Vista Equity Partners CEO talks importance of diversity, tech, and opportunities in AI

2023 saw a boom in job market growth, creating 2.7 million jobs that year coming off of pandemic trends. With so many concerns around employment — from AI workplace adoption to inflation stressors on the labor market — coming off of such highs, many are wondering what kind of complications and opportunities lie in store for workers in 2024. Vista Equity Partners Founder, Chairman, and CEO Robert Smith sits down with Yahoo Finance's Julie Hyman and Brian Sozzi from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to examine DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) initiatives executed for educational institutions and companies, particularly in tech. "We are teaching and training, and we are having these large super-scaler large tech companies, saying how do we participate?" Smith explains. "How do we ensure that these students have a chance to actually contribute to the fabric of this artificial intelligence so that we actually have the ability to ensure that bias does not exist and we're taking into account all of the elements of our society so that we can actually make this a highly productive tool, and not one that's going to disadvantage certain communities." Smith goes on to characterize generative AI as an "enabling technology," commenting on how this new wave of tech adoption may be fueling valuations in Big Tech. It's all part of Yahoo Finance's exclusive coverage from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where our team will speak to top decision-makers as well as preeminent leaders in business, finance, and politics about the world’s most pressing issues and priorities for the coming year. #youtube #AI #stockmarket About Yahoo Finance: Yahoo Finance provides free stock ticker data, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, comprehensive market data, advanced tools, and more information to help you manage your financial life. Get the latest news and data at finance.yahoo.com Download the Yahoo Finance app on Apple (https://apple.co/3Rten0R) or Android (https://bit.ly/3t8UnXO) Follow Yahoo Finance on social: X:   / yahoofinance   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yahoofinanc... TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@yahoofinance?... Facebook:   / yahoofinance   LinkedIn:   / yahoo-finance