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Prediction Held up
Vogt: Within 50 years, human driving will be seen as reckless
“The first is, is that I have very little doubt that self-driving cars will be Many, many, many, many times safer than human drivers to the point where it starts to look a little reckless to let humans drive cars in places where there might be pedestrians and c…”
Kyle Vogt Oct 27, 2022 ▶ 48:22 HIBT Lab! Cruise: Kyle Vogt
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Universal Hydrogen expects to retrofit half the target fleet by early 2030s
“We would expect to be able to get through at least half that fleet by the early 20 thirties.”
Paul Eremenko Oct 20, 2022 ▶ 24:17 HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko
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Guy Raz predicts AI podcasts will be profitable within five years
“In, in, within five years, AI generated podcasts will be, they already are pretty good. They will be so good that people will make money out for them, and my value will probably be going, doing things live.”
Guy Raz Jun 16, 2025 ▶ 1:06:59 Figma: Dylan Field
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Quaise will start field drilling in 2024, repower plant by 2028
“So, twenty-twenty-four is what we say we're going to do, and after that, you start the journey towards repairing a power plant, and that takes us the better part of the rest of the decade. So, twenty-twenty-seven, 28 is when we intend to repair the first power…”
Carlos Araque Aug 4, 2022 ▶ 28:51 HIBT Lab! Quaise Energy: Carlos Araque
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Blumenthal: AI ocular imaging will eventually diagnose primary health conditions
“And then we can use AIs to make diagnoses eventually and, you know, help better triage. Customers, not just within sort of eye care, but for primary health care and beyond.”
Neil Blumenthal Dec 14, 2023 ▶ 33:38 Framing the future of eyecare with Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker
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Khan: Immersive AI 'holodeck' simulations are 3 to 5 years away
“You know, there's a world now where you can talk to historical characters, and we're probably three to five years away where you could share a room with Benjamin Franklin or Julius Caesar or Cleopatra and immerse yourself. It'll, it'll be literally the holodec…”
Sal Khan Jul 27, 2023 ▶ 34:50 When AI is your personal tutor with Sal Khan of Khan Academy
Prediction Partly held up
Scholl: Boom will produce first Overture by 2026, test in 2027
“We're breaking ground on the plant to build it, and we will be in production by the end of 24. We'll have the first airplane in 26, and we'll start flight testing it in 27.”
Blake Scholl Feb 23, 2023 ▶ 37:04 HIBT Lab! Boom Supersonic: Blake Scholl
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Altman: AI is automating creative jobs before blue-collar labor
“You know, the strong consensus Five, 10 years ago, was that first of all the AI was going to come for the blue-collar jobs. Second of all would be the less sophisticated white-collar jobs. Third of all would be the very high cognitive load white-collar jobs li…”
Sam Altman Sep 29, 2022 ▶ 48:03 HIBT Lab! OpenAI: Sam Altman
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Home Defense Is Becoming the Primary Driver of Firearm Purchases
“People are going to continue to buy firearms for home defense, right? And that is something that I is only increasing rapidly year over year. In fact, it is rapidly becoming the primary reason why people buy firearms.”
Kai Kloepfer Oct 5, 2023 ▶ 13:20 A biometric smart gun with Kai Kloepfer of Biofire
Prediction Partly held up
Walker: Sweet Paws by Five Dot Post will launch in every Petco
“We won three golden tickets at Walmart's open call, and in a few weeks, we're gonna be launched at every Petco nationwide, so.”
Jess Walker Feb 26, 2026 ▶ 9:30 Advice Line with Alexa Hirschfeld of Paperless Post
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Ku predicts ghost kitchens will capture larger restaurant industry market share
“I think ghost kitchens were already part of the industry before this happened, and I think will be a bigger part of the industry.”
Vivian Ku Mar 25, 2021 ▶ 16:45 How I Built Resilience: Vivian Ku, Restaurateur
Prediction Didn’t hold up
BETA plans to operate commercially in the United States by 2025
“And yes, by 20, 25, they're doing commercial operations here in the U S and then we just basically build them as fast as we can.”
Kyle Clark Aug 24, 2023 ▶ 34:51 Electrifying aviation with Kyle Clark of BETA Technologies
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Eremenko: Universal Hydrogen will fly first retrofit ATR by 2025
“Yes, we are. The long lead item for that is FAA certification, and we have been quite conscientious about bringing the FAA on the journey with us, right? Making sure that we don't just design it and throw it over the wall and say, please certify this, right?”
Paul Eremenko Oct 20, 2022 ▶ 30:49 HIBT Lab! Universal Hydrogen: Paul Eremenko
Prediction Held up
Simon Cowell predicts his new boyband will launch by late 2025.
“I think round about maybe the end of the year, I'm thinking.”
Simon Cowell Aug 4, 2025 ▶ 1:03:21 Simon Cowell: Music Mogul
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Hedrick: Tecovas Will Exceed $300 Million in Net Sales in 2025
“We'll, we'll definitely exceed three hundred million in net sales this year.”
Paul Hedrick May 19, 2025 ▶ 1:09:11 Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ben-Shitrit: Redefine Meat will reach profitability in two years
“So it's not 10 years, it's two years from now.”
Eshchar Ben-Shitrit Sep 28, 2023 ▶ 36:13 When your dinner is printed with Eshchar Ben-Shitrit of Redefine Meat
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Neurable will launch a silent, thought-controlled device interface by 2025
“So, you know, it's not like a vision video of a hundred years from now. At least V-one is going to be available within the next two years.”
Ramses Alcaide Aug 31, 2023 ▶ 25:25 When your headphones listen to you with Ramses Alcaide of Neurable
Prediction Partly held up
C16's Palmless Oil Will Enter Food Products Within Two Years
“By the end of this year, we'll be in a handful of other personal care products, so think skin care and body care products, and other brands featuring Palmless as the sort of innovator, and within two years or so, we will be able to be in food products.”
Shara Ticku Jun 15, 2023 ▶ 39:12 Saving the f#$%ing rainforests with Shara Ticku of C16 Biosciences
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Hyman: Retail will not return to majority offline purchases
“I don't think that we're going back into a world where the majority of what we buy is done offline.”
Jenn Hyman Jun 4, 2020 ▶ 5:43 How I Built Resilience: Live with Jenn Hyman
Prediction Held up
Brown: State bans on plant-based meat labeling will fail constitutional tests
“The smart money is that they're not going to pass a constitutional test.”
Pat Brown May 11, 2020 ▶ 54:07 Impossible Foods: Pat Brown
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Meeker Projects Bark Will Achieve Net Profitability This Fiscal Year
“This year, we should make four or five million dollars. And up from there.”
Matt Meeker Nov 4, 2024 ▶ 1:02:33 BARK: Matt Meeker
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Aurora expects fully driverless freight operations by late 2024 starting in Texas
“And so, yes, our expectation is by the end of next year, there will be no human. Yeah. And, you know, the way we're going to launch this is initially it'll be on one lane, Which is what you call kind of a trucking route, and that'll be between Dallas and Houst…”
Chris Urmson Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 33:17 When trucks drive themselves with Chris Urmson of Aurora
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Abuzeid: US will be 1 million nurses short by 2024
“Like by 20, 24, we're going to be one million nurses short. And that shortage just keeps getting worse and worse.”
Dr. Iman Abuzeid Nov 25, 2020 ▶ 2:35 How I Built Resilience: Dr. Iman Abuzeid of Incredible Health
Prediction Partly held up
Liedtke: Adidas may eliminate virgin polyester ahead of 2024 target
“From what I hear and what I read from what Adidas is still doing is they're honoring that, that target, and they may even exceed that and hit, hit it in an earlier timeframe.”
Eric Liedtke May 16, 2022 ▶ 10:36 HIBT Lab! UNLESS Collective: Eric Liedtke
Prediction Held up
Cuthbert Predicts Viator Will Surpass $4B in Gross Revenue in 2024
“They'll do, I think, over four billion dollars in gross revenue in 2024.”
Rod Cuthbert Oct 14, 2024 ▶ 1:03:30 Viator: Rod Cuthbert
Prediction Held up
Maldonado: Chomps is approaching $500M in retail sales in 2024
“We'll do somewhere around the, we're approaching the half a billion dollar mark in retail sales this year.”
Pete Maldonado May 2, 2024 ▶ 16:05 Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Weiss: Global Beauty Market Will Reach $750B in Six Years
“Beauty is a huge industry. It's a four hundred and fifty billion dollar global market. It's going to be seven hundred and fifty billion in six years.”
Emily Weiss Nov 26, 2018 ▶ 25:25 Live Episode! Glossier: Emily Weiss
Prediction Partly held up
Proto will halve the price of its flagship ProtoEpic device within months.
“In the next several months, I will be able to cut that price in half.”
David Nussbaum Mar 28, 2024 ▶ 24:41 “Beaming” people anywhere in the world with David Nussbaum of Proto
Prediction Partly held up
Vaynerchuk: 99% of current NFT projects will fail and collapse in price
“Yeah, I mean, I think 99% of the projects that are being launched right now are gold rushes, and they're gonna be projects that fail, and people are gonna buy tokens from celebrities, leagues, different things, and the price is gonna go down.”
Gary Vaynerchuk Aug 2, 2021 ▶ 54:36 Serial Entrepreneur: Gary Vaynerchuk
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Baird: NYC will get most electricity from Quebec hydro by 2023
“What we do have in New York City is we get most of our electricity, or will next year, from a hydroelectric project in Quebec. Oh. And so there's this giant dam in Quebec that spins a bunch of turbines, and Produces clean electricity and sends that electricity…”
Donnel Baird Jul 7, 2022 ▶ 20:05 HIBT Lab! BlocPower: Donnel Baird
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Marshall: Planet projects over 40% annual growth and profitability within two years
“So we have very clear line of sight now on a growth path, you know, going just over 40% a year for the next five years we project. And that gets us to profitability in the next couple of years.”
Will Marshall Dec 13, 2021 ▶ 55:12 Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lore: Wonder expects to partner with 30 restaurant chains by July 2023
“So by next summer, by July, we'll have 30 restaurant chains, which we believe is, is around the right number.”
Marc Lore Sep 22, 2022 ▶ 27:43 HIBT Lab! Wonder: Marc Lore
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Cuban: Cost Plus Drugs will offer 2,000 medications by year-end
“And by the end of the year, we'll be up to 2000.”
Mark Cuban Jun 16, 2022 ▶ 11:32 HIBT Lab! Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company: Mark Cuban
Prediction Held up
Carter predicted in 2020 that live touring wouldn't normalize until 2022
“On the touring side, it's catastrophic, and the reality is we probably won't see this look normal until twenty-twenty-two, in my opinion.”
Troy Carter Jun 6, 2020 ▶ 13:02 How I Built Resilience: Live with Troy Carter
Prediction Held up
Zimmer: Lyft will likely offer monthly subscription miles plans for all transportation
“In fact, what you'll be able to do is buy, you know, likely a miles plan from us, a monthly subscription to handle all your transportation needs.”
John Zimmer Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 33:08 Lyft: John Zimmer (2017)
Prediction Held up
Twine: Briogeo approached $40 million in gross sales during 2020
“So we will, you know, finish this year close to forty million in gross sales”
Nancy Twine Dec 4, 2023 ▶ 1:08:12 Briogeo Hair Care: Nancy Twine (2020)
Prediction Held up
Joel Clark projected Kodiak Cakes would surpass $200 million in 2020 revenue
“Yeah, we should go over that this year.”
Joel Clark Dec 7, 2020 ▶ 1:09:32 Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
Prediction Held up
Briogeo Projected Nearly $40 Million in 2020 Gross Sales
“Yeah, so we will, you know, finish this year close to forty million in gross sales, which is pretty awesome.”
Nancy Twine Aug 10, 2020 ▶ 1:03:26 Briogeo: Nancy Twine
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Zimmer predicted in 2017 that AVs would soon handle half of rides
“What's real is that over the next couple years, it'll be able to do A few percent of our trips, 10% of our trips, 50% of our trips.”
John Zimmer Jun 25, 2018 ▶ 32:47 Lyft: John Zimmer (2017)
Prediction Partly held up
Zimmer predicted Lyft would sell monthly subscriptions mixing human and autonomous rides
“In fact, what you'll be able to do is buy, you know, likely a miles plan from us, a monthly subscription to handle all your transportation needs. And over the next few years, some of those trips will be done by human drivers, and others will be done by autonom…”
John Zimmer Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 32:05 Lyft: John Zimmer
Prediction Partly held up
Hyman predicted Rent the Runway would reach 3,000 employees by 2019
“And before Rent the Runway, I had managed all of 10 people. And now my company has 1500 people and will likely have 3000 people by the end of next year.”
Jenn Hyman Nov 15, 2018 ▶ 12:38 Rent The Runway's Jenn Hyman At The HIBT Summit
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Zimmer predicted autonomous cars would gradually handle a growing percentage of rides
“An autonomous car is not going to drop out of the sky and be able to do a hundred percent of our trips. That's not real. What's real is that over the next couple years, it'll be able to do A few percent of our trips, 10% of our trips, 50% of our trips.”
John Zimmer Feb 13, 2017 ▶ 31:39 Lyft: John Zimmer
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Stein: Betterment expected $18B to $20B in AUM by late 2018
“Yeah, we expect to be in the ballpark of 18 to twenty billion by the end of 2018.”
Jon Stein Oct 29, 2018 ▶ 37:02 Betterment: Jon Stein
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