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Name

David Duffield

Primary Residence

Incline Village, Nevada

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Cornell University | Master of Business Administration, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Citizenship

United States

Affiliated Companies

Workday

Forbes Self Made Score

Source Of Wealth

business software, Self Made

Net Worth

$13,000,000,000

Forbes Profile

https://www.forbes.com/profile/david-duffield

Forbes 2019 Billionaires List Rank:

112

Forbes Philanthropy Score

Forbes List Rank One: Title

#114 Billionaires 2019

Forbes List Rank One: Link

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Forbes List Rank Two: Title

#47 Forbes 400 2018

Forbes List Rank Two: Link

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Forbes List Rank Three: Link

https://www.forbes.com/richest-in-tech/

Summary

David Duffield founded not just one, but two successful enterprise software companies after age 40.He started PeopleSoft at 47 and sold it to Oracle for $10.7 billion in cash in 2005.At age 65 he founded the human resource and finance software company Workday, which he chairs and took public in 2012; he owns 24% of the company. In May 2015, Duffield moved back to Lake Tahoe from the Bay Area and donated his Bay Area estate to his animal charity, Maddie's Fund.He has given $345 million to Maddie's Fund and has doled out another $200 million to, among others, his alma mater Cornell, as of September 2018.

Did you know?

Duffield mortgaged his home to bootstrap PeopleSoft in the 1990s.Duffield says he plans to leave the bulk of his fortune to Maddie's Fund--named after his beloved schnauzer--and other charitable causes, not to his 10 children.

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Number of Children

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Duffield