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Prediction Didn’t hold up
Phan: YouTube will acquire TikTok and IPO at $500B within 12 months
“I'm making a prediction. YouTube is going to buy TikTok. They're going to spin out YouTube. It's going to go public, five hundred billion dollar company. Done. Clip this. Editor, clip this for when this happens in the next 12 months.”
Trung Phan Mar 9, 2023 ▶ 1:01:41 Trung Phan on The Hustle, ChatGPT, and TikTok
Assertion Contradicted
Schneider: ChatGPT and Perplexity rely on Google's index instead of crawling
“ChatGPT and OpenAI and Perplexity, like, they're all built on the back of this, like, search engine Google, right? Google has spent the last, whatever, 30 years or 25 years basically indexing the entire, like, internet. Imagine, like, Perplexity and ChatGPT, w…”
Cody Schneider Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 18:28 AI Search is PRINTING (ChatGPT, GEO & Perplexity)
Assertion Contradicted
Image quality does not degrade across multi-turn AI conversational edits
“The model doesn't like the image quality doesn't get worse as you like do a multi-turn edit. So like you don't need to get everything right on the first edit.”
Logan Kilpatrick Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 20:30 I got a private lesson on Google's NEW Nano Banana AI Model
Assertion Contradicted
How Matty Mo Outranked Picasso on Google for 'The Most Famous Artist'
“He's literally the number one person that comes up ahead of Pablo Picasso, ahead of Rembrandt, ahead of Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Michelangelo, these people. He's the first person. His name's Matty Moe.”
Greg Isenberg Oct 2, 2024 ▶ 5:11 The only startup naming guide you’ll ever need: my proven framework
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