Dave Duffield keeps trying, and failing, to retire.
At 84, the billionaire co-founder of HR software firms PeopleSoft Inc. and Workday Inc. is building another startup after he became “bored silly” each time he stopped working.
“I tried to make model airplanes and failed, rocked away on the back porch, sort of failed at that too,” Duffield said with a laugh from his new company’s office on the shore of Lake Tahoe in Incline Village, Nevada. He also played “hours and hours” of FreeCell, an online version of solitaire.
Duffield doesn’t do anything by half measures. His restless and competitive spirit drove him to ...
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