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David Duffield
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PeopleSoft's roots go back to 1987, when Ken Morris and David Duffield founded the company. Although Morris eventually parted ways with People-Soft, Duffield remained with the company as its leader. He became popular for maintaining a culture where people were valued, soft drinks were on the house, and pets were welcome. After graduating from Cornell University with an MBA and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering, Duffield worked as a systems engineer and marketing representative for IBM. He then co-founded Information Associates, a company that developed systems for higher education, and established Integral Systems, a firm that developed accounting and human resources software. According to the company, as chairman of PeopleSoft Duffield was "the driving force behind the company's vision, product, market direction, and commitment to services."
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Software billionaire David Duffield wants to build a large home. Make that a very, very large home. Maybe the biggest home in the United States. Bigger than Bill Gates. Bigger than the White House. Let the criticism begin.
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The only disappointment for many was that David Duffield ’62, MBA ’64, who helped launch the nanoscale research and education building with a lead gift of $20 million in 1997, was unable to be present for the dedication. On Oct. 1, he returned to PeopleSoft, the company he founded, as chief executive officer. And, as President Lehman observed, “He felt an obligation to the 12,000 PeopleSoft families to make the company he founded his top priority at this pivotal time in its history.”
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Duffield acknowledged that specific product details of his new venture, which is based in Walnut Creek, California (a few miles north of PeopleSoft's old headquarters in Pleasanton), still remains shrouded in secrecy. "What we are sharing right now is intentionally minimalistic...[but we] are looking forward to sharing more details when the time is right," he said in the interview.
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[T]hat month, Duffield sold 400,000 shares. Then, in October, the number of shares he sold jumped to 776,469. His stock sales later fell back to 100,000 in November and rose again to 440,050 in December.
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To facilitate materials distribution, a basement corridor connects Duffield Hall to Phillips Hall at the east, where the facilities’ loading dock is located. The tunnel passes under the atriums and terminates at a service zone in Duffield Hall that can access all floors of the building by elevator. The Duffield basement is divided into high-bay space and two-story low-bay space, for more efficient distribution of short and tall equipment. The cleanroom air handler is belowground, as are a variety of electrical and plumbing equipment, such as a deionized water storage tank. The penthouse level holds the lab air handler and five smaller units servicing the office and atriums. It ... contains the exhaust fans for the entire building and the atrium air conditioning system and smoke evacuation system.
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