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O'Driscoll: AI inference providers will become significantly more CapEx-intensive
“If I'm buying data center compute and then effectively selling data center compute with hosted LLM, at some point I'm going to want to own my own data center assets to have more control of my destiny, which means vertically integrating downwards, which also me…”
Lemkin: PayPal's Board Will Ultimately Accept Stripe's Acquisition Offer
“The board rejected it, right? And the fact that the board rejected it means to me that they're going to accept it.”
Lemkin: Stripe-PayPal Acquisition Premium Will Land at Around 35%
“So it's probably just a dance from 28 to 35. And then it gets parked with advent to while they figure out antitrust and capital issues.”
O'Driscoll: DRAM Memory Pricing Will Suffer Brutal Collapse in 1-2 Years
“And when that, the big aha for me is when that Pricing breaks. It'll be brutal to the downside, but maybe that's a year, two years from now.”
Lin Qiao: AI token costs will drop 10x in three years, driving 100x usage
“I do think the cost of token will go down drastically. 10 X cost reduction in the next three years, and this 10 X cost reduction will drive a hundred X usage.”
AI Labs Will Not Compete In Regulated Complex Industries
“I think things that have some, like, regulation around them, and are, like, complex industries, yes, they're gonna see the advantages of the models, but they're not gonna see competition from Anthropik or OpenAI.”
Software Headcount Will Stay Flat As Companies Scale AI Agents
“I think that that's what the workflows will be, is people are going to be deploying more agents than engineers, and they're going to keep the same number of engineers. We're just going to build a lot more.”
Lemkin: OpenAI will likely cancel or pause its hardware project
“Listen, if I had to breathe the tea leaves, hardware is probably on the bubble. This was one of Sam's initiatives that made sense when everything was working and OpenAI had an unassailable lead over, over its competitors, right? Now everything's, you know, we …”
Lemkin: Software companies will spend 10% of revenue on AI tokens
“All the software spend is going to put 10% of their top line into tokens.”
Stebbings: Y Combinator charges unprecedented carried interest premiums up to 50%
“The carry premiums that they charge are incredible too. People don't know or discuss that enough. Unprecedented. 40, 50% in cases.”
Jain: Majority of enterprise AI workloads will be open source within three years
“Well, we've been telling customers, I believe that majority, majority of enterprise workloads will actually be on open source models in three years for sure.”
Jain: Glean aims to grow headcount to 5,000 within five years
“Well, hopefully, you know, 5000. We're gonna grow.”
O'Driscoll: AI Will Not Replace 50% of White-Collar Jobs in 5 Years
“I mean, look, in five years' time, if Dario is correct, and 50% of white-collar jobs have been replaced by AI, which I don't believe for a second, Then you damn right. There's going to be political. Political controversy. And if you think five percent is going…”
O'Driscoll: AI capex spending will be stopped by demand, not supply
“This isn't, this spending isn't going to stop because the supply side says stop. Facebook aren't going to say stop. Google isn't going to say stop. Microsoft isn't going to say stop. Really, it boils down to the demand side. As long as, and enterprise customer…”
O'Driscoll: Slowing Compute Demand Will Force Nvidia To Debook Prior Revenue
“And if that slows down and there's excess capacity, these deals will look horrible because you'll not just not be, if you're Nvidia, you'll not just be not growing quickly. You'll be debooking prior revenue. You'll be kind of taking, you know, you'll be taking…”
Bavor: AI token spend will reach 20% of software developer salaries
“I would not bet on 3.8%. I would bet on much closer to 20%. In software engineering, the gains, to me, seem unequivocally there.”
Lemkin: B2B SaaS will see Bending Spoons-style roll-ups revive legacy software
“And I think there's also going to be another bending spoons in B to B that's going to nail this. They're going to buy these horrific products like Marketo and others, put a few smart people in it and just boost the NRR.”
Shridhar: AI Demand Will Drive Global Electricity Abundance Within 20 Years
“So I'm super optimistic that if we look back 20 years from now, we will say AI was the best thing that happened because of which electricity abundance happened to everybody on the planet. AI is just a catalyst, a stepping stone, and a, and an accelerator.”
Revolut Will Outvalue Robinhood in Its Next Funding Round
“It's our fintech provider, Revolut, which has stolen the show, and I think on the next round will be considerably more valuable than Robinhood.”
Arora: Palo Alto Networks exclusively hires via hackathons to transform workforce
“We've been hiring people only through hackathons now, right? And we see natural attrition of two percent, give or take a month, and we just replace them with people who actually are AI savvy people who are from hackathons. Give me 12 months, I'll have sort of …”
Nikesh Arora: Financial markets will not fund another $100B compute capex cycle
“Financial markets are not going to bear the cost of another hundred billion dollars at a trillion dollars or trillion and a half.”
Arora: Cybersecurity will produce new multi-ten-billion dollar companies in 10-25 years
“There is room to build companies which have tens of billions of dollars of market cap in the next 10 to 25 years.”
Petersen: Flexport will never need to raise capital again
“I don't need to raise any money ever again.”
Randle predicts SpaceX stock price will be lower in six months
“I would personally probably take the under in six months, not because I don't think that the company is going to be valued extremely well... But if I had to go over under, I'd go under from six months from now.”
O'Driscoll: Anthropic still has over 50% chance of IPOing this year
“I mean, statistically, more than 50%, yes, because in a world where this doesn't get solved for four or five months, there's so many other problems that our heads are gonna hurt, right? So you have to say, if a problem, in a world where it does get solved, the…”
O'Driscoll: AI frontier market will consolidate into 2-3 US players
“Fast forward five years, you know, unless the U.S. Is ludicrously obnoxious in its sovereignty acts, it should be a small oligopoly like Cloud of two to three players in the U.S. With some kind of affiliations in Europe, and that is the likely structure of the…”
O'Driscoll: Semiconductor stocks will crash hard if CapEx flattens out
“The catalyst on the semiconductor CapEx trend is a flattening out in CapEx. If that happens, then all bets are off, and those things are going to go down so fast and hard.”
AI agents will evolve into completely autonomous software engineers
“My prediction would be agents that are like completely autonomous software engineers. Today, I think we're all using Tools like CloudCode or Codex to write code, but not as literal software engineers.”
Grinberg: Kirkland's $500M AI push will ultimately benefit legal AI vendors
“Now, I actually think this is good for Harvey because it's nothing like trying to do something yourself to make you realize, oh, shit, this is actually really difficult. This doesn't actually matter for us to have the in-house ability to build this ourselves. …”
Grinberg: AI frontier models will remain roughly equivalent to each other
“The bare case against factory is if one model provider gets significantly better than all of the others. So basically I think a key thing for us is that all the models are going to be roughly as good as each other.”
Grinberg: Median developer AI token spend will match salary within three years
“I would say order of magnitude will probably be comparable to salary.”
Grinberg predicts at least four AI companies will achieve frontier model parity
“There was a brief period of time where I thought it might be just one or two companies that run away with being kind of the frontier and the best. What seems pretty clear to me is it's probably going to be at least four that are going to probably be approximat…”
O'Driscoll: The 2020s will produce two trillion-dollar startup outcomes
“I think you're going to have one trillion dollar outcome from the last decade and two, it looks like from this decade, if it all happens according to plan.”
Chernin: Future AI compute demand will be driven by traditional enterprises
“We believe long-term better positioning for going to enterprises where we believe eventually a lot of demand will come from. Again, now most of our segment is working. It's AI natives working with AI natives, but we have a huge economics, a huge market of ente…”
Stebbings: Cognition and Factory will thrive due to model independence
“I respectfully disagree, and that's why I actually think both Cognition and Factory will do very well, because they're model independent”
O'Driscoll: Full-stack AI law firms won't replace elite law firms
“I don't think the full stack law firms will replace K and E.”
Foody: There will be significantly more jobs in 10 years
“I believe there's certainly going to be many more jobs in 10 years than there are today.”
Foody: Millions of people will soon be hired to train AI on workplace tasks
“And so there's this enormous mobilization of hundreds of thousands and soon millions of people to build out the full distribution of everything that you could pass into Google Workspace and everything that you could want out on the other side in every job cate…”
Enterprises Will Spend More on Compute Than Headcount Within Five Years
“I don't know about 24 months time, but I would bet that in five years the average enterprise spends more on compute than headcount.”
Foody: NVIDIA will lose its monopoly in five years but remain most valuable
“And so I would guess that in five years, it doesn't feel like Nvidia has quite the same monopoly, but that's okay, because even if they only have 30 or 40% market share in the largest market in the world by far, that is the world's most valuable company.”
O'Driscoll: Starlink Will Drive Most of SpaceX's Value by 2030
“I think Starlink will be the vast portion of the value. The value, I don't think data centers in space will be a meaningful percentage of revenue.”
Feldman predicts AI productivity gains will increase engineering hiring, not reduce it
“If we get, as we get more productive, we do more things, we're gonna hire more engineers. We're not gonna hire less engineers.”
O'Driscoll: SpaceX valuation will remain below $3 trillion post-IPO
“I'm comfortable in saying it'll be below, okay, I'll tell you what, I'll take, I'm comfortable below three. I mean, I'll totally take that bet.”
O'Driscoll: Elon Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit Appeal Will Fail
“He's going to appeal it. It won't get a second past Appeal, and it'll go away, right?”
Browder Capital's fourth fund will allocate zero capital to follow-on reserves
“I decided for my fourth fund, no reserves, just everything up front, Browder Hotel, let's go.”