Hemant Taneja is the CEO of General Catalyst, and a founder, investor, and author of four books, including 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, and Anthropic.