From Broke To Billionaire: How Fred Luddy Built The World’s Most Innovative Company
From Broke To Billionaire: How Fred Luddy Built The World’s Most Innovative Company By Kathleen Chaykowski and Mark Coatney V egas being Vegas, fans have crammed the Venetian Hotel for selfies with a graying celebrity working his way through the scrum: Fred Luddy, the 63-year-old founder of ServiceNow, America's hottest IT-services company. Neither Wayne Newton nor Celine Dion, Siegfried nor Roy, has anything on Luddy in Sin City this day, at least among the 18,000 customers, vendors and employees in town for Knowledge, ServiceNow's annual developers conference. "When all of these people are happy to see you, honestly you feel like a rock star," says the sparkly-eyed Luddy, having booked extra time between appearances to grip-and-grin with the adoring hordes. "It's kind of an undeserved feeling, because they were the inspiration. You folks had all of the ideas. I just wrote them down and thought about them." ...