PeopleSoft

3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by John Markoff · said 17 times in 12 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

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Jan 2, 2019 negative
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Markoff: Enterprise software and the internet hollowed out white-collar corporate jobs
“The arrival of the internet coupled with companies like SAP and PeopleSoft and Oracle and IBM who are re-engineering the white-collar clerk class inside, ah, corporations has caused this, you know, the evaporation of, the hollowing out of modern corporations.”
John Markoff Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:47 a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
Jul 14, 2025 bullish
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Levie: Founder-led SaaS incumbents pivot to AI faster than on-prem predecessors
“Another idiosyncrasy is I would say like on the margin, you tend to have founders still leading the SaaS companies. And so we didn't really have that in the on-prem world. And so you like Siebel already had three CEOs later and PeopleSoft already had multiple …”
Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 13:22 Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
Jan 15, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Horowitz: Cloud software companies are 10x larger than on-premise predecessors
“If you compared the on-premise software companies to the cloud software companies, so compare PeopleSoft to Workday or compare Siebel software to Salesforce, the cloud version was just 10 times bigger.”
Ben Horowitz Jan 15, 2026 ▶ 10:31 Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
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