When Peoplesoft's founder, David Duffield, swooped in to rally the troops (customers and employees) that fall, results did improve.

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Champagne is popping and congratulations and high-fives are being directed at Workday ( WDAY) and co-founders David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri.

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David Duffield , the retired founder of software maker PeopleSoft, and his wife bought a miniature schnauzer from a breeder in 1986.

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David Duffield's net worth more than doubled year over year as of March thanks to the October IPO of Workday, his enterprise software firm.

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But David Duffield has always been one of the nice guys.

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Workday, the personnel and payroll software from PeopleSoft founder David Duffield, taps Flex's smooth interface to let managers easily pull staffers from one project to another.

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David Duffield may not wish to emulate the lonely recluse of Citizen Kane, but the billionaire businessman is continuing the fictional--and often real life--tradition of construction extravagance.

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Cofounders David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, who is also a partner at Greylock, are the largest shareholders and will have 61.0 and 68.2 percent voting power, respectively, in the company after the offering.

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Workday, a red-hot enterprise software company started by former PeopleSoft execs David Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, has filed confidentially with the SEC for an initial public offering, Reuters reports, making use of a provision of the JOBS Act that allows companies to keep financial details private during the early stages of the registration process.

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