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Forbes

This Top VC Wants To Use Main Street America As An AI Lab

Investors are always encouraging startups to push the innovation envelope. General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja is applying that advice to his own firm.

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Axios Pro

General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on H-1B visa fallout, activist investing, and defense tech

General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja believes that venture capital is in need of a transformation.

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The Twenty Minute VC Podcast

General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Investing $5BN+ Into Stripe Over 14 Rounds

Hemant Taneja is the CEO and leader of General Catalyst, the firm he has scaled over the last decade into one of the largest with over $40BN in AUM. He has been one of the most influential investors of the past two decades, leading early bets in Stripe, Snap, Gusto, Samsara, Grammarly, and Canva.

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The New York Times

What Wall Street Sees in the Data Center Boom

Data center capacity has become a barometer for both the health of the tech market and the risk of an A.I. bubble.

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Bloomberg The Close

General Catalyst CEO On What's Next For AI

Hemant Taneja, General Catalyst CEO, says health care is seeing the fastest adoption of AI, telling Romaine Bostick and Scarlet Fu on “The Close” that the technology can handle administrative work so providers can focus on patients.

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CNBC The Squawk Box

The AI opportunity is the energy opportunity, says General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja

Hemant Taneja, General Catalyst CEO and managing partner, joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss a new era of capitalism, sectors ripe for AI transformation, future of H-1B visas, tokenization of private companies, and more.

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Financial Times

General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja: AI investors are navigating ‘peak ambiguity’

Head of venture capital firm talks about trusting founders’ intuition during a bubble, and the threat of mass job losses

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The Wall Street Journal

General Catalyst CEO Sees New Role for Innovation-Driven Capitalism

Hemant Taneja’s latest book, ‘The Transformation Principles,’ outlines his push to redefine capitalism as a driver of an inclusive and sustainable society

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The Generalist

Inside General Catalyst’s $1B+ Bet on Fixing Healthcare | Hemant Taneja (CEO and Managing Partner)

General Catalyst's transformation: How Hemant Taneja is building a new kind of "strategic conglomerate."

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FOX Business

General Catalyst CEO: Our core will always be early-stage venture capital

General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja discusses building businesses for the future on 'The Claman Countdown.'

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CNBC Squawk Box

General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja on Big Tech’s relationship with D.C., AI impact on health care

General Catalyst CEO Hemant Taneja joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss Big Tech’s relationship with Washington, impact of AI on health care, and more.

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The Information

A Blueprint to Strengthen U.S. Resilience Amid a New World Order

In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and geopolitical shifts, how can the United States fortify its resilience? Hemant Taneja and Fareed Zakaria explore this pressing question in their recent article, outlining a strategic blueprint that emphasizes open-source innovation, systemic reforms in defense and healthcare, and robust public-private collaborations. 

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Turpentine VC

General Catalyst CEO on Running VC Like an Enduring Company

Hemant Taneja, CEO of General Catalyst discusses the firm's evolution from an artisanal business to an enduring venture platform, focusing on operational rigor, fund size, talent strategy, and investments in companies like Stripe and Snap, while emphasizing the importance of responsible innovation and long-term industry transformations.

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Hemant Taneja on Balancing Profit and Purpose

“If there are two things that have been foundational to my journey, it’s been learning, and it’s been the importance of taking risk.” Taneja, managing partner and CEO of General Catalyst, shares his insights on leadership, innovation, and the evolving role of venture capital.

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Fortune

General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja on AI, LPs, and raising around $8 billion

I talked to General Catalyst CEO and managing director Hemant Taneja in the dark. Well, he didn’t know that, but by now he probably does.

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Politico

General Catalyst goes to Washington

The new policy arm of San Francisco-based venture capital firm General Catalyst wants lawmakers to clear the way for technological innovation as a way to fix the broken U.S. health care system. That’s the message of its first policy paper — an idea the Trump administration may embrace.

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The Information

What Worries General Catalyst’s Hemant Taneja

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Harvard Business Review

Can Startups Thrive in an Age of AI?

For 30-odd years, Silicon Valley had an extraordinary run. American entrepreneurs pioneered innovative digital businesses that disrupted sector after sector of the economy...

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Harvard Business Review

AI and the New Digital Cold War

We are entering a new world order, one marked by increased nationalism and greater geopolitical competition. While countries are not going to undo all of the global economic systems...

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Harvard Business Review

The U.S.–India Relationship Is Key to the Future of Tech

India is in a global sweet spot. It is now the world’s most populous country — home to more than 1.4 billion people and has had robust economic growth ...

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The Information

Where the Venture Community Goes From Here

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The Washington Post

AI changes everything. We need new guardrails to survive it. And soon.

The artificial intelligence revolution has arrived. One of us is a venture capitalist, the other a philanthropist, and we see leaders in every field placing bets, by the billions, on what comes next.

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Harvard Business Review

Geopolitics Are Changing. Venture Capital Must, Too.

For decades, the tech industry thrived based on a set of unique macroeconomic and geopolitical conditions. U.S. hegemony, globalization, and cheap money combined to allow tech startups to spread their products around the world. 

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The End of Scale (Harvard Business Review, with Kevin Maney, 2018)


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Artificial Intelligence is Too Powerful to Be Left to Facebook, Amazon, and Other Tech Giants (MarketWatch, 2018)


It’s Time for Washington to Take On the Tech Monopolies (Fortune, 2018)


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Why Pulling Out of Paris Accord Damages America’s Economic Future (Medium, 2017)


Silicon Valley Dreams: What If It All Comes True? (Medium, 2016)


The Need for Algorithmic Accountability (Medium, 2016)


To Fight Climate Change, We Need to ‘Uberize’ the Energy Industry (World Economic Forum, 2016)


Unscaling Energy (TechCrunch, 2016)


Why Startups Are More Successful than Ever at Unbundling Incumbents (Harvard Business Review, 2015)


Unscaling the Trillion-Dollar Power Industry (TechCrunch, 2014)


Technology Unlocks “Economies of Unscale” for Small Businesses (TechCrunch, 2014)


Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy (Harvard Business Review, 2013)