As Workday CEO Bhusri Touts 'AI-Native,' Q1 Comes In Strong

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans · May 28, 2026 · 5m

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I break down why Workday sees agentic AI as the key to defending its 80 million-user base.

Highlights

00:02 — Workday co-founder Aneel Bhusri resumed his position as CEO. He wanted to help guide the company through the AI Revolution and help bring a solid knowledge of what's happening and how Workday as a company has to be able to innovate and create and get with the AI-native program as rapidly as possible.

00:45 — It's got to be able to move fast, and the margin for error is slight. The Q1 results, which came out last week, I think prove that Bhusri's got the…