VNDLY found a lucrative blind spot in the modern corporation: the people doing the work but missing from its people system. Workday paid about $510 million to bring them into view.
He nearly began a career in banking. Instead, Renaud Charvet spent two decades turning unfashionable telecom plumbing into a global software business - then moved to Atlanta to start all over again.
Martin Payne is the CEO of TextUs, the Denver-based business texting platform built for recruiting, inside sales, and customer service teams. A career operator of growth-stage technology companies, he came up through the U.S. Air Force, Global Healthcare Exchange, GutCheck, and Mersive Technologies before taking the TextUs helm in 2020. He runs the company on a 'do the right thing' philosophy and is betting that text - conversational, human, and immediate - is the future of how businesses talk to people.