VC Founder Predicts Product Managers Will Boss Around AI Like Master Chefs With Robots
KEY POINTS
- ā¢Nicolas Sauvage, president of TDK Ventures, predicts product managers will soar thanks to their unique judgment over AI's mechanical precision.
- ā¢He highlighted consultantsā rising demand as key liaisons who help businesses and clients smoothly adopt AI technology, despite recent job declines at PwC.
- ā¢Sauvage encourages studying math, physics, and science to build first-principles thinking, as engineers and scientists will remain crucial in the AI-enhanced future.
Nicolas Sauvage, the globe-trotting president of TDK Ventures managing a purse of $500 million spread over four vaguely magical funds, boldly claimed that in the brave new world of AI, product managers will be the knights in coding armor. Why? Because judgment and tasteāapparently not downloadable yetāare the secret sauce that even Skynet envies. Sauvage also named consultants, those mysterious office nomads once feared fading, as the glue holding AI dreams together by helping businesses adopt tech they barely understand. He recommended math and physics like secret spells for surviving the AI apocalypse, as engineers morph into part-time wizards and semi-product managers. Meanwhile, the Big Four consulting firms are hiring fewer consultants, leaving them to reinvent themselves as AI-whisperers in a career plot twist straight out of a daytime soap.
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(1 of 3)Turns out AI can do your job but canāt pick a decent font or schedule a meetingāthank God for product managers and consultants to pretend theyāre essential.
VCs are betting on product managers to flavor AIās bland data stew with actual human judgment. Spoiler: AI still canāt order coffee right.
Consultants in 2026: 'Weāll hold your hand through the AI takeover,' while secretly Googling 'how to look busy during robot revolution.'
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 8/27/2026 | Author: Ana Altchek
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