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JD Ross

11 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 27, 2026 by JD Ross · across every show →

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Feb 27, 2026
Assertion Supported
JD Ross: Traditional insurance brokerages pay a third of revenue to producers
“One is, like, a third of their revenue up front is just going to this producer who owns the relationship.”
JD Ross Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 11:59 How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 27, 2026
Assertion Supported
JD Ross: Insurance brokers collect $200B to $400B annually in fees
“Across the world. There's like 200 to four hundred billion dollars of just kind of transaction fees.”
JD Ross Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 10:44 How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 27, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ross: Enterprise capacity to adopt tools is AI's primary limiting factor
“I think right now the ability to absorb and adopt the tools is going to be the limiting factor for years to come.”
JD Ross Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 25:51 How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 27, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Ross: AI puts new career entrants on equal footing with industry veterans
“And this is the second time in my career where everyone's sort of kind of getting back to equal footing, and so young people who are just getting into their careers just starting are on equal ground with people like me, people like you who have spent 10, 2030 …”
JD Ross Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 35:07 How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 27, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ross: Mid-market SaaS will be worthless in five years due to AI
“I think it's a barbell thing. Like, the large AI companies are gonna eat the top end of value, and everyone in the middle is gonna just commoditize, or people who aren't even in the software business. Like, in the next two or three years, this isn't true, righ…”
JD Ross Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 22:31 How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 27, 2026 bullish
Insight
Ross: Cheaper AI-assisted development increases demand for software engineers tenfold
“On engineering right now, I was happy to spend, call it a 100,000 dollars to build this feature. Now it costs 20,000 dollars. I don't want less engineers. I want 10 times as many engineers, because I've actually, the set of features I would want for 20,000 dol…”
JD Ross Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 32:56 How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
Feb 27, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ross: Foundational AI labs will attack vertical AI players like Harvey
“And there's, you know, there's companies like Harvey who are going in saying we're going to be the ones who win on professional service, you know, AI for Legal or for accounting and things like that. Yeah. And I think over time, I would be surprised if more of…”
JD Ross Feb 27, 2026 ▶ 24:44 How to Use AI in 2026: Opendoor Founder's Advice · Joe Lonsdale
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Ross: Coverage uses automated AI agents to one-shot PRs from Linear tickets
“Cole, who runs our engineering team, has like six agents that are running at once at all times. Just doing different kinds of projects. When we create a new ticket in linear, it automatically kicks off this thing that basically creates a dev environment, which…”
JD Ross Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 9:06 Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Ross: The cost of building new software is asymptotically dropping to zero
“I think right now, like the cost of software is just asymptotically dropping to zero, a building new software, which means that the way you build a company completely changes.”
JD Ross Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 9:24 Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
Jul 9, 2026 neutral
Insight
Ross: Software development has fundamentally shifted from writing to editing
“If the job like in the past was writing, now it's editing and shifting from being a writer to an editor is a very I think for some people they're thriving in it and some people are really shocked by it.”
JD Ross Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 11:33 Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
Jul 9, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ross: Coverage built and shipped a custom enterprise feature in one day
“Like we can now have an enterprise customer come up who says, oh yeah, this is so close, but we actually need it for is X. We can build X in one day, ship it live and close that deal. We did this last week.”
JD Ross Jul 9, 2026 ▶ 9:34 Why AI is Bigger Than the Industrial Revolution
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