Full Time Employees
topic on 7 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the Pitch 
We Live to Build 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 
Capital Allocators 
the a16z Podcast 
Big Technology
7 statements about Full Time Employees, every show
Masad: Falling transaction costs will drastically reduce need for full-time employees
“As the cost of transaction goes down to zero, then the reason to hire an employee full time you'll have less of a reason to hire full-time employees.”
Mix: Startups should deploy AI agents before hiring full-time ops employees
“So, if you don't do the automations yourself, or can't build AI agents yourself, which you can, hire someone to audit your process and build agents before bringing in full-time employees.”
Wong: Converting an intern to full-time costs employers $50,000
“Each intern costs about 25,000 dollars to source, to train, and to compensate. And only about 50% of them convert to full time. So that means the real cost of converting an intern to a full time employee is 50,000 dollars.”
Gomez: Cohere Has Zero Examples of Enterprise Customers Replacing Staff
“I am not aware of it. I don't think I have any example of that happening. It's very assistive actually. So it's less about replacement. It's more about augmentation. Like at the moment, what everyone's building are tools to augment their workforce to make them…”
Latour: Most business roles do not require full-time employees
“For most roles, you don't need a full-time employee.”
Walden: Crypto tokens allow users to earn ownership without full-time employment
“And so I think this is a really profound idea where it's going to change the way that people come to work and that they won't have to go and become a full-time employee to earn some ownership value for the value that they contribute to the platform or service …”