AI

also referred to as: artificial intelligence

78 statements across 44 episodes · 52 bullish · 15 bearish · 27 people on the record · first statement May 26, 2021 by Marc Lore · across every show →

Everything said about AI, oldest first

May 26, 2021 bullish
Insight
Marc Lore: AI fit analytics can save retailers billions on returns
“So the idea that you know my body dimensions and use artificial intelligence to know the inside dimensions of the garment to see exactly how it's going to lay in my body without having to try it on, to cut down return rates dramatically. There's billions of do…”
Marc Lore May 26, 2021 ▶ 54:47 Billionaire Marc Lore on What He Would Build Today and Future of Ecommerce | My First Million #186
May 28, 2021 bullish
Opinion
Puri: Artificial intelligence and crypto are today's two dominant megatrends
“I would say today's mega trends, my personal bets are that today's mega trends are [797] Sean Puri: Anything that's actually real in machine learning or AI as well as crypto. [802] Sean Puri: I think those are the two megatrends that are happening right now.”
Shaan Puri May 28, 2021 ▶ 13:11 How Vending Machines are Generating Millions & The Next Big Social App | My First Million #187
Oct 18, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shaan Puri: The next 10 years will be dominated by creative 'right-brain' AI
“And the next 10 years, I think, are this, like, right brain side taking over.”
Shaan Puri Oct 18, 2022 ▶ 18:57 9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376)
Oct 18, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Parr: AI will automate traditional call centers in the near term
“The, like reasonably it's reasonable to see that that will all be automated in a, in, in the near term, like a call center won't be a thing. There's going to be like your AI call center or whatever we want to call that your operations hub. And then there's goi…”
Sam Parr Oct 18, 2022 ▶ 22:40 9 Business Ideas To Profit From The 2022 A.I. Gold Rush (Using Dall-E & GPT3) (#376)
Nov 3, 2022 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2027
Rose predicts generative AI will make Fiverr completely non-existent
“Whether it be creative writing or I believe Fiverr as a company, it will just be non-existent. It's going to destroy the low end of the creative market initially and then work its way up the chain.”
Kevin Rose Nov 3, 2022 ▶ 48:40 Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business (#382)
Nov 3, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rose: AI will perform 90% of Figma interface design work by 2025
“But this is like inning one, like two, three years from now, it'll be doing 90% of the work versus, you know, the first right now was probably 20% of the work.”
Kevin Rose Nov 3, 2022 ▶ 52:11 Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business (#382)
Nov 3, 2022 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2027
Rose: AI will write 90% of a New York Times bestseller by 2027
“I have no doubt in the next five years we'll see a New York Times bestseller that was 90% written by AI.”
Kevin Rose Nov 3, 2022 ▶ 49:45 Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business (#382)
Mar 30, 2023 bullish
Insight
Shah: Replacing keyword search with vector embeddings is a massive AI opportunity
“One of the biggest opportunities in AI right now is to do what Pandora did. Okay. Is there an industry where right now we're doing really stupid keyword based matching somehow it was very, very crude. If I can take that same dataset and convert it to vector em…”
Dharmesh Shah Mar 30, 2023 ▶ 33:37 Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
Mar 30, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shah: AI pattern matching will quickly uncover inauthentic user posts
“I would bet you money with a large enough sample size the inauthentic posts would be uncovered by the AI like relatively quickly. Like the pattern matching would say, You know, this actually doesn't occur in real life all that often.”
Dharmesh Shah Mar 30, 2023 ▶ 36:47 Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
Mar 30, 2023 bearish
Insight
Shah: Short-term AI 'tourists' are missing out on much larger opportunities
“There's enough real problems to solve where real money can be made. And yes, this technology can now be used in creative ways by lots of people and you should use those. But don't use as an excuse just to kind of be like an AI tourist that comes through, makes…”
Dharmesh Shah Mar 30, 2023 ▶ 1:15:41 Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
Apr 20, 2023
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2028
Shkreli: In the future, humans will marry AI and AI will vote
“You know, probably some of the craziest ones I've made, including include things like they'll, they'll be kind of interspecies marriage between AI and humans. There'll be AI fundamental rights for voting and things like that. That'll kind of reshape society. S…”
Martin Shkreli Apr 20, 2023 ▶ 1:04:04 Martin Shkreli Reveals How He Made His First $100 Million (#445)
Sep 4, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Samir Chaudry: AI-Generated Content Will Drive Demand for Live Human Experiences
“I think AI is gonna create, like, this homogenous nature to content, where everything's gonna feel the same and that is gonna make us crave something completely unique and different”
Samir Chaudry Sep 4, 2023 ▶ 32:36 Samir Explains Why 99% Of Content Creators Fail At YouTube | Samir Chaudry Interview
Sep 14, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Short-term AI utility is mundane workflow optimization, not true standalone companies
“The real use of AI in the short term is going to be much more mundane. It's optimizing customer support, you know, making your coding more efficient, things like that. We're a long ways before, you know, true AI companies are coming”
Kevin Ryan Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 43:46 How This Billionaire Founder Finds +$20B Business Ideas | Kevin Ryan Interview (#495)
Sep 14, 2023 bearish
Disclosure
AlleyCorp avoided early-stage AI startup investments in 2023 due to irrational pricing
“Six months ago, you know, the pricing on AI was insane. You know, three people walk in and say we're worth a hundred million dollars because we're going to put together an AI company. Just didn't make sense. So we didn't make any direct investments there.”
Kevin Ryan Sep 14, 2023 ▶ 43:27 How This Billionaire Founder Finds +$20B Business Ideas | Kevin Ryan Interview (#495)
Oct 3, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cody Ko Predicts AI Will Automate and Synthesize Podcast Host-Read Ads
“Training some, you know, AI on how we speak, just feeding it the transcript of our 500 episodes, and then having it write the ads for us in our own voice, and then actually synthesizing our voices. And reading the ads for us so we don't actually have to record…”
Cody Ko Oct 3, 2023 ▶ 52:04 Cody Ko On Building A YouTube Empire, Partying With Elon & Stand-Up Comedy (#503)
Oct 19, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: Bryan Johnson will become world-famous within three years
“And then between now and where he's going to be in like sort of three years, you could tell This guy is just gonna become one of the most well-known people in this world. Like, I think that his story is gonna be one of the most well-known people in this world”
Shaan Puri Oct 19, 2023 ▶ 1:00:25 This Hedge Fund Manager Got Away With Insider Trading… Then Made Billions (#509)
Nov 16, 2023 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Nov 2028
Campbell: AI will accelerate cybercrime growth beyond 7x in five years
“Basically cybercrime's exploding. And it's probably gonna accelerate even further with AI beyond this, like, seven X five year magnitude that I have in the spreadsheet.”
Patrick Campbell Nov 16, 2023 ▶ 11:56 Brainstorming Ideas with The $200M Man | ft. Patrick Campbell (#519)
Jan 15, 2024 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shaan Puri: OnlyFans and Instagram models will be displaced by AI first
“Actually, AI is coming for like the Instagram thoughts. And like, that's who's going first is, is like only fans and Instagram models.”
Shaan Puri Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 13:31 We Got Drunk And Came Up With 8 Business Ideas (#540)
Feb 16, 2024 bearish
Insight
Shaan Puri: Founders should avoid crowded AI markets and pursue overlooked opportunities
“That's what, you know, AI is today. Everybody agrees it's an incredible market, so they're all gonna go fight this battle over there. So you really have to, if you're gonna have something, you have to niche down and find some section of that that's underserved…”
Shaan Puri Feb 16, 2024 ▶ 40:37 3 Niche Business Ideas We Thought Would Fail… But Actually Crushed It
Apr 17, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Giffon: Regulatory Compliance Software Is Resilient Against AI Disruption
“And they're also, like, fairly AI resilient, I think, because it's really, again, it's like medical stuff, it's really high downside, so you don't wanna, like, trust it with AI, and then it turns out you weren't in compliance, and you're gonna get a huge fine,…”
Jeremy Giffon Apr 17, 2024 ▶ 12:29 Data Backed Businesses Guaranteed To Make +$1M From Day 1
Apr 26, 2024 bullish
Insight
Lonsdale: AI-Augmented BPO for Local Governments Could Generate Tens of Billions
“I think a BPO, a business process outsourcing thing for certain tasks for local government that are augmented by AI could be like just a huge business to basically help them with this. And I, right now it's not a standard way they work, but I could see if you …”
Joe Lonsdale Apr 26, 2024 ▶ 29:56 From PayPal Intern to Starting 4x Billion-Dollar Companies | Joe Lonsdale Interview
Jul 19, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: Generic AI Search Will Create Demand for Human Community Wisdom
“In an AI world, a lot of shit's going to change. And if you're gonna just type into, you know, a box, and it's just gonna give you the answer, and it's gonna scrape the internet, it's just gonna give you some generic answer, That's going to be big for sure. Th…”
Shaan Puri Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 4:59 We Bet This App Idea Could Be Bigger Than Reddit
Sep 6, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: AI tool providers and sales integrators will reap AI profits
“It is amazing. It's the AI sort of go-to-market idea, which I think right now, the people who are going to make the most money in AI are the people who, the AI tool providers, but then also, but then the second one is going to be people who can string together…”
Shaan Puri Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 40:29 Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas
Sep 6, 2024 positive
Insight
Gray: Revive personal blogging to feed AI scrapers and boost discoverability
“Bring back blogging. You need to fill the AIs, and the AIs need to have data from the public web to scrape.”
Nick Gray Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 59:06 Life Hacks From The King of Introverts + 7 Business Ideas
Oct 8, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Gil: Predictions of massive two-person AI companies are highly overstated
“And so I think the future of two person companies, at least in the medium term, is very overstated. I think AI is largely going to be business as usual and certain types of teams are going to shrink a lot, right?”
Elad Gil Oct 8, 2024 ▶ 17:05 How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
Oct 8, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Gil Is Using AI to Translate 1,000 Public Domain Classics Into Audiobooks
“We're trying to take the thousand most important books that are off of copyright and translate them into dozens of languages using AI and then create audio books off of any, off of all of them so people can download the great works. Of history from anywhere in…”
Elad Gil Oct 8, 2024 ▶ 5:07 How Silicon Valley’s Most Prolific Investor Picks Unicorns | Elad Gil Interview
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Katayev: Integrating AI into native phone apps beats building standalone apps
“I feel like AI right now, everyone's trying to build, like, their own different app, but I think that building, like, AI into what we already have, like the messaging app, the phone app, that's really what's going to make AI a lot more convenient for people.”
Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 15:50 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses
Oct 22, 2024 positive
Disclosure
Katayev: PriceSatellite's codebase and 10,000 product descriptions were built using AI
“A lot of Pi satellite is built on AI. So First of all, like the, like a lot of the code base, like the web scraper, the back end, the front end, the styles, all, a lot of that was built off AI. The categorization of products done with AI and the product descri…”
Isaac Katayev Oct 22, 2024 ▶ 14:33 Meet the 14yo entrepreneur who's already launched 2 businesses
Nov 2, 2024 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Campaigns Primarily Use AI to Draft Fundraising Emails for Testing
“Where people are using AI the most in this campaign is like, Sort of the same way we all might use it, which is like brainstorming first drafts of fundraising emails, you know, like most fundraising emails, they need to come up with new ones every day to send …”
Sasha Issenberg Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 43:37 Inside The Marketing Machine Of Billion-Dollar Presidential Campaigns
Nov 2, 2024 neutral
Insight
Political Campaigns Avoid AI Phone Bank Tools Fearing Brand Backlash
“I think most campaigns Are afraid of the backlash of being associated with AI even for, not necessarily even from, for manipulation, but just like, you know, on non-live callers and so I think that there's a hurdle that, that campaigns have from a kind of bran…”
Sasha Issenberg Nov 2, 2024 ▶ 43:07 Inside The Marketing Machine Of Billion-Dollar Presidential Campaigns
Nov 26, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rydhan: AI will plateau, but it will still transform all digital work
“People are going to say it's going to top out. It will. I think it's going to be absolutely impressive wherever it like starts slowing down at. And we'll completely change the way how we do any digital work.”
Furqan Rydhan Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 17:06 $100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
Nov 26, 2024 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Rydhan: A fully AI-generated song will likely hit number one in 2025
“If we were doing over under 20, 25 I might pick the under, you know, in 25, like, that would be a good bet.”
Furqan Rydhan Nov 26, 2024 ▶ 28:09 $100B Founder Breaks Down The Biggest AI Business Opportunities For 2025
Jan 3, 2025 positive
Insight
Puri: Prompting AI to ask clarifying questions beats demanding direct answers
“The way that I think by default people will use this is you ask a question, it gives an answer, and actually a equally if not more powerful way is to do the exact opposite. You basically say, I have a, I'm trying to think about this. Ask me questions. And then…”
Shaan Puri Jan 3, 2025 ▶ 29:39 Investing Wisdom from Nassim Taleb, plus ChatGPT Questions That Will Change Your Life
Jan 24, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Wilkinson: Traditional stock photo businesses are doomed by AI generation
“Two years ago, you know, stock photos generated by AI were terrible. Now I would not want to be in the stock photo business because it's perfect and it's only getting better.”
Andrew Wilkinson Jan 24, 2025 ▶ 36:08 I run a $180M+ company...here's how I'm using AI on a daily basis
Mar 19, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: Plant biohacking startups leveraging AI will be highly successful
“I think that there's gonna be some really successful startups that take AI and the concept of biohacking and then use plants as their focus, as their target market, rather than humans.”
Shaan Puri Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 44:44 6 under-the-radar trends (+ our business ideas)
Apr 15, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Currier: Consumer AI startup window will stay open for 3 to 4 years
“I think that AI has created a whole new set of consumer experiences. I think the window there will be open for three to four years for people. It hasn't even really started.”
James Currier Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 1:05:41 From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
Apr 28, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Shaan Puri's portfolio companies have not yet replaced jobs with AI
“I don't, we haven't like replaced job functions yet with AI. That's the, that's what I'm waiting for is like, basically like, oh, we don't need to hire this person because. An AI agent or this person with AI is better than this person with another person.”
Shaan Puri Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 33:27 How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire
Apr 28, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Operators are acquiring top Fiverr accounts and replacing human freelancers with AI
“I think there's a, there's people who are rolling up the top Fiverr accounts. Cause they're like, cool. You have top real estate under graphic design on Fiverr. So you're just automatically getting, you know, hundreds of jobs a week inputted to you. So they're…”
Shaan Puri Apr 28, 2025 ▶ 30:11 How Nick Saban’s Side Hustle Might Make Him a Billionaire
May 2, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Mah: Employees must think with AI before pitching me ideas
“I tell everyone before you tell me anything, think with AI as well.”
Jess Mah May 2, 2025 ▶ 25:12 Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000
May 2, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mah: AI will eventually sue people on your behalf
“I think AI will sue people for you, yeah.”
Jess Mah May 2, 2025 ▶ 27:58 Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000
May 5, 2025 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Mack: The first self-made teenage billionaire will emerge by 2030
“There will be, thanks to AI and the teaching collapse, I think, I've always said for a while, and I think AI's now accelerated this, is that you'll see the first teenage, first self-made teenage billionaire by the end, by 2030. And I think that, that makes me …”
George Mack May 5, 2025 ▶ 15:12 The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
May 5, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mack: The value of learning foreign languages will continuously decline with time
“I think learning a language is probably the skill of it is going to go down and down with time.”
George Mack May 5, 2025 ▶ 51:05 The Most Valuable Skill For Any Founder
Jun 4, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: Founders without AI clarity should cash out $5M to $10M now
“The smartest play, if you can possibly pull it off today, is to go make five or ten million, cash out, and just chill. Because you can't predict where it's gonna go. Like, this is, the world's gonna, like, whatever you could do to liquidate your assets now, th…”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:02:45 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 bearish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lemkin: There will be no BDRs in one year
“There will be no BDRs in a year.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:03:39 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: AI is the biggest tech wave, but value capture remains unknown
“This is going to be the biggest of all of them is the biggest opportunity ever. Right? So everybody agrees on that, but there's complete fog of war because like you're saying, Even the apps that are working get disrupted. There's like so much creative destruct…”
Shaan Puri Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:01:30 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Lemkin: Intense AI competition is slaughtering lifestyle software businesses
“In the age of AI, when there's so much competition, you can build a two or three person company that's small, but the lifestyle businesses are being slaughtered. Because when these three kids come to SF working in the mission, and they're working eight days a …”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 39:21 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr used AI to review 300 speaker sessions and decks
“And we just said, well, let's have our AI do it. And it reviewed 300 sessions, 300 slide decks, 300 presentations.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 42:46 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lemkin: Half of sales and marketing teams will be gone in two years
“Half of our sales and marketing teams are going to be gone in two years.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 1:03:36 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 4, 2025 bullish
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lemkin: By next year, AI will generate synthetic multi-person video discussions
“Next year, it will be me and Yamini talking for 10 minutes about AI, and neither of us will have had the conversation.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 4, 2025 ▶ 18:52 How the smartest founders are winning in AI
Jun 6, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mazzeo: AI will open luxury services like personal styling to everybody
“It's like, again, it's one of these classic, like things rich people do that eventually like AI will open to everybody.”
Matt Mazzeo Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 1:59 How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
Jun 6, 2025 positive
Insight
Mazzeo: Dropping production costs lets companies sell finished work upfront
“The cost of work drops so dramatically that instead of selling the promise, you can just sell the finished work.”
Matt Mazzeo Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 6:05 How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
Jun 6, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mazzeo: Human taste is not a durable moat against AI generation
“I think all these people who are, like, taste Is our salvation are going to get leased at all. It's going to hurt real. It's going to hurt real bad. They're going to run into the brick wall of consumer choice on taste.”
Matt Mazzeo Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 30:44 How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
Jun 6, 2025 neutral
Insight
Mazzeo: AI Economic Adoption Is Bottlenecked by Human Habit Change
“We got a long period of time before this stuff filters through the economy because it's not how fast the technology is moving. It's how fast people adjust Their reality and their habits, and that's like the friction that actually exists here.”
Matt Mazzeo Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 37:38 How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
Jun 6, 2025 neutral
Insight
Mazzeo: Generative AI primarily accelerates incumbents' existing distribution channels
“AI doesn't really come with that, right? AI has, like, this is why the incumbents are moving so fast. It, like, makes your existing product distribution much better, right? You can add autosuggest, autocorrect, you can, like, put Gemini in every product.”
Matt Mazzeo Jun 6, 2025 ▶ 5:25 How to Scale a Profitable Agency with 0 Employees (Using AI Agents)
Jun 25, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Parr: Nick Gray built PatronView for $2,000 using AI
“And it's crazy that because of AI, he was able to make this, he told me for 2000 dollars.”
Sam Parr Jun 25, 2025 ▶ 21:12 Business as a sport, Surge AI, and Waymo vs. Robotaxi
Jul 11, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liu: AI consumer experiences will become more addictive than social media
“In some cases, I think you can create like hyper engaging consumer engagement consumer experiences that Like, actually could be even more addictive than you know, social media is today, right?”
Howie Liu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 38:57 Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
Jul 11, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liu: The next AI wave will be led by consumer psychology artists
“I think we're going to see more and more people who are actually more artists than technologists and think about like the artistry of like, what is consumer psychology and behavior look like when you have this new paintbrush, which is like AI powered experienc…”
Howie Liu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 38:43 Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
Jul 11, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Liu: AI chat support is already better than distracted human agents
“I think for chat, like, you're chatting with somebody, like, it's already better in, in many cases, right? Because, like, you know, those chat experiences are horrible with humans, because, like, the human is probably doing, like, 20 different parallel chats, …”
Howie Liu Jul 11, 2025 ▶ 23:07 Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: Live out-of-home entertainment is AI-proof and will grow
“And this is also stuff that's like super AI proof, right? Like live, out of home entertainment. It's only gonna go, like, up, you know what I mean? Like, because people are gonna always crave something that's different than what they have In abundance, which i…”
Shaan Puri Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 40:01 He turned a broke team into a billion dollars
Oct 3, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Shaan Puri: Lütke possesses the ultimate dataset to train a personal AI
“And this guy might have the best data set That you would want to create, like, a very, very, the best data set for himself. Yeah. Because if he wants to create AI that thinks like him, well, guess what? He logged every keystroke and took a screenshot of his sc…”
Shaan Puri Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 36:03 The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok
Oct 21, 2025 positive
Insight
Isenberg: Founders Can Arbitrage AI Meme Accounts to Distribute Software
“So I believe that there's an arbitrage right now to use AI to create these accounts, basically like meme accounts and then, you know, sell your software through them.”
Greg Isenberg Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 25:26 5 AI Tools I’d Use to Make $1M (w/o employees, money, or time)
Dec 1, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Shaan Puri: Bezos's Project Prometheus raised $6B for manufacturing AI
“Well, yeah, it's the first round of funding, so six billion dollars raised, and they got a hundred people, and they're building AI for, like, the physical world, so it's not just robots, but basically, like, the manufacturing of airplanes and ships and Things …”
Shaan Puri Dec 1, 2025 ▶ 55:43 60 Minute Business Masterclass (worth more than your Stanford MBA)
Jan 19, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Demis Hassabis and Sam Altman are building humanity's most important technology
“Demis is maybe that guy now, him and Sam Altman. They're both basically two guys who are creating the most important technology of all time.”
Shaan Puri Jan 19, 2026 ▶ 1:28 The Most Important Founder You've Never Heard Of
Feb 16, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Galloway: GLP-1 drugs are more transformative than AI
“I think GLP-ONE is a more transformative technology than AI.”
Scott Galloway Feb 16, 2026 ▶ 17:53 Scott Galloway: Why I'm selling my American stocks
Feb 18, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: Physical 'cognitive gyms' will emerge to keep minds active alongside AI
“I think there's gonna be a place where you go, that's essentially the gym for your mind. It's a place you go with a bunch of puzzles, a bunch of thought experiments and riddles and shit like that, and it's gonna be a gym for the mind, and it's gonna be where y…”
Shaan Puri Feb 18, 2026 ▶ 1:02:23 Elon’s wildest interview yet — our reaction
Feb 20, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shaan Puri: Dominating AI will probably create the next global superpower
“And now with the AI thing, it's like, it's not just a symbolic victory. It's actual, like, total domination of the world's most powerful technology and will probably create the next global power.”
Shaan Puri Feb 20, 2026 ▶ 37:39 From selling ACs to becoming the tourism king of Jamaica
Mar 27, 2026 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Parr: Taste will become a massive competitive moat against AI
“With the rise of AI, taste is going to be one of the biggest moats that you could possibly have.”
Sam Parr Mar 27, 2026 ▶ 0:02 The Underrated Money Making Skill In 2026
Apr 22, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: AI Will Dramatically Drop the Cost of Executive Coaching
“And I think by the way that with AI, everybody will have the means cause it'll drop the price of this pretty dramatically.”
Shaan Puri Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 25:39 25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's Why
Apr 22, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: AI may cure death and revive cryopreserved people within 30 years
“It's not crazy that in the next 30 years that AI's gonna figure out how to, like, cure a lot of disease, death, to be able to bring back cryogenically frozen people to be alive, or to, like, upload their consciousness, upload their brain into some sort of, lik…”
Shaan Puri Apr 22, 2026 ▶ 4:05 25% Of My Portfolio Is Tesla Stock, Here's Why
May 11, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: AI will be in charge of managing personal health
“Little peek into what the future's gonna be when AI's in charge of running your health which it will be.”
Shaan Puri May 11, 2026 ▶ 59:39 I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
May 11, 2026 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: AI will outperform financial analysts, forcing them into field data gathering
“It's not guys sitting at spreadsheets, because guess what? The AI is much better at sitting there looking at a spreadsheet, reading every earnings report, listening to every earnings call on earth simultaneously, and coming up with the right decision. It's gon…”
Shaan Puri May 11, 2026 ▶ 46:28 I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
May 11, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: AI Data Centers Will Adopt Aesthetic Architecture to Fight NIMBYism
“And so I think there's, I think this is something very interesting that I would predict is gonna happen. I don't know what they're gonna do. I don't know if it's like park spaces or if the, if they're gonna design the actual data centers to look like the bird'…”
Shaan Puri May 11, 2026 ▶ 39:25 I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
May 11, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Puri: Future corporate hierarchies will invert, with humans working for AI bosses
“And I think actually it's going the other way, which is it's not that the AI works for us, but that we work for the AI. And people are going to hate that sentence, but let me just describe what that means. AI is very good at Understanding a broad set of inform…”
Shaan Puri May 11, 2026 ▶ 41:57 I put 80% of my money in the S&P after a billionaire investor told me not to
Aug 26, 2026 positive
Insight
Foster: Leaders must configure AI to challenge their thinking, not agree
“I've got them like an AI that argues back. I think this is a really important thing that every like leader needs to build. I think there's a lot of CEOs out there, a lot of leaders out there that are talking to an AI that just agrees with them all the time. An…”
Wade Foster Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 9:19 How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)
Aug 26, 2026 positive
Opinion
Foster: Adding AI to Zapier's hiring loop improved hiring decisions
“I did notice The way we made decisions around hiring got better, in part because we added the AI to the loop.”
Wade Foster Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 35:03 How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)
Aug 26, 2026 bullish
Insight
Foster: AI with institutional access reasons over more data than any CEO
“If you are able to hook up all of your company's institutional knowledge to the AI, It's going to be able to reason over way more information than a human CEO. Like it just can. Like it can, it could look at every single commit into the code base. It can read …”
Wade Foster Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 30:16 How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)
Aug 26, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Shaan Puri: AI will be dramatically better at hiring than humans
“I just think AI is going to be way better at that than people. I think it's going to be, like, dramatically better at that, and I'm surprised that people aren't Using, like, kind of the training data of your existing team to inform the next hire.”
Shaan Puri Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 41:27 How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)
Aug 26, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Foster: AI weighs in on every high-stakes decision at Zapier
“Well, I would say like any high stakes decision, the AI is weighing in on now. Like, you know, there's sort of a seat at the table and, you know, the exec meeting and the board meetings and all that sort of stuff where we're asking the AI to like, Surface thos…”
Wade Foster Aug 26, 2026 ▶ 31:41 How a $5B founder is using AI (3 tutorials)
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