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Isenberg: First solo unicorn is probably coming between 2026 and 2028
“AI provides the leverage, so if you have the right product, the right marketing, the right timing, the right person the first solo unicorn is probably coming in 2026 to 20 28.”
Woodward: Future AI Interaction Will Center on Multi-Agent Dashboards, Not Chat
“These kind of dashboard interfaces are these bird's eye views of what's happening. To me, this feels like a glimpse of what's coming in the future where you're able to kind of manage and oversee and give different assignments.”
Isenberg: Marketing will soon resemble high-frequency stock trading via AI
“Marketing will resemble high frequency stock trading in the near future. Agents working 24, seven monitoring, surfacing opportunities, personalized micro interactions. You'll be like a portfolio manager or day trader, adjusting risk, deploying money based on r…”
Isenberg: GPT-4o image generation will birth 1,000 multi-million dollar businesses
“Chat GPT for our image gen. Is as big as the ChatGPT launch, probably will birth a thousand plus one to a hundred million dollar a year of vertical software businesses.”
Isenberg: Every calendar, inbox, and CRM will be rebuilt within three years
“Every calendar inbox and CRM will be rebuilt from scratch in the next three years. Not AI enhanced, fully rethought.”
Brown: People will prompt full movies with perfect audio in 739 days
“People are going to be creating movies with prompts 739 days from now, with perfect dialogue, with perfect speech with great background music, like, all of the models are going to be integrated into these videos and it's going to completely disrupt social medi…”
Brown: Small overseas teams will run millions of AI influencer accounts
“It's going to be a group of 10 people overseas somewhere who are running millions of accounts to the point where it floods social media, where Mark Zuckerberg's going to be like, oh, like, we have to tone this back, like, or else it's just going to flood the i…”
Isenberg: Most customer support will be automated within 36 months
“Most customer support will be automated within 36 months. Not just tier one tickets, complex, multi-step resolution that previously required senior support staff.”
Isenberg: Next $100M Apps Will Be Mobile-First with Built-In AI
“The next wave of a hundred million dollar a year apps will start mobile first with AI baked in from day one.”
Isenberg: Founders Have 6-12 Months to Win Vertical AI Niches
“The window to establish yourself as the go-to solution in a specific vertical is maybe six to 12 months before it closes for a decade, or who knows.”
Wilkinson: Device controllers like Apple will capture most consumer AI value
“The people that will ultimately capture a lot of this value are going to be whoever controls the devices. Because I do believe like a lot of these LLM a lot of this functionality will ultimately be implemented.”
Wilkinson: Almost all current AI businesses will be zeros in five years
“To be clear, I'm still saying almost all these businesses will be zeros in five years.”
Howell: AI agents will soon reverse engineer SaaS products via APIs
“I think in the not so far future, you'll be able to paste a SAS into like, I don't know, you could do it with chat GPT operator, maybe and have it look at the SAS and reverse engineer it and use a public API. To build it for you.”
Finn: Lead gen returns for interactive AI apps will vanish in three years
“Like we're in that beginning moments of this strategy where people who attack it and use it are going to see unbelievable returns. And then in three years when everyone's doing it, the returns won't be there.”
Fully autonomous AI developer tools will build entire apps within two years
“Like Devin's trying to create that right now where like I could just give them this idea for an app and then I could go eat pizza and come back and It's just done after many iterations. And so that is like the full, that's where I think this is ultimately goin…”
Ras Mike: AI will create multi-million-dollar startups without technical founders
“It just, it, we truly enter, like, the birth of, like, non-technical multi-million dollar founders with no tech founder, with no CTO or anything like that.”
Kahl: Founders may bond more with AI agents than human co-founders
“I think we might even create bonds between founders and AI agents that are stronger than between founders and other founders because all this social tension between co-founders that is often quite strong, particularly when it's crunch time or when Runway is ru…”
Crivello: Future service businesses will be one founder and AI armies
“But yeah, I mean, in the limit, it's going to be one dude. Well, there happened to be two, but it's going to be one dude and an army of AI recruiters. And that company can scale infinitely with compute, basically. It's just with LLMs.”
Chaudry: Future markets will place a premium on inefficiency
“My hypothesis about the future is that there will be a premium on inefficiency.”
Schneider: Corporations will inevitably adopt synthetic AI brand spokespersons
“It's going to trickle down into, like, direct-to-consumer, and then that trickles down into B to B, and, like, this is an inevitability that will happen over time. Like, imagine, like, a corporation, right? Like, a Torture Would kill for this. They're like, yo…”
98% of middle schools will require locked phone pouches within 10 years
“My guess is in 10 years, 98% of middle schools are requiring people to put their phone in a pouch and lock it during the day.”
Isenberg: Top 1% of artists will earn 100x more next decade
“The top one percent of artists are going to make a hundred times more
In the next 10 years than they will in the previous, because there's going to be such demand for curated experiences.”
Postma predicts programmatic AI SEO directories will become saturated within two years
“And this is probably not even going to work in two years in the world. Cause all these niches are going to be found. They're going to be filled in by people just doing all these things. Cause it's all highly automated, right?”
Pujji: Niche financial intelligence data provider is easily a $10M EBITDA business
“Basically go through the biggest public companies and you create information that the investment in hedge fund world uses. And I think that's Easily a ten million EBITDA business. Maybe more.”
Goldstein: Linear will replace Jira and Trello in large enterprises
“They are killing Trello. They're killing Jira. They're going to replace those in even large enterprises as well, and they didn't have to build the craziest, most advanced stuff.”
Iverson: Tech design disciplines will increasingly collapse into efficient hybrid roles
“So I think the disciplines are going to collapse more. I mean, economy capitalist society, things are efficient. And so it's gonna find the most efficient way to get things done, which is often like a hybrid PM designer or a hybrid. Designer marketer or a hybr…”
Cole: The next major publisher will be a single AI-trained author
“So one of mine is I think that the next Simon and Schuster or Penguin Random House or whatever is going to be one individual that builds, I mean, one author, but has like a whole team. So the, an author is being treated like a venture backed startup and the te…”
Karnjanaprakorn: Failing startups will merge with one another to survive
“I think we'll start seeing you know, not just within those businesses, but startups that are kind of failing, merging with other startups that are failing to survive. I think we'll just see a lot of M and a activity and not, it won't be big tech company buying…”
Karnjanaprakorn: Creators will sell fine-tuned AI agents instead of traditional online courses
“So I think the new thing creators do instead of like courses, like asynchronous courses or cohort courses, it's a for 10 dollars a month. Like you can learn from me and I'm constantly updating the model and fine tuning it and you can learn directly from me.”
Pompliano: Very Few One-Person Companies Will Ever Reach $100M in Revenue
“I don't think that we are going to see very many one person companies reach significant scale measured in nine figures of revenue.”
Isenberg: Paper-rich founders face brutal recapitalizations within six to nine months
“There's a bunch of founders that right now that are worth a lot on paper that are going to have crazy headwinds, like within the next six to nine months. Because they're going to have to recap their companies and that the founders are, they're going to realize…”
Nickson: Open source will prevail as AI's winning foundational layer
“I'm a big believer that open source will prevail and that'll be sort of like the winning Foundational layer that AI is going to be built on top of”
Nickson: Prompt engineering is a fleeting trend, soon comparable to Googling
“I actually, I'm not as bullish on the idea of a prompt engineer as most, right? I think it'll be like knowing how to use Google or Excel. It's just like a particular skill that'll be helpful. But no, I think the pro I mean, like one of our main ambitions too, …”
Nickson: Standalone AI tools face major threat from incumbent software integration
“I think the most fierce competition are going to be the incumbents, you know, like a lot of this technology is going to be built into the products that we know and love and use today. Right. So eventually like you know, even, even mid journey, I think they're …”
Rogenmoser: AI will enhance over 90% of white-collar workflows within five years
“I'd say over 90%. Maybe 95%.”
Rogenmoser: Proprietary data moats in AI are dubious long-term
“Even the data stuff, which is probably the most like compelling, or at least the moat, the most moat like thing. We're going to hear that. They go, yeah, yeah, that there's a moat there. Like even that I think is dubious long-term. If there's a ton of value, t…”
Rogenmoser: Incumbents must rebuild products from scratch or face disruption
“Like over the next five years, you gotta go back to first principles and think, you know, is this really the best way to do this at all given the new technology? And I think sometimes it will be and like slapping it on. Will work. I think many times it's going…”
Greathouse Fall: Personalized AI will make Google and Meta look like tinkertoys
“So when it has a personal relationship with the person who's running it, that's going to be the next big watershed moment. I think that's what's going to make like Google and Facebook look like tinker toys.”
Spartz: In every domain, AI will evolve from tool to boss
“So in every domain, like AI starts off as a tool and then it goes up through the four levels. And so that's the thing to keep an eye on, is like, in, in your industry, if AI is starting off as a tool right now, eventually it'll become an assistant, then it'll …”
Spartz: A large percentage of future influencers and relationships will be AI
“In a world where all the influencers are, you know, AI, they're not human anymore, or, like, a large percentage of them, rather, are AI influencers. A large percentage of all relationships online become with AIs because the AI can be tailored.”
Postma: Shutterstock Could Replace All Its Photographers With AI by 2025
“But I think someone is probably Shutterstock is going to do this really well because they have like the whole database of photos, right? They could literally, I think in two years, put all their photographers out of a job and just have an AI generate the photo…”
Lavingia: Every digital-output job will be replaced by AI prediction
“Basically any job in which your output is digital you know, I see that, that, that will kind of be replaced with basically a computer predicting what that human would be outputting.”
Sahil Lavingia: Neural interfaces will 100% eliminate pain and treat depression
“We will, 100% basically be able to, you know, get rid of pain probably, you know, short circuit depression, like, all these sorts of things we will be able to do without needing to know exactly what, you know, we'll know the math, because you can look into thi…”
Lavingia: Physical traits will not matter in human society in 100 years
“Any privilege associated with anything else, height or body mass or, you know, fast switch muscle fibers basically is not going to matter a hundred years from now.”
Lavingia: AI investors may make almost no money over the next decade
“I could a hundred percent see that like 10 years from now, there's no way to make money in AI, right? Like basically nobody made any money on AI. All the returns basically just went to, you know, whoever like basically gets attention so that they can monetize …”
Isenberg: Meta's heavily criticized metaverse investments will actually pay off long-term
“And I think that over the longterm, I actually think that a lot of these metaverse bets are going to play Play in the favor of meta.”
Huber: Persistent high interest rates will bankrupt many real estate syndicators
“And if this keeps up and interest rates stay high for another couple of years, It'll be no different this time, and a lot of people who do what I do and raise money from outside investors will go bankrupt, and the people who invested the money will lose the mo…”