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Shaan Puri compounds millions in retail shopping center investments at 44% annually
“I'm basically compounding like 44% a year. And I get the tax benefits of real estate, and it's passive, and I don't like, and it's like retail, which everyone thinks is dead, there's, I think, less than four percent vacancy rates, like nationally.”
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.”
DeepMind is the reason OpenAI and ChatGPT exist
“DeepMind got bought by Google, and DeepMind is basically Google's AI play, and the DeepMind team, which was basically a research team that was building AI, is the reason that OpenAI exists. It is the reason that ChatGPT exists. It is the reason Elon is interes…”
Horowitz: Facebook Executives Attempted a Coup in 2007 to Force Yahoo Sale
“The Facebook traffic had flattened and
The current, the executive staff that he had at the time was trying to run a coup to force him to sell to Yahoo. So they were leaking all this stuff to Valleyrag at the time and Valleyrag was, you know, calling for Zuck t…”
Founders are pitching Trump administration connections as a core competitive advantage
“In the past, I'd never seen anybody pitch, like, a core part of their pitch as being, I'm close to administration. I've heard so many pitches about that now, which is kind of sad, honestly, but it is what it is.”
Brian Armstrong manipulated Polymarket odds during a Coinbase earnings call
“His team passed him a note and he goes, Oh, before we hang up here, I just would like to say web three crypto blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum. Thank you very much. And he just basically, he's like you know, just for all the prediction markets out there, you know…”
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: Alex Hormozi made $100M in one weekend from book launch
“His last book launch, he just did it about a month ago. His last book launch sold three million copies. And with all the add on courses he added to it, he made a hundred million dollars in a single weekend, a hundred million dollars as one guy.”
Braziel: SBF gave FTX employees guaranteed 10-year million-dollar salary contracts
“I mean, Sam was giving out 10 year contracts to people, guaranteed 10 year pay contracts, you know, like million dollar contracts to like salary employees, a little bit like the, you know, like AI, you know, meta thing.”
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, …”
Parr: Surge AI did $1B in revenue with zero outside capital
“So this company is only five years old. And it's it was leaked that they did one billion dollars in revenue in the last 12 months. And this guy, Edwin Chen, he's only 37 years old, and he owns 100% of the company. They have not taken any outside funding.”
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.”
Ury: US men are more religious than women for the first time
“For the first time in history, men in the U.S. Are more religious. They're more likely to go to church than women, and we're just seeing that men and women are really being polarized.”
Ury: Arranged marriages become happier than love marriages after five years
“So when you compare love marriages versus arranged marriages, love marriages usually start off happier, but around the five year mark, arranged marriages are happier.”
Nagpal: Goldman Sachs wealth management returned 6% versus 13% S&P 500
“The best part of my portfolio that they did was simply indexing the S&P. The S&P has returned about 13% in that time. They did a lot of other stupid shit that averaged it down to six percent.”
Nagpal: Peter Thiel grew Roth IRA from PayPal shares to $5B
“He put his PayPal founder shares in a Roth IRA. Sold those for about twenty seven million dollars, then used this as a supercharged investment account to where it is today, where he has five billion dollars in his Roth.”
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 …”
Mah: Jet buyers can write off $12M jet with $3M down
“Last year it was 60% upfront, but now with the new administration, it looks like accelerated depreciation is back. So if you bought a twelve million dollar airplane, financed it, you can write off the whole twelve million dollars off your tax bill, even though…”
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…”
Senra: James Dyson rejected an acquisition offer, calling Dyson a family heirloom
“They're like, would you be interested in selling your company? The response was, fuck you, this is a family heirloom.”
Currier: 85% to 90% of all tech returns originate from the Bay Area
“Why is it that sort of 85, 90% of all returns in tech have come from the Bay Area? It's because the mindsets here are slightly different from New York and London and LA and other things.”
Currier: Consumer software window closed in 2014, producing only ten unicorns
“Between 94 and 2013, it was a fantastic time to start companies in the consumer software space and invest in them from seed or series A. In 2014, the window just closed. You can look at the number of unicorns created in two th from 2014 to today, and it's real…”
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: Foreign actors cut about 11 subsea cables in the past year
“I think in the last year about 11 cables have been cut by foreign actors”
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.”
O'Brien: Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are using TRT to get jacked
“Look at Bezos and Zuckerberg. They're getting jacked. Like they're doing TRT.”
James Altucher publicly claimed his premium newsletter generates $120M in annual revenue
“He said he made a hundred, he said it on stage.
He said a hundred and twenty million dollars a year in revenue.”
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.”
Silk Road Founder Made Millions of Dollars a Day
“Next thing you know, he's making millions and millions and millions of dollars a day as the biggest drug dealer on the internet.”
ZURU founder is building an automated house-building factory larger than Tesla's
“He now is building the largest factory in the world, bigger than the Tesla factory, bigger than all that, where robots are going to build houses. Autonomously.”
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…”