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Next up (10)

109 days left 2026-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Gilbert: Disney will set an all-time net income record in 2026
“But I think in 20, 26, it's looking like they'll set a brand new net income record ever based on the way it's trending.”
Ben Gilbert Aug 10, 2026 ▶ 4:14:29 Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
109 days left 2026-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Waymo to Expand Across Multiple US Cities and Launch in Tokyo
“They're going to be opening a bunch more cities in the U.S. Next year. They're launching in Tokyo, their first international city, slowly and then all at once.”
Ben Gilbert Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 3:01:17 Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
337 days left 2027-08-16
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2027
Miller: a16z and Sequoia will launch retail-accessible funds within five years
“And I'm gonna bet you that within five years, the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, also launch funds just like this.”
Ben Miller Aug 16, 2022 ▶ 8:49 Amazon.com · Acquired
370 days left 2027-09-18
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2027
Zuckerberg: Threads could reach one billion users in a few years
“Hopefully in the next few years, five with threads, if that continues scaling”
Mark Zuckerberg Sep 18, 2024 ▶ 1:04:26 The Mark Zuckerberg Interview · Acquired
382 days left 2027-09-30
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2027
Zuckerberg: Threads could reach one billion users within a few years
“Hopefully in the next few years, five with threads, if that continues scaling.”
Mark Zuckerberg Sep 30, 2024 ▶ 2:12:28 Acquired LIVE from Chase Center (with Daniel Ek, Emily Chang, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg) · Acquired
474 days left 2027-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027
Gilbert: NFL will easily beat $25B annual revenue target by 2027
“The league now does over twenty three billion dollars per year across all teams. That's on track to surpass twenty five billion, which was their goal by 2027, they're going to easily beat this number.”
Ben Gilbert Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 3:27:46 The NFL: How small-town teams became America's most valuable sports empire (Audio) · Acquired
914 days left 2029-03-15
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2029
Gerstner (in 2022): Snowflake can reach a $500B valuation by 2029
“I think this company can be worth over five hundred billion dollars over the course of the next five to seven years.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 15, 2022 ▶ 1:05:35 Altimeter (with Brad Gerstner) · Acquired
2072 days left 2032-05-16
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2032
Weber: Brooks targets 60M unique customers and $4B revenue in 10 years
“So we see an opportunity for sixty million customers, Sixty million uniques up from maybe fifteen million today, four bagger, and four billion in revenue.”
Jim Weber May 16, 2022 ▶ 1:02:29 Arena Show Part II: Brooks Running (with CEO Jim Weber) · Acquired
2465 days left 2033-06-13
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2033
Khosrowshahi: Autonomous vehicles will take 10 years to become material in transportation
“My instinct is that you will see small scale continued experiments kind of get bigger over the next five years, but it's going to take a good 10 years for it to be a material part of our network or transportation at large. But that's a guess.”
Dara Khosrowshahi Jun 13, 2023 ▶ 1:22:59 Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
9531 days left 2052-10-17
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2052
Fenton: Benchmark probably won't be around in 30 years
“Benchmark probably isn't going to be around in 30 years.”
Peter Fenton Oct 17, 2022 ▶ 23:56 Benchmark Part II: The Dinner · Acquired

Closed calls (18) the full record →

Prediction Didn’t hold up
Rosenthal: TSMC will likely be sole manufacturer at 3nm node
“So, very likely in the next process, it's just going to be TSMC.”
David Rosenthal Jan 21, 2025 ▶ 1:20:14 TSMC · Acquired
Prediction Partly held up
Rosenthal: Tesla Will Have to Shift to TSMC for 3nm Chips
“They're gonna have to go to TSMC, though, in the next generation, because you want three nanometer.”
David Rosenthal Jan 21, 2025 ▶ 1:37:48 TSMC · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Rep. Gonzalez: Congress will likely pass fiat-backed stablecoin legislation
“What I think you'll probably see is some sort of law that enshrines a quote payment stable coin. That language has been used in a couple of different bills. A payment stable coin as essentially a fiat backed stable coin.”
Anthony Gonzalez Aug 2, 2022 ▶ 1:05:03 From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Gilbert: Amazon will inevitably surpass Walmart in total global revenue
“If you look at the gap that Amazon closed in total revenue since the time they were founded to Walmart, they're going to catch them. No doubt about it.”
Ben Gilbert Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 2:58:00 Walmart · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Rosenthal: Ford and Red Bull Will Score a Podium in Their First Season
“Whereas Ford is coming in with Red Bull, one of the top teams, like they're going to be on the podium from season one.”
David Rosenthal Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 3:35:43 Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Neoclouds Will Offer Google TPUs in the Coming Months
“I think within a year it might happen. There are rumors already that some NeoClouds in the coming months are gonna have TPUs.”
Ben Gilbert Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 3:31:22 Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Predominant enterprise AI GPU compute consumption will occur via the cloud
“It looks like the predominant way that companies are going to use that compute is gonna be in the cloud.”
David Rosenthal Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 51:44 Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Costco operates at an 11% gross margin and will never expand it
“Even though Costco is only an 11% gross margin business, and only ever will be an 11% gross margin business, it's still a pretty amazing business to own.”
Ben Gilbert Aug 21, 2023 ▶ 1:49:11 Costco (Audio) · Acquired
Prediction Didn’t hold up
YouTube's Annual Revenue Will Likely Surpass All of Disney in 2025
“So YouTube is already bigger than Disney's media business, and this year will likely become bigger than Disney's entire business.”
Ben Gilbert Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 1:25:18 Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Gilbert: TSMC will ramp its 2nm process in the second half of 2025
“I think they're actually doing the small production runs, getting ready to ramp in the second half of this year on the two nanometer process.”
Ben Gilbert Jan 27, 2025 ▶ 2:32:30 TSMC founder Morris Chang · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Rep. Gonzalez: Congress is close to legislating on stablecoins
“We're getting to a point as a Congress, which is really nice, where I feel like we're getting close to finally legislating on it, specifically around stable coins. We'll see if we get there, but I think that's sort of the first bite of the apple coming off the…”
Anthony Gonzalez Aug 2, 2022 ▶ 49:49 From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez) · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Gilbert: Walmart should win same-day grocery delivery via Supercenters
“In my bull case, there's, they kind of should win same-day grocery delivery since they have these super centers everywhere.”
Ben Gilbert Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 2:32:36 Walmart · Acquired
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Doug DeMuro Predicts a $2 Million All-Electric Porsche Supercar Soon
“I suspect, in the next couple years, they will come out with a, the next supercar, which will be, you know, look like this, and they'll only make a thousand, and it'll cost two million dollars, and it will be fully electric in two zero to 60 in one and a half …”
Doug DeMuro Jun 27, 2023 ▶ 2:38:28 Porsche (with Doug DeMuro) · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Rosenthal: Amazon will soon pass Walmart in total revenue
“The only larger one being Walmart, which Amazon will almost assuredly pass very soon.”
David Rosenthal May 12, 2022 ▶ 29:41 Arena Show Part I: Idea Dinner + YC Continuity · Acquired
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Rosenthal: NVIDIA Hopper will be TSMC's first 4nm chip
“I think Hopper is going to be the world's first four nanometer process chip using TSMC's new four nanometer.”
David Rosenthal Apr 20, 2022 ▶ 1:21:40 Nvidia: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022) · Acquired
Prediction Held up
Microsoft will not make Activision games Xbox exclusive following the acquisition
“People are worried about with the Activision deal about whether Microsoft would make Activision's games exclusive on Xbox. I don't think they will.”
David Rosenthal Mar 7, 2022 ▶ 2:10:28 SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ben Gilbert predicted in 2022 that Peloton would be acquired soon
“I think two years from now, I think the most likely thing is that it's acquired by someone”
Ben Gilbert Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 2:17:37 Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
Prediction Held up
McCormick predicts Not Boring will cross $1M in revenue in 2021
“And I have a few pieces kind of coming up, and so I think chances are we're going to just kind of cross a million dollars in 2021.”
Packy McCormick Dec 3, 2021 ▶ 1:37:25 Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
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