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After scaling VMware from $2B to $6B in revenue and backing Zoom and Snowflake at Sequoia, Eschenbach now steers Workday's $7B cloud platform serving 60 percent of the Fortune 500 — a rare operator-investor loop few executives have completed.
Carl Eschenbach is the former CEO of Workday, the leading cloud-based HR and finance software company used by more than 11,000 organizations including over 60 percent of the Fortune 500.
Before becoming CEO at Workday in 2023, he spent nearly a decade as a Partner at Sequoia Capital, where he was involved in investments in Zoom, Snowflake, and Rubrik, and earlier served as President and COO of VMware.
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