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Pysh: Bitcoin will probably peak between $200,000 and $300,000
“It's going to go straight through that number. It's probably going to go to two to 300,000.”
Preston Pysh Apr 22, 2020 ▶ 1:06:42 Preston Pysh on Bitcoin $200,000, QE at the top, UBI at bottom, $10t+ Fed Balance Sheet?
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Pompliano: Bitcoin will hit $100,000 by the end of 2021
“I think that from now where we're recording this in April of 2020, I think that by the end of 2021, we'll see Bitcoin hit a 100,000 dollar price point”
Anthony Pompliano Apr 13, 2020 ▶ 52:22 New podcast: Anthony Pompliano on Price of Bitcoin, Gold, Chinese Power, Corporate Bailouts and 3 Places He's Investing
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Singh: Non-BTC/ETH Top 10 Cryptos Will Be Replaced Within Two Years
“So I personally, my belief is that everyone in the top 10 maybe bar ETH and Bitcoin will be switched out in the next 12 to 24 months.”
Jagat Singh Dec 8, 2020 ▶ 9:15 Vid.Camera Sells $20m in Tokens, Converting 100% to Fiat for New Facebook Where Creators Own Upside
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Jeff Booth: Technology Will Prevent Net Global Job Growth
“There's not going to be net global job gain globally. Right. Through, through what's happening with technology.”
Jeff Booth Apr 30, 2020 ▶ 5:30 When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
Prediction Partly held up
Yanowitz: Stock markets are 100% going to tank again
“Stocks are going to tank again 100%.”
Jason Yanowitz Apr 15, 2020 ▶ 14:55 New podcast: Jason Yanowitz on Consequences of Fed Stimulus, Socialism Next, Bitcoin Halving
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Puri: Blab's audience will be larger than any cable TV network
“And so what we're going to do is we're going to gather the biggest audience we can. And I believe that that will end up being bigger than Any cable TV network out there.”
Shaan Puri Mar 4, 2016 ▶ 9:31 Blab goal is 7% week over week growth. Here's how the Founder will do it with Shaan Puri CEO of Blab Episode 185
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Bhattacharya: Involve.ai can reach $20M ARR without raising more capital
“We don't think we would need to raise another round, at least in the near future to keep growing. And we feel we can get to ten million, even twenty million in ARR very quickly without even raising extra capital.”
Gaurav "G" Bhattacharya Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 17:01 Team of 12 Hits $2.5m in ARR, $64m Valuation for Customer Success Tool. Can they beat Gainsight?
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SecurityScorecard: Valuation will triple or quadruple within 18 to 24 months
“We believe that within the next. 18 to 24 months, again, we're going to triple or quadruple evaluation of a company or more.”
Alex Yampolskiy Nov 22, 2021 ▶ 11:37 SecurityScorecard Breaks $71m ARR, 1700 Customers, $200m in Bank to Fuel Product Expansion
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Svizovich: Referizer Will Go Public Within Five Years
“A hundred employees to get a rich financial freedom in five years when you go public.”
Andre Svizovich Sep 1, 2021 ▶ 17:22 Local Marketing SaaS 2x Last 4 Months, Breaks $3m ARR and 1200 Customers
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Holmes: Resonant could reach $100M revenue by 2025 to 2026
“We're thinking that the opportunity set is in the 20, 25, 20, 26 range is where those opportunities will present themselves as the unit volumes continue to expand and the number of devices continue to expand over the course of the next several years.”
George Holmes Jun 19, 2021 ▶ 14:14 $3m in Revenue and $227m Market Cap? How is Resonant thinking about Software?
Prediction Held up
Used car demand will jump over the next two quarters
“So my hunch is that demand for used cars over the next couple of quarters is going to jump because of everything that's kind of going on.”
George Arison Nov 26, 2020 ▶ 8:25 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?
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Booth: The US Dollar Will Decline Once the Liquidity Crisis Ends
“Right now the US dollar is going up in value because governments around are all trying to get cash. Every company is trying to get cash and the US currency underlies 80% of world trade. It's the only reason it's going up in value right now. It will go down on …”
Jeff Booth Apr 30, 2020 ▶ 23:46 When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
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Yanowitz: Bitcoin will reach $20,000 to $100,000 within two years
“My price target for the next two years at a minimum is 20,000 dollars. That's at the low end. At the high end, that's a 100,000 dollars.”
Jason Yanowitz Apr 15, 2020 ▶ 58:34 New podcast: Jason Yanowitz on Consequences of Fed Stimulus, Socialism Next, Bitcoin Halving
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Pompliano: COVID-19 mortality rates will be much lower in retrospect
“One of the things that I personally think we're not going to get this for probably three to five years, but we're going to look back three to five years from now. We're going to say the death rates that were originally thought are going to be nowhere near wher…”
Anthony Pompliano Apr 13, 2020 ▶ 9:41 New podcast: Anthony Pompliano on Price of Bitcoin, Gold, Chinese Power, Corporate Bailouts and 3 Places He's Investing
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Arison: Used car demand will jump as consumers avoid rideshare
“And my guess is that people are also going to try to avoid transportation and avoid ride sharing, right? So my hunch is that demand for used cars over the next couple of quarters is going to jump because of everything that's kind of going on.”
George Arison Mar 18, 2020 ▶ 7:20 1698 Shift Sells $200m Worth of Cars, Makes $30m, $225m Equity Raised, IPO Next?
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Lagrave: Netflix will eventually have to adopt advertising for monetization
“We believe that Netflix will need to address a monetization fear through advertising at some point, but that's up to the good folks at Netflix.”
Achilles Lagrave Mar 7, 2020 ▶ 15:14 1687 When Programmatic Bidding Reaches OTTs Like Sling, Roku, He Makes Money
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Programmatic advertising will dominate the recruitment ad market within five years
“Programmatic is going to own that market in five years. And it's companies like ours and ICIMS and others that are going to help customers do that.”
Adam Robinson Dec 25, 2018 ▶ 12:34 1249 Hireology Passes $20m in ARR, Helping 5000+ Businesses Hire Better
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Raanani: Chorus.ai will become a billion-dollar company in 5-7 years
“Is that there's a billion dollar enterprise value company five to seven years from now, that's ours to lose.”
Roy Raanani Jan 30, 2018 ▶ 8:49 920 SaaS: Chorus.ai Enters Sales Call Tracking Wars
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Antonopoulos: Over 90% of ICOs will fail
“More than 90% of these ICOs will fail. That's what I foresee. I mean, it's really obvious.”
Andreas Antonopoulos Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 4:49 796: Crypto: Kim Jong-un Crypto Funded Nukes vs. Billions Out of Poverty
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Sholom: GameCredits will acquire tens of millions of Indian users in 2017
“And then the marketing efforts that we will run because we're going to acquire Already this year, tens of millions of users in India.”
Sergey Sholom Sep 2, 2017 ▶ 11:13 770: Crypto: He Has Third Largest ICO Ever With $53m Raised
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Le Moal: Payment processing could become free in a few years
“All the rest, you could really imagine that in a few years, the payment itself, the processing itself will be free.”
Laurent Le Moal May 22, 2017 ▶ 3:45 667: PayU Passes $180M Revenue, New Risk Assesment Product To Grow Financial Services Arm with Ex PayPal CEO Laurent Le Moal
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Latka predicts he will take a company public by age 30
“I, Andrew, I want your listeners to know this. It's recorded. I'm taking company public by the time I turn 30.”
Nathan Latka Sep 14, 2016 ▶ 25:57 EP 417 SPECIAL: Warner Interviews Latka: Con Artist or Brilliant Genius?
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Latka predicts he will be a billionaire by age 35
“I'll be a billionaire by 35”
Nathan Latka Sep 5, 2016 ▶ 11:37 EP 408: $100M Funds, $30k/mo Real Estate Cashflow, Conference Sales with Cole Hatter of Thrive
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Walch: Apple will never release granular playback drop-off data
“And I don't see Apple ever releasing out the information that we would need to get on that playback and where it leaves.”
Rob Walsh Jun 2, 2016 ▶ 18:58 Why Most Podcasters Lie with Rob Walch of Libsyn, EP 249: Rob Walsh
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Kershenbaum predicts Anthropic's Claude will avoid targeting niche month-end accounting workflows
“Can Claude focus on, on that specific use case and try to wage war? Yeah, I think it's highly unlikely though for them to do so.”
Tal Kershenbaum Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 21:05 How Ledge Reached $1M ARR with 24 Customers Paying $3K/Month | Tal Kirschenbaum
Prediction Partly held up
Britton: Suzy will reach $100M ARR by mid-2025
“We will be there in the middle of 20, 25.”
Matt Britton Jan 30, 2024 ▶ 9:09 Suzy.com did $65m Revenue Last Year. 18% was services so how did he keep 75% gross margin?
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Britton: Suzy will likely IPO in two to three years at around $200M ARR
“So who knows what, when we'd be able to IPO, I would say likely in the next two to three years, but probably closer than we're at two hundred million ARR versus a hundred.”
Matt Britton Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 15:28 He just hit $60m Revenue but burned $25m net last year. Here's how Market Research SaaS Suzy fixed their runway in volatile economy
Prediction Held up
Porter: Salesloft will double ARR to $100M next year
“We'll hit a hundred million next year, sitting around the fifty million mark, growing a hundred percent, a 120% net expansion.”
Kyle Porter Mar 20, 2022 ▶ 3:14 Look Back at $100m Salesloft Before Vista Deal
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Isilay: Cognism will reach $20M ARR by end of next year
“And we should finish this year at 11.5, and then next year, you know, I'm certain with the kind of metrics that we've got that we'll get, but we'll be at 20 at the end of next year.”
James Isilay Mar 19, 2022 ▶ 18:42 Look Back: Cognism Prospecting Tool Hits $10m Revenue, 40% Of Last Round Was Secondary
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Sohn predicts Recruiter.com will reach profitability by early 2022
“And so we're trying to do this in a balanced fashion, hit profitability, and we'll, we'll get there early in 22.”
Evan Sohn Nov 4, 2021 ▶ 7:14 Recruiter.com $20m ARR at $40m Market Cap: Most Under-Priced Public SaaS Ever?
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Feig predicts Merge will break a $1M run rate in 2021
“End of the year, by the end of the year.”
Gil Feig Jul 19, 2021 ▶ 12:18 How this DevOps Tool Plans to Break $1m in First 9 months
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Freightos projects an 800% year-over-year increase in gross bookings for 2021
“Yeah, we should grow 800% in the bookings.”
Zvi Schreiber Jun 25, 2021 ▶ 17:47 Freightos Grows GMV 800%, Exits COVID Stronger Than Ever
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Alfonso de la Nuez Predicts UserZoom Will Reach $1B Valuation Soon
“No, I don't, I think we'll get there pretty soon. I'm very confident, and it's very exciting, of course, but no, we're not there yet.”
Alfonso de la Nuez May 3, 2021 ▶ 16:30 Profitable UserZoom Hits $80m Run Rate, 1k Customers, $500m+ Valuation
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Prediction (Apr 2021): COVID-19 cases will drop very quickly
“COVID is going to drop obviously very quickly over the next couple of months.”
Matt Sweetwood Apr 24, 2021 ▶ 11:05 Camera Insurance as Beachhead to SaaS Play? 100 Customers Already.
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Dragunov: Batch Products will become a billion-dollar brand in five years
“We're growing a billion dollar company brand in the next five years.”
Ivo Dragunov Mar 30, 2021 ▶ 12:08 Real Estate SaaS Did $2.2m Last Month, 140% Growth, Mostly Affiliate Sales
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Zickerman claims upcoming ISP deal will reach 300,000 businesses next year
“We're about to launch, I can't really talk about the deal, but a major hardware deal that's slated to have us in about 300,000 businesses next year, tier one ISP style.”
Kevin Zickerman Nov 12, 2020 ▶ 18:51 MyWifiNetworks Turned Down $5.4m All Cash Offer Last Month, Despite Loosing 30% Due to COVID
Prediction Didn’t hold up
Keynejad: Veed can reach $10M ARR efficiently within two years
“I see a very comfortable, like I kind of see a decent path for the next couple of years to get to the ten million ARR and I think there's a very good possibility we're going to get there and we're going to get there relatively efficiently.”
Sabba Keynejad Sep 2, 2020 ▶ 13:22 Veed Hits $1.3m Revenue, 5,500 Customers Helping Podcasters Create Videos with Subtitles
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GitLab plans to go public in 2021
“Our plan is to become a public company next year.”
Sid Sijbrandij Jul 24, 2020 ▶ 3:30 GitLab Hits $2.7b Valuation is 20x+ Revenue Multiple, 160%+ in Net Revenue Retention, 10,000 Customers
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BounceX will end 2020 well north of $100M in revenue
“We'll, we'll end the year well north of a hundred million.”
Ryan Urban Jul 13, 2020 ▶ 18:15 BounceX Breaks $100m in Revenue, 1000 Customers, Breakeven, 2020 IPO?
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Volset: Wall Street will eventually securitize bootstrapped SaaS cash flows
“I think people don't really fundamentally understand the fructibility and like the amazingness of these cashflow businesses once they get to a certain scale. And I think someone smart will end up like securitizing and packaging those type of cashflow.”
Einar Volset Jun 10, 2020 ▶ 1:25:03 Einar Volsett on How TinySeed Works
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Santens: Post-pandemic job recovery will be worse than the 2008 recession
“So we're gonna, I expect us to see something even worse than we saw the last time this happened when, you know, it took 10 years to create all these jobs that we just lost in a matter of time.”
Scott Santens May 20, 2020 ▶ 59:06 Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks
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Latka: Additional stimulus payments will pass before the 2020 election
“I don't think Trump can turn that off between now and the election. I don't think that turns off. I think you see additional stimulus is passed. They're not calling it a UBI. It's in response to the virus, but we cannot turn these things off.”
Nathan Latka May 20, 2020 ▶ 1:10:35 Scott Santens on UBI vs Stimulus Checks
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Pysh: Governments will soon start bailing out municipalities
“They're going to start bailing out all the municipalities. And that's the one people aren't even ready for is you're going to start having those.”
Preston Pysh Apr 22, 2020 ▶ 25:25 Preston Pysh on Bitcoin $200,000, QE at the top, UBI at bottom, $10t+ Fed Balance Sheet?
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Pysh: US direct voter payouts and UBI will continue for at least a year
“True. If I'm gonna just say true or false, true.”
Preston Pysh Apr 22, 2020 ▶ 1:20:44 Preston Pysh on Bitcoin $200,000, QE at the top, UBI at bottom, $10t+ Fed Balance Sheet?
Prediction Partly held up
Yanowitz: Federal Reserve balance sheet will reach $10 trillion
“I think we're, we'll be at 10 trillion dollars right on the feds balance sheet, which is basically the amount of money that's in the economy right now.”
Jason Yanowitz Apr 15, 2020 ▶ 20:12 New podcast: Jason Yanowitz on Consequences of Fed Stimulus, Socialism Next, Bitcoin Halving
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Yanowitz: Stimulus will cause equities, Bitcoin, and gold to rip
“When you get a ton of like stimulus, well, the equity market's going to pump. It's not just, I, you know, I think Bitcoin's going to go up. I think gold's going to go up, but I think the equity market's going to absolutely rip.”
Jason Yanowitz Apr 15, 2020 ▶ 23:53 New podcast: Jason Yanowitz on Consequences of Fed Stimulus, Socialism Next, Bitcoin Halving
Prediction Partly held up
Pompliano: Gold will crack $2,000 but not exceed $2,500
“My opinion is that it'll probably go, it'll crack 2000, but it won't go past 2500, right? So it'll kind of end up in like a 2020, a hundred dollar gold price point.”
Anthony Pompliano Apr 13, 2020 ▶ 50:48 New podcast: Anthony Pompliano on Price of Bitcoin, Gold, Chinese Power, Corporate Bailouts and 3 Places He's Investing
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Nathan Latka: The $349B PPP stimulus funds will run out quickly
“So the trick with this that, you know, Connor, that I'm trying to share with people is I think the money will run out. Right. If you take three hundred fifty billion. Right. At a max of ten million per company, that's only 34,000 companies. Right. Even even if…”
Nathan Latka Apr 3, 2020 ▶ 10:23 1714 Do This Today: How Much You Get $349b PPP Stimulus for SaaS Founders
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