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Carl Eschenbach

CEO Workday

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Carl Eschenbach is the CEO of Workday, with a background in management, cloud computing, and sales. He has held executive roles at Workday, served as a venture partner at Sequoia Capital, and invested in notable companies like Snowflake and Zoom Video Communications.

Work Experience 

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2024 - Current

  • Board Member

    2018

  • Co-CEO

    2022 - 2024

Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company's human resources and financial management activities.

Raised $230,550,000.00 from Janus Capital Group, Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price and Bezos Expeditions.

  • Venture Partner

    2022

  • Partner

    2016 - 2022

    From idea to IPO and beyond, the Sequoia team helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. We spur them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. In partnering with Sequoia, companies benefit from our unmatched network and the lessons we’ve learned over 45 years working with Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, John Morgridge, Jerry Yang, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Brian Chesky, Drew Houston, Adi Tatarko and Jack Dorsey, among many others. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 20% of NASDAQ’s total value. We’re proud that their success also fuels great causes. The vast majority of money we invest is on behalf of non-profits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means that the returns generated from the incredible achievements of founders can make a massive difference.

Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.

  • Board Member

    2018

Snowflake Ventures invests in growth-stage companies that demonstrate a commitment to mobilizing data.

  • Board Member

    2018

UiPath is a software company that designs and develops robotic process automation and artificial intelligence applications.

Raised $1,993,025,000.00 from Turkgen Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2014

Palo Alto Networks is a cybersecurity company that offers cybersecurity solutions for organizations.

Raised $65,000,000.00 from Northgate Capital, Icon Ventures, Japan Asia Investment, Lehman Holdings, Greylock, Globespan Capital Partners and Sequoia Capital.

  • Board Member

    2017

Cohesity is a data management technology firm that offers hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, files, and analytics.

Raised $955,000,000.00 from NVIDIA and IBM.

  • Board Member

    2019

  • Board Member

    2019

Gong is a technology company that offers a revenue intelligence platform using AI to analyze customer interactions.

Raised $583,000,000.00 from Coatue, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Skip Capital, Tiger Global Management, Salesforce Ventures and Franklin Templeton.

  • Board Observer

    2020

Retool is a software development company that offers solutions in AI apps, documentation, developer tools, and external apps.

Raised $141,000,000.00 from John Collison, Daniel Gross, Nat Friedman, Caryn Marooney, Elad Gil, Patrick Collison, Sequoia Capital, Sequoia Capital, Bond and John Collison.

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