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Micha Kaufman

CEO Chairman & Founder, Fiverr International

Search every verified Micha Kaufman interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Micha Kaufman, co-founder and CEO of Fiverr, discussed the impact of artificial intelligence on the workforce in a September 2026 interview. He stated that professionals who have worked in their field for more than five years are "a dinosaur" at the moment of an asteroid impact, and that the species that existed five years ago would likely not survive in its current form. Kaufman said AI has flipped the previous 80/20 split between human and software work, and that the 20% of work requiring human judgment is "infinitely important." He noted that employees who embraced AI are now doing two to three times more work than before, and that his company operates with a smaller, leaner team that accomplishes two to three times what it did 12 months prior. Kaufman also addressed the risks of AI adoption, saying there is a concern that people "outsource too much into it and practice too little judgment on what they're getting." He advised that AI out of the box is not powerful without context, and that knowing everybody intimately makes everyone "more average." Regarding freelancers whose basic tasks can now be done by AI, he said they must either grow into more complex, high-end work requiring deep human judgment, taste, and understanding of human behavior, or find a new profession, comparing the transition to the obsolescence of horse carriage drivers or coal miners.

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“There's using AI and there's using AI, which is really key and really where I think some of the frustration is coming from. The usage of AI depends in how you integrate it, how you deploy it. It's about knowing the limitations. It's about knowing the fact that it's not just upside, there's downside to it. It's the constant dealing with the fear that the people outsource too much into it and practice too little judgme”

“If you started your business more than five years ago, if you have a running business that started more than five years ago, if you've been doing something as a professional for more than five years, you are a dinosaur. And you are a dinosaur at the moment of impact of an asteroid. What I mean is if we compare it to a meteor hitting Earth, obviously the area of the crater is where everything gets annihilated and that”

“The public market is basically pendulum. It either under values you or over values you, but it rarely fairly values you. Because it's a little bit of a herd mentality with investors, and most of them are very short-sighted. And if you view this as a grading system or a scoring system to how well you're doing, then you're going to be miserable.”

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