Hemant Taneja says it will soon be obvious that AI is reshaping white-collar jobs, warning that entire categories of work are set to either disappear or change.
Speaking at the Forbes 2025 Under 30 Summit, the General Catalyst chief executive, whose venture firm has backed Airbnb, Stripe, and Snap, says startups are building AI-powered companies aimed at automating office-based tasks.
According to Taneja, the pace of AI transformation will meaningfully impact white-collar jobs in just a few years.
“I think it’s going to become clear in five years, and I’m saying this as I look at the grassroots physics of how we’re building a lot of the companies transforming the enterprise workforce. I think it’s going to become clear to us that a lot of the white-collar jobs as we know them today are going to either fundamentally change or disappear. It’s very obvious to us. We have a whole fund dedicated to backing AI teams that are going and acquiring a lot of these white-collar outsourced job businesses, call centers, legal services, HR, and whatnot, and applying AI to them. And I just see it.”
But Taneja says the mass adoption of AI in the coming years will create new opportunities for those who would be displaced.
“Should we be more effective and intentionally thinking through that? And that’s a big topic for me that I think we as a society need to think hard about. And that’s a huge set of opportunities too, by the way, in workforce transformation. New startups to be built there, new jobs to be created there that we need to address.”
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