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Micha Kaufman

17 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 10 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 9, 2025 by Micha Kaufman · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Everything said about Micha Kaufman, oldest first

Jun 9, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kaufman: 999 out of 1,000 AI startups will fail in 1-2 years
“In terms of The amount of companies that are going to be around? Absolutely. Like, I don't know, like, 90, you know, 999 companies out of a thousand maybe is going to be around for a year, maybe two. It's going to be ruthless.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 29:03 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kaufman: AI Startup Flood Will End in Mass Consolidation or Bankruptcies
“Someone's going to win, which by definition is not going to leave that much for the rest, which means that there's going to be a cleanup either through consolidation or through companies going bust.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 14:40 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kaufman: Overwhelming majority of AI startups fail at customer retention
“Look, if you're an AI company right now you have two fundamental problems. One is getting noticed, so getting, getting customers, and then it's retaining them. In both, the vast, the overwhelming majority fail.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 31:27 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kaufman: Banks refusing AI tools over compliance will be left behind
“Look, fine. So they shouldn't use it which is going to be another reason why banks are going to be left behind, whatever.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 33:35 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Micha Kaufman: The AI startup hype cycle mirrors the dot-com bubble
“I feel that we are in a period that is very similar to the .com, but it's now .ai. So it used to be pets.com, it's now pets.ai. Whatever, it's the same bullshit.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 10:28 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Kaufman: I do not use AI tools to write my communications
“I don't use AI to write which is very important for me.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 1:02:22 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kaufman: Workers who fail to adapt to AI will be poor or burdens on society
“Seriously, if you're not going to take the time to make yourself valuable, to embrace reality, you're doomed. I'm not going to help you. If you don't want to do this, you're either going to be poor or a burden on society.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 0:06 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2030
Kaufman: Fiverr's engineering team will be larger in five years
“Will you need many, many more of them? I don't know, but you asked me, is your team going to be, is your engineering team going to be larger? Yes.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 57:09 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kaufman: Entry-level junior marketers are being replaced by AI faster than developers
“So I think that in, in marketing, the entry level juniors have been replaced the fastest. Definitely faster than developers.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 1:01:27 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Kaufman: Best Angel Deal Was Written Off Before 50x Exit
“And I think that this is probably the best investment I've ever, ever, ever made. The multiples were like in the 50.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 28:07 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kaufman: Workers who fail to self-upgrade in the AI era are done
“But if not, fuck you. You're done. You're done. You're not done at Fiverr. You're done. Period. Because no one, there's not going to be demand for people that cannot upgrade themselves.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 8:27 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 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
Jun 9, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kaufman: AI Has Reduced Software 'Time to Clone' to 10 Days
“When we launched, launched five or 15 years ago, time to clone was between six and nine months. Okay. The time to clone right now is I don't know, 10 days, whatever.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 15:32 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 positive
Prediction Held up
Kaufman: Fiverr will exclusively hire AI natives across all departments
“And if we think about bringing more people, these people need to be AI natives in whatever they do. I don't care if you're whatever, if you, or you're joining the legal department or the finance or customer support, you need to be very well versed in this new …”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 1:05:02 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Kaufman: Fiverr Faced 30 Clones Within 9 Months of Launching
“When the company was nine months old, there were already like 30 clones. And years after, there were thousands of clones.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 18:35 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025 negative
Insight
Kaufman: Asking tech CEOs for five-year plans during AI shift is laughable
“People that ask me, oh what do you think what do you think the business is going to look like in five years? I start laughing. It's a laughable question. You can have grand general ideas, but people that ask you to describe it are just out of touch with what w…”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 45:44 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 9, 2025
Disclosure
Micha Kaufman: I will resign as CEO if demotivated five days straight
“I know I have a rule. If I wake up five days in a row saying, ah, fuck, no, then I'm done. Now I'm done. And it never happened.”
Micha Kaufman Jun 9, 2025 ▶ 1:11:32 Fiverr CEO & Founder, Micha Kaufman: "If You’re Not Adapting to AI, F* You. You’re Done!" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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