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Garg: Donald Trump will win the Nobel Peace Prize by 2026
“And I think I'm, I have this now conviction, That he'll get the peace prize either in 2025 or 26.”
Garg: US Dollar will lose reserve currency status by 2034
“So by 2034, that's the timeline I have. Dollar will no longer be a reserve currency.”
Dahiya: India Will Surpass China As Largest Economy Due To Institutional Strength
“In my lifetime, we will be the largest or second largest. I think we'll be the largest economy. Simply because China won't be able to keep up because their institutional strength is not so good.”
Mark Mobius predicts India's GDP will definitely overtake China's GDP
“Oh yes, definitely. Because you're seeing China's growing at, let's say two or three percent India's growing at seven percent definitely India will overtake China.”
Fafadia predicts physical cash will completely fall out of circulation soon
“So in a few years from now, I do imagine and dare to say that cash will be out of circulation.”
Mehta: India's electric scooter volumes will catch up to China by 2027
“Volumes, they are ahead, but volumes will catch up in the next three, four years. But in terms of just sheer technology, and product quality, and product the feature list. No, I'm not just speaking for Aether. I'm just, I'm speaking actually about the entire e…”
Mehta: Electric scooters will decimate India's commuter motorcycle market within 10 years
“So my belief for the last several years has been electric scooters will decimate the
Commuter entry motorcycle market in India over the next 10 years.
What will be left as motorcycles is the premium and the high performance category, one 8200 cc and beyond, wh…”
Bajpai: India will become the world's largest market for unicorns
“I think every time, you know, I hear this, I'm like, dude, you know, it's going to take 10 more years than what people imagine. But the thing is, this will be the largest market in terms of unicorns in the world when that happens, right?”
Jain: AI will handle over 50% of customer service within 3-5 years
“So on one side, I believe that if you draw it out three to five years, more than 50% of the customer service interactions will be fully handled by AI very comfortably.”
Ambati: AI foundation models will capture more than 10% of software
“We are starting to see more evidence that models are going to own that more than the 10%, ah, you know, whether it's the new plugins that, ah, you know, Claude has released that shook up the whole SecOps market.”
Agarwal: AI operational spend will surpass traditional cloud DevOps spend
“So will AI spend surpass cloud spend? I a hundred percent believe that, which means that the AI ops spend surpasses DevOps spend. It's bound to happen.”
Padval predicts Databricks and Stripe will IPO in 9 to 12 months
“And so they will go public in the next nine to 12 months, I think.”
Rekhi predicts India will economically overtake China within 50 years
“I see, 50 years from now, we are, we will definitely overtake China. We will definitely overtake China.”
Rekhi predicts China could overtake the US economically by 2035
“China will overtake America by 2035. Yeah. If they turn, transhold, you know, may or may not happen, but if they turn, transhold, you know, China will be better than U.S.”
Dash: Vertical AI will create $10B ARR companies in 10-15 years
“I'm pretty sure we're going to see five to ten billion dollar ARR companies in healthcare, education, defense, and retail. In the next 10 to 15 years that are not going to be head-on competing with the same companies that are competing code generation.”
Poddar predicts India will create 40 to 50 decacorns in 10-15 years
“I would be surprised if in the next 10 years we don't have 40, 50 more decacons being created. That's a large number. It will happen. And maybe not any, maybe 15 years, but it will happen.”
Garg: Databricks will be a trillion-dollar company one day
“You know, I think Databricks will be a trillion dollar company one day.”
Garg: More decacorns will be created in next decade than prior decade
“I think many more Decacorns will get created over the next decade than over the last decade.”
Ganesan: AI will eliminate 80% of contact center seats in 3-5 years
“So broadly, I think the total number of contact center seats will come down. My estimation is that it will come down by about 80% over the course of three to five years. By the way, timeframes are actually anybody's guess. As you know, in AI, things are changi…”
Makhija: An India-focused SaaS company will eventually reach $1 billion in revenue
“I firmly believe that there can be a company that can be created. Where we are getting billion dollars in, in revenues.”
Manickam: India Reaching 3nm Chip Manufacturing in 10 Years Is Very Optimistic
“Definitely. I mean, 10 years is a good, you know, is very optimistic.”
Garg: China's energy output will be 4x the US by 2030
“It will by 20 30 be, I think, three and a half, four times of US, right? The energy production.”
A three-degree Celsius global temperature rise is effectively baked in
“And so the physics of this is actually crystal clear. It's going up three degrees centigrade global average mean temperature is pretty much baked in. It's going to be very difficult to try and avoid that now.”
India could account for 25% of global carbon emissions by 2050
“So right now the projection is we will have about fifty billion tons in twenty-fifty of global carbon equivalent emissions. Out of that fifty billion tons, 10 to fourteen billion tons could actually come from India. So at that time we could be a quarter 25% of…”
Nuclear fusion will become commercially viable within 10 to 15 years
“Nuclear fusion is finally getting within the zone of commercial viability. In the next 10 or 15 years, it'll become commercially viable.”
Goyal: India will produce 10+ billion-dollar SaaS IPOs or exits by 2029
“My hypothesis or my projection, Siddharth, is that in the next three to four years, you will see at least ten billion dollar plus exits or IPOs in SaaS. All built from India.”
Khalid: Donald Trump Will Not Break Up Big Tech Monopolies
“I don't think that they are, Trump is in the business of breaking up the big tech monopolies.”
Mark Mobius predicts India will become a major high-end semiconductor producer
“Right now, India is a global leader in software, but it will become a leader in computer hardware. It will become a major producer of high-end semiconductors.”
Rupee will depreciate just 0.5% annually if India grows at 8%
“Having done that, I actually have assessed that if India grows at eight percent, the rupee will actually depreciate by about half a percent per annum.”
Indian career salaries will multiply 100x compared to 10x in the US
“Salaries in dollar terms in the US will multiply about, let's say, you know, if I even round it off and actually I'm more conservative, you know, over the course of an average career, 10 times salary multiplication would actually be, you know, would be somethi…”
Kumar: India Unlikely to Achieve Growth Needed for $5T Target
“Assuming that the data is correct, that the Indian government is putting out, we will need at least a nine percent rate of growth if in the next three years we are to reach the third largest economy, that five trillion dollar goal. And we've had only six and a…”
Kumar: India Will Miss $14,000 Per Capita Developed Goal by 2047
“Similarly, if by 2047, we have to become a developed economy, we have reached 14,000 dollars per capita. From where we are, that would require 11 and a half percent rate of growth for the next 25 years. Now, hardly any economy has achieved over 25 years, 11 an…”
Clifford: India will produce its first trillion-dollar company
“And its first trillion dollar company. It will happen.”
Bagri: Indian passport won't rival US or Singapore mobility until 2047
“Like, 2047, I think. When we are a developed country, that will take time.”
India Will Produce 5x More $100M Software Companies by 2032
“So I think India can get 200 companies at a hundred million by 2030. Why not? Definitely India can get to that. So typically 15 in this decade, in the next decade, I would say 2030, 2032, give and take plus two years here. We can produce five X of what we prod…”
Doddala: 60% of 2021-2022 unicorns will probably never realize their valuations
“I think, 60% of the unicorns that were marked up in, you know, in our 20, 21, 20, 22, Are probably not going to ever realize their markups.”
India will export clean energy instead of importing fossil fuels by 2047
“हमारा लक्श अमृत काल में ये है जो मान्या प्रतान मंतरी जी ने कहा कि हम दोहजार सैंतालीस तक हम इमपोरट करने के बदले इनर्जी कलीन इनर्जी को एकसपोरट करेंगे So we'll be an exporter of clean energy rather than an importer of hundred and eighty billion worth of fossil fu…”
Sachdeva: GenAI will dynamically create unique short videos for every session
“Every single time you open a short video app, it will generate a video for you.”
India's Population Will Never Reach Two Billion Due to Falling Fertility
“First of all, I don't think we'll ever have a two billion population. As I said, we are not producing enough children already. To be able to sustain the current population. So while our population may go up a little bit long more because of longevity growth po…”
Kumar: India will have 1,000 or more unicorns within a decade
“Oh, it's maybe even more. I'm extremely bullish, right?”
Ahluwalia: Whatfix might become bigger than Freshworks within 10 years
“India, I would say it would be Wattfix, since I get to know Khadem very closely, and I think Khadem is building the next Freshworks, or Wattfix might become bigger than Freshworks in the next 10 years.”
Aadit Palicha predicts Zepto will be a profitable public company by 2028
“Five years from now, I'll be talking to you saying, you know what, we're a highly profitable public company in grocery.”
Agarwal: Indian EV Startups Can Now Launch Under 18 Months on $1.5M
“I think in future, at least in two-wheeler market, you should be able to launch, when I say launch defined by generating hundred vehicles sales per month or more in less than 1.5 million dollars in less than 18 months.”
India will produce one hectocorn and five decacorns annually within ten years
“My, but my sense is that India will be producing in 10 years or less, India will be producing one hectocon a year and at least five decocons in a year.”
Indian SaaS startups will scale to $100M in revenue within three years
“And in US, I think there are companies which can grow from zero to hundred million revenue in three years. And I expect a lot of those companies to come out of India as well in coming times. So the speed will become very different than what it is today.”