Tech Disruptors

Since last year, Google has had 40x growth in Gemini use on its Vertex AI platform, highlighting the pace of demand in AI, says Will Grannis, chief technology officer of Google Cloud. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Grannis sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh to talk about the variety of use cases with large-language-model deployments. They discuss the company’s...

“The average knowledge worker is interrupted every two minutes during work hours,” according to Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Jared Spataro. “You’re getting an email, a meeting kind of request, a chat coming in, and if you do the math, that’s 275 times a day.” On this episode of Tech Disruptors, Spataro joins Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana to discuss emerging tren...

Helping small businesses manage all things human resources — payroll, benefits, tax compliance and employee onboarding — is Gusto’s central focus, which presents unique challenges given the fragmented customer base. Chief Technology Officer Mike Tria outlines the company’s product-portfolio suite and the evolution of the human-capital management industry over the past 10 years from a technology an...

“I think people should stop thinking about contact centers as a thing that is sort of about being responsive and reactive, and instead, really how do we fundamentally change the way you think about the way you talk to customers,” says Pasquale DeMaio, Amazon Web Services’ vice president of Amazon Connect. “In that sense, I think the status quo is really our competition.” In this episode of the Tec...

US tariffs won’t change the cyclical journey in tech, with artificial intelligence set to be the dominant force for years to come the same way the Internet was, according to Rodrigo Liang, CEO of SambaNova, which builds AI hardware and software platforms. Liang joins Bloomberg Intelligence’s analyst Mandeep Singh on the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss SambaNova’s cloud’s differentiation for inf...

Artificial intelligence is opening up new possibilities for computer simulation, offering lower costs and expedited processes in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, financial services, energy and other industries. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Jim Scapa, founder and former CEO of Altair, speaks with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel about the company’s portfolio expansion an...

There has been a buildout of platforms for various marketplace sectors in the past 15 years, though ridesharing essentially remains a duopoly. Lyft’s CEO David Risher talks to Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior tech analyst Mandeep Singh about the ridesharing marketplace in this episode of Tech Disruptors. David also discusses the company’s positioning in the autonomous-vehicle segment and his views...

“Security is not a technology problem; security is a people and culture problem,”Amazon.com Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Schmidt discusses how enterprises should be thinking about all things cybersecurity, ranging from vendor assessment, permissioning, auditing and compliance and regulat...

“The metric that we need to keep an eye on is the number of qubits,” Simone Severini, Amazon Web Services’ director of Quantum Technologies, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. Also important “is the quality of the qubits and the way people try to scale,” he says. On this episode of Tech Disruptors, Severini and Rana discuss the basics of quantum computing and how q...

“You manage your workforce in a system like Workday; you have to do that with your digital workforce as well,” Workday Chief Technology Officer Jim Stratton says as he breaks down the company’s thinking behind its recently released Agent System of Record. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Stratton joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss generative AI in HR a...

As enterprises across industries seek to leverage artificial intelligence in their workflows, demand is mounting for specialized models designed for specific tasks and verticals, creating new opportunities for companies that manage the entire AI life cycle, such as DataRobot. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, the company’s CEO, Debanjan Saha, joins Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Softw...

The sharp rise of AI workloads and larger parameter-training models needs a new type of data center — one that can support the size, power and cooling needed for 100,000 GPU AI server clusters. Crusoe co-founder and CEO Chase Lochmiller sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Woo Jin Ho to discuss how Crusoe’s vertically integrated, energy-first focus toward data-center infrastructure and it...

“For every knowledge worker, every business professional, an important element of what they do is creativity,” Anil Chakravarthy, Adobe’s Digital Experience president, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. On his third appearance on the Tech Disruptors podcast, Chakravarthy goes in depth on how Adobe is integrating its enterprise marketing tools, along with its creati...

“Most customer service reps have five to 20 different tabs open in their browser of all these different systems — it’s the modern equivalent of the swivel chair,” said Salesforce AI’s Adam Evans, executive vice president and general manager. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Evans joined Bloomberg Intelligence’s senior technology analyst Anurag Rana for a discussion encompassing seve...

The infusion of compute-heavy AI across enterprise applications and work flows, growing appetite for real-time business intelligence and more digitization calls for an expansion of compute, storage and networking resources. The growing dependency on digital services and tools likely necessitates ongoing monitoring of the IT value chain to prevent business disruption and reduce time to remediate. T...

Google is an AI-first company, according to Mark Lohmeyer, vice president and general manager of compute and machine learning infrastructure at the company. It has deep expertise in all of the relevant domains customers might need - research, models and finally how they get built into applications and services. Lohmeyer sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh on this epi...

Twilio is a customer-engagement platform that combines cloud-based communications tools with contextual customer data, analytics and AI that are used by brands like Nike, Dominos and Toyota. The company is expanding beyond its historical focus on cloud-based communications platform-as-a-service software to allow its clients to more narrowly target their customer communications and increase the ROI...

“The average enterprise has over 360 applications running in the cloud today,” Boomi Chairman and CEO Steve Lucas notes to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. “Then, on top of that, the average enterprise is dealing with anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 difference sources of data.” In this episode of Tech Disruptors, the two take a deep dive into the complexities that freque...

Corporate efforts to harness unstructured data to drive business intelligence could keep growing. Enterprises deploying more AI-infused applications and pushing more of their workflows through the technology appear likely to boost demand for platforms like Elastic, which enable users to index, search and update large swaths of data, monitor the health of digital applications and infrastructure and...

“More or less, the data strategy will inform the AI effectiveness,” SAP President and Chief Product Officer of Data and Analytics Irfan Khan explains to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Khan and Rana delve into the three archetypes of data management, how zero copy sharing enables greater flexibility and how SAP’s new Business Data C...

Verizon is the biggest wireless-service provider in the US, with its business largely centered on the consumer segment. Wireless is a high-touch business, which has prompted the company and peers to deploy AI across its customer-care operations to drive greater efficiencies and higher cross-selling. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Sowmyanarayan Sampath, CEO of Verizon’s Consumer Gr...

Delivering a comprehensive software platform for the construction industry that bridges project to financial management remains Procore’s central focus. Tooey Courtemanche, Procore’s founder and CEO, tells Bloomberg Intelligence that the platform has broad appeal for the various stakeholders, owners, general and specialty contractors. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Courtemanche si...

World Wide Technology (WWT) has evolved from a value-added reseller to a global systems integrator with $20 billion in annual sales and 10,000 employees that today identifies itself as an “AI First” company. WWT CEO and co-founder Jim Kavanaugh joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Woo Jin Ho on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the company’s journey, building AI capabilities f...

Costs for generative AI are coming down, with some of the leading models massively lower than they were a year ago, says Citigroup Chief Technology Officer David Griffiths. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, he chats about gen-AI deployment at his company with Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Alison Williams and Mandeep Singh. From back-end use cases to the impact on the product side,...

Contentful’s platform, built on an API-first architecture, provides differentiated technology for marketers and developers in creating landing pages, blogs, campaigns and other personalized content. CEO Karthik Rau talks about customer choices across the marketing-tech landscape and the company’s evolution to a broader platform from a composable content-management system (CMS). In this episode of...