I'm a CEO Who Oversees $9.5 Trillion in Spend Data. AI's Winners Are Already Decided

I'm a CEO who oversees $9.5 trillion in spend data. AI's winners are already decided

The real winners of the AI era won't be startups with the smartest models — they'll be enterprise software veterans with the deepest data moats.

The Incumbents Strike Back: Why Coupa’s CEO Believes Legacy Enterprise Data Is the Real AI Moat

For years, the prevailing wisdom in Silicon Valley held that artificial intelligence would be the great equalizer — that nimble startups armed with large language models could storm the gates of enterprise software and dethrone the incumbents who’d spent decades accumulating customers, contracts, and complexity. Leagh Turner thinks that’s exactly backward. Turner, who took over as CEO of Coupa Software in 2023, has been making an argument that c…