automation

9 statements across 8 episodes · 6 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jul 11, 2016 by Albert Wenger · across every show →

Everything said about automation, oldest first

Jul 11, 2016 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wenger: Service automation will shift human work toward knowledge and caretaking
“And now I think we can automate a lot of, not just industrial production, but also a lot of services whether that's shopping services or insurance services or transportation services. We can now automate those and that will free us up to participate more in kn…”
Albert Wenger Jul 11, 2016 ▶ 16:29 20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
Jul 11, 2016
Insight
Wenger: Passionate pursuits will remain infinite, but paid labor will not
“No, absolutely. We will never run out of things to do. We'll never run out of things that we will pursue passionately, but that's very different from being able to get paid for it.”
Albert Wenger Jul 11, 2016 ▶ 20:09 20VC: USV's Albert Wenger on Automation Replacing Humans, The Universal Basic Income and The Instalment & The Deployment Phase
Mar 24, 2017
Insight
The primary bottleneck for robotics capital efficiency is tasks per robot
“The biggest bottleneck for automation is actually the number of tasks per robot, because the robotics is expensive, so if you can do more tasks, it'll be much more capital effective”
Christian Lanng Mar 24, 2017 ▶ 5:25 20VC: How To Raise $200m In Any Economic Climate, Scale From Garage To Global In Record Time & The Biggest Startup You Have Not Heard About with Christian Lanng, Founder & CEO @ Tradeshift
Apr 7, 2017 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shedletsky: US will permanently fall behind without manufacturing automation
“If we don't automate, others will, and we won't be able to catch up, and I think it's important to keep that playing field as level as possible for as long as possible.”
Anna Shedletsky Apr 7, 2017 ▶ 4:12 20VC: How To Create FOMO For Investors, How To Manage VC Conversations & A Repeatable Process For Learning New Things with Anna Shedletsky, Founder & CEO @ Instrumental.ai
Dec 20, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
US employment ratio stayed steady despite losing millions of legacy jobs
“Since the fifties, the U S employment population ratio has remained fairly steady at around the During that same period of time, we have displaced eight million farmers, seven million factory workers, a million railroad workers, hundreds of thousands of teleph…”
Brandon Deer Dec 20, 2019 ▶ 15:31 20VC: Inside UiPath, The World's Fastest Growing Startup, How The Best Leaders Approach Decision-Making & WhY Vulnerability Is Central To SuccessFul Leadership Today with Brandon Deer, VP of Operations & Strategy @ UiPath
Jan 18, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Silverman: Automation will increase consumer desire for custom, creative goods
“In a world that's becoming ever more commoditized, and where automation is changing the nature of work, creativity can't be automated. And we're going to yearn more and more for something made just for us.”
Josh Silverman Jan 18, 2021 ▶ 10:33 20VC: Etsy CEO, Josh Silverman on 2 Defining Traits of Great Leadership, The Danger of Attaching Happiness To Milestones, How To Structure Teams To Optimise for Experimentation and Agility &Whether You Learn More From Success Than Failure
Dec 8, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Biswas: Frontline workers will remain essential for a long time
“I think we're going to have frontline workers for a very long time because some of these jobs are difficult to automate.”
Sanjit Biswas Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 59:11 Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kaufman expects every Fiverr employee to automate 100% of their role
“In an ideal situation, my expectation of you is that each and every one of you, and it doesn't matter what you do, Is going to replace a hundred percent of what you do with automation.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 3:32 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 20, 2026
Insight
Levie: Automation exposes unseen downstream bottlenecks rather than reducing work
“Automation is going to actually just force us to see the next set of bottlenecks that are in all of these industries that we didn't perceive that we had before because everything was so slow and manual.”
Aaron Levie Apr 20, 2026 ▶ 9:18 Aaron Levie: Everyone is Wrong; We'll Have More Developers in 5 Years · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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