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Tech Disruptors
Tech Disruptors by Bloomberg Intelligence features conversations with thought leaders and management teams on disruptive trends. Topics covered in this series include cloud, e-commerce, cybersecurity, AI, 5G, streaming, advertising, EVs, automation, crypto, fintech, AR/VR, metaverse and Web 3.0. This podcast is intended for professional investors only. It is being prepared solely for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer or investment advice.
Episodes
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Visa’s Bet on AI, Agentic Commerce, Stablecoins
Visa processes more than 65,000 transactions per second across 200-plus countries, but behind those numbers lies a tech story that’s often overlooked. In this…
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Salesforce’s Service Chief on Orchestrating Humans and AI
“You need to manage your labor force now of humans and AI agents very differently”, says Kishan Chetan, EVP & General Manager of Service Cloud at Salesforce…
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Google Cloud and AI Agents Impact on Databases
Databases are shifting from passive engines to reasoning tools for artificial intelligence, according to Google Cloud’s Yasmeen Ahmad. She joined Bloomberg…
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Klaviyo Empowers Brands Via Unified Tech Stack
Enabling brands to activate their data in selling across multiple channels with a targeted message is Klaviyo’s mission. The company’s…
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Is Agentic Commerce Next Frontier for PayPal?
PayPal is betting that artificial intelligence will drive the next wave of fintech innovation — from boosting developer productivity to fighting fraud and…
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PwC’s Take on the Future AI-Enhanced Workforce
Generative AI is transforming how enterprises and consultants create value, and on this episode of Tech Disruptors, Matt Wood, PwC’s global and US commercial…
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Salesforce Marketing Cloud in a New AI Agentic World
“AI and agentic marketing is at the top of the list” as the next growth catalyst for customer engagement, Salesforce Marketing Cloud Chief Steve Hammond tells…
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AT&T COO on Goal to Hold US Fiber Market Lead
AT&T aims to maintain a lead in the US fiber market to sustain growth as its core wireless business slows. In this episode of Tech Disruptors, Jeff McElfresh…
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SAP on How AI is Furthering the State of the Cloud Transition
AI “is about aligning the semantics of the data, and that’s again why I believe a suite of applications has advantages. If not, the customer has to do it…
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Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Evolution of Quantum Computing
Quantum computing remains an area of high interest as use cases hinge on improving qubits and making them less error-prone for calculations. According to…
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Smartsheet CEO on AI Redefining Work Management
Work-management platforms are being redefined by AI, new pricing models and intensifying competition. In this Tech Disruptors episode, Smartsheet CEO Mark…
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HPE Taps Supercomputer Past for Its AI Future
HP Enterprise has leveraged its deep supercomputing roots to play a leading role in the AI-infrastructure revolution. Bloomberg Intelligence hardware analyst…
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Roblox CEO Baszucki on AI, 3D, Stable Coins
Roblox CEO Dave Baszucki said an immersive 3D co-experience is going to form the future foundation for how people communicate, connect, shop, learn and play…
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Scale Out to Scale Up in Broadcom’s AI Network
“AI is a distributed system — and the network is the computer,” says Ram Velaga, senior vice president of Broadcom’s Core Switching Group. In this episode of…
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Snyk CEO Talks About Security for Coding Tools
The current phase of software development is probably the most insecure era ever — there’s so much more application and code that’s vulnerable, according to…
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Upwork Rides Wave of Freelancers, Talent Demand
Helping knowledge workers and businesses connect in a work marketplace is Upwork’s central mission. A new wave of freelance workers is disrupting typical…
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Intersect Power and AI Data-Center Scaling
The tech DNA is what’s missing in the power industry, according to Intersect Power CEO Sheldon Kimber. “The fastest-growing technology the world has ever seen…
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Vercel COO on Scaling the AI-Native Web Stack
Front-end development is rapidly evolving, driven by large-language models, agentic workflows and serverless architecture — enabling smarter, scalable apps and…
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Juniper Networks Moves Ahead in AI
While the tech world watches Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks unfold, Juniper is still moving ahead. CEO Rami Rahim joins…
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Vertiv CEO on Futureproofing AI Data Center Power, Cooling Needs
Data centers that are being designed today will need to accommodate IT technology of the future and remain viable during their 15-20-year life cycle. In this…
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Stack Overflow CEO on Dev Tools in the AI Era
Stack Overflow has long been the go-to platform for developers to learn, collaborate and solve coding challenges. In this Tech Disruptors episode, Bloomberg…
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Akamai CEO on Tapping Security, Compute Growth
Akamai, a leading content delivery network (CDN) provider, has countered a decline in its CDN business by expanding into security and compute services, which…
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Pegasystems CEO on Rebuilding Workflows With AI
Enterprise software is evolving as generative AI enables smarter ways to build and run business processes. In this Tech Disruptors episode, Bloomberg…
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DigitalOcean CEO on Navigating AI Cloud in a Sea of Hyperscalers
“When you talk about inferencing, you have a real application. The application has data. The application has compute. The application needs to interface with…
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How Motorola Solutions Is Building Smarter Safety With AI
Generative AI has changed how humans and systems interact, and the science of human-computer interaction is now really the science of human-AI interaction…
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JPMorgan CIO on How the Global Bank is Approaching Generative AI
“Agent-to-agent interactions are very different than traditional system-to-system interactions, and so there’s a huge uplift we’re thinking about today that we…
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Qualys CEO on Cybersecurity Risk Environment
“How do you move the industry from what I call attack surface management to risk surface management?” Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar asks Bloomberg Intelligence’s…
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Beyond Big Chips: Cerebras on Inference and AI
“We want every layer — chip, system, software — because when you own the stack you can outrun a GPU cluster by 40-70x,” Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman says. In…
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Qualtrics CEO on How AI Agents Are Changing Experience Management
“What we’re finding is that greater customer experience is particularly critical when you have more uncertainty in any particular market,” explains Qualtrics…
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Google Code Assistant and Developer Workflows
From Microsoft to GitHub and now Google, Ryan J. Salva, who leads product management for developer tools and operations at Google Cloud, has spent over 20…
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Google Cloud CTO on LLM Demand Surge, Use Cases
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…
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Microsoft on the Future of the Human-AI Agent Work Environment
“The average knowledge worker is interrupted every two minutes during work hours,” according to Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Jared Spataro. “You’re…
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Gusto Scales Up HR-Payroll Software for SMBs
Helping small businesses manage all things human resources — payroll, benefits, tax compliance and employee onboarding — is Gusto’s central focus, which…
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AWS VP on How AI is Revolutionizing the Contact Center Landscape
“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…
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SambaNova on AI Amid Tariff Ups and Downs, LLMs
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…
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Altair Pushes Simulation Software Into AI Era
Artificial intelligence is opening up new possibilities for computer simulation, offering lower costs and expedited processes in manufacturing…
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Lyft CEO on Ridesharing and Autonomous Vehicles
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…
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Amazon CSO on Developing Cybersecurity Built for the Gen-AI Age
“Security is not a technology problem; security is a people and culture problem,”Amazon.com Chief Security Officer Steve Schmidt tells Bloomberg Intelligence…
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AWS Director on the Path to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing
“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…
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Workday CTO On the Company’s Nuanced Approach to AI Integration
“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…
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DataRobot CEO on Building Domain-Specific AI
As enterprises across industries seek to leverage artificial intelligence in their workflows, demand is mounting for specialized models designed for specific…
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Crusoe’s Energy-First Approach to AI Build-Out
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…
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Adobe’s President on Mastering the Entire Content Supply Chain
“For every knowledge worker, every business professional, an important element of what they do is creativity,” Anil Chakravarthy, Adobe’s Digital Experience…
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Salesforce On How Agentforce 2.0, Data Cloud Expand Productivity
“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…
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Grafana on Intersection of Observability, AI
The infusion of compute-heavy AI across enterprise applications and work flows, growing appetite for real-time business intelligence and more digitization…
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Google Cloud Scale in AI Training, Inferencing
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…
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Twilio CEO on Customer Data, Analytics and AI
Twilio is a customer-engagement platform that combines cloud-based communications tools with contextual customer data, analytics and AI that are used by brands…
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Boomi’s CEO Making Sense of Disparate Data Leveraging Agentic AI
“The average enterprise has over 360 applications running in the cloud today,” Boomi Chairman and CEO Steve Lucas notes to Bloomberg Intelligence senior…
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Elastic’s CEO on Powering the AI Value Chain
Corporate efforts to harness unstructured data to drive business intelligence could keep growing. Enterprises deploying more AI-infused applications and…
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SAP Business Data Cloud Optimizing Customers for Enterprise AI
“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…
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Verizon Consumer CEO on AI’s Role in Telecom
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…
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Procore’s Approach to Automating Construction
Delivering a comprehensive software platform for the construction industry that bridges project to financial management remains Procore’s central focus. Tooey…
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WWT CEO on Building ‘AI First’ Business, Growth
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…
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Citi CTO Griffiths on LLM Deployment, AI Agents
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…
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Contentful’s CEO on Digital Content Creation
Contentful’s platform, built on an API-first architecture, provides differentiated technology for marketers and developers in creating landing pages, blogs…
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Flodesk Drives to Best-in-Class Email Marketing
Automating email marketing with top-quality design and user experience is Flodesk’s central strategy. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Martha…
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Yext CEO on Shifts in Search as LLMs Grow Scope
Creating an ever-changing knowledge-graph relational database isn’t a small thing. But then connecting it to all the end points (to publishers and social media…
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Menlo Ventures on Developer Technology, M&A, AI
The tools that enable companies to build, operate and manage enterprise applications and infrastructure are evolving, and AI’s advancements could reset the…
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NTT DATA on DeepSeek’s AI, Data-Center Trends
What does DeepSeek’s efficiency breakthrough and the Stargate Project mean for the adoption of AI, data-center growth, power consumption and cooling-system…
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GoDaddy CTO on Tech Investments Empowering SMBs
Building an online presence for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) is the central mission of GoDaddy. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Chief…