How AI Will Go From Influencing 20% to Making 90% of Your Decisions | Steve Lucas, Boomi CEO

About this episode

Steve Lucas discusses the evolution of Boomi and the increasing role of AI in decision making.

Boomi was founded in the early 2000s by Rick Nucci, acquired by Dell in 2010, and then spun out to Francisco Partners and TPG Capital in 2021. Today it powers 30,000+ enterprise customers globally and moves more data per second than the entire Visa card network, times two. What started as an integration platform has evolved into something bigger: the leading data activation company, purpose-built for the agentic AI era. Steve Lucas took over as CEO in early 2023, just as ChatGPT was about t...

People in this episode

Guest: Steve Lucas

Topics covered

• AI
• data activation
• enterprise technology
• decision making
• integration platforms
• business evolution

Keywords

• AI
• Boomi
• data activation
• enterprise customers
• integration platform
• ChatGPT
• decision making

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Boomi, Dell, Francisco Partners, TPG Capital

Products: ChatGPT

Places: Visa

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