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Harrison: Conflict over Taiwan could cause a $10T global economic hit
“You look at a conflict over Taiwan, I think people say could be a 10 trillion dollar hit to the global economy. Like bigger than the financial crisis, COVID, anything. I think in some cases combined.”
Bry: Within five years, drones will respond to 911 calls nationwide
“I think a default expectation in five years is if there's an emergency, you call nine one, a drone shows up in a few seconds, and that's going to be everywhere in the US, hopefully everywhere in the world.”
Bry: Expect 'pain and carnage' for recent wave of robotics investments
“I think that we are going to see a lot of pain and carnage on the investments and expectations that are being set in this sort of like most recent round of robotics companies, because it's just the physical world does not work the way the software world works.”
Taneja: Global Geopolitics Will Cause Defense Primes to Emerge Everywhere
“The geopolitics is going to force supply chains to shift. Does Europe really want to buy American defense products? Maybe some countries will, but the biggest ones won't. They want to create resilience. Does India really want to rely on Russia or America for t…”
Abraham: AI will inevitably replace human financial advisors' advice and emotional support
“And AI, if you look at like agents what we've launched, that does number one now. And so two and three is going to be replaced as well. It's just a matter of time”
Abraham: Securities prediction markets will dramatically surpass US sports betting volumes
“My hunch would be that the volumes around that in the long term will be dramatically higher than what the market of sports betting is in the US.”
Exowatt targets 1 cent per kWh via mass-produced modular solar thermal units
“What's new really about our approach and our hypothesis is making this in a modular fashion, making this in a factory. And then scaling the production to millions and ultimately billions of these, which ultimately allows us to go down the cost curve and genera…”
Happi: Hyperscalers relying on gas burners will face major emission penalties
“Otherwise we're going to be left with tens or even, yeah, tens of gigawatts of Mac gas burners that are going to last for another 20 years, and they might be a quick fix now, but I think the hyperscalers know they're going to pay a price for this later, both i…”
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?”
Pure-Play Software Lacking Proprietary Data Will Be Replaced
“I think companies that have built software orally and just sell that software are very vulnerable. Like the bar for quality of software is going up rapidly... If you really hate some piece of software that you're using, And it's just software doesn't have some…”
Consumer AI Will Quickly Flush Out Fine-Print Business Models
“The willingness to put up with random obnoxious things like low quality or crappy terms or products that pretend to be something they're not, like all of that is just gonna get flushed out very quickly. And companies that have business models that are buried i…”
Younis: Applied Intuition will likely never operate in China
“China's the only country that I think we probably won't be in maybe ever, but certainly anytime soon.”
Miller: Public venture funds will become a multi-hundred-billion-dollar asset class
“I think that it's about creating like a multi hundred billion dollar category where you get millions of people investing in private tech companies and build this bridge between the two sides of the market.”
Miller: Every American will allocate 5% to public VC in 10 years
“I think that like 10 years from now, every single person in America will have five percent of their portfolio in like public venture capital. It'll be totally normal. It'll be like an ETF. It'll be just this thing that's standard and the public capital, so the…”
Miller predicts most mega venture firms like a16z will eventually go public
“The nature of these partnerships is eventually they want to monetize and the best way to monetize is go public. This happened in all the investment banks. They've all went public. And so Yeah, I mean, they'll, most of them will eventually go public, and then t…”
Miller predicts AI will displace 20% to 30% of white-collar jobs
“I think more than 20%, but less than 50. So like let's say 20 to 35 years, 20 to 30% of jobs are Not to, not, not just displaced, but also suppressed. So you don't make that marginal higher and that adds up to tens of millions of jobs.”
Immerman: Rideshare market will grow by at least 10x in coming years
“And so the ride share market is going to grow by You know, at least in order of magnitude in the coming years.”
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.”
Raanan: The cybersecurity industry will face its darkest period this coming decade
“I hope I'm wrong, but I think I'm, we are going to face the darkest, darkest period in cyber security in the next.
10 years.”
Raanan: Future cyber warfare will be fought entirely by autonomous AI agents
“In 20 years, or 10 years,
I don't know.
But it's not tomorrow.
we are going to see threat actors who are programs, very, very smart, sophisticated, maybe self-aware, and we'll talk about self-awareness in a second threat actors, and the defenders would be, yo…”
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.”
Laffont: SaaS must re-accelerate with AI or re-rate to 20x GAAP earnings
“So one of two things are going to have to change. Either companies are going to have to benefit from AI and re-accelerate the top line. And I think if you, again, listen to the workday earnings call yesterday, Anil, the CEO, essentially said his job is to come…”
Blania: AI will soon drive 99.9% of all internet traffic
“Because I think like, 99.9% or something of all internet traffic will be AI driven.”
Blania: X will become unusable within two years without new technical solutions
“So I think my personal prediction, I might be wrong with this, but I think Platforms like X will not be usable. And like a matter of months, maximum two years if they don't come up with completely new technical solutions”
Blania: Humanity is in the last innings before superintelligence
“We are probably in the last innings before superintelligence.”
Bueller: Machines will perform the vast majority of cognitive work in 20 years
“And I think that you look 20 years out, and the vast majority of cognitive work is done by machines, just like the vast majority of physical work is done by machines.”
Rao: Unconventional AI Could Open a Computing Paradigm Lasting 80 Years
“I think we have the opportunity to completely open up a new paradigm that could exist for another 80 years.”
Rao: Unconventional AI has very high chance of hitting 50x efficiency first go
“Are we going to hit a thousand X in the first go? Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. There's a some percentage chance that we will hit it, but I think we're going to hit 50 X with a very high chance.”
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.”
Maguire: xAI will shock people with how quickly it scales
“I just think XAI is gonna shock people with the scale that it gets to quickly.”
Maguire: SpaceX IPO will boost private AI companies through liquidity
“I think the SpaceX IPO will actually help all private companies this year, including the AI companies, just because it creates a lot of liquidity, and it draws a lot of capital, you know, into tech, and, you know, people are gonna, like, it's, it will just cre…”
Maguire: SpaceX IPO wealth will not degrade employee culture or motivation
“I don't, I think that in most companies, it's kind of destroyed the culture. I don't think that's going to be the case at SpaceX because SpaceX is such a mission-oriented company, and as I was saying before, the next five years and then five years after that h…”
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…”
Dan Wright: Global AI will run on either US or Chinese stack within years
“In a few years, what's going to happen is One of two things. Either the world is going to be running on the USAI stack, or it's going to be running on the Chinese AI stack”
Ramaswamy: Seat-based SaaS models will struggle against cheaper AI competitors
“I think it's more of, if somebody is very heavy in a seat-based licensing model, And someone else shows up that, you know, has a better product and is also cheaper. That's a very dangerous combination. I think those are the companies that are going to struggle…”
Delivery logistics will shift from 4,000-pound cars to 50-pound autonomous EVs
“An inevitable transformation that we are going to go from using humans driving cars that weigh, you know, 4000 pounds and burn gas to a world where we're going to be using vehicles that weigh 50 pounds and are electric and autonomous.”
Cliffton: Zipline has a clear path to a trillion-dollar valuation
“Has wound up being one of the biggest markets on Earth that means that, You know, we suddenly have a company that you know, is highly valued by investors and has a pretty much like straight and obvious path to becoming a trillion dollar.”
Goldstein: Scaled air taxi networks will take 10 to 20 years
“So air taxi will happen over time. It's not gonna happen year one. It's probably not gonna happen year five, but it will happen by year 10, and it will certainly be scaled by year 20.”
Tenev: Prediction markets will disrupt insurance by cheapening fire and hurricane hedging
“You can trade and hedge fire risk. You can hedge hurricane risk. And if you think about the process of like insuring yourself against a fire or a hurricane, It can be very expensive and it's cumbersome. You have to talk to a broker on the phone and the contrac…”
Tenev: Retail access to private companies will be standard in 5 years
“And I think that, you know, five years from now, The exact mechanisms, whether tokenization is legal or closed-end funds, that's less clear. But what I know is I, I'm very confident that retail investors getting exposure to private companies Will be easier, mu…”
Luckey predicts mass-producing weapons in existing auto factories will become a major model
“I think that that is a model that is going to be a big deal here in the United States, and I think it's also going to be a big deal in allied nations that similarly have a lot of their own existing industrial capacity. You know, you don't necessarily have to b…”
Schimpf: US defense budgets cannot shrink without sacrificing necessary military capability
“I don't see a world where, like, the defense budgets could magically shrink, and we still have the military that we need to have, but I do think these things can be done wildly more efficiently than they ever have in the past.”
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.”
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.”
Bhargava: AI will transform low-margin services industries into software-like margins
“Our thesis somewhat is, well, these unsexy services industries that were breakeven or 15 to 20% EBITDA margins, net income, obviously much lower. They can look like software from a margin profile, because once you take out the repetitive tasks and you take out…”
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,”
Bhargava: AI labor displacement will hit foreign outsourcing hubs hardest
“What we're seeing a lot of is you add AI technology to American companies. They're now much more efficient. They don't need to outsource a lot of these more repetitive tasks. So I think the area that will be hit the hardest is probably abroad in places like In…”