Elena Burger

And I know that, you know, I think you agonized over this opening sentence a lot.

I did.

So, can you sort of explain this sentence?

Like, what does this tell us about the nature of enterprise software?

How can something be, you know, crucially important, but also, like, unloved completely?

I had to log in considerably more times than you in the past month because I was applying for an apartment and I had the exact same pain of like, where do I find anything?

And you know, like, like, why is this so difficult to you?

So yeah.

Completely, completely resonates.

I think like you also earlier were talking about platform shifts and like you have this great kind of mini history lesson right here.

Like we should maybe just like touch on this for a second, but kind of like what exactly was the platform shift that created Workday?

And like now let's like just be super clear cut about what this new platform shift is that we're seeing right now.

Yeah, and just to maybe strawman the critics for a second, because you do talk a little bit about, you know, okay, we have, like, Gusto, and we have, here, let me just find this bit right here.

So, like, what would you say to these guys who are kind of like, well, we have Deal, and, you know, we have Gusto, we have all these other startups that are kind of, you know, in this space already.

Like, what is...

It should be, it should be, it should be look at this.

Yeah, we can look at them.

I mean, look at this.

Beautiful chart for a second.

Yeah.