Jobs

“And this is gonna be true of your job, my job, everybody's job in the future is like, You take an individual and you make them 10 times faster, a hundred times faster, whatever it is, it's that person that starts to eat up the world of jobs, not like the machi…”

“I'm actually not a jobs doomer at all. I think there were going to be tons of jobs. I think we'll be busier than we want, not the opposite of that, because I think people will have such creative wishes and such incredible ideas of what they ask AI to help buil…”

“If you're good at interviewing, that means you get the job. That means you're not hiring people who are good at the job. You're hiring people who are good at interviewing about the job, and that is kind of a miss here”

“The idea that AI is going to destroy jobs is a Luddite idea that is being disproven every single day, and I see it on the ground. It is only a matter of time before people wake up to this, and they realize that this narrative that they've all been sold is a cr…”

“I think some of the nervousness around is AI going to replace all of our jobs. One of the reasons it's not is because AI is not for free and you know, the tokens that support AI, the technology, the time that is needed, the engineering time. To build the agent…”

“We're gonna go through, you know, low millions of jobs being lost or being retired and transitioned out over this next couple of years.”

“I don't think the jobs are going to be there. They just showed humanoid robots cleaning a hotel room in two minutes.”

“I think that's going to be the biggest challenge potentially in four or five years is what do we do when so many of our jobs have been replaced by AI.”

“The past 25 years, two out of every three jobs have been created from small businesses.”

“I believe that in the next decade, they'll rise to four out of five, five out of six jobs.”

“And today, compute eats jobs.”

“I think a lot of jobs will be deleted. And I think it'll be on entrepreneurs and founders and investors to create new opportunities for people. So I think we're entering a very interesting time where there, it is industrial revolution times the hundred speed, …”

“There's the concept of the job, but the job is not actually the atomic unit of what happens in the workplace. The atomic unit of what happens in the workplace is the task. And so, and then what the way the economists think about it is a job is a bundle of task…”

“Because the folks that have the capacity to use AI are the ones that are going to still have jobs.”

“I think I would be surprised if there were not five percent of jobs that exist now which AI has automated away over the course of the next decade. I'd honestly, I'd be surprised if it's not 10% of the jobs that exist now, I think.”

“Right now, 69% of people in the United States would quit their job if they could.”

“As to whether it's going to create jobs or kill jobs, absolutely going to create jobs. There's so much unmet demand in our industry.”

“I mean, the jobs are going to come down. But then it'll propel the opportunities for entrepreneurs.”

“I would say this is a five year problem. And I say that because if you go back and think about the physics With which these companies are getting built, the companies we're building, you have to put these teams together and they have to go get some customers t…”

“Right now, the edge of what's possible is like computer use, in my opinion, is really at the frontier of what these models could do, and I think over the next three to six months, they're going to get a lot better, and it's going to enable an entire new market…”

“Almost certainly, with no doubt, there isn't a job where AI won't be able to do 80% of 80% of all jobs. So, 80% of all jobs, AI will be able to do most of it within the next three to five years.”

“They're gonna look at jobs that we're doing today, and even jobs that the next generation is doing, and then 20 years from now, they're gonna look at that and go, I'm not gonna do that. I'm not even gonna think about that. So I think the conscious shift in, in…”

“We're moving towards a world where like the number one skill people need is how to amuse themselves because like AI is taking up jobs.”

“I think more jobs will arise out of this growth out of, but there'll be unpredictable categories of jobs.”

“The job, I mean, it's clearly something more about, like, self-architecture or becoming. Like, we develop through the work that we do.”

“So generally speaking, I think that the premise that AI destroys jobs is wrong because it doesn't take into account the significantly higher return on invested capital, which means more capital is going to be deployed, which means actually far more jobs are go…”

“AI will, you know, unlock a lot of capacity and capabilities. So more smaller companies which got struck at 5000, few hundred people, today can actually grow, become Few hundred to few thousand people. I think they will create a lot of jobs while big companies…”

“In a healthy economy, technology should be something that enhances rather than supplants the value of labor, and I think there's too much fear that AI will simply replace jobs rather than augmenting so many of the things that we do.”

“So if we just paused AI, we shut down all the AI labs and all we focused on was just rollout of what already exists. I think probably Between self-driving cars and AI agents, 20% of all current jobs are gone.”

“So we're not going to run out of jobs. Economists that I talk to tell me, We're not going to run out of jobs because we're not going to run out of problems. But we're going to find better solutions to problems with the help of AI.”

“So it's not so much that we want more meaning, it's that quite naturally, without anyone meaning to, modern industrial processes have drained many jobs Of their meaning.”

“You know, the more abstract way of saying that is, as economists would put it, jobs are bundles of tasks, And AI automates tasks, not jobs. So if there are, you know, 20 different tasks that comprise a job the odds that AI is gonna be able to automate all 20 o…”

“And I don't think it's going to take, you know, from jobs because those startups previously, just like they actually were not hiring those people. They were just sort of stuck In whatever they were currently doing at a certain scale that they were at.”

“One, I think jobs are just more valuable MBAs that pay you.”

“The best jobs are neither decreed nor degreed. They are creative expressions of continuous learners in free markets.”

“One thing I can immediate, I think in the next few years, you will see people using AI to do their jobs better. At what level? So that is how it is going to be. People will transition to or use these tools to do their jobs better. And I think that'll be the ne…”

“But I will say, maybe, no, I don't, it doesn't qualify as advice, but the opinion I hear most often that I think is really poorly informed and poorly thought out is that Artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it will eliminate. I believe, and again…”

“Why I won't destroy all the jobs and the sort of short version of it is because it's illegal to do that because so many jobs in the modern economy require licensing and are regulated.”

“AI hasn't so far taken away any jobs it doesn't look like, so we'll, we'll see how that goes, or the net, on a net basis.”

“Ah, so I would say actually, on a good light, AI won't replace many jobs, I think, actually. It'll drive productivity, not replacement, and it'll be like other technologies that have come out, like phones didn't replace people, now you just use them and you ca…”

“A lot of times when people quit their jobs, they forget to fire the manager in their head, right? They don't realize they can take the afternoon off to spend it with their kids. They've created this implicit contract that Monday through Friday, eight to 10 hou…”

“By the way, most people should have a job. That's my, I believe that. I think they'll be happier, but, like, it's also, you know, it's definitely not as risky as, like, people think. That's my opinion.”

“If I look at WPP, probably half the jobs inside the company didn't exist 20 years ago. We didn't have social media managers. We didn't have programmatic media managers. We didn't have search engine optimizers. You know, I could go on e-commerce people.”

“And then people who can't understand AI or work with AI, they're going to lose their jobs.”

“I actually don't think either we're going to run out of jobs because I think that for every job that gets taken away, new jobs are coming and it's been happening for the past 150 years.”

“There'll be like a whole economy around this, which will create jobs by the way, not make them disappear.”

“So it's going to be a startup world in the future. That's where almost all jobs will come from.”

“So over a 168,000 people have lost their jobs in the last couple of years from this spread bet.”

“What's a job? It's all your eggs in one basket. You basically have made a highly undiversified portfolio bet. Oh, and by the way, you have very little control over it. You're exposed to, if it turns out that the people running the company are idiots, or they m…”

“If you let deflation happen and let the natural order of things happen, you'd need far less of them. You'd, you'd work less. You would the, you would follow the trend and you'd be less, less, less work along the trend.”

“The most conventional entrepreneurs look for demand that exists but is currently unmet. Visionary entrepreneurship is the kind where the demand doesn't even exist yet. The reason that Jobs was such an inflecting visionary character was because he believed in l…”

“The Luddite fallacy is back. The idea that technology destroys jobs is the core fallacy that's been wrong for hundreds of years, and even that's back.”

“When computers move into a workplace, they never take anybody's entire job, that what they do is they take away certain tasks”

“From an economy standpoint, more jobs get created by the unleashing of the saved money than get destroyed by the effects on the legacy industries.”

“We've done studies that really show that, you know, the capital that we're putting out really produces a lot of jobs, you know, about 20,000 jobs for every billion dollars that's put out.”