
A bathroom line on Wall Street exposed a workforce imbalance. Eleven years later, the company she built from that observation joined Workday - and her argument for explainable AI moved into the center of enterprise software.
Athena Karp spent 11 years turning overloaded applicant tracking systems into ranked, explainable to-do lists. Workday's $530 million purchase shows the prize was never another HR database - it was the intelligence layer that makes the database move.