PeopleSoft
company on 15 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes · said 59 times in 39 episodes since 2016
20VC 22 
the a16z Podcast 17 
Top Founders 7 
My First Million 2 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 1 
Another Podcast 1 
BG2 Pod 1 
Startups For the Rest of Us 1 
the Neon Show 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
Invest Like the Best 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
Sourcery 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
All-In 1
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2026 9 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- “Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
- The AI Opportunity that goes beyond Models
- Questions Every Founder Must Answer Before Taking an Acquisition Offer | Shashank, VNDLY & Pantomath
- Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | The Data Center Arms Race | The Ultimate Stock Picks · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Atlassian CEO on the SaaS Apocalypse, AI Agents & What Comes Next
- Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- Alex Rampell: The Best Founders Materialise Capital, Customers & Labour | The Future of Venture · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2025 10 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- Software is Eating Labor
- How AI is Reshaping Labor Markets: A $Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Explained
- Finding The 1% of Stocks That Matter | Henry Ellenbogen Interview · Invest Like The Best
- Why AI Moats Still Matter (And How They've Changed)
- Sam Altman on Sora, Energy, and Building an AI Empire
- Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- NVDA GTC, M&A Wiz / Goog $32 B Deal, April 2 Tariff Uncertainty; Huawei Belt & Road; ChatGPT | BG2 · Bg2 Pod
- How Emergence Capital Bet Early on Zoom, Salesforce, Veeva—& Now Together.ai · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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2024 8 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
- From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
- Episode 738 | Encouraging Word of Mouth, Educating a Market, and...
- Bret Taylor: Why Pre-Training is for Morons & Companies Will Build Their Own Software | E1209 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- YC founder raises $3.5M, keeps team to 3 people—then grows 10x to $2M ARR in 1 year. | Benjamin E... · PMF Show
- How ClickHouse powers Netflix, Uber and Spotify’s Analytics | Aaron Katz, CEO of ClickHouse
- The Future of AI in Sales with Gong’s CEO and Co-Founder Amit Bendov
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2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- Jean-Denis Greze: CTO of Plaid, the $18B Fintech Startup; How to Hire, Fire & Build Great UX | E1038 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Steve Goldberg: Core Questions All CFOs Ask Today When Buying | E1094 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2021 11 mentions in 2 episodes 6 per episode
- 20VC: Okta CEO Todd McKinnon on How To Approach Effective Decision-Making in Leadership, When Is The Right Time To Hire Recruiters and Heads of People, Balancing the Expectations of Wall St with Long Term Vision and What Truly Successful Board Management
- How to think about tech
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2019 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- 20VC: Okta Founder Frederic Kerrest on Why You Want To Be A Monopolist In A Small Market, The Biggest Challenges in Scaling Okta To IPO and Being a16z's First Ever Fund Check
- a16z Podcast | From Data Warehouses to Data Lakes
- a16z Podcast | Talking Humans and Machines with NYT’s John Markoff
- a16z Podcast | Bending Every Pixel to Your Will -- Optimizely and the Next Wave of Internet Tools
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2018 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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5 statements about PeopleSoft, every show
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.”
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 …”
McKinnon: PeopleSoft was the biggest influence on Okta's culture
“It's probably the biggest influence on what we've tried to do at Okta in terms of the culture.”
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.”
Grady: Early SaaS was a business model shift, not a UX revolution
“If you look at the last decade or so of software, the transition has been from on-premise to SaaS or on-premise to cloud, and that's been a wonderfully impactful transition, but at a very fundamental level, it's been a transition in the business model, not a t…”