Roy Bahat is the head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture capital firm that was the first to focus on the future of work, and has a particular interest in the effect of AI on work. Bloomberg Beta invested in MasterClass, Slack, Replit, Flexport, and LaunchDarkly, among other startups.
Before starting Bloomberg Beta more than a decade ago, Roy started a venture-backed company, was a corporate executive (at News Corp.), in government (at New York’s City Hall), in media, and in academia. He was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.
Roy chairs the Aspen Institute’s Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, convening “labor open” business leaders to explore new ways of relating to organized labor and worker power. Following work he did with New America to understand the long-term effect of technology on work in America, Roy was a commissioner on the California Governor’s Future of Work Commission. He also created #thisisnotadvice, a community-edited guide on how to work.
Roy teaches at U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, including a first-of-its-kind course on organized labor and another on the media industry. He was named a favorite MBA professor.
Roy served on the board or as an advisor to several non-profits including the Abundance Network, Stanford’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Economic Security Project, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Roy is also a senior fellow (non-resident) at the Brookings Institution, where he writes about AI.
Roy graduated from Harvard College and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.