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Prediction Held up
Gerstner: US government will take action against AI model distillation
“I think the US government is going to take steps against distillation, which they should do.”
Brad Gerstner Jul 11, 2026 ▶ 58:58 OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: SpaceX will use an innovative lockup structure for its IPO
“With respect to the lockup, I think this is the most innovative, and I think SpaceX is going to have a very similar innovation.”
Brad Gerstner Jun 6, 2026 ▶ 27:16 The IPO Comeback: Why Tech Giants Are Finally Going Public | All-In Liquidity IPO Panel
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gerstner: SpaceX IPO will trade at 40 to 50 times revenue
“This is why the SpaceX IPO is going to trade at 40 to 50 times revenue.”
Brad Gerstner May 8, 2026 ▶ 23:11 Elon’s Anthropic Deal, The Next AI Monopoly?, “FDA for AI” Panic, Trading the AI Boom
Prediction Held up
Gerstner predicts OpenAI and Google will sandbox frontier AI models
“I think that OpenAI will end up doing the same thing. I think Google will end up doing the same thing.”
Brad Gerstner Apr 10, 2026 ▶ 8:26 Anthropic’s $30B Ramp, Mythos Doomsday, OpenClaw Ankled, Iran War Ceasefire, Israel's Influence
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Venture capital investments from 2020-2022 will produce lousy returns
“I think the vintage of the last 18 months will be lousy. So the capital deployed over the last 18 months won't have a lot of return.”
Brad Gerstner May 23, 2022 ▶ 14:28 E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Tech market valuations will not bounce back to 2020–2021 peak levels
“Let me be absolutely clear. There is no bouncing back to where we were the last 18 months. That was the outlier. That was the make-believe.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 26, 2022 ▶ 53:34 E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: China will not supply weapons to Russia
“This is why they're not going to supply the Russians with weapons.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 26, 2022 ▶ 1:27:57 E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gerstner: 100% of 2021's thousand unicorns will face down rounds
“Remember we had a thousand unicorns at the end of 2021. And I've said a hundred percent of those are going to do a down round. And we're still in the early stages of that reset to occur.”
Brad Gerstner Aug 11, 2023 ▶ 33:07 E141: State of Series A's, VC dry powder, IPO window opens + more with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Trump accounts initiative will go live on July 4th
“These things are going to go live on July fourth.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 2:23 Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gerstner predicts up to 40 percent of 2022 unicorns will disappear
“Yeah, I'd say 30 to 40% are these companies that were valued over a billion dollars that don't have product market fit. They'll disappear.”
Brad Gerstner Jun 24, 2023 ▶ 1:14:36 E134: Ukraine counteroffensive, China tensions, COVID Patient Zero, RFK Jr reaction & more
Prediction Partly held up
Gerstner: DeepSeek, Anthropic, and OpenAI will launch Blackwell-trained models in 4–8 weeks
“And just this year, like we're going to see the first models over the course of the next four to eight weeks out of deep seek, out of anthropic, out of open AI that are trained on blackwell servers, right? You're going to see a next generation of models Far mo…”
Brad Gerstner Feb 7, 2026 ▶ 43:14 Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: US wealth disparity will continue to increase
“The exact, the exacerbation of the wealth disparity is going to increase, not decrease.”
Brad Gerstner Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 1:57:08 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gerstner: Prop 22 will become the regulatory model for New York and other states
“You're going to see if Prop. 22 passes, which I think it will tonight, it's going to be the architecture that New York and many other states follow. They're certainly not going to follow the disastrous AB five Example.”
Brad Gerstner Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 2:14:32 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Post-COVID inflation will roll over and long-term trends will resume
“I think the much more likely explanation is that the trends that existed for 20 years still exist. They were interrupted temporarily by us saving ourselves from a catastrophe with COVID. The transient thing that everybody has come to make fun of, right? Transi…”
Brad Gerstner May 23, 2022 ▶ 39:37 E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
Prediction Partly held up
Gerstner: Pragmatic, moderate Democrat like Buttigieg will emerge as party nominee
“I think that there is a, there's been a doctrine in the Democratic Party that to win the primary, you got to veer to the left. Right. You got to contend with Bernie. You got to contend with Elizabeth Warren, but ultimately that's a losing strategy in the elect…”
Brad Gerstner Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 1:58:12 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: ChatGPT usage will bounce back to 100M–150M level after summer
“I think that what we're going to see is kids come back to school. You're going to see the normal uptick in traffic. It probably hangs out around this hundred million, hundred and fifty million level in terms of usage.”
Brad Gerstner Jul 9, 2023 ▶ 22:34 E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
Prediction Held up
Brad Gerstner predicts Nvidia will beat earnings expectations through late 2023
“I don't think there's any problems with Nvidia. I think they're going to continue to perform. I think they're beat their numbers for the balance of the year.”
Brad Gerstner Jun 16, 2023 ▶ 18:18 E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
Prediction Partly held up
Gerstner: Snowflake will grow free cash flow over 100% in 2022
“Snowflake this year will grow its free cash flow at over a hundred percent a year. Next year, probably, you know, 80 or 90%. Free cash flow. Not just revenue. Free cash flow.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 26, 2022 ▶ 23:35 E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
Prediction Partly held up
Gerstner: Meta will launch major AI models and agents within six weeks
“Over the next four to six weeks. They're going to have massive launches out of the AI side of the business. I expect a lot more support for their open AI model or for their open LLM. I also think they're going to launch a bunch of agents on WhatsApp and Instag…”
Brad Gerstner Jul 9, 2023 ▶ 8:00 E136: Hacking the pod, Threads launches, Fed minutes, immigration, balloon farce, heart health
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Brad Gerstner predicts upcoming AI funding rounds will dwarf Mistral's €105M seed
“There are going to be a couple of monster rounds, I think announced next week, like that are going to make this one look like kids play.”
Brad Gerstner Jun 16, 2023 ▶ 1:17:20 E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Used car prices will be lower by May 2023
“For two months in a row, we've had sequential declines. You tell me, is the price of the used car this time next year higher than 29 or lower than 29? It's going to be lower because we're destroying demand by raising interest rates.”
Brad Gerstner May 23, 2022 ▶ 8:06 E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Tech growth stocks will be higher by May 2023
“We will be higher for growth stocks this time next year, but we may very well get there by way of lower and potentially meaningfully lower because the counterfactual to the hyperinflation argument is not, you can't deliver the counterfactual for at least four …”
Brad Gerstner May 23, 2022 ▶ 48:02 E81: All-In Summit: Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner on markets, downturns & investment cycles
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Most companies IPOing in the next year will be down-rounds
“I think the vast majority of companies that come public in the next 12 months are going out below their last round's valuation.”
Brad Gerstner Mar 26, 2022 ▶ 15:32 E73: Late-stage VC markdowns and mistakes, market strategy, Ukraine/Russia update with Brad Gerstner
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Growth equity multiples face an additional 10-20% drawdown
“I suspect that there's another 10 to 20% to go, right? For a 10 year that's going to be sitting here at one eight.”
Brad Gerstner Apr 17, 2021 ▶ 17:19 E29: Coinbase goes public, direct listings vs. IPOs, unions & more with Bestie Guestie Brad Gerstner
Prediction Partly held up
Gerstner predicts no blue wave and a divided Senate following 2020 election
“And I think what the markets are starting to price in is that this is not going to be a blue wave. There's no mandate here for massive tax reform. There's going to be a divided Senate. It's going to be hard to pass legislation. That's going to be overly onerou…”
Brad Gerstner Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 1:45:26 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gerstner: Democrats will not win control of the US Senate
“They're not going to get the Senate either.”
Brad Gerstner Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 1:39:40 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gerstner: US Senate almost certain to stay Republican 51-49
“Is anybody prepared to, I, I'm getting a read from my analysts who are live blogging to me that the Senate is almost certain to go Republican at this point, with Iowa, Maine, and North Carolina going Republican. And Michigan and Montana both in real danger for…”
Brad Gerstner Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 2:23:05 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Gerstner predicts Donald Trump will win Michigan in 2020 election
“Michigan's gonna go to Trump.”
Brad Gerstner Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 2:12:04 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Stock market will likely trade up tomorrow regardless of winner
“I think the more surprising thing at this point is it's almost, you know, and I'm certainly going to live to regret this, but it appears at this point that the market's going to be up tomorrow, almost either way.”
Brad Gerstner Nov 4, 2020 ▶ 2:24:32 E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
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