Franceschi: Human-level AI will eliminate the need for traditional ERP systems
Pedro Franceschi · No Priors Ep. 75 | With Co-Founder and CEO of Brex Pedro Franceschi · Aug 8, 2024 · at 27:46
Pedro Franceschi, co-founder and CEO of Brex, discusses the future of corporate accounting and spend management with Sarah Guo on No Priors.
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“And I think as you bring a lot of that data with, you know, assuming AI will get there and essentially operate with human level performance, you won't need anymore this concept of an ERP, and then you effectively have sort of this real time layer into what's happening in your business and be able to understand the data in, In much more granular ways across all these different data sources that today require people to clean it up.”
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