Dated predictions and their status, on one timeline. Left of today: already
assessed. Green held up, red didn't hold up, amber partly. Right: still open; when a dot's date hits, the ledger
checks it again against the public record.
20 days left 2026-10-03
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2026
Chaddha: AI startups will capture 90% of VC funding within a year
“I think it's going to be 90% in a year.”
45 days left 2026-10-28
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2026
Maguire: Most United Airlines planes will have Starlink within nine months
“I think it's probably within nine months or so. Most United fleet will be upgraded, but they install Starlink when a plane goes down for its like annual or biannual maintenance.”
109 days left 2026-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Maguire: SpaceX Starship will fly reliably and reusably in 2026
“I think Elon and the company have gained a lot of confidence that Starship is going to be flying like reliably and reusable this year in 20, 26. Like that's my strong sense.”
109 days left 2026-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Cliffton: Zipline expects US delivery business to grow over 10x this year
“So that grew really fast, and we're expecting that business to grow by more than 10 X this year again.”
109 days left 2026-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Mignano predicts OpenAI is likely to announce an IPO
“Boring answer, but OpenAI.”
109 days left 2026-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Ulevitch: Radiant Nuclear will activate first new-design fueled reactor next year
“I think Radiant is going to turn on the first fueled nuclear reactor of a new design in like 50 plus years. I think they're going to do it next year.”
109 days left 2026-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2026
Lopez: Base Power aims to produce 4,000 home batteries weekly by year-end
“We're not there yet, but we'll be able to produce about 4000 of these units per week towards the end of the year, and so, like, that's like one every few minutes, which is very, very quick, and so,”
206 days left 2027-04-07
Prediction Open · timeframe Apr 2027
Ludwig: Gen-II autonomous vehicle will be commercialized by 2027
“This is being commercialized in, in the next year”
311 days left 2027-07-21
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2027
Zipline will expand to serve over 20,000 healthcare facilities within 18 months
“We're gonna go from serving about 5000 hospitals and health facilities To over 20,000 hospitals and health facilities in the next 18 months.”
319 days left 2027-07-29
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2027
Hurlston: Server Copper Wiring Will Move to Optical Within 12 Months
“That run in the back of the servers, and in the next 12 months, we'll see some of those copper wires move to optical.”
341 days left 2027-08-20
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2027
Lamm: Colossal could birth an extinct species within 12 months
“The next 12 months, I'm looking forward to Colossal potentially having the next birthed extinct species.”
407 days left 2027-10-25
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2027
Socher: AI agents will outnumber human web surfers within years
“I think in the next few years, we're going to see more AI agents surfing the web for people than we'll have people surfing the web.”
407 days left 2027-10-25
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2027
Socher: Single-employee unicorns will not emerge in next few years
“I don't think we'll have in the next few years, like the sort of unicorn with a single, single employee type of situation. I think that will probably take a little bit longer and we'll be non-trivial to get right.”
495 days left 2028-01-21
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2028
Cliffton: Zipline Will Scale to 1M Deliveries Daily in Next Few Years
“You know, Zipline is gonna scale to a million deliveries a day over the next couple years, and that is gonna require us to continue that rate of, like, 15% week-over-week growth for another several years straight, and that's so we're not currently looking to, …”
675 days left 2028-07-19
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2028
Jain: Open source models will dominate AI inferencing within two years
“Well, I think open source models are going to dominate AI inferencing. You know, you'll see in the next two years, we'll shift to where's almost no open source to where's going to be almost all open source.”
675 days left 2028-07-19
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2028
Johnston: SpaceX will reach a $10 trillion valuation within years
“My hottest take right now is that the SpaceX IPO is the, gonna be viewed historically as the most undervalued IPO of all time. I think they will tear through 10 trillion within, you know, certainly within the next couple of years, and then have almost unlimite…”
840 days left 2028-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2028
Oetting: Trump Will Boost US Manufacturing Share, But Under 13.1% GDP
“I think that the Trump administration will bring, will make a big dent on that, that will improve, but I don't think it'll hit 13.1%.”
1090 days left 2029-09-07
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2029
Mavrookas: Saronic will bring online 150,000 gross tons of capacity within years
“We're going to bring online a 150,000 gross tons of capacity within a few years.”
1452 days left 2030-09-04
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2030
Cohen: Incumbent EHR giants will not be unseated in 3-5 years
“Like, the EHRs aren't going anywhere. Epic has a complete, basically, like, oligopoly over the entire space. ModMen and Athena are massive companies. Like, I don't think anyone is unseating them in the next three to five years”
1501 days left 2030-10-23
Prediction Open · timeframe Oct 2030
Barton predicts Meta will 3x in market cap in five years
“Like, I think Facebook is going to be, you know, a three X in five years.”
1554 days left 2030-12-15
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Schimpf: Europe will outspend US procurement fourfold over next five years
“Europe is going to spend something like four times the amount of procurement that the U.S. Is over the next five years.”
1570 days left 2030-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Schimpf: Europe will spend 4x US defense procurement over next five years
“Europe is going to spend something like
Four times the amount of procurement that the U S is over the next five years.”
1570 days left 2030-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Tony Kim: Utility-scale, million-qubit quantum computers will arrive around 2030
“It's very interesting when you look at these long-dated technologies. All roads converge to 2030. It's like quantum computing, utility scale, logically error-corrected, million-qubit quantum computer, twenty-thirty.”
1570 days left 2030-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Taylor: Nuclear energy will still only be 8% to 9% of global consumption by 2030
“It'll, it'll still be around like eight or nine percent nuclear. Solar is going to tick up a little bit, but honestly, oil and gas is growing as well.”
1570 days left 2030-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
The US unemployment rate will remain around 4% in 2030
“Probably like, fucking four percent. Like, things will revert back to the mean all. Like, humans will always find new jobs except for the four percent of people that just don't want to work.”
1570 days left 2030-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Happi: Hyperscaler data center buildouts will keep scaling through 2030
“So I would say until 2030, there's no doubt that this is going to continue to scale at this rate. The question is like, what happens after 2030, and is it going to continue beyond that?”
1570 days left 2030-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2030
Altman: AI will do tens of millions of US jobs by 2030
“I think AI will be doing tens of millions of jobs in the US by then that are currently being done by a person.”
1598 days left 2031-01-28
Prediction Open · timeframe Jan 2031
Maguire: Direct-to-cell will probably surpass Starlink consumer internet in five years
“And when we go like five years from now, all of my underwriting is, I think direct to sell will be probably even bigger than the original consumer internet business.”
1770 days left 2031-07-19
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2031
Cook: Keyboards and mice will be obsolete within five years
“We're gonna look back in five years and say, of course we're not using keyboards and mice anymore. Like, we've come up with a better way to interact with intelligence.”
2006 days left 2032-03-11
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2032
Raanan: An Israeli cybersecurity startup will reach a $50B valuation by 2032
“I'm pretty sure that in, in, in six years, maybe less, we'll see a fifty billion dollar and a hundred billion dollar cyber security company out of Israel. You know. I take it like take it like a fact, like, you know, the sun was, would rise tomorrow. You know,…”
2142 days left 2032-07-25
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2032
Vasavada: Enterprise RIA assets will hit $10 trillion by 2032
“Over the next five to seven years, that market will go from two trillion dollars in assets to 10 trillion dollars in assets.”
3270 days left 2035-08-27
Prediction Open · timeframe Aug 2035
Agrawal: Humans Will Not Need to Work to Earn a Living by 2035
“I suspect in five to 10 years, we wouldn't have to work to earn a living anymore.”
3370 days left 2035-12-05
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2035
Bhargava predicts multiple $100B AI-native compounders in public markets by 2035
“And so we think there'll be plenty of these hundred billion dollar AI native compounders in the public markets 10 years from now,”
3465 days left 2036-03-09
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2036
Lin: Top companies will reach $10 trillion valuations within ten years
“Today we have companies that are worth four and a half to five trillion dollars. If you give it another five to 10 years, those companies continue to compound. It will be worth 10 trillion or more.”
3469 days left 2036-03-13
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2036
Immerman: Top 1% venture outcome will reach $40B in 8-10 years
“Every five years, that, that top one percent outcome doubles. And so, if you were to fast forward another, you know, eight to 10 years, That's forty billion is the top one percent outcome.”
3647 days left 2036-09-07
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2036
Mavrookas: Port Alpha will create over 10,000 jobs in 10 years
“And then Port Alpha, which I mentioned earlier, that's going to be based in Brownsville, Texas, so expanding within Texas, and that site's going to create over 10,000 jobs just in the next 10 years.”
3648 days left 2036-09-08
Prediction Open · timeframe Sep 2036
Mavrookas: Port Alpha will create 10,000 jobs and $160B economic impact
“So what we're going to do at Port Alpha, you mentioned 10 years, over the next 10 years, we're going to create 10,000 jobs. We're going to invest billions of dollars. I mean, we're going to have a hundred and sixty billion dollar economic impact in Brownsville…”
4857 days left 2039-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2039
Nolan: Next-gen nuclear capacity will scale in the 2030s, not 2020s
“I think we see the big ramp next decade. This decade is about proving out the technologies, getting them licensed, giving them early deployments, and then it's going to be time to scale in the 20 thirties.”
4902 days left 2040-02-14
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2040
McCormick: Supersonic Private and Commercial Flight Will Emerge Within 10 to 15 Years
“I think there's a path where we wake up in 1015 years, and, like, first it's supersonic private planes, and then supersonic commercial planes, and, like, that is a long path to kind of get there, but, like, the technology is there, and actually, like, just bat…”
5270 days left 2041-02-16
Prediction Open · timeframe Feb 2041
Blania: BCI will reach broad consumer applications within 15 years
“Like if you now look at a 15 year time horizon, I think it's going to be a couple of years of research, then a couple of years of medical applications and like hopefully bringing benefits to a lot of people that really need such a technology and then eventuall…”
5953 days left 2042-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2042
Power: Demographic decline will pressure Xi Jinping to act before 2037-2042
“We just have to last till about 2037, 20 42, and then kind of overnight China's working population will cut in half, and then they can try again in another thousand years. So that will put a lot of pressure in our opinion on Xi to actually do something, becaus…”
8875 days left 2050-12-31
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2050
Oetting: A Human Will Be on Mars by 2050
“I would say we'll be on Mars by 20 50. I don't think we would, I mean, colonized maybe is like, depends what that means, but I think there will be a human on Mars by 20 50.”
10059 days left 2054-03-29
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2054
Power: Global reserve currency status will flip in 20-30 years
“We are 20 or 30 years away from the reserve currency flipping, which happens roughly every a 120 years.”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Lamm: Earth is forecasted to lose 50% of biodiversity within 25 years
“It's currently forecasted that we're going to lose up to 50% of all biodiversity in the next 25 years.”
Prediction Held up
Immerman: Elon Musk has 90%+ odds of becoming world's first trillionaire
“Well, if that market existed today, I think it would probably be like 90% plus odds on Elon. He's like pretty close at this point. Depending on, you know, where his companies go out he's certainly the favorite. So I would definitely bet on him.”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Franceschi: Incumbent ERP companies will not build autonomous AI agents
“You have existing incumbents in the finance space, like the ERP companies, for example, I don't think they're going to go do that.”
Prediction Held up
Wright: Space Data Centers Are Inevitable to Power Lunar and Martian Bases
“This is actually a debate that we have in terms of how soon it's going to happen, but it's definitely going to happen. Data centers in space is coming, and it makes sense, right? If you think about and you know, a lot of this is public, but what SpaceX is talk…”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Ulevitch: All future autonomous vehicles will be electric
“Part of the shift to electric vehicles, obviously we have EVs today, but as we shift to more autonomous vehicles, all those vehicles are going to be electric as well.”
Prediction Held up
Serhant predicts a new Class A office development race in NYC
“I think now you're gonna have a Class A office race. So now, Ken Griffin, Vernado. Right? And those guys are going to do park, and I think it's 51st. They're just going to tear down all those buildings on 51st and just build a brand new tower to compete with t…”
Prediction Held up
Shadbolt: Quantum commercial adoption will precede cryptographic security risks
“You should get like an economic early warning sign essentially where you should see quantum computing companies Doing commercially impactful things, making money, and then eventually scaling towards systems that are big enough to be cryptographically relevant.”
Prediction Held up
Anthropic will inevitably reach AI Security Level 3, potentially by late 2025
“Whether security level three is going to be a thing. And I think the short answer is, yeah, it's just a question of time. And is it going to be this side of Christmas or after? I don't know yet”
Prediction Held up
Armstrong: AI Agents Will Use Base Wallets to Form an Agentic Economy
“We're also going to see AI agents have their own financial accounts, and we're powering that with the base, like, MCP API so they can have their own self-custodial wallet now and start to have a true agentic economy, paying for goods and services, hiring other…”
Prediction Held up
O'Shea predicts SpaceX will IPO before OpenAI
“I think SpaceX.”
Prediction Held up
Maguire: SpaceX will deliver major direct-to-cell service by 2028
“And then I think in roughly twenty-twenty-eight, it's gonna be the year of direct to sell, and SpaceX talked about this publicly, but it's gonna take time, you know, they just acquired a bunch of spectrum, it takes time to get, you know, Antennas and phones op…”
Prediction Held up
Senra: Ivanka Trump will appear on his new interview show
“She's gonna do the new show too.”
Prediction Held up
Nolan: Turbines will likely be the bottleneck for expanding natural gas power
“Turbines will be the bottleneck most likely.”
Prediction Held up
AI will reason over three-hour screen recordings in two to three years
“I think it's inevitable that in about two or three years, we will have models that are multimodal, large context windows, are capable of reasoning over, say, three hours of a screen recording.”
Prediction Held up
Laffont: Top AI and tech unicorns will likely IPO within 24 months
“You know, some of them will probably go public in the next 12 to 24 months, so that'll be kind of one impact of it”
Prediction Partly held up
Goldstein: eVTOL aircraft will begin flying in US cities next year
“And so we came up with this concept around what they called the EIPP or eVTOL integration pilot program. And that was to allow these aircrafts to start flying in the cities in the U.S. As soon as next year. And so what they're going to do is they're actually g…”
Prediction Held up
Miller: Monthly AI token spend will go well above $500M
“I'm very bullish that we're going to go well above that.”
Prediction Partly held up
SpaceX will launch close to 200 times this year, says Fishner-Wolfson
“They're going to launch, I don't know what to me this year, but like something close to 200 times. Like no one else in the world is launching even 15, 20 times, right?”
Prediction Held up
Tony Kim: China has 30 to 40 potential robotics IPOs this year
“I'm looking at the current pipeline. I see 30, 40 potential IPOs this year in China.”
Prediction Held up
Bernauer predicts multiple nuclear entities will conduct fuel tests in 2026
“And I think others are going to do that same thing in that same year. So it won't even be just us. It'll be several different entities.”
Prediction Held up
Schimpf: Anduril will produce autonomous fighter jets in months
“We're making autonomous fighter jets. You know, like three years ago, we weren't believable to make autonomous fighter jets. Now we're doing it. And we're going to have them be produced in a production facility in like months from now.”
Prediction Held up
Fewer venture capital firms will raise opportunity or growth funds going forward
“I do think fewer people will raise opportunity funds or growth funds. I think that is likely.”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Sadeghi predicts Nucleus will sequence 500,000 whole genomes by 2026
“I think we can actually, I think two years from now, we can get half a million samples. Two years from today, I think we could do that.”
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Power: Fed will cut rates close to 2021 ZERP levels within 12 months
“I think that we have so much headroom in the federal reserve rate, that I think we're going to see dramatic cuts close to twenty-twenty-one ZERP levels over the next 12 months.”