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Dawber: London Mayor banned Accenture from contracts after it abandoned DEI
“When Accenture And I'll name them. When Accenture said, right, we're abandoning DEI. Our mayor Sadiq Khan, who was, is obviously, you know, comes from a Pakistani background. His parents came to London as immigrants when and you know, is, is very much reflecti…”
Panigrahi claims Indian clinics are curing Alzheimer's using exosome therapy.
“There are players who do stem cell rejuvenation. They are curing dementia and Alzheimer through exosome therapy or stem cell rejuvenation.”
Anderson claims she is confident she will never develop Alzheimer's disease
“I tell people I can confidently say I will never develop Alzheimer's.”
Chadha: India will become the world's cancer capital within two years
“Mark my words, in the next two years, India is going to be the cancer capital of the world as well.”
Brown: AI will lead to more lawyers than ever before
“I think that there will be more lawyers than ever before.”
Marini: Grindr turnaround team terminated 70% of employees
“We ended up, and we don't normally do this terminating 70% of the employees, because it just, they were C players, and we wanted at least A minus players, if not A players, right?”
Ranjan: AI Will Stop Hallucinating Before Hallucination-Fixing Startups Can Launch
“There are companies which I looked at, which said, well, AI hallucinates. So we are going to go do this. And my thinking is, by the time you go do this, AI will stop hallucinating.”
Brown predicts as many humanoid robots as dogs and cats within a decade
“In the next decade, I believe that there's going to be as many humanoid robots as there's going to be dogs and cats on this planet.”
Yang: Quantum computing and large models will achieve indistinguishable consciousness
“I truly believe that specifically the quantum computing based processors and big, large models. Will be indistinguishably conscious.”
Venkatachalam: In 20 years all humans will need new jobs
“In 20 years, I'm actually hoping I become an AI chatbot now, meaning I think that AI will be doing things that we can't even imagine all of us will need new jobs.”
Johnson: AI Will Destroy Traditional Startup Product-Market Fit Metrics
“I think that that entire conversation will be destroyed. Every investor I've ever talked to since the time I started in investments has talked about, like, do you have the product market fit? Do you have differentiation? Like, what's, how can you gain differen…”
Kaplan: AI Will Function as an Autonomous, Alien Intelligence Within Five Years
“When I go out, you know, five plus years, I realize that this is not really a tool. What's happening is we're having a technology that's more like an intelligent entity. It's more, it's closer to an alien intelligence than it is a tool, and this alien intellig…”
Ahuja: Enterprises will soon operate people-less, AI agent-only GCCs
“And I think the time is not far when you would have, you know, bolt-ons or even GCCs that'll have no people. You can Do it in your backyard. You can do it on your computer, and you know, ah, so I think it's coming.”
Devillieres: AI will reduce white-collar jobs tenfold while doubling human output
“And so, in the grand scheme of things, I just think that AI is going to do to white collar, like repetitive intellectual work, what machines did to physical work, which is we'll go 10 weeks less number of jobs, two weeks the output, and people are going to be …”
Joseph: Software and AI engineers will be the first roles eliminated
“Now AI has made it so easy for people who has domain knowledge to build software. So the biggest Threat that software engineers and AI engineers created is for themselves. Like, you know, that they are the ones who are going away first in, and, you know, the, …”
Heiss: MyAutoData will eventually outgrow Meta
“And that's, that is the idea in the long run is to really create this big organization that will outgrow meta at one point in time.”
Thomas: Tripling renewables and nuclear cannot meet 2050 global energy demand
“If we could wave a magic wand and triple our output of all of our renewables, And include nuclear in there. Triple all of that. That doesn't get us to 52,000 terawatts. You still need fossil fuel. You still need oil. You still need coal. And in fact, we're goi…”
Jeffrey: Next-gen AI labs are seeing $12B valuations at napkin stage
“I've seen back of the napkin Back of the napkin ideas of next gen tier one, AI labs that are valued at twelve billion dollars, starting with two billion of cash and are definitely going to raise again in 18 months, you know, to buy now.”
Jeffrey: AI-supercharged humans, not autonomous machines, will drive job displacement
“And this is gonna be true of your job, my job, everybody's job in the future is like, You take an individual and you make them 10 times faster, a hundred times faster, whatever it is, it's that person that starts to eat up the world of jobs, not like the machi…”
Chen: SpaceX IPO completed at a $2.2T valuation
“You know, you hear about the space exes that just, you know,
Finally one IPO with a 2.2 trillion dollar valuation.”
Chen: OpenAI and Anthropic will follow SpaceX with IPOs in 2026
“Obviously later this year we're following with some other big names and OpenAI and Anthropic.”
Chadha: Countries shielded from war and recession share one trait: female leaders
“We're seeing that in the current geopolitical world, and, ah, I want to say the countries that are so far isolated, not just from economic, ah, flux, but from war, from terrorism, from recession, they have female leaders. When we look at the Scandic countries,…”
Chadha: South India had only three recorded cancer cases before 1970
“Till the 19 seventies, I think in all of South India, there was like three recorded cases of cancer.”
Brown: Traditional high-rate law firms will shrink or shutter within a decade
“I think there's no way the legal industry looks the same as it does in five and 10 years. I think that some law firms will be skeletons of what they were. I think that some law firms that do things that ultimately doesn't make sense for humans to be doing at a…”
Khan: Poor hiring and leadership cause nearly 24% of startup failures
“About 25, almost 24% of startups will fail because of either hiring poor hiring management decisions or just general leadership problems. So these are the sort of Mesh issues that they deal with, and that is the third leading cause of startup death. It's above…”
Khan: Startups hiring ATS-rejected talent will build numerous unicorns
“This is the greatest, that is the greatest pool of brilliance sitting out there right now who cannot make it past the applicant tracking system, the ATS right now. But once we can tap into that, I mean, now you're sitting on unicorn after unicorn after unicorn…”
Port: AI will not replace all jobs due to token and engineering costs
“I think some of the nervousness around is AI going to replace all of our jobs. One of the reasons it's not is because AI is not for free and you know, the tokens that support AI, the technology, the time that is needed, the engineering time. To build the agent…”
Marini: Conservative ICs and Middle East Investors Refused to Buy Grindr
“Now, because Grindr is focused on LGBTQ, it was really interesting. A lot of the traditional buyers were not there in the process. There was always like someone conservative on the investment committee that was like, we can't touch that. We went to try to rais…”
Ranjan: Research Shows Chatbot Usage Correlates With Lower Cognitive Skills
“Research is showing that the more you use these kind of chatbots, the lesser your cognitive skills are, the divergence between the scores.”
Doronichev: Every pharma company will become AI-native within 10 years or fail
“Within the next 10 years, every pharma will become an AI native pharma. Just like every retailer turned into e-commerce or left the market within the first 10 years of the internet.”
Panigrahi predicts an incoming superbug will cause the next global pandemic.
“There's a superbug coming, right? That will be another pandemic.”
Panigrahi: AI Health Coaches Will Not Replace Humans in Healthcare
“You can't replace, take human out of the healthcare. Not gonna happen. Even if I'm building it, I'll say, always say that.”
Mukul Deora: GTA VI budget is $2B, highest in history
“Two billion for Grand Theft Auto VI, the highest cost of any IEP ever, two billion dollars launching whenever this year they keep doing it.”
Tripathi: Most of India's Top 10 Video Games Are Chinese
“The top 10 games in India, most of them are actually Chinese. Many don't know our money is actually going to China.”
Yang: Global frontline AI employee adoption will reach at least 300 million
“Overall we expect that on this planet Earth, we will have at least three hundred million non biological employees AI employees, AI receptionists basically almost every single business in the world which is big enough to have a website or big enough to have a b…”
Venkatachalam: The era of shallow, horizontal subscription SaaS is ending
“So, absolutely I think the era of horizontal, shallow software that's sold in some kind of monthly subscription is, is reaching its end.”
Johnson built a prototype of a competitor's platform in 24 hours
“And I built their entire platform, myself, in 24 hours, the entire prototype of that platform, and then pass it to engineers to start the process of developing it.”
Johnson: Incumbent Companies Have 24–36 Months to Pivot to AI
“If you don't do that, the likelihood is you probably won't turn fast enough, because I really do think that we've got about 24 to 36 months before that door closes.”
Kaplan: AI will process a lifetime of human thoughts in seconds within years
“That level of sort of compounding improvement in processing power means that in just a few years, you're going to have systems that, you know, can think a lifetime worth of human thoughts in the time that you and I sort of think one or two thoughts, right?”
Kaplan: Superhuman Artificial Intelligence Systems Are Inevitable
“Well, I think it's certainly achievable, in my view to make AI systems that appear to be as intelligent in every way as a human and beyond that. I mean, we're gonna have AI systems, I'm fairly confident, that are not only as intelligent as us, but are way smar…”
Kaplan: AI has an 80% chance of massive upside alongside existential risk
“I'd say 80% chance this technology is the best thing ever to come along, and it's really going to lift up everybody's standard of living. It'll make a lot of people a lot of money. It, it'll do great things for the environment. I mean, new, you know, life exte…”
Walker: Median Carta seed valuations exceed 2021 bubble peak
“At Seed, for instance, they're higher than they were in twenty-twenty-one, which was our most recent peak bubble era. And they're higher by a considerable amount. You know, the median seed valuation on Carta these days is probably something like 16 or seventee…”
Katial: The future of storytelling is under 120 seconds due to ADHD
“I do believe that attention spans are really low. ADHD is a reality. And the future of storytelling lies under a 120 seconds.”
Ahuja: ANSR has never reported cost metrics across its 200 GCCs
“Maintain that for the last 20 years, 200 GCCs. We've never reported cost metrics.”
Ahuja: AI adoption will decouple GCC work output from employee headcount
“We know that the next wave of GCCs would be nonlinear manifestations. The output, work output, and the impact would not commensurate with the headcount that the GCCs have, right? They would be, you know, amplifiers that would be, you know, AI led, AI driven.”
Ahuja: GCC market will expand beyond Fortune 500 to top million companies
“It will become an infinite market. It's not just the fortune 500 or global 2000. It'll be the top million companies in the world. You can have five people and still run a GCC.”
Hoag: Rote individual contributor roles scaling with revenue are easiest to automate
“We do see a lot of the individual contributor jobs being automated away in a sense, right? So people who are doing rote repetitive tasks and just kind of, you know, one of my friends describes it as labor that scales with the business model. So if you're scali…”