https://minutesof.com/on/automation/ Everyone on the record about automation: 15 verbatim quotes from 7 people, October 2020 to May 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a link… en Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:41:05 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/e442f06e-d9bd-4291-ae8f-83221279fa98/ https://minutesof.com/q/e442f06e-d9bd-4291-ae8f-83221279fa98/ “We have almost complete automation of code writing. You would think that if you could look at this in a simple Malthusian way, all the software developers would be getting laid off right now.” — David Sacks, All-In Podcast Fri, 29 May 2026 22:23:00 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/afa6f374-eda5-4864-9de3-ebb218837555/ https://minutesof.com/q/afa6f374-eda5-4864-9de3-ebb218837555/ “And, you know, there there are people who say, and I referenced in the memo, there are people who say, oh, I have great news.” — Howard Marks, Oaktree Tue, 26 May 2026 23:26:41 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/a31ebbcc-002e-48d4-b85b-ce0d5d10650f/ https://minutesof.com/q/a31ebbcc-002e-48d4-b85b-ce0d5d10650f/ “There's still people working in banks today despite the fact that the ATM There've been studies that say there's more bank tellers today than there were like forty years ago.” — Bill Gurley, Mighty Pursuit Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:49:15 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/80c93570-0f1e-4369-bcc4-3aff65223eae/ https://minutesof.com/q/80c93570-0f1e-4369-bcc4-3aff65223eae/ “If you go on x, I've gone down the automated trading rabbit hole. So I don't know if you guys know, but there are these incredible, young, vibrant projects that are basically replacing a citadel, replacing a millennium, and they're building these automated agent based hedge funds that are transacting across all kinds of markets all the time.” — Chamath Palihapitiya, All-In Podcast Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:59:00 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/30413b11-674f-4f7a-975a-286101677d37/ https://minutesof.com/q/30413b11-674f-4f7a-975a-286101677d37/ “My travel, I watched CNN International and they're drumming up interest in a show. And the anchor says to a guest, You say that AI has the ability to eliminate half of entry level jobs.” — Howard Marks, The Investor’s Podcast Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:45:03 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/fb9d38d0-66da-4ae9-b3bb-5d1afc8872fe/ https://minutesof.com/q/fb9d38d0-66da-4ae9-b3bb-5d1afc8872fe/ “And so you could calculate the total number of jobs you'd be bringing back if you brought back all this car production and it'd be hundreds of thousands. It's not millions and millions of jobs.” — Bill Gurley, Tim Ferriss Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:45:52 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/35d9a346-58f3-49a1-8f13-0afab73e67b6/ https://minutesof.com/q/35d9a346-58f3-49a1-8f13-0afab73e67b6/ “The Xiaomi factory was a third, based on some numbers I was able to acquire, a third the number of employees per car output.” — Bill Gurley, Tim Ferriss Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:45:52 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/7ec1538d-be64-42ac-99d3-df606d11c91d/ https://minutesof.com/q/7ec1538d-be64-42ac-99d3-df606d11c91d/ “When we lost jobs to automation and offshoring, I think that that coincided with the opiate epidemic and not only in amount but also in location.” — Howard Marks, Bloomberg Podcasts Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:50:59 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/b6e4a83f-9ef0-4590-891e-38a4f7bab26f/ https://minutesof.com/q/b6e4a83f-9ef0-4590-891e-38a4f7bab26f/ “Like, if you wanna bring the jobs back there by the time you get the jobs back, there may not be any jobs. Like like, at one Because of automation.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:39:23 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/8bc87305-2a74-4e38-88e1-122897c8b561/ https://minutesof.com/q/8bc87305-2a74-4e38-88e1-122897c8b561/ “That number is like at six in The US. And that's super interesting for a number of things. Like, if you wanna bring the jobs back” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:39:23 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/cea300ed-652f-4f9d-8396-b5ddd908a188/ https://minutesof.com/q/cea300ed-652f-4f9d-8396-b5ddd908a188/ “The factory makes a thousand cars a day with 2,000 employees. It was highly automated, like really highly automated.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:39:23 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/7e7bb509-142b-4d4b-9312-997cbb629a31/ https://minutesof.com/q/7e7bb509-142b-4d4b-9312-997cbb629a31/ “So, you know, we have if robots are making all of our stuff, we could get robots to make housing for us, make roads for us.” — David Friedberg, This Week in Startups Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:06 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/58a8ba5a-0ab4-4ecd-815d-e96902e669fb/ https://minutesof.com/q/58a8ba5a-0ab4-4ecd-815d-e96902e669fb/ “I had a substantial advantage in the nineteen sixty's that I could calculate yields in my head. And then in 1970, they came out with the calculator.” — Jensen Huang, Milken Institute Wed, 07 May 2025 00:09:25 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/b2220beb-0589-4786-8eb7-852a433c6520/ https://minutesof.com/q/b2220beb-0589-4786-8eb7-852a433c6520/ “he thinks they can three X, you know, the top line of the business while only adding 25% more humans because they can have a 100,000 autonomous agents doing things like building the software, doing the security, and that he becomes really a prompt agent,” — Brad Gerstner, BG2 Pod Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:35:00 +0000 automation https://minutesof.com/q/947329e8-4130-4bf5-ab5b-9a62051076ea/ https://minutesof.com/q/947329e8-4130-4bf5-ab5b-9a62051076ea/ “I would argue that's not really a feature of capitalism so much as it's a feature of a technology revolution.” — Brad Gerstner, Invest Like the Best Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:30:00 +0000 automation