Joe Schmidt

So that's why we're writing these pieces and that's the opportunity.

Yeah, I mean, I think maybe it goes back to what I just talked about in terms of, like, when and how these were built and maybe who these were built for.

And I think, you know, I'm sure some people that are watching this have interacted with Workday in their day-to-day.

And maybe some people are, you know, Workday professionals, whether it's consultants or HR admins that actually deal with this on a day-to-day basis.

But when Workday was built, this is now a 20-year-old, like, you know, business.

And the architecture is obviously 20 years old.

It was a better version of, you know, kind of the PeopleSoft, Oracle, you know, businesses that existed back in the past.

And it was built for, like, those internal teams.

And so I think it did a good job of solving for the problem that it had at the time.

And I'm not going to sit here and say there's nothing good about Workday.

It has 97% gross dollar retention.

It is the name in the category.

But I really don't think that the user interface for employees works.

is anything close to what great software looks like today, right?

Like I am, we are a workday shop here at Andreessen Horowitz.

Like I've logged into Workday, no, I'm not kidding you, three times in the past 12 months.

I am the insurance person here at Andreessen Horowitz.

I have no idea what my benefits are.

No idea.

I went in actually not too long ago to like actually try to find my compensation information in Workday.