Tech Disruptors

Automating the collection of dispersed, divergent and disjointed pools of enterprise data on to a single repository to drive analytics and build applications remains complex. In this edition of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Fivetran cofounder and COO Taylor Brown joins Sunil Rajgopal, BI’s senior software analyst, to discuss the evolution of data integration and management plat...

Technological advances and changing consumer behavior have driven a shift in online commerce, from one-click purchases on e-commerce sites to buying from within various forms of content and digital experiences such as social commerce, in-app transactions, QR codes and more. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Bolt CEO Maju Kuruvilla talks about evolution in e-commerce payments with Dik...

E-commerce’s leap to capture a bigger share of the overall retail pie is just starting to take hold. In this Tech Disruptors podcast, eBay Chief AI Officer Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Poonam Goyal for an in-depth discussion about the democratization of AI and the step-level change we’re seeing from AI to generative AI. Mekel-Bobrov also highlights successful AI...

Deere & Co. showcased several agriculture-equipment features at this year’s CES that gave a glimpse of changes that are in the works for modern machinery. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Chief Technology Officer Jahmy Hindman sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Mandeep Singh and Christopher Ciolino discuss the company’s strategy around AI, robotics and satellite technology, as...

Drawing intelligent insights from vast swaths of unstructured enterprise data and ongoing monitoring of digital assets remains crucial for businesses of all sizes. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Elastic CEO Ashutosh Kulkarni talks about AI-led growth opportunities with Sunil Rajgopal, Bloomberg Intelligence senior software analyst. The two also discuss the shifting technology land...

SecurityScorecard’s product assesses cyberthreats by homing in on key risk factors including the health of network domain name systems, or DNS, and network and endpoint security. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, CEO Aleksandr Yampolskiy sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh to discuss how his company is leveraging AI to improve its data-driven rankings. Yampolskiy als...

Corning’s fiber-optic technologies have emerged as the backbone of global communications networks over the past several decades. Chief Strategy Officer Jeffrey Evenson, along with Aleksandra Boskovic, VP of technology development in Corning’s Optics unit, sit down with Bloomberg Intelligence hardware analystWoo Jin Hoto discuss innovations and opportunities in telecom and cloud networks. They disc...

Application development appears to be at the dawn of another big wave of change with the emergence of generative AI. GitLab Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Ashley Kramer joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior software analyst Sunil Rajgopal to discuss productivity gains from AI and competition dynamics. The two also talk about initiatives and opportunities around security, binary repository mana...

Interest in enterprise 5G services is growing as companies begin to trial private networks, mobile edge computing and massive Internet of Things networks. Though the market for these new services has evolved more slowly than originally anticipated, corporate work on how to best implement them is ramping up. Verizon is working with users in trials and early deployments to refine their use, includin...

Creating a marketing automation tool that combines the data infrastructure and messaging layers established Klaviyo’s technology differentiation and paved its path for early success in email marketing automation. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Klaviyo’s cofounder and CEO Andrew Bialecki sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to explain how the company’s technolo...

“For many companies, they’re moving from experimentation to truly embedding AI in the ways of working, which requires building foundations which connect back to the broader transformation efforts they have,” Publicis Sapient CEO Nigel Vaz explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. Vaz joins BI senior TMT analyst Matthew Bloxham on this Tech Disruptors podcast episode for a detailed discussion surrounding...

Confluent’s platform provides infrastructure for enterprises to connect, stream and process data across applications and systems in real time. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Confluent’s cofounder and CEO Jay Kreps joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior software analyst Sunil Rajgopal to discuss the origins of Apache Kafka and Confluent, the flow of enterprise data and future of softw...

Advertising spending is being pressured by the economic environment and there’s been a deeper focus and requirement for advertisers and marketers to think about the return on investment, and ensuring they have the right tools at their fingertips to measure and evaluate the impact of their spending, Kimberly Bloomston, LiveRamp’s senior vice president of product explains to Bloomberg Intelligence....

The market for customer-experience (CX) software is expected to reach about $85 billion by 2025, with 80% of companies planning to increase customer service budgets over the coming years, according to Zendesk CEO Tom Eggemeier. In his discussion with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Anurag Rana, Eggemeier also points out the 100% turnover in customer service reps on average every y...

“We’re in a period of very high learning, so if you’re a business leader, you have to be prepared to try some stuff that works and some stuff that doesn’t work,” Boston Consulting Group’s global chair and former CEO Rich Lesser explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. Lesser joins BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana on this Tech Disruptors podcast episode for an in-depth discussion about key aspec...

Runway is an applied research company that’s building artificial intelligence systems for creative content like text-to-video conversion. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Runway’s cofounder and CTO Anastasis Germanidis joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth discussion about generative video and how the company’s foundational models are different from other large...

As enterprises look to invest in generative AI, one of the main considerations is the quality of training data and how to use proprietary data for customized responses. Join Vijay Karunamurthy, field chief technology officer at Scale AI, as he sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology Analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth conversation on fine-tuning LLMs for domains and use cases.

Tom Casey, senior vice president of products and technology at Splunk joins Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Analysts Mandeep Singh and Sunil Rajgopal to discuss the company's efforts to build an enterprise security operations center (SOC). The episode was recorded after the company announced its takeover by Cisco.

“It has been said for many years that data is the fuel for AI, but I would argue that data is the brain for AI because it’s the data that decides how effective the model is,” ServiceNow’s President and COO CJ Desai says. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Desai joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana to discuss how ServiceNow is enhancing productivity for it...

There’s still tremendous headroom in terms of the number of companies using workflows that leverage eSignature, and this is even more true outside of the US, DocuSign CEO Allan Thygesen explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. Thygesen joins BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the company’s bridge of rapid growth during the pandemic to its...

Artificial intelligence is being increasingly applied to the metaverse and gaming. Inworld AI cofounder and Chief Product Officer Kylan Gibbs joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Mandeep Singh on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss the training and inference for applying generative AI large language models to different types of media and how new tools could lea...

CoreWeave is a cloud-compute provider that focuses on graphics processing units to deliver infrastructure to enterprises. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, the company’s cofounder and Chief Technology Officer Brian Venturo joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth discussion of how CoreWeave uses GPUs to develop generative AI models and how it differentiates itself...

Generative AI can drive a step function of change in productivity and efficiency through automation, and most organizations should expect to see about a 100x improvement, Amazon Web Services’ Vice President Matt Wood tells Bloomberg Intelligence. Woods joins BI analyst Anurag Rana on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast to discuss AWS’ position in the space, as well as in cloud computing, w...

Artificial intelligence is changing the landscape of cybersecurity and SentinelOne is at the intersection of the two, according to SentinelOne’s Chief Technology Officer Ric Smith. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Smith joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh for an in-depth discussion about cybersecurity, automation and the potential for generative AI in the field...

One area of research and startups right now is how to run better and better models without upgrading hardware, since consumers don’t have the same infrastructure, says Leigh Marie Braswell, partner at Kleiner Perkins, in her discussion with Anurag Rana, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Their insightful talk contrasts the experience and priorities of the startup landscape with the...