white-collar jobs

also referred to as: white collar jobs

4 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 15, 2019 by Fred Destin · across every show →

Everything said about white-collar jobs, oldest first

Jan 15, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Destin: Smart Workflow Automation Will Eliminate 60% to 80% of White-Collar Jobs
“We can take out 60 to 80% of white-collar jobs through smart workflow automation before we're even touching decisioning engines like AI.”
Fred Destin Jan 15, 2019 ▶ 31:33 20VC: Stride's Fred Destin on The Acceptable vs Non-Acceptable Risks When Investing, How Startup Founders Can Improve The Quality of Their Decision-Making and Must Play for Batting Average & Why Plans Do Not Matter and No Board Member Should Bash An Entre
Feb 25, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Chen: More white-collar jobs were created post-spreadsheet than in prior decades
“We've actually created more white collar jobs post the spreadsheet than we have in the decades before.”
Frank Chen Feb 25, 2019 ▶ 10:38 20VC: a16z Partner Frank Chen on The Future of Car Ownership, Whether The High Employee Attrition Rate in The Valley Is A Feature or A Bug & His Biggest Lessons From Netscape, Loudcloud & Opsware
Dec 8, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Biswas: AI disruption will lead to more fulfilling white-collar jobs
“What we're seeing now is a similar disruption, maybe on the white collar side. And I actually think we're going to come out of this with better jobs that are more fulfilling, which are again, more creative and more unique to us and where we get leverage from t…”
Sanjit Biswas Dec 8, 2023 ▶ 59:54 Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 28, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jerry Murdock: Autonomous agents will perform scheduling and marketing better than humans
“There's no question that anyone that inputs data into a computer that does scheduling that, you know, like an executive assistant or people doing marketing, those jobs are probably ultimately going to be better done by autonomous agents, white collar jobs.”
Jerry Murdock Feb 28, 2026 ▶ 24:59 The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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