Tech Disruptors

It can be difficult to manage people via email or to coordinate work using spreadsheets or documents, raising the need for a “collaboration layer” such as that offered by Asana, Chief Product Officer Alex Hood tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, he joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at BI, to discuss the AI-fueled changes to the work-management...

Andi Gutmans, VP and general manager of Databases at Google, said customers who house information in enterprise-grade databases — durable, reliable and secure — don’t want to move it around. As such, Google worked to bring AI capabilities into their existing databases. Gutmans sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Technology AnalystMandeep Singhto talk about the impact of large language mod...

“The workflow doesn’t go away, but the interface and the capability set of what constitutes a SaaS application is going to be very different than what we see today,” says Chris Young, Microsoft’s executive vice president of business development, strategy and ventures. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Young joins Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana in a discussion coveri...

The cyberthreat environment keeps worsening because more business is being conducted online and nation states are looking to steal secrets and intellectual property, and get into other countries’ infrastructure, according to Zscaler Chairman and CEO Jay Chaudhry. He sits down with Mandeep Singh, senior technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to talk about the relevance of gen AI to cybersec...

This is the year that AI will break through to drive company productivity and in what’s becoming a Tech Disruptors annual tradition, tech luminary and former Cisco CEO John Chambers sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence tech analyst Woo Jin Ho to share his key themes for 2025 that could weigh on the technology sector and on investors’ minds. John zeros in on his latest thoughts on AI, security, In...

For selecting generative-AI strategy, “there’s usually four drivers before you get into the use case: domain accuracy, efficiency, cost effectiveness and, of course, deployment preferences,” says Satish Thomas, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of business and industry solutions. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Thomas sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Ra...

“Merchants can bet on Shopify and not worry about falling behind the cutting edge here,” explains the company’s vice president of product, Glen Coates, to Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana on the latest episode of Tech Disruptors. “We are extremely good at software, so merchants can be really good at what they’re trying to build into their business.” The two delve into a...

US companies are experiencing about 1,800 attacks every week through attempted incursions that are more sophisticated than in years past. Check Point’s chairman and co-founder Gil Shwed discusses the outlook for cybersecurity in 2025 with Mandeep Singh, senior technology analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. Firewalls, hyperscaler cloud capex, CrowdStrike’s mid-year IT outage, US elections, data secu...

As AI moves toward agentic systems capable of performing tasks with minimal human intervention, guardrails setting boundaries and human verification of potentially unsafe output become crucial for enterprise applications, according to Salesforce executive vice president and chief scientist Silvio Savarese. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Savarese and Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology an...

Enterprise work-management tools are likely to show dramatic development with growing machine-learning capabilities, more capable foundational models and the potential rollout of AI agents. This could bring opportunities as well as challenges, particularly in a space that’s highly fragmented. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, ClickUp founder and CEO Zeb Evans joins Sunil Rajgopal, se...

Datastax’s CEO Chet Kapoor talks about his company’s positioning in the database market with Bloomberg Intelligence’s Sunil Rajgopal and Mandeep Singh. They discuss the company’s pivot to generative AI, LLM customization and RAG (retrieval augmented generation) as enterprise customers evaluate different databases for AI inferencing.

Helping developers identify issues with the computer code they’re writing, from bugs to security vulnerabilities, is Sonar’s mission. CEO Tariq Shaukat shares with Bloomberg Intelligence how 7 million developers and over 400,000 organizations are leveraging the company’s platform, which analyzes more than 30 programming languages to reduce the business risk from bad code. In this episode of the Te...

“It's like an orchestra – each AI expert agent has unique expertise and could be an individual musician, Joule would be the conductor, and you can think of the human as the composer,” Walter Sun, senior vice president and global head of AI at SAP, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Sun breaks down the three pillars of...

Companies across industries will continue to scrutinize information-technology spending, looking closely at the IT assets and compute environments and their utilization, particularly as AI investments are set to rise. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Flexera CEO Jim Ryan joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to discuss IT spending and optimization...

“The problem today is that data is growing at a 27% compound growth rate and budgets are not. There’s fundamental tension between data growth and budget” explains Cribl CEO Clint Sharp in an effort to break down how customers are struggling to get the most from their data. In this Tech Disruptors episode, Sharp sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana, and togeth...

Enterprise workflows and tools are likely to see a dramatic shift as AI adoption and prowess grows, and the intensifying race to roll out AI could have implications for enterprise productivity, collaboration and process automation. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Appianco-founder and CTO Michael Beckley joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, to dis...

Postscript differentiates itself through SMS marketing and sales software that can power brands to increase engagement with customers and understand them better, Adam Turner, CEO and cofounder, tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Turner sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel to discuss the company’s software flywheel, infinity testing, b...

“What our customers are looking for is to move out of the pilot phase of projects and delivering enterprise value fast,” says ServiceNow Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith. “The fastest we have seen from purchase to production is 60 days.” In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Smith and Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana discuss how enterprise tech spending beh...

As interest in generative AI broadens, Adobe’s chief strategy officer Scott Belsky says “The real opportunity is to build the orchestration layer and the actual applications that leverage these models in the ways you want to use them.” In this latest episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Belsky talks with BI senior technology analyst Anurag Rana about how Adobe is tackling c...

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“Ask the fundamental question: What if your workforce has no limits? This is really now about humans with agents driving customer success together,” Marc Benioff, cofounder and CEO of Salesforce, tells Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Anurag Rana. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, we sit down with a hallmark leader of the application-software industry to discuss his views on its...

As enterprises look to harness data that stems and flows through diverse and dispersed source and end-points, robust practices around storing, processing, access, availability, reliability and security need to be ensured, driving demand for compliance-automation platforms. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Drata CEO Adam Markowitz joins Sunil Rajgopal, senior software analyst at Bloo...

Sanctuary AI, which focuses on providing humanoid robots to automakers, industrial manufacturers and logistics companies, is uniquely positioned because of its “hands-first” approach that approximates human dexterity, says cofounder and chief technology officer Olivia Norton. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Norton sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior technology analyst Mand...

Unifying the business communication stack from contact center to sales team to business collaboration is Dialpad’s focus. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Craig Walker, founder and CEO, speaks about the company’s AI solutions across unified communication as a service, contact centers and conferencing. Walker sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Niraj Patel and dives into so...

Mass-scale storage may be ripe for disruption as NAND flash memory plays a bigger role within cloud and corporate IT environments, taking share from more energy-intensive hard disk-based storage arrays. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Tech Disruptors podcast, Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo sits with BI analyst Woo Jin Ho on the company’s 15-year anniversary to discuss why its techn...