Kristian Kabashi coined the Blank Collar in 2016 and has built and scaled AI-native companies since. For a talk, an interview, or a quote, this is the fast lane.
Operator-grade, not theory from the sidelines. Built and scaled inside the exact shift each topic describes.
Where the line between bots and humans actually falls, and what it does to teams, careers, and the shape of a company. Work is for bots. Life is for humans.
How AI rebuilds the operating model, not the org chart. The method, the sequencing, and the traps, drawn from two decades inside the transformation.
What it takes to start AI-native rather than bolt AI on: from CHF 13M ARR fintech to a cybersecurity company, built from scratch.
The practical shift, how people stop being specialists defending a lane and become operators who direct the machine. Not a specialist. A blank collar.
Two lengths, written to run as-is. Use whichever fits the slot.
Kristian Kabashi is a Zürich-based operator and founder who coined ‘the Blank Collar’ in 2016. He has built and scaled AI-native companies and writes about the future of work.
Verbatim · ready to publishKristian Kabashi is an operator and founder based in Zürich, born and raised in Germany and built across six countries. He coined ‘the Blank Collar,’ the post-AI worker, in 2016 and founded the practice in 2018. He co-founded Numarics in 2020, an AI-native finance platform for Swiss SMEs that he scaled to CHF 13M ARR and 135+ people on CHF 12.4M raised, acquired by Radicant Holding in 2024. In 2024 he co-founded Cybee.ai, an AI-native cybersecurity company (€1M seed; Best of Swiss Apps Hall of Fame 2025; Top 100 worldwide in the Deel × J.P. Morgan startup competition, from 37,000+ applicants), and Mandeta, a programmatic media agency for the Albanian-speaking market. Earlier he spent two decades inside global companies, culminating as Chief Transformation Officer for Dentsu Switzerland, then SVP EMEA, then EVP / Global Executive Director, Business Transformation. He is a Forbes Business Council member, a TEDx speaker (Prishtina, 2024), Swissalbs Entrepreneur of the Year 2023, and the author of The Blank Collar Equation.
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The future of work, the case for the blank collar, made to a live stage.
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