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Joe Schmidt

👤 Speaker
267 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Banking, right?

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Think of Mercury.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

So there are those plays.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

I think that that's the only way that you can build these types of companies when it's not in the middle or beginning, or sorry, not the middle, but the beginning of a platform shift.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Because if you think about where you have to go capture these customers, if someone has already become a customer of Workday or already become a customer of ServiceNow or Salesforce, it is so hard to rip them off.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

That's why these

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

you know, gross dollar retentions are what they are.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Like they're the gold standards for a reason.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

It's an amazing business.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And so what I think the opportunity is now is you can go after these people and go head to head instead of Greenfield, it's Brownfield and say, hey,

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

You have been a hostage to Workday, right?

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Like you have been a hostage here and you can be freed with whatever new piece of software if someone can build this in the right way and form and fashion.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

So that's the opportunity.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And I think that what we're going to see is enterprises now have the kinetic kind of energy build up inside of them to go do the rip and replace.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

But you need to build this in the right way and you need to solve the problems intelligently.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And then I think you'll do this.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And there's going to be a lot of people who listen to this or read my posts and say, hey, you're full of hot air.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

Like, you know, you clearly haven't thought about this or talked to anyone.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

The reality is I talked to like a bunch of Fortune 500 and also private companies that like use Workday.

The a16z Show
Workday’s Last Workday? AI and the Future of Enterprise Software

And I told them the kind of business that like I think should exist.