i spoke with mike volpi, general partner at vc firm index, an investor in enterprise companies and aief strategy officer at cisco. >> i think we're at a point in time where enterprise tech has been around for a long while. it has built some great names out there. i.b.m., microsoft, cisco. >> you're going to start with cisco? >> i always give my old employer great credit. i think we're at a point in time now where there are a set of new transformative trends, technologies, technology disruptions that are happening and we're setting the seeds for the next generation of companies. 20 years from now when we're on the show talking again, we'll be talking about a different set of names. probably the root s of that happening is happening just now. >> it is interesting that some of the companies are having success, you know, amazon maybe is an outlier, are new companies. why is it some of the companies -- we're talking about the things you know best. why are the new companies succeeding when the old companies can see those trends? >> it is fundamental in some of the older companies need to h

. >> that was mike volpi from index ventures., how the auto company is teaming up with technology companies to bring us the state of the art cars. we're talking with mark fields next on the best of "bloomberg west." ♪ >> i'm cory johnson. this is the best of "bloomberg west." with advancements in open source software, mobile, cloud computing, the enterprise business is going through massive change. the new kids on the block are leading the way. case in point, i.b.m.'s fall in sales, failing to adapt to the cloud despite billions of dollars in effort. >> this is right for our business. we want to be viewed as part of the ecosystem. just as important as the work we are doing here, we want to be viewed as part of the neighborhood because this is an area where it is a marketplace of ideas, and ideas come up in coffee shops, meet ups, etc., and for us to be here it is really important for us to drive innovation and drive a lot of progress in our areas that we have laid out where we say we want to leave these areas. >> automakers and t