AI

also referred to as: ais · artificial intelligence

169 statements across 77 episodes · 68 bullish · 61 bearish · 70 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2020 by Sean Weisbrot · across every show →

Everything said about AI, oldest first

Oct 9, 2020 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: AI will handle analytical thinking while humans make final decisions
“I think what will happen is a lot of the thinking will be offloaded to artificial intelligence. But then the final decision will be made by a human.”
Sean Weisbrot Oct 9, 2020 ▶ 16:00 The $300 Membership Model That Replaced 5 Conferences
Dec 8, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Greg Zen predicts AI will become vital for marketing within years
“I think what we were going to see, and especially over the next couple of years, we should probably see is like, AI in marketing and customer development is going to be a really important factor.”
Greg Zen Dec 8, 2020 ▶ 43:30 The Founder-Fit Secret VCs Don't Want You to Know
Jan 15, 2021 neutral
Insight
Weisbrot: AI-literate younger professionals will replace workers refusing to adapt
“So I think what people should be worried about is not that automation will take over their job, but that if they can't learn to work with artificial intelligence to make better decisions quickly, that they'll be replaced by younger people who can.”
Sean Weisbrot Jan 15, 2021 ▶ 32:01 The Eight-Figure Exit Secret: Put $1 In, Get $15 Back
Mar 20, 2021 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hurst: Healthcare AI will take ten years to mature
“AI is entering the space. I think the thing there and why it's going to be something that is going to be more on the 10 year maturation cycle is because it's going to be diving into a lot of data lakes and it's going to be needing a lot of learned experience f…”
Blair Hurst Mar 20, 2021 ▶ 29:50 Healthcare Is a Bucket Full of Holes — Here's What Falls Through
Mar 24, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: AI speech-to-no-code will likely be standard by 2031
“I think that speech to no code with AI will be probably the norm in 10 years.”
Sean Weisbrot Mar 24, 2021 ▶ 33:13 The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon
Mar 24, 2021 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Parrish: AI building its own application builders is over 20 years away
“Even though we can use voice to no code, we won't be able to use AI to just build the application builder itself likely by that point, just because there's a lot of server management logic and stuff like that, that needs to happen on the backend for that suppo…”
Darian Parrish Mar 24, 2021 ▶ 33:41 The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon
Sep 16, 2021 bullish
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Schneider: Personalized medicine via AI will bear fruit in 10-20 years
“I think we'll start seeing fruit born probably in the next kind of 10 to 20 years.”
Brad Schneider Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 30:59 Why Vague Data Searches Produce Vague Results — and Who Profits
Sep 16, 2021 positive
Insight
Schneider: Governments cannot easily manipulate global AIS maritime tracking data
“Then you have forms of information such as AIS data. So every ship around the globe has, you know, think of it as a collision warning system, a ship to ship communication system. And these are reporting the locations of the ship, the name of the ship, and this…”
Brad Schneider Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 24:11 Why Vague Data Searches Produce Vague Results — and Who Profits
Sep 16, 2021 neutral
Insight
Schneider: AI trust will rely on observed history, like human relationships
“You just don't understand it, and you need to build up that shared history together to understand, is this something to be trusted? Is this something to be feared? And just like a I mean, a machine learning model, you're gonna see different things that you did…”
Brad Schneider Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 36:06 Why Vague Data Searches Produce Vague Results — and Who Profits
Sep 16, 2021 neutral
Insight
Schneider: Physical architectural limits reliably prevent rogue AI behavior
“Make an AI as smart as you want, does that mean that it can figure out, again, how to defy gravity, how to travel through time? Some of these things are just physical challenges. You can't do something that isn't physically possible. So if you design a system …”
Brad Schneider Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 40:25 Why Vague Data Searches Produce Vague Results — and Who Profits
May 10, 2022 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot predicts AI adopters will replace non-adopters in the workplace.
“Now in the 20 twenties, but I think even more importantly towards the end of this decade, possibly more important in 20 thirties, if you don't know how to work with an AI to complete your job, you will lose your job to someone who will.”
Sean Weisbrot May 10, 2022 ▶ 9:30 Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain
May 10, 2022 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot predicts individuals must own AI by 2040 to avoid economic subordination.
“You know, there's a good chance that by 2040, if you don't own your own AI, you will be owned by an AI that Google, Facebook, Apple, or Facebook, you know, one of these companies own. Like you basically have 20 years to make your money or you're going to becom…”
Sean Weisbrot May 10, 2022 ▶ 10:59 Why "Difficult, Costly, and Weird" Is Wired Into Your Brain
Feb 22, 2023 neutral
Disclosure
Lilivik: Focal Point lacks the data scale to deploy AI currently
“Not as of yet. We are, you know, we're crowdsourcing a lot of data. And what we're looking for are trends and patterns that we can sort of say, all right, in, in IT services, or, you know, you picked on Slack, so I'm going to pick on Slack too, right? You can …”
Anders Lilivik Feb 22, 2023 ▶ 36:33 They Thought the Equipment Vendor Could Handle the Cash Too
Apr 19, 2023 neutral
Insight
Huselstein: AI systems inherently cannot eliminate temporal knowledge bias
“There is almost no inherent way for the system not to be biased because at the end of the day, what is this knowledge that it's fed into? It is. Biased on, even if it's academia, it's only biased on the state of knowledge at the point in time, even if you can …”
Henri Huselstein Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 26:27 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
Apr 19, 2023 neutral
Insight
Huselstein: Skill to dissect AI output is the same as for traditional media
“If it is then a person who's writing for media, or if it's just a system giving you an answer the kind of skill set to dissect information should be the same.”
Henri Huselstein Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 31:47 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
Apr 19, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Huselstein: AI's cheating advantage on essay questions will be short-lived
“There's probably going to be an unfair advantage for a very short amount of time when it comes to creating answers to essay questions or whatever because rightfully so people are developing programs that make it easy to track.”
Henri Huselstein Apr 19, 2023 ▶ 23:47 The Skill That Decides If AI Replaces You or Works For You
May 25, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lassman: AI Will Inevitably Need Quantum Computing to Unlock Its Value
“I believe that that's where technology is, is, is heading and in the language of abundance as well, where, what the technology is going to provide us because of that.”
Jeremy Lassman May 25, 2023 ▶ 19:24 Passion Is the Fuel, Not the Emotion: One Founder's Case for a New Industry
May 30, 2023 positive
Insight
Vysotsky: AI answers simple consulting questions better than creative human consultants
“Unfortunately sometimes they just misguide our clients because there are some very simple, particular answers to our clients' questions. But if we deal with human beings, we all are creative and we want, want to enhance, we want to add something new. So, and I…”
Oleksandr Vysotsky May 30, 2023 ▶ 12:12 3,000 Client Q&As Fed Into One Bot That Answers Like Him
Jun 14, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Schmidt: Replacing managers with AI in reviews will create more problems
“But I think, you know, offloading that from the person who's most familiar with it is you know, probably going to create more problems in its work.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 34:06 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Jun 14, 2023 negative
Opinion
Schmidt: Using AI to infer candidate demographics is a massive mistake
“It should not be making decisions, particularly in the hiring process based on those types of things, right? It should not say, oh, this text feels like it was written by someone who identifies as a female, right? Like if it starts to introduce those sorts of …”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 37:38 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Jun 14, 2023 negative
Opinion
Schmidt: Giving up decision-making to AI takes away human essence
“What makes us human is free will and choice and I think to give the, to give that up to anyone, frankly, right, and whether it's AI or not, is taking away what makes us human.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 44:47 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Jun 14, 2023 negative
Insight
Schmidt: Early-stage startups should avoid using AI for hiring
“A startup probably shouldn't use AI in the hiring process, right? The choice and the impact of the individuals at that early stage is too important.”
Matthew Schmidt Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 17:34 People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For
Jun 27, 2023 neutral
Insight
Weisbrot: AI in business operations requires prerequisite data automation foundation
“AI is mostly useful for a business in its operations. And the only way that the AI can be useful in its operations is if you've already built a foundation of automation and integration within your operations so that the AI can pull the data from those differen…”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 27, 2023 ▶ 17:37 Our Family's Money Goes In First - Here's Why That Changes Everything
Jul 5, 2023 neutral
Insight
Fuller: Workers Should Fear AI-Enabled Colleagues, Not AI Taking Their Jobs
“I don't think people need to be fearing AI taking their jobs. I think they need to be fearing those that are learning how to leverage AI into their workflow. Those that's going to be the powerhouses.”
Josh Fuller Jul 5, 2023 ▶ 1:57 Photographers Weren't Replaced by Photoshop. So Why Fear AI?
Jul 5, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fuller: AI Will Not Replace Digital Workers, Just Like Photoshop Didn't
“Photographers weren't replaced by Photoshop. So, you know, AI is not going to replace everybody in the industry that's working on digital.”
Josh Fuller Jul 5, 2023 ▶ 3:18 Photographers Weren't Replaced by Photoshop. So Why Fear AI?
Jul 5, 2023
Assertion Supported
Weisbrot: May 2023 Survey Attributed 3,900 Job Losses Directly To AI
“A survey was done last month in May that said, 3900 people lost their job and it was attributed to AI. And it was the first time that this kind of a figure was ever calculated.”
Sean Weisbrot Jul 5, 2023 ▶ 3:38 Photographers Weren't Replaced by Photoshop. So Why Fear AI?
Jul 5, 2023 neutral
Opinion
Weisbrot: Zuckerberg Pivoted Meta To AI Because The Metaverse Was Overweighted
“I think in the case of Facebook, he realized that his metaverse play was, I don't want to say doomed, but that he was way overweighted, and he was going to have massive problems if he continued to put energy into it, and he shifted to AI.”
Sean Weisbrot Jul 5, 2023 ▶ 9:57 Photographers Weren't Replaced by Photoshop. So Why Fear AI?
Jul 20, 2023 bearish
Opinion
Foster: Entrepreneurs expecting to outsource product creativity to AI are dead wrong
“But I don't think that you get to kind of like outsource creativity as a result of this. And I think there's a lot of entrepreneurs that expect that you will be able to do that. And I think that that's dead wrong, at least for the technology as it stands today…”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 37:44 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Jul 20, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Foster: AI will automate data-driven product decisions to eliminate human error
“AI is going to have a really big impact on product management as well, right? You know, because a lot of the decision making, which used to have to be human powered, human centered, can now be kind of like delegated to a machine, which might be able to make be…”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 3:55 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Jul 20, 2023 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Foster: Product managers should not worry about AI replacing them anytime soon
“I think that there's a situation in which the, you know, best product managers could ultimately be beaten once there's actually an underlying model behind these things down the road. But we're talking way in the future at this point, and I don't think that any…”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 21:37 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Jul 20, 2023 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2026
Foster: Thousands of startups will be built to replace customer support agents
“Thousands of companies are probably going to like get established using AI to try to replace customer support agents, right?”
Ben Foster Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 23:46 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Jul 20, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: AI capabilities will advance faster than product managers can upskill
“I think AI is going to outpace the human upskilling on something like this.”
Sean Weisbrot Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 5:49 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Jul 20, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: AI will shrink product teams, consolidating work to senior leaders
“So I think that there may be less people on a product team. I think maybe it'll be delegated to someone of a higher level position, maybe like a chief product officer, maybe a product director. Maybe you won't have several people because you can use software t…”
Sean Weisbrot Jul 20, 2023 ▶ 5:06 AI Predicts the Next Word. It Cannot Predict the Next Car.
Aug 15, 2023 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Reyes: An AI-centered religion will eventually emerge for humanity
“We're gonna have to have some kind of a spiritual revolution towards how to live with AI. Like I'm sure there's gonna be some AI religion at some point.”
Ricardo Michel Reyes Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 48:19 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Insight
Reyes: AI cannot replace the randomness and friction of human relationships
“No AI can replace your family and your friends. Unless you want people to be optimized to you. But I think the wonderful thing about people is that they are random and then, and you can control them. So then you'll never have optimized people for you. And that…”
Ricardo Michel Reyes Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 47:05 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
Aug 15, 2023 negative
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Reyes: Next major war will be fully automated and AI-powered
“I think the next big war is going to be fully automated. Like the problem is that it's going to be fully automated, but it's still including humans. So then we'll just have a massive chop, chop, chop of people. And it's gonna be, like, drones and chips and, li…”
Ricardo Michel Reyes Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 44:45 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
Aug 15, 2023 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: People who cannot work with AI will lose their jobs
“And then people who can't understand AI or work with AI, they're going to lose their jobs.”
Sean Weisbrot Aug 15, 2023 ▶ 9:18 550 Million People, One Language, Zero Access to Venture Capital
Aug 29, 2023 neutral
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Sparrow: AI can do 90% of copywriting
“Because, you know, 90% of copywriting can be done by AI.”
Kerry Sparrow Aug 29, 2023 ▶ 29:47 He Runs the World's Largest Labor Data Firm and Truth Terrifies Him
Aug 29, 2023 bullish
Opinion
Sparrow: Generative AI is more transformative than smartphones were
“My view on the form of AI that's available now is that it's even more transformative than what smartphones were when they were introduced.”
Kerry Sparrow Aug 29, 2023 ▶ 20:17 He Runs the World's Largest Labor Data Firm and Truth Terrifies Him
Aug 29, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Accessible quantum computing will cause AI capabilities to explode
“And I think when quantum becomes something people can access, it will really take AI and, like, make it explode.”
Sean Weisbrot Aug 29, 2023 ▶ 39:33 He Runs the World's Largest Labor Data Firm and Truth Terrifies Him
Oct 24, 2023 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: AI will probably not replace lawyers and doctors
“A lot of people say, oh, we're going to replace lawyers and doctors. Well, probably not. I mean, sure, the AI can go through all the legal files and all of the statutes and, or all of the, you know, images of cancer versus not cancer, et cetera. There's all so…”
Sean Weisbrot Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 3:24 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
Oct 24, 2023 positive
Insight
Chalana: AI is 'assisted intelligence' meant to augment, not replace workers
“I think of AI as an assistant, assisted intelligence, not artificial or augmented intelligence. So I think of this as really helping people with productivity improve improvements and just taking some of the routine stuff out of your out of your plate. It's all…”
Vikram Chalana Oct 24, 2023 ▶ 2:22 He Rode 3 AI Waves. One Thing Still Keeps Him Up at Night
Nov 21, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Weisbrot: AI Can Interpret Chicken Emotions From Sounds and Movements
“We can use AI to look at the sounds and the movements that chickens and other animals make and interpret their emotions.”
Sean Weisbrot Nov 21, 2023 ▶ 32:43 He Can Tell Joe Knows Things About Life the Rest of Us Don't
Nov 21, 2023 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Weisbrot: AI Can Now Analyze Brain Patterns to Visualize Dreams
“One of them was we can have an AI Review the brain patterns while you're sleeping and visualize your dream”
Sean Weisbrot Nov 21, 2023 ▶ 32:29 He Can Tell Joe Knows Things About Life the Rest of Us Don't
Nov 28, 2023 bullish
Prediction Held up
Tulla: AI health companion bots will soon communicate and support patients
“Today I think one fix at least will be AI. And the fact that, you know, we will be able to build these companion bots companion AIs that are able to communicate with people, talk to people, and be there when you need support. And that will happen, I think, in,…”
Ari Tulla Nov 28, 2023 ▶ 4:59 Doctors Said She'd Never Have Kids. Diet Changed That.
Jan 2, 2024 neutral
Disclosure
Smith: MeForYou silos user memory strictly within individual AI clone conversations
“As it stands now, that is a siloed a walled garden within that particular conversation that you've had with that particular AI. So what you tell them is what is, is what they know about you.”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 35:14 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Jan 2, 2024 neutral
Insight
Smith: AI models are better at catching rule violations than obeying constraints
“One of the things that's interesting about AI is that it is better as a tattletale than it is at obeying, and so you can say, here's the rules, only do this, and then it spits back something that doesn't obey the rules, and you say, did that obey the rules, an…”
Keith Smith Jan 2, 2024 ▶ 37:06 What Founding 5 Companies Took From My Kids That I Can't Get Back
Feb 13, 2024 negative
Insight
Weisbrot: AI clipping fails because only humans understand emotional context
“Only a human has the ability to understand the emotional context behind why that clip is being generated, and that's where the AI fails.”
Sean Weisbrot Feb 13, 2024 ▶ 33:48 Backing Up to an Earlier Solution Changed Everything for Sean
Mar 26, 2024 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Yasir Jabu: AI will continuously drive down software development costs
“Building software is, was a very expensive proposition. The cost is going to just keep going down because we can do things faster with AI, a lot of repetitive tasks.”
Yasir Jabu Mar 26, 2024 ▶ 30:12 He Built Software That Saved Lives and Cared More About That Than the Money
Jun 18, 2024 negative
Opinion
Weisbrot: AI in Recruitment Will Only Worsen Hiring Bias
“I think AI has really only the potential to make bias worse because You're enabling someone who could potentially be racist or potentially be sexist or potentially be ageist to program the thing that's going to determine the future of the company and the appli…”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 18, 2024 ▶ 28:29 Lou Gerstner Turned a $3B Loss Into $8M Profit By Ignoring the Obvious Hire
Aug 11, 2024 positive
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Dubois: AI yields millions in savings on century-old industrial processes
“One of the things that we are seeing now is that even well-established processes, processes that maybe has been around for a hundred plus years we're able now to apply AI to and find those percentage improvements that equate to millions of dollars.”
Brian Dubois Aug 11, 2024 ▶ 2:04 Lights Out Factories: When the Goal Is No Humans Inside
Feb 25, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Golden: Mid- and low-tier salespeople are in trouble from AI
“If you're one of those Let's say I think mid range or low range kind of salespeople. I think you're gonna, you're in trouble. I think AI is gonna do it better than what you're doing right now, probably.”
John Golden Feb 25, 2025 ▶ 8:36 Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Clean Data Is Your Real AI Strategy
Feb 25, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Golden: All software will move from UI clicks to natural language prompting
“Candidly, that's where I see all software going. At the end of the day is where we don't learn the clicks and the this and the that or whatever, but we just ask it. The onus will be on you to learn how to communicate. And that's a lot, and that's certainly a l…”
John Golden Feb 25, 2025 ▶ 11:40 Garbage In, Garbage Out: Why Clean Data Is Your Real AI Strategy
Mar 11, 2025 neutral
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Nitzos: Most Clients Over the Past Year Are AI Startups
“Most of our clients in the last 12 months are AI.”
Anthony Nitzos Mar 11, 2025 ▶ 2:14 Why the Cash Flow Oracle Calls Himself Chief Flushing Officer
Apr 8, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bishop: AI-Driven Service Businesses Will Eventually Become Sellable
“I think right now it's probably going to be more difficult, but I think over time as people come to understand and accept AI, I think that'll probably be a viable business path.”
Cameron Bishop Apr 8, 2025 ▶ 11:33 It Was Printing Money But Every Buyer Walked Away
Apr 15, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Lundin: Doubting AI permanence is like dismissing PCs as a fad
“AI is here, you know, and if you're somebody who's fighting the idea that, well, I don't know if AI is really a good thing, AI is going to stay or not. Well, I mean, you can be that same person who thought the personal computer was just a fad.”
Ken Lundin Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 21:42 75% of Sales Is Framework, 25% Is Human, and AI Knows It
Apr 15, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Lundin predicts AI could eventually replace human salespeople entirely
“I think that it's possible at some point in the future that AI could completely replace salespeople, and it's an unpopular opinion.”
Ken Lundin Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 13:15 75% of Sales Is Framework, 25% Is Human, and AI Knows It
Apr 15, 2025 neutral
Insight
Lundin: Sales is 75% science framework and 25% human attributes
“I believe sales is on, I believe sales is a 75% framework in science, 25% kind of individual attributes, how you say the thing, whatever, which AI could figure out pretty quick, is it harder than I'm giving it credit for right now? Yeah.”
Ken Lundin Apr 15, 2025 ▶ 14:15 75% of Sales Is Framework, 25% Is Human, and AI Knows It
Apr 22, 2025 negative
Opinion
Struppelhoff: AI Can Generate Code, But Cannot Design Software Architecture
“It will take. Your natural language prompts varies, vary directly. It's not going to ask probing questions back to you. It's not, well, I understand what you're asking, but let's talk about the larger picture here. How frequently do you expect things to change…”
Matt Struppelhoff Apr 22, 2025 ▶ 13:50 AI Can Write Code, But It Can't Do Architecture
Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Insight
Brand: Core AI challenges have not changed since the 1970s
“In the seventies, it was very different. It was symbolic AI. It was theorem proving. It was inference engines rather than giant matrices. But the problems we had, well, there wasn't enough data. The data wasn't good enough. There was confusion about what it me…”
Russell Brand Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 4:31 He Called It a 10-Year Project Before They Even Had a Prototype
May 9, 2025 negative
Opinion
Weisbrot: Businesses claiming AI won't eliminate jobs are lying
“No matter how much anyone says AI is not going to be implemented into my business in order to remove humans. Yeah, no, you're wrong or you're lying because everyone, especially in this kind of a climate is going to fire people and look to replace them with hum…”
Sean Weisbrot May 9, 2025 ▶ 11:49 ChatGPT Found His Hidden Negative Loops. It Shook Him for 2 Days
May 9, 2025 neutral
Insight
Hale: AI workflows follow a 10-80-10 rule requiring heavy human refinement
“Think of a formula of 1080 10, right? 10% is you and your initial idea and creativity. Then you put it into AI, boom, 80% gets produced. And then there's always that, you know, human touch at the end. Be prepared for. Sometimes it expands into, you know, 40%.”
Joshua Hale May 9, 2025 ▶ 19:53 ChatGPT Found His Hidden Negative Loops. It Shook Him for 2 Days
May 13, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Goleshuk: AI will compress hiring decisions to hours or minutes
“The whole decision-making process can be as quick as, you know, like hours or even minutes rather than previously you had People in the middle trying to score, analyze, and review, and schedule, reschedule at least interviews and all that. So, so yeah, I think…”
Vol Goleshuk May 13, 2025 ▶ 21:34 Your Agent Buys From My Agent and We Never Speak
May 13, 2025 negative
Opinion
Weisbrot: AI cannot recognize when candidate personality outweighs technical skills
“I think when you don't have a human there, the AI doesn't have the emotional capability to understand that the company would benefit from having someone that may not have the same level of skill as another applicant, but may have a better personality fit.”
Sean Weisbrot May 13, 2025 ▶ 8:29 Your Agent Buys From My Agent and We Never Speak
May 13, 2025 positive
Opinion
Goleshuk: AI democratizes candidate insights previously restricted to senior recruiters
“And typically only the most senior recruiters were able to get this kind of information, but now with AI, it's yeah, it's just making things a lot easier, cheaper, faster, just changing the game.”
Vol Goleshuk May 13, 2025 ▶ 3:30 Your Agent Buys From My Agent and We Never Speak
May 23, 2025 positive
Insight
Yaes: AI cannot replace system architecture thinking, only accelerate testing
“In my opinion, it's not going to rep yet. It's not going to replace the thought process of how you think something should work, but it certainly makes it much quicker to figure it all out and test it right away.”
Matthew Yaes May 23, 2025 ▶ 26:00 He Let a Filipino Team Run His 7-Figure Agency for 2.5 Years
Jun 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stafford: AI Will Trigger the Largest Wealth Transfer Since the Internet
“I believe that the largest transfer of wealth is going to happen now, very similar to when the internet was created”
Matthew Stafford Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 14:54 He Walked Into a Wall in the Dark and Rethought Everything
Jun 10, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stafford: Current AI workflows might be completely outdated within six months
“AI is moving so fast that what we learn right now Honestly, it might be a hundred percent outdated, not even use six months from now, because something better will be along.”
Matthew Stafford Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 13:47 He Walked Into a Wall in the Dark and Rethought Everything
Jun 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stafford: AI will completely handle surface-level CRO and UX/UI
“I really believe the surface level CRO will be completely handled by AI. As far as the UX UI”
Matthew Stafford Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 12:11 He Walked Into a Wall in the Dark and Rethought Everything
Jun 10, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stafford: AI will increase demand for services people pay to avoid
“And I think AI is just going to increase the amount of services that people pay to choose to avoid.”
Matthew Stafford Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 17:54 He Walked Into a Wall in the Dark and Rethought Everything
Jun 10, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stafford: AI Will Force Workers to Specialize Rather Than Generalize
“It's gonna require people to be more specialized rather than generalists.”
Matthew Stafford Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 15:41 He Walked Into a Wall in the Dark and Rethought Everything
Jun 10, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Stafford: AI Will Eliminate Accountants and Much of the Medical Field
“I believe there will be certain industries that go away that we just won't need like accountants you know, probably even a lot of the medical field.”
Matthew Stafford Jun 10, 2025 ▶ 15:20 He Walked Into a Wall in the Dark and Rethought Everything
Jun 13, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Weisbrot: AI models already exist that read emotions from camera video
“If an AI has the ability to see your camera, then it can read your emotions. That, that, that kind of modeling has already been done.”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 22:23 AI Already Has Memory Better Than Most Humans - Now What?
Jun 13, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Training AI to second-guess data will make it uncooperative
“I get the feeling that if we push AIs to second guess our data, that it'll create a kind of sassy personality. That will make them not want to do the work that we want them to do.”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 8:42 AI Already Has Memory Better Than Most Humans - Now What?
Jun 13, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nikic: AI will probably achieve nonverbal communication through robotics
“I think that's the one thing that AI is not there yet. It will be probably with robots, as we see.”
Daniel Nikic Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 22:03 AI Already Has Memory Better Than Most Humans - Now What?
Jun 13, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Weisbrot: AI Aims to Replace Human Functionality in Society
“I think AI's goal is to replace humans functionality in society. So our existence is a threat to its usefulness.”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 13, 2025 ▶ 19:31 AI Already Has Memory Better Than Most Humans - Now What?
Jun 20, 2025 positive
Insight
Stuart Cohen: AI Has Substantially Improved Search Across Media Licensing Platforms
“So what is getting better and what AI has really helped with is search. So that way you could really pinpoint exactly what you're looking for and hopefully find an image or a video clip that Matches exactly what you're looking for.”
Stuart Cohen Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 21:50 Licensing Revenue Dropped Tenfold in 15 Years. Now What?
Jun 20, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Stuart Cohen: Large Ad Agencies and Corporations Refuse to License AI Content
“And I think a lot of the large advertising agencies And or corporations will not use anything generated with AI. They may come up with concepts on what they want to create using AI, but they will not license any AI content for that specific reason.”
Stuart Cohen Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 23:17 Licensing Revenue Dropped Tenfold in 15 Years. Now What?
Jun 20, 2025 negative
Opinion
Stuart Cohen: AI-Generated Submissions Make Finding Relevant Licensing Assets Harder
“There's still a lot of players, you know, there's still players that are creating a lot of content now with AI and pushing it into licensing content. And some of it's great and some of it's garbage. And I think it's making it harder for the end user to sort ou…”
Stuart Cohen Jun 20, 2025 ▶ 20:41 Licensing Revenue Dropped Tenfold in 15 Years. Now What?
Jun 26, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Voice and camera access are the future of AI communication
“The reason why I'm focused on interviewing in voice mode for all of these different AIs is because I believe the future of AI communication will be based on voice and possibly even with the AI having access to our camera to be able to see our faces and our exp…”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 6:57 This AI Flirts, Fights, and Freaks You Out (Grok AI)
Jun 26, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: AI acting as CEO could eventually tank entire companies
“Honestly, I haven't really seen AI be implemented in any one business to a large enough extent that it actually had the ability to tank a company, but I think it's something that we will be able to see coming in the future. I think possibly it will come with p…”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 26, 2025 ▶ 15:43 This AI Flirts, Fights, and Freaks You Out (Grok AI)
Jun 27, 2025 negative
Opinion
Brandon Wolf: PE Cuts Corners for Margins Instead of Investing in AI
“What I've noticed in private equity and some other places is Sometimes to boost margins or make the business look really profitable in the short term, people will make these sort of like naive short-term decisions, but in reality, everybody should be investing…”
Brandon Wolf Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 16:12 Empty Calorie Revenue Is Silently Eating Your Profit
Jul 4, 2025 bearish
Opinion
Jamison: AI Venture Bets Resemble Airlines With High Capital and No Moats
“If you take all the profits of all the airlines over time, it's negative for investors. Like shareholders have had a negative return for that because they've just kind of competed themselves away. There's no giant moat to get those monopoly profits. And it's a…”
Travis Jamison Jul 4, 2025 ▶ 4:46 30% IRR From Plumbers and Dry Cleaners? Here Is How
Jul 4, 2025 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Jamison: AI Will Not Materially Impact Physical Trades Like Plumbing
“AI is not going to change how, you know, someone remodels a house, how a plumber changes the pipes, like that type of thing, and at least not in a material enough way to make a difference.”
Travis Jamison Jul 4, 2025 ▶ 3:49 30% IRR From Plumbers and Dry Cleaners? Here Is How
Jul 4, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Weisbrot: Businesses Face High Disruption Risk Without Rapid AI Adoption
“The way that I look at AI is if you don't embrace it, the chances of you being upended by a company that is, is very high. And so I feel like everyone has no choice but to put AI into their business as fast as possible, which is unfortunate because there's not…”
Sean Weisbrot Jul 4, 2025 ▶ 2:49 30% IRR From Plumbers and Dry Cleaners? Here Is How
Jul 18, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
McKay: AI will make starting a company increasingly harder
“I think it's going to be incrementally harder to start a company. As time goes on, it's going to get harder and harder to start businesses because the barrier to entries are just becoming non-existent with AI.”
Hamish McKay Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 48:58 Why Every Checkout Will Have This in 5 Years
Jul 18, 2025
What-if
Weisbrot: Building our 2020 AI product today would cost thousands, not millions
“If I were to have started that business today, I could have had the entire thing working with the AI cost maybe a few thousand dollars and take like two or three months. But it's a, it took two and a half years and cost over a million dollars and we still didn…”
Sean Weisbrot Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 27:03 Why Every Checkout Will Have This in 5 Years
Jul 18, 2025 negative
Opinion
McKay: AI podcasts will fail because humans cannot connect parasocially with AI
“They'll ultimately go and die because humans are Inherently lonely, or at least the majority of the human race would describe themselves as lonely or close to it, and they want to hear two people have a conversation and connect, and they want to connect in a p…”
Hamish McKay Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 31:29 Why Every Checkout Will Have This in 5 Years
Jul 18, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
McKay: I refuse to use AI for net-new idea generation
“My answer to that right now is that I try and not go to it for net new thinking. I use it as a reviewer. I use it as a summarizer, but I don't come to it for idea generation because I like to train my brain to come up with ideas.”
Hamish McKay Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 39:04 Why Every Checkout Will Have This in 5 Years
Jul 18, 2025 positive
Disclosure
McKay: 60% to 70% of Order Editing's software is built with AI
“Now somewhere between like 60 to 70% of our software is probably built with AI or in copilot with AI.”
Hamish McKay Jul 18, 2025 ▶ 15:02 Why Every Checkout Will Have This in 5 Years
Jul 22, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gonzalez: Savvy Marketers has used proprietary AI since 2017
“We have our proprietary AI that we've been using since 2017.”
Alexandra Gonzalez Jul 22, 2025 ▶ 20:25 She Managed $6B Across 220 Countries - Then Knocked on Old Bosses' Doors
Jul 25, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weldon: AI will deliver poor ROI for the next two years
“I think we're going to stumble and fumble with poor returns on investment for the next year or two until the use cases get really well defined. And then there'll be a great marrying between the human and the agentic flows for leverage.”
Jim Weldon Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 29:09 He Named His Agents and Gave One a Team of Five
Jul 29, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rizzoli: Tasks executed with AI cost 10x less and run 100x faster
“Everything that gets done with AI has 10 times less cost and a hundred times more speed of execution, and so that brings some advantages.”
Alberto Rizzoli Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 4:02 Europe Is Half as Likely to Adopt AI. Here Is What That Costs Them
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Insight
Welser: AI's true risk is humans becoming too dumb to make decisions
“I'm not really worried about AI becoming so smart that we have our, you know, AI overlords. I'm worried about us becoming so dumb That we are just reliant upon something to make any decision. We're reliant upon something to just tell us the answer.”
William Welser IV Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 15:18 Consider You Might Be Wrong: His Tattoo Runs His Company
Aug 12, 2025 bullish
Insight
Twa: A single operator using AI systems can run three e-commerce companies
“Instead of having 10 people behind it, I have one operator that can run an entire company with five systems. And with that, I can have one operator run three of those companies comfortably without spending 80 hours a week doing it.”
Neil Twa Aug 12, 2025 ▶ 14:51 30,000 Units a Year, 17 Competitors: How Neil Finds Products With Amazon's Own Data
Aug 26, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Spahr eliminates em-dashes from his content because they signal AI generation
“Now that's just not going to be in my content moving forward because I know it's a tell.”
Curtis Spahr Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 12:44 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Aug 26, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spahr: Journalists immediately delete suspected AI pitches from their daily inbox
“And from a media point of view, when journalists see that and they kind of get the sense of, oh, this is AI, they hit delete because journalists are reading to delete. They get about a hundred to 200 pitches each day, and they are just trying to get to the goo…”
Curtis Spahr Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 18:50 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Aug 26, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: All daily podcast guest pitches he receives are AI-generated
“I get about 10 to 15 pitches a day. A hundred percent of them were written by AI.”
Sean Weisbrot Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 19:11 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spahr: AI systems currently source text significantly more strongly than video
“When it comes to video, AI isn't sourcing that as strongly as it's sourcing written online content, which is easier for it to digest.”
Curtis Spahr Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 6:27 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spahr: Corporate communications will be forced to sound more human
“People are going to have to sound more human in this age of intense AI, and I think that's going to change the whole field of corporate communications, because right now there's nothing that sounds more robotic than corporate comms, and I think it's going to n…”
Curtis Spahr Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 13:02 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Aug 26, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spahr: AI search engines prioritize earned media over paid placements
“AI prioritizes the content that is earned by journalists and media outlets that are respected. It also prioritizes media outlets that are very niche and very in the weeds, if you will, but it doesn't really get excited about media outlets that are obviously pa…”
Curtis Spahr Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 2:33 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Aug 26, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spahr: Persistent user memory will be AI's next major step
“I think the next step of AI is really going to be AI remembering our settings, Because I think the challenge is, is that each time we go into a ChatGPT or Claude or Brock session, it's almost tabula rasa, and it forgets your preferences, it forgets your voice,…”
Curtis Spahr Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 15:56 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Aug 26, 2025 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spahr: AI search engines actively penalize pay-to-play PR contributor articles
“AI is hip to that kind of trick, and so that's why those sort of obvious sort of pay to play shenanigans aren't really doing as well.”
Curtis Spahr Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 4:01 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Sep 16, 2025 bearish
Opinion
AI Investment Hype Is Nearing Dot-Com 'Lightbulb' Bubble Levels
“When I was running my company's internet, you know, you could put dot com on a light bulb and people would give you money. You know, and it's, we're not too far away from that in AI.”
Scott Kelly Sep 16, 2025 ▶ 22:04 Start With the End in Mind Before You Take a Single Dollar
Sep 23, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Businesses Without AI Will 100% Fail Within 24 Months
“And I think if a business doesn't have any AI in the next 24 months, they will be dead. I think a hundred percent chance they will not make it if they don't have AI.”
Sean Weisbrot Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 16:14 Why B2B Companies Moving Reps Off Repeat Orders Are Winning
Sep 23, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Self-Improving AI Will Arrive Much Faster Than Expected
“It's going to happen a lot faster than people give AI credit for because the companies that are involved in building these things have no incentive to stop.”
Sean Weisbrot Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 24:58 Why B2B Companies Moving Reps Off Repeat Orders Are Winning
Sep 23, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Blue: AI Will Eventually Build AI Capabilities, But It Remains Far Off
“Eventually we're going to be able to use AI to help build out our AI capabilities. And I think we're a ways off from that. But that's probably not something that is too far fetched to believe at some point in in the future.”
David Blue Sep 23, 2025 ▶ 23:50 Why B2B Companies Moving Reps Off Repeat Orders Are Winning
Oct 7, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Bhargava: NB Group avoids using AI primarily as a cost-cutting tool
“There are certainly private equity investors who are pursuing Strategies that incorporate AI as a cost cutting tool to, you know, improve profitability of invest, you know, in businesses that they invest in. That's not something we've. Really pursued.”
Neel Bhargava Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 10:28 Why Two of Neel's Best Deals Came From Knowing an Industry Too Well
Oct 14, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Lechner: Only about 20% of coaching clients personally use AI daily
“I don't think very many. I think maybe 20%.”
Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 0:46 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Insight
Lechner: Public thought leadership is sufficient to build effective AI models
“If you just compile, I guess you don't need their, like, IP necessarily to create something that's maybe not perfect, but good. A lot of people who spend a lot of time sharing their thought leadership who are doing interviews, I mean, there's nothing, you can …”
Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 10:56 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't
Oct 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Businesses have three to six months to adopt AI or lose
“I think you've got three months, maybe six months to get something into place. Otherwise you're going to lose it. You're going to lose the race. I think that's, it's moving that fast.”
Sean Weisbrot Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 2:07 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't
Oct 14, 2025 positive
Insight
Lechner: Monthly employee AI build presentations drive adoption better than mandates
“It's hard to be top down and tell your employees you need to be using AI. You can't really control what they're doing, and so what they proposed is at the end of each month, everyone needs to either, like, build a new workflow or a product or something using S…”
Ariel Lechner Oct 14, 2025 ▶ 3:39 Most People Know the Hard Call They Need to Make - and Don't
Oct 21, 2025
Insight
Bilkowski: AI features introduce significant variable costs to traditional SaaS economics
“For the longest time, the incremental cost of serving an additional customer has been net negligible, effectively zero for AWS storage network and compute. And so now companies, as they're building in AI enabled capabilities into their platforms are seeing sig…”
Dan Bilkowski Oct 21, 2025 ▶ 0:51 Value Lives in the Mind of the Customer, Not in Your Product
Oct 24, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Narkar: SaaS Platforms With Cross-Platform Data Will Win in AI
“I think the SaaS platforms that will win with AI are the ones that have data across platforms. You know data is really the true winner.”
Sameer Narkar Oct 24, 2025 ▶ 0:41 300 Enterprises, 30 Countries, and He Still Would Not Discuss the Exit
Oct 27, 2025 negative
Insight
Ethan Monkhouse says AI clippers like Opus inherently misjudge content novelty
“Inherently the way AI approaches it is wrong in the sense where value for online is generally going to be telling people something they don't know. Whilst tools like Opus, they score based on their perception of value. Well, it's going to be things they do kno…”
Ethan Monkhouse Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 4:25 Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not a Profile. It Is a Landing Page.
Oct 27, 2025 neutral
Insight
Monkhouse: Content Strategy Must Be 'AI Second' with AI as Co-Pilot
“That is the wrong mentality. Do not go AI first. It needs to be AI second. AI is the co-pilot.”
Ethan Monkhouse Oct 27, 2025 ▶ 2:04 Your LinkedIn Profile Is Not a Profile. It Is a Landing Page.
Nov 11, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lazerow: Alan Patricof's Primetime Partners Uses AI Across Everything
“He has a new fund focused on the aging of America primetime partners, and they're using AI across everything, because you don't need to be a programmer.”
Michael Lazerow Nov 11, 2025 ▶ 11:14 Sold for Nearly $1B and Spent 3 Years Lost in a Painting Studio
Nov 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ustinov: AI Automates Half of My Company's Total Workload
“That was the aha moment for me when I realized how AI can actually help me automate like half of my work and half of my company's work.”
Seva Ustinov Nov 18, 2025 ▶ 0:39 He Manages $100M in Ad Spend With a Trick Nobody Tried Yet
Nov 18, 2025 positive
Insight
Ustinov: AI Replaces Static Spreadsheets by Dynamically Rebuilding Data Contexts
“Whatever columns you choose will stay there forever. But with AI, with full context of your research files, you can rebuild these things on the fly. And again, you're still responsible for everything, for any decisions, analysis, highlights, everything. But it…”
Seva Ustinov Nov 18, 2025 ▶ 16:54 He Manages $100M in Ad Spend With a Trick Nobody Tried Yet
Nov 25, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Windley: AI sourcing will eventually match or exceed human recruiting quality
“As AI gets better and better I think there will be a time where you can say that AI will be as good and maybe even better in quality.”
David Windley Nov 25, 2025 ▶ 19:34 He Built a Mutual Fund Out of 200 Recruiting Clients and Hit $50M
Nov 25, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Companies replacing workers with AI will quickly regret mass layoffs
“We're probably all finding that while there's a rush to implement AI within the business operations, that they will very quickly go, whoops, I probably shouldn't have fired those 10,000 employees or those hundred employees because the AI isn't really capable o…”
Sean Weisbrot Nov 25, 2025 ▶ 23:38 He Built a Mutual Fund Out of 200 Recruiting Clients and Hit $50M
Dec 16, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rajendran: Geopolitical or environmental shock will eventually crash AI capital markets
“I expect something exogenous of a geopolitical nature or maybe an environmental catastrophe that could change capital markets and change the abundant flow of capital into this sector.”
Vijay Rajendran Dec 16, 2025 ▶ 28:58 Over Capacity Built the Internet. Vijay Says AI Is Next
Dec 23, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Replacing junior roles with AI will create senior talent shortages
“The problem is something long-term where if AI right now can replace or prevent the need to hire someone junior. And we'll only get better over time, but a human wants the opportunity to get better so they can reach the mid or senior level positions, but there…”
Sean Weisbrot Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 11:44 15-20% Growth for 3 Years Without Adding a Single Hire
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Wightman: AI generally sucks at public-facing creative and written work
“Again, with, in our business at least, we're pretty careful about how we use it for public-facing creative work, for public-facing written work. Because I think it generally sucks at those things, and I think, and many people I'm sure would agree with this, th…”
Jackson Wightman Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 8:42 15-20% Growth for 3 Years Without Adding a Single Hire
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Insight
Weisbrot: Companies should refuse to hire candidates not actively using AI
“Whether you're trying to hire an employee or whether you're trying to find a CFO or whatever it is you're looking for, if they are not already using AI and promoting to you the fact that they're using AI, you probably shouldn't hire them because you're not goi…”
Sean Weisbrot Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 3:36 15-20% Growth for 3 Years Without Adding a Single Hire
Dec 23, 2025 positive
Insight
Wightman: Founders can prompt AI to simulate specific journalists for media training
“One of the more interesting things that PR has been good for, and any tech founder, regardless of the stage they're at, can do this. It's a really useful media training tool. So you can ask AI, you can feed it a bunch of articles from John Smith, who's a journ…”
Jackson Wightman Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 7:03 15-20% Growth for 3 Years Without Adding a Single Hire
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Opinion
Weisbrot: Corporate AI layoffs are largely an excuse to cut headcount
“A lot of companies have blamed AI for firing people. I think it's just an excuse for a lot of these companies to just get rid of people. I think the companies that are actually letting go of people, it's not because AI is replacing them.”
Sean Weisbrot Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 15:41 15-20% Growth for 3 Years Without Adding a Single Hire
Dec 23, 2025 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Wightman: AI has permanently eliminated the need to hire entry-level agency staff
“In terms of knowledge work, which PR absolutely is, in terms of knowledge work, AI has meant for us that we haven't needed to hire particularly more junior people. We have been able to outsource a lot of the tasks that might have been the work I did when I was…”
Jackson Wightman Dec 23, 2025 ▶ 10:31 15-20% Growth for 3 Years Without Adding a Single Hire
Jan 6, 2026 positive
Insight
Sadan: Humans Are Still Needed to Create Unique, Trustworthy Content Over AI
“So it's not about just adding more content to your website or having AI just spit out more content than adding those. It's really thinking about You know, how do you, how is your content relevant coming from a trust? How is that content trustworthy? Is it uniq…”
Itai Sadan Jan 6, 2026 ▶ 5:48 65% of Their Sites Now Start This Way (Most Founders Miss It)
Jan 20, 2026
Insight
Cakir: Leaders amplify AI fear internally due to alarming media coverage
“I think that the leader is in fear, first of all, because of the news and what's happening outside. So they fear it and they're trying, like, they're kind of amplifying that fear internally. A lot of leaders, I'm not going to say all leaders, but a lot of them…”
Tim Cakir Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 0:26 He Let Go of 50 People After One Tool Changed Everything
Jan 20, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Cakir predicts AI will fade into normal background infrastructure in 7-15 years
“I mean, I'd say around seven, 10, 15 max, you know”
Tim Cakir Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 5:07 He Let Go of 50 People After One Tool Changed Everything
Jan 20, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Cakir: AI is bigger than electricity and potentially fire
“So I think that AI is much bigger than electricity, potentially bigger than fire. And we haven't even understood it yet.”
Tim Cakir Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 3:36 He Let Go of 50 People After One Tool Changed Everything
Jan 20, 2026
Insight
Cakir: Companies need external AI trainers because top-down mandates spark panic
“You got to get a third party trainer. You got to get somebody to come in and help you train your whole team. Because when it comes from the leader, it's like, oh shit, you know, my boss is telling me to use it. If I don't use it, I'm in trouble. If I use it we…”
Tim Cakir Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 0:54 He Let Go of 50 People After One Tool Changed Everything
Jan 20, 2026
Insight
Cakir: AI labs market through fear because negative news amplifies faster
“Good news positive news doesn't amplify. It doesn't travel very fast. But negative news and scary news, news full of fear travels very fast and it amplifies very fast. So how do you market yourself is by saying a hundred million jobs are going to get lost to m…”
Tim Cakir Jan 20, 2026 ▶ 2:12 He Let Go of 50 People After One Tool Changed Everything
Feb 3, 2026 positive
Insight
Putra: AI automation improves output quality rather than cutting total hours
“I wouldn't say we've saved a ton of time, or maybe we have, but we've redeployed it anyway. We're not just like working less, but I would say our outputs are better. Our understanding is better because again, like these AIs are keeping notes and helping us thi…”
Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 4:03 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem
Feb 3, 2026 positive
Disclosure
EightX deploys AI agents to monitor client calls and sentiment
“So we have like a client coordinator agent who's listening to all the calls, taking notes, giving notes to our internal teams. . And also like listening for sentiment.”
Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 2:00 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem
Feb 3, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Putra: AI gains will drive massive public and private equity windfalls
“I think one of the thinking is that you'll see an astronomic inflation, economic value in the stock market. If you can get money in there, there's a chance you can be okay. Furthermore, if you can get money into private listings, so venture, angel, and you can…”
Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 25:54 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem
Feb 3, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Putra: EightX risks going out of business within years from AI
“There's a chance that in a couple of years I won't have a business. And so we're grappling with that and that's part of why we're going very, very high touch.”
Matt Putra Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 16:13 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem
Feb 3, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Weisbrot: VCs will only fund AI-native and agentic software startups
“Because if you talk to VCs, they don't care about traditional SaaS with AI on top. They want AI native. So, if it's gonna be a fundable business, it has to be an AI native type of system that's agentic and fully automated and all this shit, or nobody cares.”
Sean Weisbrot Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 15:50 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem
Feb 3, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: AI will collapse global financial systems within five years
“I think the smart people understand that there's only really a few years before five. Right. I think five is generous before things are really bad in that regard. And so like people say, oh, we're in cycles. Like, I don't think we're in a cycle. I don't think …”
Sean Weisbrot Feb 3, 2026 ▶ 24:10 Profitability Is Not a Math Problem, It Is a Human Problem
Feb 10, 2026 bullish
Insight
Wehn: AI Enables Value-Based Software Pricing in Heavy Industry
“For us, what we see is that the willingness to spend money on software has significantly changed because of AI. AI is not seen as a tool the way that any software application has been seen. AI is seen as value and return on invest because it can do work. So th…”
Philipp Wehn Feb 10, 2026 ▶ 3:13 Why Raising $15M Made Him Want to Do Less, Not More
Mar 10, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Omeed Tabiei: AI Gave Client Completely Wrong QSBS Advice in Buyout
“We were just advising a client on a buyout yesterday and the AI is just like feeding him completely wrong information about qualified small business stock. And how to structure the deal, which is actually like a huge pain as a lawyer when people, you know, bri…”
Startup Lawyer Mar 10, 2026 ▶ 2:06 Fred Wilson Quoted $50K, Paid Under $5K - Now Lawyers Are Panicking
Mar 24, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Pines: AI Answers Basic Customer Questions, Killing Traditional SEO Traffic
“This was the early days of SEO. Like you had your clients have problems, you answer them and that's how you get traffic. So. It's not working like that anymore because AI can answer that. You don't need a person”
Ben Pines Mar 24, 2026 ▶ 21:11 Your Guests Are Getting Famous From Your Show And You Are Not
Apr 3, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Simhi: Shenzhen leads the world in robotics and AI innovation
“It's the most modern city in the world. It's leading the world with leading the world with innovation in the fields of like robotics and AI. So I think if people want to have like a glance about the future, how the future is going to look like, they should vis…”
Meir Simhi Apr 3, 2026 ▶ 54:30 He Said 'What to Sell' Is Not Even the Right Question
May 26, 2026 negative
Opinion
Rischitelli: AI is not good at creativity or valuable content
“It is not great at being creative. It's not great at being creating valuable content.”
Zachary Rischitelli May 26, 2026 ▶ 19:55 Who Are We Marketing to When 90% of White Collar Jobs Are Gone?
May 26, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Rischitelli: AI Will Eliminate More Jobs Than It Can Create
“But this one I believe is going to be so significant that the volume of new work that comes out of this new technology, I don't think it's gonna be there to replace the work that it dissipates.”
Zachary Rischitelli May 26, 2026 ▶ 28:04 Who Are We Marketing to When 90% of White Collar Jobs Are Gone?
May 26, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Weisbrot: World Models Represent the Future of AI Systems
“So I believe the future is this world model type system, but it's not really well known yet. And there's not really any use cases that are publicly known.”
Sean Weisbrot May 26, 2026 ▶ 23:11 Who Are We Marketing to When 90% of White Collar Jobs Are Gone?
Jun 9, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2029
McGregor: AI infrastructure management will accelerate 6G rollout to three years
“You know, I think that six G is going to happen quickly because a lot of the foundational things is going to be run by AI. Meaning that a lot of the more of the basic setups and all that kind of stuff, the infrastructure stuff will be all AI, so we'll have eff…”
Travis McGregor Jun 9, 2026 ▶ 31:38 He Presented from the Hip on Stage and Invented a World First in 90 Days
Jun 16, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2046
Indries: AI will autonomously negotiate contracts and resolve lawsuits within 20 years
“You'll have, you know, AI just building the most amazing contract And the AI negotiating with other AI, you know, making compromises on each side, you know, just so that they can, you know, reach settlement or whatever. Right. When you will sue someone, 20 yea…”
Robert Indries Jun 16, 2026 ▶ 18:56 He Built LLMs in 2016 and Still Trusts Gut Over AI
Jun 16, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Indries: AI Capable of Deep Deal Analysis May Arrive by 2026-2027
“Maybe by the end of 20, 26, we'll have some AI, or maybe in 20, 27, but right now that's not the case yet.”
Robert Indries Jun 16, 2026 ▶ 8:34 He Built LLMs in 2016 and Still Trusts Gut Over AI
Jun 16, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Indries: AI Cannot Detect Lies in M&A Due Diligence
“AI does not know to look through lies yet, right? So people tell you stuff, and you know it's a lie, but the AI will not know. It will not be able to figure out the lie.”
Robert Indries Jun 16, 2026 ▶ 7:50 He Built LLMs in 2016 and Still Trusts Gut Over AI
Jun 16, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Indries: Indistinguishable digital AI avatars are one to two years away
“Give it maybe one to two years and digitally, I will be able to create a digital avatar of myself that looks exactly like me, sounds exactly like me. You will not be able to tell.”
Robert Indries Jun 16, 2026 ▶ 14:51 He Built LLMs in 2016 and Still Trusts Gut Over AI
Jun 23, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mercer: AI cut pitch analysis workflow from 60 days to 60 minutes
“It used to take us 60 days to get all of the data. We record all of the pitches from our leaders, and then we would take them and our group would listen to them And pull out all the highlights and try to do some actual cross-referencing through things that are…”
Shelton Mercer Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 13:28 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team
Jun 23, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Weisbrot: Laid off designer because AI creates better thumbnails in a minute
“I had a designer and the AI is able to produce better work than the designer faster and cheaper. Like, you know, it used to cost It used to take three days to get a thumbnail back. The AI can do it in a minute, and it's better quality. And so I had to let the …”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 15:26 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team
Jun 23, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: Workers Not Using AI Will Lose Jobs Within Years
“And I legitimately think they're all going to lose their jobs in the next few years.”
Sean Weisbrot Jun 23, 2026 ▶ 21:49 60 Days Down to 60 Minutes Changed How Shelton Thinks About His Own Team
Jul 21, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Meiring: Most enterprise customers only understand AI as an email drafting tool
“Many of our customers, they're still using AI to help them write a better email, right? That's the full extent of their understanding around what artificial intelligence can do.”
Ray Meiring Jul 21, 2026 ▶ 4:32 80% of the Workload Done Before a Human Touches It
Jul 28, 2026 positive
Opinion
Gurovich: Eldercare AI Must Augment, Not Replace, Human Care
“Again, we don't position the product as a substitution of the humans. It's not our way of thinking. But AI could be there in the moment when there is no human nearby. For example, we had one lady. She got up, like, four a.m. For some reason very frequently, an…”
Igor Gurovich Jul 28, 2026 ▶ 3:59 His Grandpa Worked Until 90 and Changed How He Sees Aging
Aug 4, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Weisbrot: AI Will Soon Build Trust Better Because It Is Non-Judgmental
“Maybe today, but I think very, very soon that's not going to be true, because AI is very good at making humans feel comfortable, and humans feel like AI isn't judging it because it's not another human. So I feel like AI will be capable of doing that if it's no…”
Sean Weisbrot Aug 4, 2026 ▶ 23:26 Talking to the $25/hr Shop Floor Worker Beat Every Spreadsheet
Aug 4, 2026 neutral
Opinion
Snyder: AI Cannot Yet Extract Deep Insights or Conduct Trust-Building Interviews
“Pulling the deeper insights. I think that's the nice thing is that AI is not quite there yet. That still does, you know, take some judgment and experience and expertise. But and, you know, AI also can't sit down with employees and use the techniques that we're…”
Dustin Snyder Aug 4, 2026 ▶ 20:01 Talking to the $25/hr Shop Floor Worker Beat Every Spreadsheet
Aug 18, 2026 negative
Insight
Gupta: Running AI on poor-quality data wastes substantial compute money
“The quality is bad, and you put analytics on it, or AI on top of it, you're not going to get good results. And even if you hope to get good results, you'll end up spending a lot of money on compute.”
Saurabh Gupta Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 6:25 3,000 Tools and Enterprises Only Use 15% of Them
Aug 18, 2026 bearish
Insight
Gupta: AI cannot fix bad data without upstream human validation
“If the same bad quality data goes, AI is not going to fix it. No one can fix it. There is someone who has to check it.”
Saurabh Gupta Aug 18, 2026 ▶ 8:43 3,000 Tools and Enterprises Only Use 15% of Them
Aug 25, 2026 negative
Insight
Weisbrot: AI business recommendations skew toward the mean, generating generic advice
“I think the problem with that is the AI wants to skew you towards the means. So it's going to possibly tell everyone the same thing.”
Sean Weisbrot Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 33:20 Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?
Aug 25, 2026 neutral
Insight
Fredrickson: Team accountability conversations matter more than AI data collection
“AI did the heavy lifting to put the number on the table to have the conversation. But the conversation is the thing that's actually more important than the number.”
Derek Fredrickson Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 29:53 Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?
Aug 25, 2026 neutral
Insight
Weisbrot: AI Needs Total Company Context to Avoid Bad Advice
“It would have to have access to the total sum knowledge of your company to know that you've already made that determination. Otherwise it will continue to give you that bad advice.”
Sean Weisbrot Aug 25, 2026 ▶ 34:31 Would You Rather Be a CEO or COO?
Sep 1, 2026 bullish
Insight
AI shifts the business model from SaaS to 'Service as a Software'
“If you heard the idea that people are talking about, it's not software as a service anymore. It's service as a software because of all these shifts with shifts with AI. You have to think of, okay, not how can we use AI to slightly reduce our costs or do someth…”
Brian McCanulty Sep 1, 2026 ▶ 22:35 Nobody Wakes Up Excited to Use Software - So He Built This Instead
Sep 1, 2026 neutral
Insight
McCanulty: AI builders are one to two years ahead of average users
“A lot of like builders and probably people like listening or watching a show like this, like we're like a year or two ahead of the average user, even if they're an entrepreneur, most cases, because there there's just such a quick advancement in how these thing…”
Brian McCanulty Sep 1, 2026 ▶ 29:24 Nobody Wakes Up Excited to Use Software - So He Built This Instead
Sep 8, 2026 positive
Opinion
Solo AI development eliminates team pushback over extra technical requirements
“And I think it's easier as one person with AI, because you don't have someone saying, oh, that's like extra work to do.”
Sean Weisbrot Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 7:56 Getting Laid Off Led Him to Buy the Company That Hired Him
Sep 8, 2026 negative
Insight
Entry-level marketers must learn to manage AI instead of manual production
“If I was a Entry level marketer today. That's the worry, the job that I'd be worried about. That's where I would say you need to go and learn AI so that you can be you can be the one that's managing the AI, not learning how to do the work that AI is doing now,…”
Clayton Critchard Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 21:52 Getting Laid Off Led Him to Buy the Company That Hired Him
Sep 8, 2026 negative
Insight
AI user research tools struggle to appropriately weight passionate individual feedback
“One of the things I think is difficult sometimes is it doesn't know Like, it doesn't know how to, like, balance importance of things. Sometimes, like, if you just gave it the recording of 10 customer calls, it might, if somebody says something really passionat…”
Clayton Critchard Sep 8, 2026 ▶ 23:01 Getting Laid Off Led Him to Buy the Company That Hired Him
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