but you're going to spend a lot of time implementing agents for the workflows of the company."

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Vas
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Used for: Enterprise system to be integrated in AI deployment vs: Listed alongside NetSuite, SAP, Salesforce, Concur, Expensify, Gong as part o...

"Build on top of NetSuite, make it much better, and integrate that NetSuite with your Salesforce, with your SAP, with your Concur, Expensify, Gong — every other piece of software, Workday."

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"There's a trillion dollars of licensing revenue — this is what you would pay Workday or ServiceNow or Jira or Linear or GitHub. And then $4 trillion of maintenance, migration, and services. Once you implement Workday, you typically bring in a suit..."

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Nikesh Arora
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vs: Mentioned alongside Salesforce and SAP as existing enterprise SaaS platforms

"Perhaps it's the next iteration of Salesforce, next iteration of SAP, or the next iteration of Workday that is going to help me do that."

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Thomas Laffont
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Praised: Described as 'pretty incredible HR company' vs: Used as revenue milestone that OpenAI and Anthropic surpassed

"Just a few months in, these companies passed Workday, a pretty incredible HR company."

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TBPN
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"Wasn't Workday founded by a senior citizen? I believe the founder was 60some when he founded that company."

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Amjad Masad
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vs: Listed alongside Salesforce as fundamental enterprise infrastructure

"We're not seeing people rip out Salesforce or workday or like really fundamental system of record type SaaS tools"

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Mitchell Green
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"Workday has like 98 or 99% gross dollar retention. It grows like 10 15% a year. It's like 10 billion of revenue."

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Seema Amble
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"Workday has had APIs that you could work with. But can you really actually extract all of the data out of Workday in a clean way and just operate without using Workday? No. Workday makes it extremely difficult to actually get access to the documen..."

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