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A California wealth tax will drive out wealthy residents and founders
“I mean, all it'll do is just obviously going to drive the wealthiest people out, obviously drive the startup founders who want to get wealthy out, because why would you start here? And literally, like you know, strangle the golden goose of California.”
Puri: Sora will be the fastest app to reach 100M downloads
“I think this is going to be the most downloaded app in the history of the world in a short period of time. So I think it'll be like the fastest to get to a hundred million downloads.”
Puri: Sora will replicate Facebook's viral photo-tagging growth loop
“And if you remember one of the big growth levers for Facebook was when they introduced friend photo tagging. So they made it super easy where not just you could upload photos. That's a solar player experience, but when you could just click on somebody in the p…”
Sam Parr: OpenAI will be the biggest company on Earth within five years
“Because how is this company not going to take over the world and be the biggest company on earth?”
Sam Parr: OpenAI will combine Meta, Google, and the news media
“I just think that OpenAI is going to be, like, the combination of Facebook, Google, every news company ever, and then, like, five other companies combined into one.”
Puri: Robinhood is prime beneficiary of generational wealth transfer
“And it's basically this financial super app that Gen Z slash millennials are most comfortable with. And as the wealth transfer happens, they're going to be the beneficiary of that. So I think next 20 years, they're extremely well positioned.”
Puri: Elon Musk will merge xAI into Tesla
“And then I also think, by the way, he's gonna end up merging XAI with Tesla. Like, he's gonna put it all together.”
Liu: AI coding agents create up to a $300 billion TAM
“I mean, today you might have, like, call it, thirty million developers. That's the number that Stripe always quotes. Maybe that actually will expand to like 50 to a hundred million developers. ... And then on top of that, like it would be perfectly rational fo…”
Liu: Agentic AI builders will replace legacy business software within years
“Every single business Should be creating apps this way and probably replacing is, you know over the next few years, like old legacy software with this.”
Shaan Puri: Pop Mart will crash after a 2-3 year peak
“And then it's going to crash because the funny thing with all of these is they all had about a two to three year peak tops. And so I think the actual play, if you want to make money on this thing is to short Pop Mart stock starting around you know, end of 20, …”
Puri: Human data labeling will become obsolete in 7-10 years
“Like, you know, this might be a business that I think in, like, seven to 10 years, you may not need this anymore. Like, it seems like the way AI is going, you may not need this kind of human in the loop to label all this data.”
Puri: Autonomous vehicles will completely eliminate truck and ride-hail driving jobs
“The next one is labor, so right now there's three and a half million truck drivers alone, let alone all of the, like, Uber and taxi drivers, and you're just not gonna need that job.”
Puri: The best employees will work for millions of companies via agents
“Right, and they can, and just like the best teachers have millions of students, the best employees now actually work for millions of companies is what, what's gonna end up happening.”
Lemkin: Enterprise AI software will shock users within 24 months
“This is why your jaw is going to drop over the next 24 months, because just mediocre engineers cannot, like the engineers at OpenAI are so good. They're just so good. And so, but the average engineer working at a struggling CRM, right, it's just not that, that…”
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…”
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.”
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 …”
Shaan Puri predicts AI website builders will become commoditized ChatGPT features
“I also kind of predict that that's going to Be a very shaky space to build on... It might be that they're the next Squarespace. Squarespace, you know, eventually become a public company, but I don't personally think so. I think that that's going to be just lik…”
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.”
Currier: Commercial space startup window will begin closing in 3 to 5 years
“I think the space window is still open for another three to five years. But it'll start to close here soon, because remember, SpaceX started 20 years ago.”
Puri: Tariffs will drive 25% to 30% e-commerce inflation by Christmas
“So you're, all your goods are going to go up by 25 to 30%. So that's inflationary, right? So if you thought, you know, inflation was bad before the price of eggs and all this stuff, well, wait till Christmas season comes and nobody could buy a toy because all …”
O'Brien: A Billion-Dollar Company Will Emerge in Marine Geoengineering
“I think there is going to be, like, a billion-dollar company built in, like marine geoengineering of some description.”
Puri: The next major social network will feature AI-generated content
“Every decade or so, there's a new big hit social product, Facebook, then Instagram, Snapchat, now TikTok. It's time we are due for a new one. And the Twist will be that the content is somehow generated with AI.”
Colleges will spin out athletic departments to private equity
“I think what's going to happen is again, it's uncharted territory. You don't know exactly how it's going to play out, but I think the short version is the college will spin out the program. Their athletics program is its own business entity. They'll sell equit…”
Wilkinson: Indistinguishable 4K Video AI Coworkers on Zoom Within 24-36 Months
“I think that within 24 to 36 months, these will be four K video people that are indistinguishable, indistinguishable from a human that you'll talk to on zoom.”
Puri: AI software creation will expand the total software market
“And so I think the overall market for software gets bigger because you can create way more stuff. So, so that's the other counterpoint to like software being bad.”
Parr: Elon Musk will become a trillionaire within 3-5 years
“A person worth one trillion dollars, which is what Elon will be in three or four or five years.”
Rydhan: Future billion-dollar companies will be built by 1 to 3 people
“I feel like we're going to get to a world where, and I think Sam Altman said this, which is like the one person doing dollar company, like this is happening. Like we're already experiencing another 10 X decrease in how many people you need and the abilities th…”
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.”
Hormozi: Weight loss pills will replace gym visits for weight management
“I think that what you're going to see is a lot more people just continuing to lean into what they always have as humans do, which is the short term things that work, which is eat less, which you can do with the pill.”
Shaan Puri: The AI email assistant market will be an absolute bloodbath
“I do feel undoubtedly that email inboxes are going to start to have AI in them and the AI is going to help you process, categorize summarize your emails in a way and respond, help you with the responses. The problem is Do I really believe that you are going to…”
Shaan Puri: Wall Street adoption makes Bitcoin impossible for governments to ban
“Once you do that, you can't unwind it. So once everybody owns it in their ETFs or their retirement accounts, what are they going to do? You can't, it's too embedded in the system at that point. You can't like, you can't rip it out. It's tentacles are too deep.”
Puri: Mercury can fill SVB's shoes as a $30B+ company
“Nobody has really replaced them. I think Mercury is the best position to replace them. So if you think about like, what's the shoes they could fill the SVB Shoes as a 30 plus billion dollar company.”
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…”
Means: US healthcare costs will hit 40% of GDP in 20 years
“Like, it's gonna be 40% of GDP healthcare costs in the next 20 years.”
Puri: Voice AI startups like ElevenLabs are vulnerable to foundation models
“These companies that do voice, text-to-voice, so like, you know, 11 Labs is one, PlayHT is another, it's like, basically they're like, we're better than, like, we can do AI, you type in a thing, and we can create a human-sounding AI, and we're going to fine-tu…”
Giffon: Creator Equity Will Massively Exceed Ad and Sponsorship Revenue
“And I think every person with an audience will eventually, the money that they make from equity in a business that they own will massively dwarf the money that they make from ad rates or sponsorship reads.”
Pompliano: Bitcoin price will probably rise as halving cuts supply amid ETF demand
“The Bitcoin halving is coming, and that's just when the daily incoming supply, the number of Bitcoin that get created each day, is gonna get cut in half, from 900 Bitcoin to 450.
So like, I always joke, if you went to Economics one-on-one class, supply and de…”
Pompliano: Autonomous driving will make road line-striping businesses exponentially more valuable
“These like line striping or line painting businesses are going to be exponentially more valuable in the future because as self-driving becomes prevalent on the road, governments are going to mandate that the roads are painted more often so that the cars from a…”
Pompliano: Manufacturing certain drugs in space may be cheaper than on Earth
“And then the second thing is if they're able to do this correctly, it actually may be cheaper to do some of this in space than it is on earth.”
Pompliano: Solana will outperform Bitcoin and Ethereum this bull market
“I think Solana is going to go up a lot.
It's going to go up a lot more than Bitcoin.
I think it's going to go up a lot more than Ethereum in this specific bull market.
Cause it's a smaller market cap.
There's a lot of energy and excitement around it and all th…”
Puri: Musk Will Lose OpenAI Lawsuit but Win the PR War
“He's gonna lose the legal battle, but he's gonna win the PR war, I think.”
Shaan Puri predicts Andrew Wilkinson's creator joint ventures will yield $300M+.
“I would bet that he's going to make hundreds of millions off of these plays. If you add up the, you know, three to five that he's going to do in this category, I would bet that that's a three to three, like a three hundred million dollar prize.”
Eventually Every Retail Brand Will Have a Creator Face Attached
“I still think ultimately you're going to walk into a liquor store. You're going to walk into target and every brand is going to have a face and association because why wouldn't it, right?”
Puri predicts MrBeast will sell Feastables at a $6 billion valuation
“I would bet that he's going to sell that chocolate brand for Six billion dollars. That's my guess. I think that's what's gonna, I think if we fast forward the news three years from now you know, Mr. B sells the majority stake or in the chocolate business for a…”