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Opinion
Huang: Restricting US immigration as a China hawk is unpatriotic
“It's almost like a badge of honor. It's a badge of shame. There's no question it's a badge of shame. There's no question that although they want what's in the best interest of our country, and we all want what's in the best interest of our country, destroying …”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 1:26:05 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Gerstner: Total AI chip bans dramatically increase the risk of China invading Taiwan
“If we keep the chip ban in place, here's my biggest concern. I think it dramatically increases the chances that China is forced to move on Taiwan.”
Brad Gerstner Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 41:20 China, AI Immigration, Rare Earths & Chips, Tariffs, Markets | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2029
Musk: AI will perform any cognitive task within three to four years
“I mean, AI really within the next few years will be able to do any cognitive task. Like, it obviously begs the question, what are we all gonna do? You know, I'd say max three or four years. Maximum.”
Elon Musk Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 21:22 Market Predictions, Rates & Inflation, DOGE, CES, AI Compute | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Altman: An AI compute infrastructure glut is guaranteed to happen
“There will come a glut for sure. And whether that's like in two to three years or five to six, Satya and I can't tell you, but like it's gonna happen at some point, probably several points along the way.”
Sam Altman Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 19:29 All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Disclosure
Nadella: Microsoft refused OpenAI requests for dedicated multi-gigawatt compute clusters
“Sometimes you may have to say no to some of the demand, including some of the open AI demand, right? Because sometimes, you know, Sam may say, hey, build me a dedicated, you know, big, you know, whatever, multi-gigawatt data center in one location for training…”
Satya Nadella Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 43:39 All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nadella: Business apps will collapse as AI agents replace business logic
“That's probably where they'll all collapse, right, in the agent era, because if you think about it, right, they are essentially CRUD databases with a bunch of business logic. The business logic is all going to these agents.”
Satya Nadella Oct 31, 2025 ▶ 53:00 All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod

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Prediction Held up
Gerstner: Trump will likely rescind most of Biden's AI executive order
“I suspect that Trump is going to rescind all, or at least part, the major part of the Biden EO executive order on AI.”
Brad Gerstner Jan 11, 2025 ▶ 54:32 Market Predictions, Rates & Inflation, DOGE, CES, AI Compute | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Assertion Contradicted
Gerstner: Amazon Spent Over $100 Billion on AWS Before Turning Profitable
“By our analysis, for example, just Amazon, Spent over a hundred billion dollars on AWS invested for over eight years before they saw profitability in that business.”
Brad Gerstner Jul 11, 2024 ▶ 33:26 Ep12. Tech Stocks vs the Rest; AI VC Bubble, Calcium CT Scan | BG2 with Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Assertion Supported
Huang: NVIDIA partnered with Intel despite historic rivalry
“And notice, we just did the ultimate deal. Right. Partnering with Intel. A company that spent most of its life trying to put us out of business. And I had no trouble partnering with them.”
Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 1:29:07 NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
Assertion Contradicted
Agrawal: Global software industry generates roughly $400 billion in annual revenue
“This, and just to put this in context, the entirety of the software industry earns about four hundred billion dollars of revenue.”
Apoorv Agrawal Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 16:17 AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean | BG2 Guest Interview · Bg2 Pod

Open predictions the full timeline →

25days Gerstner bets reliable AI agents will autonomously book hotels within two years Brad Gerstner · prediction date: 2026-10-08 25days Gurley bets trustworthy, transactional AI agents will take more than two years Bill Gurley · prediction date: 2026-10-08 109days Baker: Annual AI inference revenue will finish the year well over $200B Gavin Baker · prediction date: 2026-12-31 109days Altman expects coding AI to execute multi-day tasks by 2026 Sam Altman · prediction date: 2026-12-31

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Ordered by full support rate, then by supported count. Minimum three resolved. Partly supported claims count as resolved but not as fully supported, same as everywhere on the ledger.

PersonEpsStatementsSupportedPartly supportedContradictedFull support rate
Jensen Huang 7 82 14 0 0 100%
Satya Nadella 3 73 9 0 0 100%
Sherwin Wu 1 19 6 0 0 100%
Maureen Zawalnik 1 6 4 0 0 100%
Ali Ghodsi 1 13 3 0 0 100%
Dylan Patel 1 56 12 3 2 71%
Sunny Madra 2 13 4 1 1 67%
Sam Altman 1 24 2 1 0 67%

From the Wisdom Wall all quotes →

“the math you get to before you account for things like, um, bad GPUs, bad satellites, right, these will all be things that happen, but the math you get to is it's about five billion dollars per…”

“chat is a great way of expressing your intent. It's a good way of communicating with the machine, but it's not a great output. Um, where in many cases, what you want back is an artifact.”

“the thing that I, I feel, uh, you know, is happening in enterprises, you, you hear these 95% of projects fail, But, like, you know, like, that's, that's, that's actually what you want. Like, you, you,…”

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