Workday CEO Aneel Bhusri: How Steve Jobs Shaped His ‘Startup Mindset’


Workday cofounder Aneel Bhusri, back as CEO, says Steve Jobs inspired his ‘startup mindset’ — he’s a self-described disciple who studies Jobs’ talks for leadership and product insight.

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Workday cofounder Aneel Bhusri says he studies Steve Jobs’ talks and borrows what he calls a “startup mindset” now that he’s back as CEO, framing leadership and product intuition as lessons rather than nostalgia. The clip stands out because Bhusri is describing a deliberate management influence, he cites hours of Jobs’ videos, as a playbook for culture and decision-making at a public software company, not a private lab. That admission makes the conversation about product focus and founder-style leadership concrete, rather than rhetorical.

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