Employment

topic on 9 shows · 12 statements across 12 episodes

the Y Combinator Startup Podcast Cheeky Pint American Optimist the Knowledge Project Lenny's Podcast the Neon Show Capital Allocators the a16z Podcast 20VC

12 statements about Employment, every show

Huang: AI automates tasks rather than destroying entire jobs
“The narrative about AI destroying jobs is exactly backwards. AI eliminate tasks. AI automates tasks away. But it doesn't necessarily eliminate jobs. And the reason for that is because the job of a person has a purpose, and that purpose has many tasks. Some of …”
Jensen Huang Jul 26, 2026 ▶ 31:56 Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
CHEEKY PINT Prediction Not checkable as stated
Andreessen: AI job displacement will be slowed dramatically by licensing and unions
“The employment shifts everybody's worried about are actually not going to happen at anywhere near the velocity people think because it's like, you know, a significant, significant percentage of jobs in the US literally are, you know, licensed or unionized or c…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 1, 2025 ▶ 54:50 Marc Andreessen and Charlie Songhurst on the past, present, and future of Silicon Valley
AMERICAN OPTIMIST Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levi: AI will automate the new jobs created to replace displaced workers
“So when people make the argument, well, Yes. It will replace these jobs, but it will create more jobs. I go, yeah, except that it can do those new jobs as well.”
Zachary Levi Sep 25, 2025 ▶ 51:08 What Happens When AI Can Do Every Job? · Joe Lonsdale
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levie: AI adoption will create new jobs dedicated to managing agents
“So they'll hire more people and those will be, you'll have new types of jobs. Like we'll have jobs for people just to manage agents and Like, you'll have operations teams.”
Aaron Levie Jul 14, 2025 ▶ 57:34 Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
Lütke: Professionals should view employment as talent-as-a-service subscriptions
“We are products. Like we are engaged in entrepreneurship. We are Basically software as a service, if you want, like, or talent as a service, we are selling a subscription in the form of our you know, employment, we call it, but like, it's actually just like re…”
Tobi Lütke Feb 2, 2025 ▶ 1:34:40 Tobi Lütke's leadership playbook: First principles, infinite games, and maximizing human potential
NEON SHOW Insight
Kotasthane: Young Firms Drive Job Creation in India, Not Small Firms
“So the initial fear was if you introduce capital into this, the employment will reduce, but the learning was actually that, you know, young firms create employment. Not small firms. So the, once you de-reserve many young firms came, many firms came, and then t…”
Pranay Kotasthane May 11, 2024 ▶ 1:01:48 What UPSC Books Won’t Teach You - Public Policy 101, Mumbai Mafia Backstory, & On-Ground Reality
a16z Insight
Horowitz: Technology's job creation is much harder to predict than job destruction
“It's always easy to see how it shrinks employment. It's very hard to, you know, predict how it's going to grow employment.”
Ben Horowitz Oct 1, 2023 ▶ 26:54 What is the Future of Hollywood?
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Howie Liu: AI Productivity Gains Could Drive Net Employment Growth
“There's a potential world that was certainly not guaranteed where we find ways to use more human potential and employ more people because each person is made more productive by AI.”
Howie Liu Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 0:08 Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
KNOWLEDGE PROJECT Prediction Not checkable as stated
AI will create new employment alongside widespread job obsolescence
“I think the innovation will drive a lot of a new employment. We will also, you know, have a lot of you know, obsolescence, you know, in, in jobs and even functions and industries and processes, but that's the nature of you know, of a capitalist, you know, free…”
Frank Slootman Aug 8, 2023 ▶ 44:20 Frank Slootman: Doing Less, Doing Better
20VC Prediction Not checkable as stated
Howard Marks: Strong economic recovery will follow COVID-19 herd immunity
“I personally believe that when we get to herd immunity, And when the number of cases falls, you know, radically, by which I mean, I guess, you know, a few hundred a day or so, I think that we'll have a very good recovery in the economy and in employment.”
Howard Marks Jan 4, 2021 ▶ 13:38 20VC: Bill Gurley and Howard Marks: What Happened In 2020? What Can We Expect Looking Forward to 2021?
Cowen: Minimum wage increases put people out of work
“Minimum wage increases put people out of work. Sometimes it's a small number of people. Sometimes it's a large number of people, but I think jobs are very important, and I would look for different ways to raise wages, which we do need to do.”
Tyler Cowen Aug 21, 2018 ▶ 49:25 #39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
Cembalest: Bank recapitalizations speed market and employment recoveries faster than bad-loan purchases
“When governments recapitalize banks, the recovery and the equity markets and employment tend to happen more quickly than when governments simply buy their bad loans.”
Michael Cembalest Apr 23, 2018 ▶ 37:28 Michael Cembalest – Eye on the Market (Capital Allocators, EP.49)

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