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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.”
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…”
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…”
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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
Lechner: Custom AI coach bots are inevitable and already happening
“There's definitely a fear there around like, yeah, if I just, you know, someone just creates like a custom GPT of like, you know, a couple of conversations with the coach, or they pull in like books and, you know, teachers and whatever things that have inspire…”
Agobin: Repurposing content into 3,000 backlinks boosts domain authority to 60–70
“And over the next year, if you wanted to do this, you could put together 3000 backlinks. Your domain authority on S on on your website, on your SEO, Would go up to 60, 70, and your hits per month will blow up.”
Blue: Digital Self-Service Will Be the Only Way B2B Wins Buyers
“Self-service and digital is going to win the day when it comes to how buyers want to buy, because buyers continue to get younger. Buyers continue to get busier and digital and seamless buying experiences online. Are going to be the only way that B to B organiz…”
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.”
Twa: AI video avatars will be indistinguishable from humans within six months
“I give about six months before it's so close to realistic that most people are not going to be able to tell. It's still that close right now that, that it has that AI feel that people kind of starting to distinguish the longer they look and the more they see, …”
Twa: Single-person billion-dollar companies are just a matter of time
“I've seen companies that are running at eight figures with a single person and three people. So why not a billion? It's just a matter of time.”
Hepworth: Successful early-stage crypto assets will return up to 5,000%
“They're going to be volatile and maybe some of them are not going to work out, but the ones that do work out are going to give you a thousand percent, 2000%, 5000% return. And I get one, two, three or Time frame, which is crazy compared to the traditional mark…”
Hepworth: The next cryptocurrency bear market will likely begin in 2026
“While we go into the bear cycle, which will happen probably sometime in 20, 26.”
Hepworth: Bitcoin will not deliver a 10x return from current levels
“Bitcoin isn't going to do a 10 X from here.”
Weldon: Small businesses will get left behind in AI agent adoption
“My experience with small business, they're going to get left behind in a lot of this. The SME and UP are really going to take advantage of this.”
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.”
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.”
The ultra-cheap disposable goods consumption model is likely dead
“That model is probably dead. And so probably the level of consumption would be vastly different. Maybe buying less things, but higher quality and having less diversity.”
Jamison: AI foundation models will be commoditized without monopoly profits
“All of the big tech companies right now that are investing very, very heavily into building their own models. It's just going to be commoditized at the end. And no one really gets that monopoly profits where it's like, you know, a search, like Google got monop…”
Corkadillo: Physical architecture will simplify as AR overlays take over complexity
“At a certain point, the overlap of the virtual world, right? Whether it's, we're living in ether, we're moving beyond ourselves or in the present day, that building environment is going to be very basic. What's going to actually become more complex is that vir…”
Corkadillo: Meta will win post-smartphone computing due to mass social adoption
“And, you know, I have my money on Zucks because you don't bet against it.
You always bet for the jockey, right?
Who's the jockey that's going to win?
I think Zucks is going to figure it out because I think he has the mass adoption of the social network.”
Weisbrot: Humans will never use VR for collaboration in the workplace
“Humans are never going to use VR to collaborate like that. Maybe they'll use AR.”
Weisbrot: Mass spatial computing adoption requires smart contact lenses
“I think adoption is going to come when you can compute with contacts in your eyes. When you don't need sunglasses, you don't need a VR headset. All of that power is packed into something that you put on top of your eye.”
Corkadillo: Smart contact lens mass adoption is 40 to 50 years away
“I don't think contacts are what we're going to see in our lifetime. I think that's a 40, 50 year adoption.”
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…”
Davis: AI Content Will Not Perform as Well as Authentic Human Content
“I think AI content is not going to perform as well as sort of real authentic human content.”
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.”
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”
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”
Nanavati: Professional services will become highly deflationary and outcome-based
“I think services in general will become highly deflationary, net positive for the end user. Services will become really fast. Business models will be more outcome based business models.”
Goleshuk: Sales will not change dramatically because people buy from people
“And, you know, if we, if you look into sales specifically, it's not gonna change dramatically because I see this as people will still be buying from people.”
Weisbrot: AI agents will buy directly from other agents within five years
“My bet is that in five years, my agent will be buying from your agent. And you and I will never speak, but my money will change hands and your agent will teach my agent what it needs to know.”
Shepherd predicts impending tariffs will drive down digital advertising costs
“Basically we all know what's happening and we have history to say that people are going to pull out and advertising should get cheaper.”
Shepherd: Trump admin may get trade concessions from Vietnam and lower tariffs
“I think it's very possible they'll get some concessions from Vietnam or concessions from, you mentioned Sri Lanka or wherever. They'll get some concessions. And the whole press release saying, look, it worked. We got our concessions and we won. The tariffs are…”
Renoui: US tariffs will go away within three to six months
“I think they will go away within the next, you know, three to six months.”
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.”
Golden: Many current software development and design roles will disappear
“The, a lot of those roles that are there currently, In software development, I think a lot of those will go away for sure.”
Weisbrot: Global Shift Coming Where Younger Generations Refuse to Work
“And I feel like there's a huge shift coming in the American and I think globally from these generations in which people just don't want to work.”
Dubois: Low-cost manufacturing in the US will completely move overseas
“For better or for worse, there's just not going to be a lot of value in American manufacturing making really inexpensive stuff. I mean, all of that is, is going to go away. It's going to go to other countries again, for better, for worse, you could wish it was…”
Dubois: Automation will shift humans to higher-value tasks, not end work
“The first aspect is, is that humans aren't gonna work. I don't think that that's ever gonna be the case. I think that humans are kind of built to work. I think that we have kind of an inherent Motivation to work, to create, to make things. And so I think that …”
Sekinger: NERP will generate $50M to $60M in 2024
“We'll, we'll do somewhere between 50 and sixty million this year.”
Verboven: Executive assessment jobs will eventually be replaced by algorithms
“I think the more we learn, the more we develop, I think at a certain time, My job will be replaced by an algorithm.”
Bimani: A Recession Has Already Started and Will Hit Hard Soon
“Right now, we're getting ready for the recession. I know it started. People are not fully aware of it, but it's going to hit hard in the next couple of months.”
Weisbrot: Future Tax Hikes to Fund Aging Populations Will Trigger Riots
“And eventually the only solution is to raise taxes and people are going to riot.”
Versteeg: Generative AI in Sales Will Increase Laziness and Canned Outreach
“What's going to happen Is we're going to see more laziness, and more ineffectiveness, and more canned messages, and more of the same.”
Weisbrot: OpenAI Features on LinkedIn Will Degrade Platform Outreach Trust
“So basically my understanding of Open AI features on LinkedIn is it's going to make things worse than they already are. I think it'll be easier for people to one click, generate messages that are completely useless and people will just continue to not trust st…”