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Chamath Palihapitiya on Snowflake 1182 days apart Reversed ⤴ watch & share →

In 2022, Palihapitiya called Snowflake a "must own" business; in 2025, he argued its consumption-based pricing model destroys businesses in the long term.

Opinion

Chamath: Snowflake belongs in the "must-own" category alongside FAANG stocks

“Well, I would put snowflake in the list of these must own high growth software businesses, right? You know, the fangs tend to be in the must own category.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 26, 2022 ▶ 25:04 E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner

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Insight

Chamath: Consumption-based pricing models destroy software businesses in the long term

“Consumption-based pricing. It doesn't work, and what I mean is, you can have some adoption in the short term. The best example is Snowflake, but in the long term, it destroys your business, and the reason is because you don't know which data is valuable, and y…”

Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 21, 2025 ▶ 1:10:53 IPOs and SPACs are Back, Mag 7 Showdown, Zuck on Tilt, Apple's Fumble, GENIUS Act passes Senate

Chamath Palihapitiya on NVIDIA 1035 days apart Reversed ⤴ watch & share →

Palihapitiya previously predicted Nvidia's profits would dilute due to competition, but later praised the company for its exceptionally high margins and massive profitability.

Prediction Partly held up

Palihapitiya: Nvidia's margins will compress as major tech companies build custom chips

“In the end, Nvidia's gains today will be then spread across Nvidia. Facebook will have their own chip. Amazon will have their own chip. Google already does. Apple will have their own chip. All the memory companies will be in this space, right? So then the prof…”

Chamath Palihapitiya May 26, 2023 ▶ 1:04:45 E130: DeSantis's Twitter Spaces, debt ceiling, Nvidia rips, state of VC, startup failure & more

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Opinion

Chamath: Nvidia is unbelievably accretive despite being mispriced like SaaS

“Except Nvidia. Which is the most unbelievably accretive, well-run company, highest margins, you know, making two hundred billion dollars. And they're treating it like they're treating ServiceNow and Snowflake.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 32:49 Anthropic's Generational Run, OpenAI Panics, AI Moats, Meta Loses Major Lawsuits

Chamath Palihapitiya on ChatGPT 992 days apart Reversed ⤴ watch & share →

In 2023, Palihapitiya predicted chat AI usage would decay due to narrow use cases, but in 2026, he called ChatGPT an indispensable consumer utility.

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Chamath: Consumer chat LLM usage will decay to a fraction of its peak

“There's some pretty useful use cases, but narrow, where these chat interfaces are very useful, and the usage will decay to that Number. And that number is probably a fraction of what the peak was.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 9, 2023 ▶ 19:23 E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Chamath: ChatGPT will become an essential utility consumers refuse to cancel

“And by the way, in the pandemic, remember what we saw, the two things that people refused to cancel, Was not your mortgage payment or any car payment. You were willing to go into arrears and into default. The two things that people would always keep was the ce…”

Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 21:58 Anthropic's Generational Run, OpenAI Panics, AI Moats, Meta Loses Major Lawsuits

Chamath Palihapitiya on Republican Party 799 days apart Reversed ⤴ watch & share →

Chamath called Trump a "weight on the neck" of the GOP in 2022, but later praised his "hostile takeover" of the party.

Opinion

Chamath: Trump is a weight on the Republican Party

“Trump is a, just a weight on the neck of the Republican party, and it's time to just get rid of him.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Nov 12, 2022 ▶ 7:20 E104: FTX collapse with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong + election results, macro update & more

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Opinion

Chamath: Donald Trump successfully executed a hostile takeover of the Republican Party

“And I think what the great thing that Donald Trump did was he basically conducted a hostile takeover of the Republican Party.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Jan 19, 2025 ▶ 34:59 Ted Cruz: Trump's First Week, Texas vs. California, Immigration, DOGE, Greenland

Chamath Palihapitiya on Equities 667 days apart Revised ⤴ watch & share →

Palihapitiya's shift from a bullish to a bearish outlook on equities reflects drastically different macroeconomic conditions, including changing interest rates, between 2020 and 2022.

Prediction Didn’t hold up

Chamath predicts negative risk-free rates will make long equities highly profitable

“You're basically going to get paid to be long equities because your risk-free rate is zero and will soon be negative.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Sep 9, 2020 ▶ 47:01 E7: California's collapse, how SPACs are opening the markets for growth stocks & more

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Palihapitiya: Stock market equities face severe pressure without buyer support

“Equities get really under pressure. There is no scenario where there's a bid to equities.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Jul 8, 2022 ▶ 25:28 E86: Macro outlook: jobs, housing, inflation + Dutch farmers protests & EU climate missteps

David Friedberg on Venture Capital 616 days apart Reversed ⤴ watch & share →

In 2023, Friedberg predicted a significant decrease in venture capital for startups; in 2025, he predicted a surge in capital deployment due to AI.

Prediction Held up

Friedberg: LP capital and startup funding will fall significantly in aggregate

“On a day to day basis, it means there's gonna be less companies that are going to get funded, but more importantly, it's gonna be less LP money going into venture. And there's going to be less capital available to fund startups in aggregate by a significant am…”

David Friedberg Sep 22, 2023 ▶ 1:21:58 E146: Did the Fed break the VC model? Plus IPOs, M&A, revaluing unicorns & more

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Friedberg: AI returns will drive more venture capital into tech startups

“In fact, what I think we're going to see is much more venture capital flowing into new tech startups, much more capital being deployed because the return on the invested capital is so, so, so much higher because of AI.”

David Friedberg May 31, 2025 ▶ 6:59 AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes

Chamath Palihapitiya on Economy 518 days apart Revised ⤴ watch & share →

Palihapitiya's economic outlook shifted from bullish in late 2020 to predicting a contraction in early 2022, reflecting changed macroeconomic conditions.

Opinion

Chamath: Super bullish on the economy and tech heading into 2021

“So I'm generally like, I'm super bullish on the economy. I'm super bullish on tech.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 3, 2020 ▶ 1:02:06 E9: Trump has COVID, First debate reactions, Coinbase letter response & more

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Prediction Held up

Chamath: The U.S. economy will contract into a recession

“We will contract as an economy.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 5, 2022 ▶ 22:03 E71: Russia/Ukraine deep dive: escalation, risk factors, financial fallout, exit ramps and more

Chamath Palihapitiya on Cryptocurrency Market 518 days apart Reversed ⤴ watch & share →

Palihapitiya went from predicting the crypto market would grow to $10 trillion in 2021 to claiming nothing could revive it in 2023.

Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2026

Chamath predicts crypto market value will reach $10 trillion

“And you have three trillion dollars of value that'll go to six trillion and then go to 10 trillion.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 9, 2021 ▶ 30:38 E50: Crypto investing deep dive, Facebook's whistleblower fallout, Chappelle's new special & more

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Chamath: Even a traditional bank run cannot revive the crypto market

“Nothing can revive the crypto market as we're seeing today, even in a run on the bank, which is exactly what everybody was afraid of in a Bitcoin world. That thing is down.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Mar 11, 2023 ▶ 1:20:09 E119: Silicon Valley Bank implodes: startup extinction event, contagion risk, culpability, and more

Chamath Palihapitiya on Snap 475 days apart Reversed ⤴ watch & share →

Palihapitiya claimed in 2024 he had never looked at Snap's performance, despite discussing its steady user growth and performance in 2022.

Assertion Supported

Palihapitiya: Snap's active user growth remains extremely steady around 350M

“If you look at the MAU growth of snap, it's actually been extremely steady and they've had an incredible March forward. And I think that they're roughly around 300 and fifty million.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 22, 2022 ▶ 14:59 E101: Ye acquires Parler, Snap drops 30%, macro outlook, VC metrics, valuing stocks & more

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Disclosure

Chamath refuses to analyze Snap due to lack of voting rights

“I've never taken more than one second to look at that company. And the reason is there's just zero ability for me to have any useful say. So I've never honestly looked at its performance. I've never studied a single characteristic. I've never trended it.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Feb 9, 2024 ▶ 23:29 E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis

Chamath Palihapitiya on US GDP 350 days apart Revised ⤴ watch & share →

Over the course of a year, Palihapitiya updated his economic forecast from predicting a GDP contraction to expecting over 3% growth in Q2.

Prediction Held up

Palihapitiya: US unemployment will rise and GDP will shrink

“So I think unemployment is going back up. I think GDP is going to shrink.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 14, 2024 ▶ 1:13:57 Elon gets paid, Apple's AI pop, OpenAI revenue rip, Macro debate & Inside Trump Fundraiser

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Prediction Held up

Palihapitiya: US Q2 GDP growth will be between 3% and 4%

“What you're probably going to see in Q two is a really hot GDP print. If I'm a betting man, which I am, I think the GDP print's going to come in above three, not quite four, but above three.”

Chamath Palihapitiya May 31, 2025 ▶ 1:02:15 AI Doom vs Boom, EA Cult Returns, BBB Upside, US Steel and Golden Votes

Chamath Palihapitiya on Crypto 288 days apart Reversed ⤴ watch & share →

Palihapitiya previously praised crypto as an incredibly disruptive force, but later stated it is no different from traditional finance.

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Chamath: DAOs destroying traditional wealth is positive for the world

“So when you add all these three things together, I think to me it's the most incredibly positively disruptive force I have seen. I think it will destroy wealth. I frankly couldn't give a fuck. And I think it's better for the world.”

Chamath Palihapitiya Sep 14, 2021 ▶ 1:06:04 E46: False Ivermectin narratives, regulatory grift, wartime mentality in solving issues & more

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Opinion

Chamath: Crypto market dynamics are identical to traditional financial cycles

“We've had to listen to every millennial and Gen Z market observer in crypto tout how this is not like boomers, and they turned out to be the same. I mean, this is the thing of all. It's like of all of the times you've had to hear how it's so different, it turn…”

Chamath Palihapitiya Jun 30, 2022 ▶ 11:15 E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more

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