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Ohanian: 90% of gamers will only play games that pay them
“In five years, no one, 90% of people will not play a game unless they are being properly valued for that time.”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:17:56 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
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Coogan: Startup will demo an armed humanoid robot within six months
“I was predicting that within the next six months, I think that there will be a startup that will take one of these humanoid robots Even if it's tele-operated, give it an AR-fifteen, like a machine gun or a rifle, and just do a demo of like what this would look…”
John Coogan Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 38:20 John Coogan (TBPN) gives you $1B BIG startup ideas
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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
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Ohanian: DAO participation will be commonplace within five years
“I think everyone in five years will participate in a DAO. They won't know it necessarily. I don't think that branding is, is whack. But they won't care. Right. User experience triumphs over everything. So yeah, I think it will be pretty commonplace. Not, maybe…”
Alexis Ohanian Dec 23, 2021 ▶ 1:16:58 The Unlimited Potential of Web3 with Alexis Ohanian | Where It Happens
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Siu: Apple will sell over 500,000 Vision Pro units within 12 months
“They're breaking that.”
Eric Siu Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 14:13 I can't believe he gave away these GENIUS 3 AI startup ideas (watch this)
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Kagan bets his new DocuSign alternative will make $1M within a year
“And then I believe, I would bet, I'll bet a million dollars, it'll make a million dollars in a year.”
Noah Kagan Jan 25, 2024 ▶ 3:59 How To Find MILLION DOLLAR Business Ideas That WORK | Noah Kagan
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Goldberg: Insurance companies will not enter crypto due to volatility
“Insurance companies don't like insuring volatile things. Right. And so they're not going to move into the space, but I think the big question of like, how do we actually solve this problem is how do you assess the intrinsic value of a digital asset, which is a…”
Gabby Goldberg Jun 17, 2022 ▶ 32:29 Predicting the Future of Web3
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Greg Isenberg: Twitter Stock Will Be Flat at $43.57 in 2026
“And then, five years from now, I think it's exact, it's exactly where we are today. It's like, 43, 57, or whatever.”
Greg Isenberg Dec 1, 2021 ▶ 14:30 Special: DAOing a Twitter Board Seat | Where It Happens
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Finn: Anti-prompt-injection skills will launch within two weeks
“I'm sure I'm very positive in the next week or two, there'll be official skills out there that like handle prompt injection from email, prompt injection from tweets and replies.”
Alex Finn Jan 27, 2026 ▶ 32:05 Clawdbot/OpenClaw Clearly Explained (and how to use it)
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Wilkinson: Standalone apps like Cal AI will face 100 clones within months
“There's tons of those, but there's going to be like a hundred of them in the app store in like two months. And then Cal AI will not be able to charge what they are.”
Andrew Wilkinson Mar 24, 2025 ▶ 15:44 If I wanted to build $1M+ AI startup in 2025, I'd do this
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Ellis: Yohana will likely transition to fully AI-driven assistance
“And they use AI, and then they also have real people, which I feel like they'll probably switch to AI, fully AI in the near future.”
Natalie Ellis Jun 24, 2024 ▶ 38:19 Startup ideas and frameworks to make you wealthy.
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Trinh: Crypto market bottom is at least 6 to 9 months away
“Right now, like, I think we're probably another six to nine months of a minimum of like sliding into finding where the bottom of darkness is.”
Danny Trinh Oct 11, 2022 ▶ 51:06 Keeping it Real with Danny Trinh
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Greg Isenberg: Twitter Stock Will Hit $58.43 By Late 2022
“Alright, I give it 58, 43, one year from now.”
Greg Isenberg Dec 1, 2021 ▶ 14:07 Special: DAOing a Twitter Board Seat | Where It Happens
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Isenberg: Fable will switch to API pricing starting June 22nd
“I think that as, you know, I think it's June 22nd, you're, it's going to be API pricing. It's not going to be included in your max account.”
Greg Isenberg Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 7:42 Claude Fable 5 is BACK
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Isenberg expects Boring Marketing to reach 60-70+ employees by end of 2024
“I'd expect this business to be sixty-plus, seventy-plus employees by the end of twenty-twenty-four.”
Greg Isenberg Dec 28, 2023 ▶ 30:18 My Biggest WINS & REGRETS Of 2023
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