Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)

0:00The idea of a PM makes no sense in the future.

0:02The skill is more like being a CEO now, which is what are we building and why?

0:06There's a lot of anxiety in the job market.

0:08AI is going to radically reorient lots of people's careers, maybe including mine.

0:13What I've noticed in some of the best organizations is the number one consumer of tokens is the CMO.

0:20They don't need to rely upon deputies and deputies and deputies to get actual work product.

0:25I want to hit on some contrarian takes that you have in your advice.

0:27You don't actually want to be talking to customers.

0:30I hate talking to customers.

0:31I refuse to allow colleagues of mine to talk to customers.

0:33You have this idea of criticizing in public versus in private.

0:36High-performance machines don't have psychological safety.

0:39They're about winning.

0:40You're uniquely great at helping companies build world-class teams.

0:44If a founder shows the ability early in his or her career to assess talent ruthlessly and accurately, he or she can go very far with no other abilities whatsoever.

0:52It feels like it's never been harder to attract the best talent.

0:56Really talented people.

0:57When things are going well, they're not happy.