Tech Disruptors

There’s been a moderation in the trend of moving all workloads to the cloud and shifting all applications into a certain direction in the last several years, and more of an appreciation by IT leaders that they should be focusing first and foremost on agility and flexibility because they have to support multiple environments, types of applications and demands from the business, which plays into Pure Storage’s strength, chief technology officer Rob Lee tells Bloomberg Intelligence analysts Mandeep Singh and Woo Jin Ho on this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. Lee discusses in depth the company’s positioning at enterprise customers and the role of flash technology amid the secular trends of cloud and generative AI.

GoodRx is a marketplace, sort of like the Switzerland of health care, working with all constituents on behalf of the customer, co-founder and co-CEO Doug Hirsch explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. In this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast, Hirsch sits down with BI analyst Jonathan Palmer to talk about GoodRx’s evolving business model, the power of its brand and why he’s not worried about structural changes to the market for prescription drugs.

Today’s technology leaders can still keep the innovation engine running while navigating macroeconomic uncertainty, John Chambers explains to Bloomberg Intelligence hardware analyst Woo Jin Ho in this episode of the Tech Disruptors podcast. Chambers, the former CEO of Cisco, continues to be on the forefront of technological change as the head of JC2 Ventures, which helps global startups to grow and develop digital solutions. Chambers also discusses his work in India, laying the foundation for a potential shift in the geo-technology landscape.

There’s a growing “need for speed” in the cloud and telecom, and Ciena is satisfying its customers’ appetites with optical innovations, led by the WaveLogic chip, Chief Technology Officer Stephen Alexander explains to Bloomberg Intelligence analyst and host Woo Jin Ho on this Tech Disruptors podcast episode. Alexander discusses how the rapidly evolving optical market requires higher capacity to support AI and machine learning, as well as next-generation metro-edge cloud deployment. Ciena’s latest product, WaveLogic 6, will likely help it to stay ahead of the curve vs. competitors.

Samsara CEO discusses how their IoT devices and cloud-based software are digitalizing physical industries like transportation, retail, construction, and utilities for increased safety, efficiency, and sustainability. They also explore the use of digital twins, company share structure, privacy concerns, international expansion, and the trend of digital transformation in physical operations.

Cockroach Labs is disrupting the legacy model of databases by embracing distributing computing in the cloud, providing scale to modern applications, co-founder and CEO Spencer Kimball explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Kimball sits down with BI analyst Anurag Rana for an in-depth conversation about the driving forces behind migration to the cloud and operational database workloads, as well as how CockroachDB’s technology differentiates it from other Database-as-a-Service companies and hyperscale providers.

Roblox has a large addressable market as it’s moving outside of gaming and increasingly doing more work in the entertainment category — music, video, sports, fashion, retail and commerce — with a new modality of the internet for social experiences, the company’s chief business officer Craig Donato explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Donato sits down with BI analyst Mandeep Singh to talk about the evolution of the Metaverse and how 3D content may go beyond gaming and drive the next phase of growth at Roblox.

Digital advertising technology will increasingly harness artificial intelligence to improve audience targeting and campaign optimization, PubMatic CEO Rajeev Goel explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Goel sits down with BI media analyst Geetha Ranganthan for an in-depth interview to discuss the digital ad landscape amid elevated concerns about privacy and identity, as tensions between the open internet and walled gardens like Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms are intensifying.

Fifty percent of small businesses fail at the five-year mark for two main reasons -- struggling to find new customers and growing relationships with existing ones and cash flow problems, Intuit’s CEO of Mailchimp and business leader for QuickBooks Money Rania Succar tells Bloomberg Intelligence. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, BI analyst Niraj Patel sits down with Succar to discuss the challenges that small businesses face today and how Intuit’s marketing and fintech solutions help customers address growth prospects, cash-flow management and the frictions for business-to-business payments, as well as clients’ embrace of integrated technology platforms. Rania also highlights what’s next for Intuit and how it’s using AI across its products.

As the first federally chartered cryptocurrency bank, Anchorage Digital is providing authentication and hardware modules for storing and securing digital assets for banks, venture capital firms, fintechs and governments. In this Tech Disruptors podcast episode, Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Mandeep Singh takes a deep-dive look into the current state of the crypto market with Anchor Digital’s cofounder Diogo Monica, who also discusses the effect FTX’s saga has had on the pace of new use-case deployment of blockchain technologies.