AI Shakes Up the 30 Most Powerful Enterprise Software Execs and Investors

The rise of AI that can understand or mimic language has disrupted the power balance in enterprise software.
Four new executives have emerged among the top 10, while last year's top executive, Adam Selipsky of Amazon Web Services, has been surpassed by a competitor due to AWS's slow adoption of large-language models.
The leaders of Snowflake and Databricks, two database software giants, are now ranked closely together, indicating changes in the industry.
The incorporation of AI software by customers has led to a new cohort of company operators and investors gaining influence in the market.