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Mihir Shukla

Cofounder, Automation Anywhere

Search every verified Mihir Shukla interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Mihir Shukla, cofounder of Automation Anywhere, appeared on theCUBE + NYSE Wired’s “Mixture of Experts” program on September 8, 2026, where he discussed the company’s shift from robotic process automation (RPA) to agentic process automation. He described Automation Anywhere’s vision as addressing a widening gap between AI spending and achieved autonomy, citing examples such as using secure, governed agents to diagnose IT outages in under an hour versus a month previously. Shukla noted partnerships with models like OpenAI and open-source options such as Nemo Claw, and highlighted the company’s single control plane and 450 million data points on work processes as competitive advantages. Shukla also addressed market positioning and IPO prospects, stating that Automation Anywhere has been profitable for three years and is growing quickly, but that an initial public offering is not expected this year due to limited market openings. He expressed interest in pursuing an IPO when a suitable opportunity arises.

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“So it has been a huge tailwind for us. So we had an advantage because we had a single control plane for all of our customers even though whether they are in on premise or cloud we had a single version of code everywhere and that gave us an advantage to train some of these work related models on how to produce accuracy and that gave us a leg up in the market and even today the fact that we have a 450 million data poin”

“So today automation anywhere's vision is to solve one of the hardest problem in the AI industry which is your AI spend is here and the level of autonomy that AI is achieving is here and that gap is widening and we know this through other large technological revolution from electricity to internet that technology by itself doesn't create the impact it's the level of autonomy if you achieve with that it will change the”

“I think the way it teams should be configured and my CIO uh we we have often have debates on this and say look how about if we only spend 40% on running the company 30% on growing the company and 30% on transforming it and I said at that point you are my transformation engine you are not my keeping lights on engine.”

“The second piece is because the the power of AI is that it it will orchestrate work across application. You don't have to get tied up in your software seat license model and you can significantly reduce it but most importantly decouple your growth from software seat licenses. See the way today we work Ellen is anytime my company grows I have there are this toll both I call them where I have to pay every SAS company s”

“The fastest growing service of Accenture today is token optimization services. And the reason is when we go to most of the boardrooms and everybody else people have got all the pieces that is there token activity token usage as record high but then the CEOs are asking us tell me which line item am I getting my ROI in the P&L. So the biggest right now if you were to ask you know in our boardrooms and the client discus”

“An autonomous enterprise is an AI first organization where 80% of work runs autonomously or AI assisted 80%. You're reimagining work and because agentic automation orchestrates across application it reduces needs for more software licenses. We need to decouple company's growth from SAS tax. This model where the more you grow, the more toll booth you pay to every SAS vendor doesn't have to be that way, right? It can b”

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