Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago
Naval on AI opportunities:
“Yes, technology destroys jobs, but it replaces them with opportunities that are even better. And then either you can go capture that opportunity yourself, or an entrepreneur will come along and create something that allows you to capture those opportunities.
AI is a productivity tool. It increases the productivity of the worker. It allows them to do more creative work and less repetitive work. As such, it makes them more valuable. Yes, there is some retraining involved, but not a lot. These are natural language computers. You can talk to them in plain English, and they talk back to you in plain English.
I think we will see job creation by AI that will be as fast or faster than job destruction. You saw this even with the Internet—like YouTube came along. Look at all these YouTube streamers and influencers. That didn’t used to be a job. New jobs—really opportunities, because “job” is the wrong word. “Job” implies someone else has to give it to me, and it’s sort of like they’re handed out. It’s a zero-sum game. Forget all that. It’s opportunities.
After Covid, look at how many people are making money by working from home in mysterious little ways on the Internet that you can’t even quite grasp.
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full video via All-In Podcast (Feb 2025):
youtu.be/AI5qI6ej-yM
Naval on AI opportunities:
“Yes, technology destroys jobs, but it replaces them with opportunities that are even better. And then either you can go capture that opportunity yourself, or an entrepreneur will come along and create something that allows you to capture those opportunities.
AI is a productivity tool. It increases the productivity of the worker. It allows them to do more creative work and less repetitive work. As such, it makes them more valuable. Yes, there is some retraining involved, but not a lot. These are natural language computers. You can talk to them in plain English, and they talk back to you in plain English.
I think we will see job creation by AI that will be as fast or faster than job destruction. You saw this even with the Internet—like YouTube came along. Look at all these YouTube streamers and influencers. That didn’t used to be a job. New jobs—really opportunities, because “job” is the wrong word. “Job” implies someone else has to give it to me, and it’s sort of like they’re handed out. It’s a zero-sum game. Forget all that. It’s opportunities.
After Covid, look at how many people are making money by working from home in mysterious little ways on the Internet that you can’t even quite grasp.
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full video via All-In Podcast (Feb 2025):
youtu.be/AI5qI6ej-yM
