Insight
Bonatsos: Early-stage VCs should back young founder intelligence over sectors
“So honestly, I wouldn't care less about the sector. For me, it's like, if you're as smart as you sound at like, 1619, 23, 25, how much smarter can you be in five years? Because the idea will change, the product will change, the market will evolve. And what do …”
Disclosure
Bonatsos: US-based venture investors should avoid investing in China
“In today's universe, I would avoid, you know, like doing anything in China as somebody who is U.S. Based. That's not a controversial statement.”
Opinion
Bonatsos: Religion is making a comeback as digital screen fatigue sets in
“I think it is making a comeback. Yeah. And part of the reason is after like 15 years being stuck on a small screen, and after, you know, 20 years of going to Equinox, bars, boot camp, or whatever, you know, these institutions are for you depending on where you…”
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Bonatsos: The iPhone won't exist in its current form for future teens
“By the time my kid is going to be a teenager, the iPhone won't really exist in its current shape and form.”
Assertion Contradicted
Bonatsos: 8% to 10% of Men on Dating Apps Get 80% of Dates
“So something like eight to 10% of the guys get 80% of the dates.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bonatsos: Real Estate Will Keep Rising Without Construction Productivity Fixes
“One of the issues that we have in the Western world is that the productivity in the construction industry has been stagnating or certain decades going down. So unless we fix that, unfortunately, you know, in most places, real estate will continue to become mor…”
Opinion
Bonatsos: Average Americans do not prioritize spending on their children's education
“In the US, the average person does not care about spending money on their kid's education.”
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Bonatsos: Offline experiences will command a premium due to screen fatigue
“I think most live events historically have been like shit businesses to run, but in a world where the offline experiences become the scars in a world where we get tired of being online in front of our screens for 14 hours. There's going to be a premium.”
Opinion
Bonatsos: VCs should probably pass on new US legal tech Series A startups
“So if someone is starting now a new legal tech company in series A, probably you would say no to, you know, in the U.S. It's just so busy.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bonatsos: The Future of Gaming Will Largely Not Be AAA Titles
“I think the future of gaming is largely not going to be AAA.”
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Bonatsos: AI evals and professional domain modeling are a massive long-term market
“And I think that's a very big market opportunity that's opening up right now. It will be going on, you know, for a long time because you can bring in entire new professions and model them that you couldn't do, you know, as well today.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bonatsos: Supplying data for robotics will be a top business opportunity
“This embodied intelligence space, how you feed them with data is going to be one of the most amazing ones to do business in the next few years.”
Opinion
Bonatsos: Policy Cannot Keep Up with AI's Rapid Development Pace
“Policy cannot catch up. Like the hardest thing, honestly, that we face right now is even if you're like a PhD in AI working for one of the foundation model companies, you can't keep up with the pace.”
Opinion
Bonatsos: Instagram is the best dating app for highly successful people
“What is the single best dating product today if you're a very successful person? Probably Instagram. Because over there, you know, you can slide into other famous people, beautiful people's DMs and they would reply back at you.”
Opinion
Bonatsos: Large Western corporations have lost brand equity with youth
“And a lot of the large corporations, at least, you know, in the West have had like they've lost a lot of their brand equity with the youth.”
Assertion Supported
Bonatsos: Over 50% of South Korean men use beauty products daily
“Over there, if you're a man, there is a more than 50% chance that you use beauty products every single day.”
Opinion
Bonatsos: Prediction markets are a high-margin entertainment category
“I think it's a great category because it's entertainment. You already have evidence from several of these that the consumer eyeballs, you know, are really there. You have like a well-driven business model for some of these that really works for other industrie…”
Insight
Bonatsos: Founding engineers taking low equity are the foundation of VC
“Our founders wouldn't do well if there's like, you know, unique class of people, founding engineers or founding talent that show up. A day after your company gets funded or get started, then they get like one 30th of the equity that you get. God bless those pe…”
