The Difference Engine | B2B Category Design | Private Equity | Venture Capital
Aug 6, 2025 · 57 min · 13 segments
A seasoned technology executive with an extraordinary career spanning more than four decades, Bill Conner is the real deal. From leading companies through high-stakes turnarounds to creating…
Bill ConnerGuest
Paul MaherHost
Jonathan SimnettHost
If you think back, I talked about the digital data journey and then how that led to infrastructure kind of pieces and then the web and mobile generation and then the the data ip stack and then security you know i was in security for 30 years well after i came out of sonic wall in the last one i you know had the year sabbatical and i looked at what next was big it's kind of like every once in a while you get to look over the sunset and kind of ponder what's the next big wave coming now you got to pick the right one as a surfer but as i saw it like i looked and just based on my own history you know security is never going to go away And low code has done an incredible amount of making coding simpler and more democratic.
So fewer skills are required to do it, but you still have to have skill because this is an industry that is completely skill restrained globally, everywhere.
And that's the big promise of AI, right? And just like we learned with internet, it starts with platforming.
As I looked around and saw what NVIDIA was doing, in the chip space, you know, breaking Moore's law and, you know, the cost, speed, energy cost and performance and doing it not just with hardware, but with an operating system, it reminded me of the internet days and the mobile days as those started forming.
And of course, I've been around machine learning for a while, which is kind of the father of AI, right? It's because machine learning is learning from data and trying to build models.
So when I looked at that, I saw a confluence of security, AI, and low-code coming together to build kind of the next government transition, from sovereignty, as well as capability around GDP, as well as business transformation.
It's kind of been interesting because 18 months ago, Paul, we got to start this journey yet again.
Well, one of my great advisors out of the University of Pisa said the same thing, that there's a black belt, obviously,
It took about six months, but here we are, right? Now you see Informatica and Salesforce coming together, and the promise of AI is
If you think back, I talked about the digital data journey and then how that led to infrastructure kind of pieces and then the web and mobile generation and then the the data ip stack and then security you know i was in security for 30 years well after i came out of sonic wall in the last one i you know had the year sabbatical and i looked at what next was big it's kind of like every once in a while you get to look over the sunset and kind of ponder what's the next big wave coming now you got to pick the right one as a surfer but as i saw it like i looked and just based on my own history you know security is never going to go away And low code has done an incredible amount of making coding simpler and more democratic.
So fewer skills are required to do it, but you still have to have skill because this is an industry that is completely skill restrained globally, everywhere.
And that's the big promise of AI, right? And just like we learned with internet, it starts with platforming.
As I looked around and saw what NVIDIA was doing, in the chip space, you know, breaking Moore's law and, you know, the cost, speed, energy cost and performance and doing it not just with hardware, but with an operating system, it reminded me of the internet days and the mobile days as those started forming.
And of course, I've been around machine learning for a while, which is kind of the father of AI, right? It's because machine learning is learning from data and trying to build models.
So when I looked at that, I saw a confluence of security, AI, and low-code coming together to build kind of the next government transition, from sovereignty, as well as capability around GDP, as well as business transformation.
It's kind of been interesting because 18 months ago, Paul, we got to start this journey yet again.
Well, one of my great advisors out of the University of Pisa said the same thing, that there's a black belt, obviously,
It took about six months, but here we are, right? Now you see Informatica and Salesforce coming together, and the promise of AI is
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