Thursday 6 November 2025
07:45
Hemant Taneja
The Transformation Principles
Capitalism has historically focused on profit generation, with positive impact left to non-profits. This system has fueled unprecedented growth, but has also generated unsustainable consequences—deepening inequality, widespread job displacement, and eroding social trust. Hemant joins us to discuss his timely set of principles which form an essential guide to long-term success, for business leaders, founders, and policymakers navigating a new era of technological and geopolitical change.
Hemant is the CEO of General Catalyst, and a founder, investor, and author of four books, including the upcoming book The Transformation Principles. Hemant’s vision for General Catalyst (GC) is to be the world’s foremost investment and transformation company, supporting global resilience through applied AI. He first laid out his AI thesis in his 2018 book Unscaled, which explored how the economy of the future will be won by upstarts leveraging AI for hyper-focused markets. He believes in investing in the critical systems that underpin modern democracies and their allies—GC’s global resilience thesis—and transforming every industry through innovative partnerships. He is an early investor in companies like Stripe, Samsara (NYSE: IOT), Snap (NYSE: SNAP), Gitlab (NASDAQ: GTLB), Grammarly, Gusto, Applied Intuition, Anduril, Ro, and Canva. His recent focus as an investor has been on Applied AI and sustainability with focus on companies like Crescendo, Re:Build Manufacturing, and Charm Industrial. He holds five degrees from MIT: M.Eng. EECS, S.M. Operations Research, S.B. Biology, S.B. Mathematics, and S.B. EECS.
CEO of General Catalyst
Hemant is the CEO of General Catalyst, and a founder, investor, and author of four books, including the upcoming book The Transformation Principles. Hemant’s vision for General Catalyst (GC) is to be the world’s foremost investment and transformation company, supporting global resilience through applied AI. He first laid out his AI thesis in his 2018 book Unscaled, which explored how the economy of the future will be won by upstarts leveraging AI for hyper-focused markets. He believes in investing in the critical systems that underpin modern democracies and their allies—GC’s global resilience thesis—and transforming every industry through innovative partnerships. He is an early investor in companies like Stripe, Samsara (NYSE: IOT), Snap (NYSE: SNAP), Gitlab (NASDAQ: GTLB), Grammarly, Gusto, Applied Intuition, Anduril, Ro, and Canva. His recent focus as an investor has been on Applied AI and sustainability with focus on companies like Crescendo, Re:Build Manufacturing, and Charm Industrial. He holds five degrees from MIT: M.Eng. EECS, S.M. Operations Research, S.B. Biology, S.B. Mathematics, and S.B. EECS.