One venture capitalist is to play AI games by investing in top job tools.
In an episode of the “no cap” podcast released Wednesday, Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid said the company is investing in startups that create digital assistants for America's highest-paid jobs.
“If you look at the charts of the top 20 jobs in the US in wages, they're doctors, lawyers, engineers,” Hamid said. “So we thought it was OK, so how do we invest in copilots for these job types?”
The VC added: “There are some very subtle parts of these jobs, and while the human brain needs to process the parts of the job, there are parts where AI is writing or taking notes.”
Hamid said the company has invested in Ambience, a doctor startup, and in Harvey, a legal technology platform for lawyers, and Windsurf, a coding aid platform for engineers.
He said that physical labor, which is often one of the lowest paying jobs, is difficult to tackle with AI.
“It's like a broken job that people do and still do that, and that's probably the hardest place to attack today,” he said. “We're like robots, we're like humanoids.”
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The Menlo Park-based company specializes in investing in non-measuring stage technology and life science startups. Founded in 1972, it supports over 900 companies, including Amazon, Google and Twitter.
As AI improves, companies outside the tech industry are promoting or mandating employee use. This has led to the rush to contracts for large companies, such as Openai and startups.
In May, the CEO of Norway's $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund said using AI was not “voluntary” for employees.
“If you don't use it, you'll never get a promotion. You won't get a job,” Nikolai Tangen said.
In the viral memo for April, Tobias Lütke on Shopify Using AI is “now a basic expectation for everyone on Shopify,” telling employees “before the team asks to show why they can't get what they want to do with AI,” before seeking more head counts.
In the same month, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said employees didn't know how to use AI and that Uber was implementing a training program to change it. He says that learning to code using AI agents is ” The absolute necessity of Uber Within a year. ”
