Forbes

45. DAVID DUFFIELD

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BILLION  SELF-MADE SCORE: * SOURCE: BUSINESS SOFTWARE AGE: 79 RESIDENCE: INCLINE VILLAGE, NV PHILANTHRO­PY SCORE: Duffield’s first job as a systems engineer at IBM after college made a lasting impression. He founded three fairly successful software companies, the first at age 28, but left all three due to bureaucrac­y or infighting. At his fourth, PeopleSoft, he created a corporate culture modeled after the one at IBM. Oracle bought PeopleSoft in 2005. He then started enterprise software company Workday.

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