AI Is Coming For Your Job (Even Mine): Fiverr CEO's Brutal Wake-Up Call

About this episode

Micha Kaufman, CEO of Fiverr, discusses the implications of AI on jobs and the freelance economy.

When the CEO of a major freelance platform tells his own employees that AI is coming for their jobs, including his, you know we're at a real inflection point. 🚨 I'm joined by Micha Kaufman, co-founder and CEO of Fiverr, to discuss why he delivered such a blunt warning instead of reassurance, the "steam engine on a carriage" problem we're facing with AI right now, why AI giving everyone superpowers means it gives no one superpowers, how velocity (not just speed) becomes the ultimate competiti...

People in this episode

Host: Bernard Marr

Guest: Micha Kaufman

Topics covered

• AI impact on jobs
• freelance economy
• technology disruption
• business leadership
• future of work

Keywords

• AI
• jobs
• Fiverr
• freelance
• technology
• business
• future of work

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Fiverr

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