business process outsourcing

also referred to as: bpo

5 statements across 2 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 3, 2025 by Kimberly Tan · across every show →

Everything said about business process outsourcing, oldest first

Apr 3, 2025 bearish
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Tan: Large BPO incumbents will face AI disruption only long-term
“This is a net new market doing very similar work to what they were offering, but to a different segment of the population. And so they might not see it in the short to medium term, but you know, if these companies do well, obviously they will grow up with thei…”
Kimberly Tan Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 12:05 Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work
Apr 3, 2025 bullish
Insight
Tan: The best AI startup opportunities target functions with clear ROI
“So we think that the best types of opportunities for people in that domain is Just really thinking about situations in which the ROI is so incredibly clear, which often means in types of work or types of functions where they have clear KPIs that you can assess…”
Kimberly Tan Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 9:32 Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work
Apr 3, 2025 positive
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Tan: High call-volume industries like logistics face the most AI disruption today
“I think where we're seeing the most disruption today Is industries that have very high call volume. We're seeing it a lot in logistics in particular, because if you think about how many different nodes are in a supply chain, there's so many people who have to …”
Kimberly Tan Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 7:14 Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work
Apr 3, 2025 positive
Insight
Tan: AI excels at synthesizing unstructured data across disparate enterprise systems
“This is actually the type of work that AI is really good at handling. It is really good at taking very disparate amounts of information that is often unstructured in different formats across different systems. Synthesizing and structuring it, making sense of a…”
Kimberly Tan Apr 3, 2025 ▶ 4:26 Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work
Jul 30, 2026 neutral
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Zhang: AI agents allow enterprise customers to drastically reduce or eliminate BPOs
“There are definitely scenarios where people use their BPOs a lot less or Don't need the BPO anymore.”
Jesse Zhang Jul 30, 2026 ▶ 1:18:49 How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
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