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BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Open · timeframe May 2031
Costolo: SpaceX will acquire Tesla
“I think SpaceX, I am one of the people that believes SpaceX will buy Tesla.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 8:59 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Held up
Costolo: SpaceX could be worth over $2T on day one
“When SpaceX goes public, and I think it'll actually, could you could, it could end up being worth over two trillion dollars on day one, whether that's a fake price or not.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 9:25 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Costolo: OpenAI commitments exceed $1T without revenue to back them
“When you go and run on the numbers, it adds up to crazy over a trillion dollars worth of commitments that don't have the, you know, and you don't see the revenue model or growth yet to back it up.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 13:53 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Costolo: OpenAI will pop on IPO day but face intense quarterly scrutiny
“It will still do really, really well on day one because people are going to be like, it's the next stigma. It's the next Cerebrus. I can't, I, you know, I haven't been able to buy secondary before I want to be an investor. You have to own one of these things, …”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 15:00 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Costolo: AI data centers will stall without public buy-in from CEOs
“Again, writ large across the country, it goes back to the Darios and the Sams, et cetera, need to start painting a picture to the country about why this is great for us, or a lot of these data centers aren't going to get built.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 53:28 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Costolo: AI will replace human-only medical diagnosis within ten years
“Healthcare, we're going to look back 10 years from now and go, oh my god, we let humans who had only seen four cases of this decide what to do next instead of running it through, you know, here are the symptoms and evaluating against terabytes of historical da…”
Dick Costolo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 9:17 a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
a16z Prediction Not checkable as stated
Costolo: AI recommendations will outperform human judgment when they disagree
“There are going to be lots of cases of, in specific domains of, it did this thing a human would never do, and there will be lots of machine learning examples of, well, the machine thinks we should do X, and the people think we should do Y, but the machines wil…”
Dick Costolo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 10:10 a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Open · timeframe May 2036
Costolo: Space data centers are at least 10 to 12 years away
“It's let's at least let's at least agree that it's at least 10 or 12 years away.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 12:10 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Not checkable as stated
Costolo: Anthropic initially planned to keep Claude Code internal
“You know, they weren't even initially gonna release Claude Code. I mean, they initially, my understanding from folks inside Anthropic is we were just gonna be like, wait, this is like a huge competitive advantage. To be able to increase the rate of speed with …”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 19:36 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Not checkable as stated
Costolo: Mega-cap IPO distributions will reignite early-stage VC fundraising
“You've got all these university endowments and, Venture LPs, et cetera, that haven't had their big liquidity events that are now gonna be, you know, flush with distributions of SpaceX and Anthropic and OpenAI that are gonna be able to turn around and pour a bu…”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 24:54 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Costolo: Twitter partnered with Google to bypass Egypt's Arab Spring shutdown
“Egypt, you know, during the Arab Spring, we sort of started in Tunisia with people organizing protests on Twitter, and they were able to organize protests on Twitter because they were writing under pseudonyms and not, you know, their actual names, so people we…”
Dick Costolo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:28 a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
BIG TECHNOLOGY Prediction Held up
Costolo: Elon Musk will become the first trillionaire
“Elon's gonna be the first trillionaire.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 50:55 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
BIG TECHNOLOGY Assertion Supported
Costolo: Twitter stock dropped on MAU misses despite beating revenue and EBITDA
“We could even have beat top line And EBITDA. And grown, you know, bottom line more than we said we were going to grow it. But if we missed an MAU number, the stock would be down.”
Dick Costolo May 27, 2026 ▶ 5:38 Predicting the SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs — With Dick Costolo
a16z Assertion Supported
Dick Costolo worked as unpaid technical consultant on HBO's Silicon Valley
“I contacted the HBO folks who were doing the TV show Silicon Valley and said, hey, I want to come work on Silicon Valley, and the CEO of HBO, Richard Pepler, said, well, we need a, like, technical consultant, but, like, we can't, like, pay you to do it. And I …”
Dick Costolo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:52 a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Costolo trained in same Second City improv group as Steve Carell
“I remember I got there my first day, and you're doing the Second City Training Center, and Steve Carell and I and Rachel Dratch were all in the same group, so he and I and Rachel know each other from, like, God, 30 years ago now.”
Dick Costolo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:50 a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Costolo: Twitter took seven years to hit $16, one day to $47
“So we're doing our IPO for Twitter in November, 2013, and it took us like seven years to get to 16 dollars a share. And then it took us Two weeks to get to 26 dollars a share, and then a day to get to 47 dollars a share.”
Dick Costolo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 12:17 a16z Podcast | Improv'ing Leadership
a16z Assertion Partly supported
Costolo: Twitter priced its IPO at $16 before hitting $47
“The night of the IPO, you know, the stock was at, like, 47, and we had priced it at 16 on the S-One, like, two weeks earlier”
Dick Costolo Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:54 a16z Podcast | Teams, Trust, and Object Lessons
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Costolo auditioned for Saturday Night Live and was rejected
“When I didn't get some of the auditions, I tried to get, you know, audition for Saturday Night Live, didn't get that, a couple other auditions like that, and didn't get either of those.”
Dick Costolo Feb 12, 2018 ▶ 4:52 20VC: Dick Costolo on The Balance of Vision and Realism in Startups, The Biggest Challenge in Scaling Twitter & How To Optimise Decision Making Internally
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