A tech CEO who cut his staff from over 1,000 to 120 says AI is boosting the value of 'high-agency' generalists
Source: Business Insider ·
Bird CEO Robert Vis says AI gives an edge to high-agency, multidisciplinary workers who can take ownership across roles.
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Bird's CEO Robert Vis says AI is making high-agency generalists more valuable at work.Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesBird CEO Robert Vis said AI gives an edge to 'high agency' generalists who can work across roles.Bird's head count has dropped from more than 1,000 to 120 as AI automates more tasks."If you had very high performance but you were not multidisciplinary, you would not stay," he said.Being a specialist may be getting harder at some AI-powered companies."The profile that we were very focused on was people with high agency," Robert Vis, the CEO of communications infrastructure company Bird, told Business Insider. "If you're high agency and you're full stack, then AI leverages you to basically be your best self."Vis made the comments in late September after Bird announced that it had completed $450 million in debt financing led by JPMorgan, Capital One, and Citi. The company also said its head count fell from more than 1,000 people to 120 over roughly three…