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David Duffield: Politics, Career, Art & Technology

David Arthur Duffield (born 21 September 1940) is an American billionaire businessman in the software industry. He is the co-founder and former chairman of PeopleSoft, and co-founder and CEO emeritus of Workday, Inc.. In addition, he is founder and Chairman of Ridgeline, Inc.

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David Duffield topic overview

The analysis highlights Politics, Career, Art and Technology as prominent areas in the source structure around David Duffield.

Related topics
28
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
35
Extracted relationships
12
Concept neighborhoods
16
Bridge connections
35

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Career · 7 topics
Early life · 7 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Philanthropy · 4 topics
Personal life · 2 topics
Political activity · 2 topics
Awards · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Occupation
Business software entrepreneur
Alma mater
Cornell University (BS, MBA)
Born
David Arthur Duffield (1940-09-21) 21 September 1940 (age 85) Cleveland, Ohio, US
Children
10
Spouse
Cheryl Duffield

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Early life

Career

Philanthropy

Political activity

Awards

Personal life

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How David Duffield connects Entity context

The extracted context around David Duffield shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, David Duffield → Alamo, Between, California, Cheryl Duffield, David's, Lake Tahoe, The Duffields Another extracted example is David Duffield → Cornell University (BS, MBA). Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

David Duffield

Top relations

related to Personal life · 7
David Duffield → Alamo, Between, California, Cheryl Duffield, David's, Lake Tahoe, The Duffields
Alma mater · 1
David Duffield → Cornell University (BS, MBA)
Born · 1
David Duffield → David Arthur Duffield (1940-09-21) 21 September 1940 (age 85) Cleveland, Ohio, US
Children · 1
David Duffield → 10
Occupation · 1
David Duffield → Business software entrepreneur
Spouse · 1
David Duffield → Cheryl Duffield

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

duffield million cornell university engineering foundation software cheryl chairman peoplesoft duffields donated fund ridgeline new school workday dave company ceo

David Duffield relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 12 structured relationships around David Duffield. Examples in this analysis include David Duffield → Alma mater → Cornell University (BS, MBA) and David Duffield → Born → David Arthur Duffield (1940-09-21) 21 September 1940 (age 85) Cleveland, Ohio, US. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
David DuffieldAlma materCornell University (BS, MBA)1.00infobox
David DuffieldBornDavid Arthur Duffield (1940-09-21) 21 September 1940 (age 85) Cleveland, Ohio, US1.00infobox
David DuffieldChildren101.00infobox
David DuffieldOccupationBusiness software entrepreneur1.00infobox
David DuffieldSpouseCheryl Duffield1.00infobox
David Duffieldrelated to Personal lifeCheryl Duffield0.60section
David Duffieldrelated to Personal lifeBetween0.60section
David Duffieldrelated to Personal lifeAlamo0.60section
David Duffieldrelated to Personal lifeCalifornia0.60section
David Duffieldrelated to Personal lifeLake Tahoe0.60section
David Duffieldrelated to Personal lifeThe Duffields0.60section
David Duffieldrelated to Personal lifeDavid's0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around David Duffield bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Million, Born and Industry. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • David Duffield
    • Million
    • Born
    • Industry
    • Duffields
    • Dave
    • Cheryl
    • Donated
    • Fund
    • Foundation
    • New
    • School
    • Software
  • david duffield
    • Million
    • Cornell
    • Born
    • Industry
    • Cheryl
    • Duffields
    • Engineering
    • Dave
    • Donated
    • Fund
    • School
    • Foundation
  • cornell university college of veterinary medicine
    • University
    • Engineering
    • Duffield
    • Duffields
    • Million
    • Mater
    • New
    • Software
    • Animal
    • College
    • Cornell
    • Maddie's
  • cornell university
    • University
    • Engineering
    • Duffield
    • Duffields
    • Million
    • Mater
    • New
    • Software
    • College
    • Maddie's
    • Cheryl
    • Donated
  • workday, inc.
    • Peoplesoft
    • Inc
    • Workday
    • Maddie's
    • Fund
    • Software
    • Born
    • Alma
    • Mater
    • Ceo
    • Company
    • Dave
  • peoplesoft
    • Workday
    • Inc
    • Software
    • Company
    • Alma
    • Mater
    • Dave
    • Maddie's
    • Cheryl
    • Ridgeline
    • Fund
    • New
  • software industry
    • Company
    • Software
    • Workday
    • Nevada
    • Welfare
    • Animal
    • Incline
    • Maddie's
    • University
    • Cheryl
    • Ridgeline
    • Fund
  • college of engineering
    • Duffields
    • Engineering
    • University
    • Million
    • Animal
    • Cornell
    • New
    • School
    • Duffield
    • Family
    • Cheryl
    • Fund

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For David Duffield, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects David Duffield with Early life. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
David DuffieldEarly life · splits 28 ⟂ 8
David DuffieldCareer · splits 28 ⟂ 8
David DuffieldOverview · splits 30 ⟂ 6
David DuffieldPhilanthropy · splits 31 ⟂ 5
David DuffieldPolitical activity · splits 33 ⟂ 3
David DuffieldPersonal life · splits 33 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

David Duffield

Nodes36
Edges35
Triples12
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around David Duffield to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Politics, Career, Art & Technology, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — David Duffield · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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