Fiverr CEO explains why everyone needs to upskill with AI

Marketplace Tech

American Public Media

Technology, News

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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In an internal memo to his staff in April, Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman wrote that “AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it's coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call. It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson, or a finance person - AI is coming for you.” Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Kaufman, about his "radical candor" on the subject and how he wanted to spur them to think creatively about how they can remain relevant in the face of fast-changing technology.

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1:01.0	When your boss tells you, AI is coming for your job. From American Public Media, this is
1:07.9	Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.
1:19.8	Thank you. in public media. This is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. It's definitely not the kind of message most workers want to see hit their inbox from the
1:24.9	higher-ups, but that's exactly what Nihah Kaufman, founder and CEO of
1:29.9	the freelance platform Fiverr, wrote in an internal memo to his staff last month.
1:35.8	AI is coming for your job. Heck, it's coming for my job too. This is a wake-up call. It doesn't
1:42.5	matter if you're a programmer, designer, product manager, data scientist, lawyer, customer support rep, salesperson, or a finance person.
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