Trimble is one of the biggest software players you may not have heard of, a $17 billion stock

in the S&P 500 that got its start nearly five decades ago with a nascent technology that would

become GPS.

CEO Rob Painter says Trimble has been transforming ever since, on the forefront of precision

agriculture and then the industrial Internet of Things.

Yeah, so I think of Trimble as the application layer in the space economy.

We're not the infrastructure company sending the signals from space.

We're turning those signals into actionable intelligence here in the real world,

in the physical world, in industries such as

construction and transportation and agriculture.

The company sells software and hardware and has snapped up 150 acquisitions along the way.

Now, it's leveraging artificial intelligence.

So through the use of AI indexed against the base we have of customers and users at Trimble today,

we manage over a trillion dollars of construction through our systems.

We have tens of billions of freight that move through Trimble today.

We have millions of users and customers of our software and hundreds of thousands of instruments and machines in the world

operate on Trimble.

So in an AI context, with this unique corpus of data that we have access to at Trimble,

we think we're going to be able to create differential outcomes for our customers.

On this episode, CEO Rob Painter on how Trimble is harnessing technology from space

to drive innovation on Earth. I'm Morgan Brennan, and this is Manifest Space.

Joining me now, Rob Painter, the CEO of Trimble. We were here at the Nazak. We were just upstairs at the

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