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Prediction Didn’t hold up
Vogt: Fully autonomous vehicles will dominate new car sales within 2-3 years
“What I do expect is, you know, within two or three years, most likely, I think the. Majority of new car sales will transition to vehicles where people don't have to drive because once you have that choice, I have a hard time believing that people are going to …”
Kyle Vogt Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 38:20 Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt — Self Driving Cars Will 10X Every Year
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Vogt: Cruise will sustain 10X annual fleet growth for the foreseeable future
“Next year it'll be thousands. And then it'll kind of continue. At least 10 X growth every year for their foreseeable future.”
Kyle Vogt Oct 6, 2023 ▶ 4:47 Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt — Self Driving Cars Will 10X Every Year
Assertion Contradicted
Baratz claims all other quantum computing companies remain purely in R&D
“Unlike any other quantum computing company, which is entirely In the R&D and research experimentation mode, we have commercial systems, so we're also focused on building the business.”
Dr. Alan Baratz Feb 6, 2026 ▶ 14:17 Live From D-Wave Qubits: CEO Dr. Alan Baratz on Quantum's Impact, Now and Into The Future
Assertion Contradicted
Luria: OpenAI is a negative gross margin business
“Open AI is a negative gross margin business. They claim they're not, but they are right. Which is to say it costs them more to answer your chat GPT question than they make revenue from you.”
Gil Luria Nov 17, 2025 ▶ 41:07 AI Bubble Special Report: Debt, Depreciation, and Losses — With Gil Luria
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Petersen: U.S. trade tariffs will decrease American manufacturing
“What we've seen over the last few weeks is it's gonna decrease American manufacturing.”
Ryan Petersen Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 10:42 Is The U.S. Losing Trump's Trade War? — Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Newton predicts Grammarly will be dead by the end of 2025
“Oh, can I give you a prediction? Grammarly dead by end of 2025.”
Casey Newton Jan 5, 2025 ▶ 11:28 Bold Predictions For Tech and AI in 2025 — With Casey Newton
Assertion Contradicted
Benioff: Prompt engineering was invented at Salesforce
“Even prompt engineering was invented at Salesforce, which we're very proud of.”
Marc Benioff Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 37:18 Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Has Thoughts on AI Agents, Automation, and The Future of Your Job
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Doshi: Search engine traffic will drop over 25% before 2026
“I mean, I think there's a very high probability it is greater than that number in a shorter span of time.”
Suhail Doshi Mar 20, 2024 ▶ 44:38 Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi
Assertion Contradicted
Ray Dalio predicted an economic crash virtually every year since the 1980s
“What we found was nonstop since the 19 eighties, Ray Dalio has been predicting economic calamity. Every, virtually every single year he has predicted a giant crash.”
Rob Copeland Nov 7, 2023 ▶ 6:17 The Secrets Of Ray Dalio And His Dot Collector Transparency Software
Assertion Contradicted
Callaghan: Social platforms are removing almost a majority of Trump conservatives
“No, they're removing almost a majority of Trump conservatives off of social media platforms, pushing them further into deep internet holes where they only see each other and they only talk to each other.”
Andrew Callaghan Jun 9, 2021 ▶ 7:45 Andrew Callaghan of All Gas No Brakes Goes Independent
Assertion Contradicted
Wood: AWS Is the Only Cloud for Privately Customizing AI Models
“Today we're the only place where you can take your own data, and we have customers With exabytes of data. You'd be surprised how many customers have exabytes of data on AWS, and they can take that data that they've invested in, and they can use it with these m…”
Matt Wood Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 11:13 Amazon Reveals Its AI Master Plan — With Matt Wood
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