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Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2029
Jacobs: QXO will reach $50 billion by capturing 6% of distribution market
“I want to build a company that's called fifty billion dollars. I can do that. If there's an eight hundred billion dollar size, I can take six percent of that through acquisition and through organic growth. I can get to fifty billion dollars.”
Brad Jacobs Aug 4, 2026 ▶ 1:01:25 The Mindset Behind Building a Great Little Business | Brad Jacobs
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2028
Wolfe: SK Hynix will bypass export controls easier than Micron
“I think Micron is a US company which is going to be more constrained by restrictions that are put on export control, and I think SK being a Korean company is going to be able to skirt those in the same way that NVIDIA has with, you know, distribution to China …”
Josh Wolfe Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 10:25 Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2172
Sinclair: Someone Born Today Will Live to Be 150 Years Old
“But I do think that somebody born today We'll live that long because the technology is just going so quickly.”
Dr. David Sinclair May 3, 2022 ▶ 1:26:06 David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2031
Baszucki predicts users will eventually create video games entirely via voice
“But getting to the point where you or I make a beautiful thing, share it with our family, play it just by talking about it, I think is going to come true as well.”
David Baszucki Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 41:24 Make Better Decisions by Fixing Yourself First
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2035
Hastings: Complete K-12 and university education will be available on phones via AI within a decade
“So in the next 10 years, you'll be able to have a complete K-twelve and probably university education. With AI on a phone or tablet that will be really changed learning.”
Reed Hastings Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 45:41 Netflix Founder Reed Hastings on Scaling High-Trust Culture & Bold Judgment
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2030
Flatt: 401(k)s and Global Retirement Plans Will Open to Alternatives
“For one case in the US are going to open up to alternatives. I think plans around the world will open up to alternatives.”
Bruce Flatt Apr 1, 2025 ▶ 49:06 Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2030
Wolfe: 30% to 50% of AI inference will occur on-device
“I think that you're going to end up doing a lot of inference on device. Meaning, instead of going, ah, to the cloud and typing a query, like, 30 to 50% of your inference may be on an Apple or an Android device.”
Josh Wolfe Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 9:16 Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2028
Wolfe: Anduril will be a $30B–$50B public company with software margins
“I deeply believe that Anderil in the next few years will be a 30 to fifty billion dollar publicly traded business doing single-digit mid-billions of revenue with software-like margins that are not like these cost-plus margins, so that is gonna usher in a big w…”
Josh Wolfe Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 1:29:31 Josh Wolfe: Human Advantage in the World of AI
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2027
Kunal Shah: Elon Musk will likely create five or six $500B+ companies
“Elon is going to probably have, I don't know, five, five hundred billion dollar plus companies, maybe six.”
Kunal Shah Jun 28, 2022 ▶ 2:13:49 Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations
Prediction Open · timeframe May 2027
Sinclair: Global Population Will Cap at 10 Billion Despite Longer Lifespans
“Even with slowing down aging and making us live to a 120, we're not going to overpopulate. We're going to level out at about ten billion people.”
Dr. David Sinclair May 3, 2022 ▶ 1:29:44 David Sinclair: Reversing the Aging Process
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2032
Balaji Srinivasan: Web3 services rivaling US tech giants will emerge in India
“I think you're going to see a whole parallel set of services arise that are the peers of the American tech companies, but in web three in India over the next 10 years, I think it's going to be one of the least anticipated things that's going to happen”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 2:17:22 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2058
Dr. Z: Humans will travel to Mars within his lifetime
“I think we will go to Mars with humans in my lifetime, for sure.”
Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen Apr 6, 2021 ▶ 31:57 #108 Thomas Zurbuchen: Adventures in Astrophysics
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2031
McGonigal: Humans will broadcast subconscious thoughts and feelings within 10 years
“I think it's fair to say in like 10 years, we're all going to be broadcasting subconscious or like pre-conscious thoughts and feelings in ways that we can't do it today.”
Jane McGonigal Jan 19, 2021 ▶ 41:12 #101 Jane McGonigal: The Psychology of Gaming
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2030
Chamath: US will spend tens of trillions on recovery within a decade
“Whether you call it the Green New Deal on the left or the infrastructure bill on the right, we are going to spend in the next decade tens of trillions of dollars to try to dig ourselves out of this unemployment and GDP hole that has been exacerbated by the cor…”
Chamath Palihapitiya Oct 13, 2020 ▶ 32:13 #94 Chamath Palihapitiya: Understanding Yourself
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2025
Calacanis: US rules will let non-accredited gig workers invest in startups
“We're going to see some regulation in the United States where people are going to be able to be sophisticated investors, In other words, maybe they don't have the accreditation benchmark of whatever it is, a 152 100,000 a year in revenue of, in you know, incom…”
Jason Calacanis Apr 14, 2020 ▶ 53:32 #81 Jason Calacanis: Intelligent Risk
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2023
Adam Robinson: Quantum Computing Will Crack Any Encryption in Minutes
“Anything that's encrypted with quantum computing, you'll be able to crack that, whatever the encryption is, in, I don't know, seconds or minutes.”
Adam Robinson Dec 26, 2018 ▶ 16:29 #48 Adam Robinson: Winning at the Great Game (Part 2)
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2021
Domingos: Commercial Airplane Cockpits Will Transition from Two Pilots to Zero
“We already have two people in the cockpit instead of three, and then we'll have one and eventually we'll have zero.”
Pedro Domingos Aug 30, 2016 ▶ 34:59 #13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2031
Domingos: Most Cars Will Be Self-Driving Between 2026 and 2031
“But I, my guess is that, you know, five years from now, there will be a lot of self-driving cars around and, you know, maybe 10 years from now, 15, Most cars will be self-driving.”
Pedro Domingos Aug 30, 2016 ▶ 53:37 #13 Pedro Domingos: The Rise of The Machines
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2046
Liemandt: Physical schools will still exist in 20 years
“In 20 years, you know, predict the future, what's going to be the same in 20 years? Parents are going to drop their kids off at a building. In the building are gonna be other kids and adults, right? There's, we're not, you're not getting rid of school. School …”
Joe Liemandt Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 1:04:01 Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Liemandt: Alpha's Time Back Engine Will Release Globally in 2026
“That's Time Back, our Time Back engine, that's 10, and today it's at Alpha, you know, in 20, 26, everybody in the world's gonna be able to access it. And so everybody who wants to build a school based on Time Back is gonna be able to next year.”
Joe Liemandt Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 1:05:12 Alpha School: AI and The Future of Education | Joe Liemandt
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2036
Teskey predicts institutional allocations to alternative assets will double within ten years
“The institutional allocations to alternatives are going to double From where they are today over the next 10 years.”
Connor Teskey Mar 17, 2026 ▶ 1:07:14 Beating the Market: Connor Teskey, CEO Brookfield Asset Management
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2031
Parrish: News Outlets Will Personalize Article Text to Readers' Preferences
“So increasingly, I mean, we're moving to a world. I don't think people quite realize that yet where you and I open the same article in the wall street journal or New York times, it's going to be two different versions of that article that's based on our browsi…”
Shane Parrish Jan 1, 2026 ▶ 1:34:11 How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027
Jacobs: QXO will reach $50B by taking 6% market share
“There are this eight hundred billion dollars of distributors in Western Europe and in North America, which is where I want to plant my flag. I want to build a company that's called fifty billion dollars. I can do that. If there's an eight hundred billion dolla…”
Brad Jacobs Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 1:02:40 Best of 2024: The Blueprint for a Transformative New Year
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2029
Bragg: Oxford will have more blueberry acreage than New Brunswick has in potatoes
“We're going to have more acres and blueberries than New Brunswick has in potatoes.”
John Bragg Oct 1, 2024 ▶ 15:06 John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2027
Jacobs: QXO can reach $50B in revenue through acquisitions and organic growth
“There are, there's eight hundred billion dollars of distributors in Western Europe and in North America, which is where I want to plant my flag. I want to build a company that's called fifty billion dollars. I can do that. If there's an eight hundred billion d…”
Brad Jacobs Mar 19, 2024 ▶ 59:54 Brad Jacobs: How To Build a Billion Dollar Company
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2027
Balaji Srinivasan: Most English internet users will be Indian
“Most English speakers on the internet are going to be Indian.”
Balaji Srinivasan Apr 5, 2022 ▶ 2:39:42 Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2029
Howey predicts self-driving robotaxis will reduce car ownership to 10%
“And car ownership is going to become a thing that only a minority of humans even own a car because of the way they'll even they'll never be parked really though because every car that can drive itself is a robot, basically, that can go earn money by running Ub…”
Hugh Howey Aug 6, 2019 ▶ 28:20 #63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2040
Scott Page: China's economic growth will slow without massive innovation
“The same is true of China, right? So if you do a linear projection of China, You know, five years ago, you'd have said, oh my gosh, you know, by 2040, China's economy is going to be just enormous, but the reality is growth's going to fall off, because what the…”
Scott Page Apr 2, 2019 ▶ 1:09:55 #55 Scott Page: Becoming a Model Thinker
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2030
Bret Taylor: Most people will use one or two personal AI agents daily
“One is personal agents, so I do think that most people will have Probably one, but maybe a couple AI agents that they use on a daily basis that are essentially amplifying themselves as an individual.”
Bret Taylor Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 1:51:51 Bret Taylor: A Vision for AI’s Next Frontier
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2035
Filterbuy will reach $1 billion in revenue within ten years
“In the next five to 10 years, I intend to take that to a billion dollars plus.”
David Heacock Feb 18, 2025 ▶ 19:34 David Heacock: Building Filterbuy
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2030
Ackman: Pershing Square will eventually hold 100% of capital in public vehicle
“The vast majority of our capital today is 85%, you know, over time that will be 90 or 95, or eventually a hundred percent of our capital will be in a public enterprise that we're the largest shareholder of.”
Bill Ackman Apr 28, 2020 ▶ 1:26:49 #82 Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2034
Gilchrist: Modern NHL Players Face Shorter Careers Due to Increased Pace
“The players today, they deserve the money they're making, and they're probably not going to make it as long as we did, because I see that the careers yeah, a guy loses a step, boy, he's not long for the NHL, it happens faster now they train harder, they're in …”
Brent Gilchrist Jan 8, 2019 ▶ 30:34 #49 Brent Gilchrist: Goal Mining
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