{"id":3209,"date":"2026-04-06T07:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T07:57:13","slug":"this-ai-ceo-hires-gen-z-with-zero-experience-because-theyre-not-stuck-in-old-ways-of-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"This AI CEO hires Gen Z with zero experience because they’re not stuck in \u2018old ways of working\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gen Z can\u2019t catch a break. They\u2019re struggling with mass unemployment as entry-level jobs vanish. Some 40% of bosses have admitted they plan to hire even fewer grads this year because AI can do the same job cheaper, preferring instead to keep only seasoned staffers on board. But at one AI company, the less experience you have, the better.<\/p>\n

Alon Chen, founder and CEO of Tastewise\u2014a generative AI platform trusted by PepsiCo, Nestl\u00e9, and Mars\u2014is actively looking for Gen Zers with zero experience and no degree required. And he has a very specific reason why.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are some positions where you actually want people that do not have the prejudice or the old way of working,\u201d Chen tells Fortune. \u201cbecause it\u2019s just not relevant anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the last few years, there\u2019s been an explosion of new tools,\u00a0job functions, and ways of working thanks to AI\u2014and in his eyes, younger workers are the best place to take advantage of these.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hiring entry-level because they have no boundaries or limitations in how they think about the world. They\u2019re almost like AI natives themselves, having been born and raised in this new realm of opportunities. And I see some of the best ideas coming from the younger generation that have not yet been in the job market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Is more experience less important in this new AI era?<\/p>\n

Chen knows a thing or two about betting on unconventional talent. At 15, Chen had already started his own business, selling computers to thousands of small and medium-sized businesses in Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He became CMO at Google at 28 with no marketing degree\u2014and went on to build the $2 billion product line, Google Partners. He then walked away to found Tastewise, which has raised $71.6 million and now works with more than half of the Fortune 100 food and beverage companies. He\u2019s fully invested, and he\u2019s hiring.<\/p>\n

And in an era where AI is moving fast, he says experience is no longer the currency it once was.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe playbook is irrelevant today, because there are so many new ways to do this, the very same job,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

The more deeply someone has learned the old way of doing something, the harder it is to get them to see past it. Chen doesn\u2019t have that problem with a 22-year-old who\u2019s never had a way of doing things.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you come as someone who just sees the problem and finds the best way to solve it,\u201d Chen says, \u201cit\u2019s sometimes better than someone who has been doing the same job for so long and may just try to redo what\u2019s been working for them in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

To be clear: Chen isn\u2019t only hiring Gen Z. For R&D, he still wants seasoned people. But within certain departments, like customer insights\u2014where employees help clients get more value out of Tastewise\u2019s AI\u2014he\u2019d rather have someone who\u2019s never done the job before.<\/p>\n

And these entry-level hires aren\u2019t just temporary\u2014complete this job and then you\u2019re out. Chen says they\u2019re becoming \u201cpivotal\u201d across the company\u2014moving fluidly among technology, business, and client in ways that more siloed senior employees simply aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Other CEOs prefer to hire \u2018less biased\u2019 Gen Z, too<\/p>\n

Chen isn\u2019t alone in this thinking. Ricardo Amper, founder and CEO of $1.25 billion AI company Incode Technologies, has made the same bet\u2014and put it more bluntly. \u201cMy belief is that coming out with a fresh mind, first principles, is important. That\u2019s why young people are particularly helpful in tech, because they\u2019re less biased,\u201d he previously told Fortune. \u201cI think too much knowledge is actually bad in tech: you\u2019re biased.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite getting flak for being lazy\u2014including showing up late to work, ghosting job interviews, refusing to put in any overtime for free\u2014the $62 billion consumer giant Colgate-Palmolive isn\u2019t buying it. Chief human resources officer Sally Massey previously told Fortune that young digital natives bring \u201cnew ideas, new perspectives, curiosity\u2026 They\u2019re pushing us to get better and to do things differently\u2014I think it\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steven Bartlett, founder and host of The Diary of a CEO podcast, took it even further\u2014hiring a candidate whose CV was literally two lines long, with zero formal experience, after she thanked the security guard by name on the way into her interview. Six months later, she had become one of the best hires he\u2019d ever made. <\/p>\n

And the cofounder of the $12 billion crypto company Paradigm, Matt Huang, is so convinced by his youngest hires that he\u2019s been promoting them into the C-suite. His first hire in 2018 was Charlie Noyes, a 19-year-old MIT dropout who walked into his first 10 a.m. meeting five hours late. By 2025, before exiting the crypto company, he was a general partner at just 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey create an absurd amount of chaos sometimes and you want to pull your hair out,\u201d Huang said of Gen Z hires. \u201cBut then you see what they can do and it\u2019s like, holy crap, nobody else in the world could do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Chen, the message to Gen Z is simple: the door is open. You just have to be worth letting in.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would come to a job interview with a portfolio of what I\u2019m able to do and show for,\u201d he says. \u201cExecution is everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there is actually an opportunity for younger people,\u201d he adds, \u201cif they are resourceful and can actually flag in some way that they\u2019re better than others, and more determined to succeed than others.\u201d<\/p>\n

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