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Navroz Dubash: Western Green Industrial Subsidies Risk Leaving Developing Nations Behind
“They're going to be basically getting the crumbs from this table of green industrial subsidies. So. We might be in this dilemma where the most aggressive things to solve climate change might actually make for a more unfair world.”
China's Per Capita Carbon Emissions Will Match US Levels by 2030
“So China will in 2030 equal the emissions of the United States on a per capita basis.”
Electric three-wheeler sales in India will reach 100% by 2030
“We're estimating, you know, two-wheelers maybe 50 to 70% by twenty-thirty. Cars maybe 30%. Three-wheelers maybe a hundred percent by twenty-thirty.”
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles cost three times more to run than EVs
“So whatever the cost of electricity tomorrow is in one rupee, it's going to cost the cost for hydrogen fuel cell vehicle will be three times more than a battery-operated electric vehicle.”
Mehta: Ather projects 8-10 year battery pack life, rivals will struggle past 5
“So for example, our oldest battery packs are now five years in the field. And we have, they are still at 90% plus health, which means we are now internally starting to project eight to 10 year battery life. We know in the industry that I think most of our comp…”
Yassin: AI dubbing will match human quality within two months
“In the next two months, it will be just as good. It'll be so damn cheap.”
Kalra: Half of India's Population Will Be Middle Class by 2030
“One in three people today is either middle class or wealthier today. By 2030, that number is going to become one in two. A country with 1.5 billion means seven hundred and fifty million people will be middle class and able to afford the products that we're sel…”
Narayanan: In-content click-to-buy video commerce will remain a tiny percentage of sales
“I mean, you know, never say never, but my sense is, I think that will still be a very small percent because I think human beings are still human beings, right? But now or later, and I think, by the way, if you're watching something on content, right, you're tr…”
Biyani: Legacy FMCG giants will inevitably acquire every successful new consumer brand
“I think they are, they know that they have a very strong balance sheet and ultimately every brand which is getting built, which will be successful, will be bought over by them. Because they will take it to that next 200 to a thousand crores.”
Kamath: ONDC will considerably compress margins for existing e-commerce platforms
“ONDC, I think, will drive down the margins of platforms.
Considerably.
Because I might not take the arbitrage if the price difference is five percent, but if the price difference is paying 30% on Flipkart versus five percent on ONDC, I think a lot of people by…”
Nithin Kamath: The world's first trillionaire will emerge from climate solutions
“I think the first trillionaire on this planet will be someone solving for climate problem.”
Mazumdar-Shaw: Entering biosimilars now would severely hurt Indian pharma earnings
“If any Indian pharmaceutical company wants to now venture into biosimilars, like I have done, it will, you know, have a huge impact on their EBITDA and their earnings, which I don't think anyone wants to do at this point in time.”
Mazumdar-Shaw: Regulations will permit CRISPR for genetic defects, not designer babies
“So I think they will allow you to use CRISPR technologies like they use gene therapies today. To basically correct genetic deficiencies, but not to choose the kind of baby you want, you know, like saying that, okay, I want my eyes, the eyes to be of this color…”
Mayya: AI will eventually bypass human cognitive defense filters
“And I feel like chat GPT will eventually get good enough. And we're still in GPT-IV, right? I'm sure there are many along the way. It'll get good enough to, Push through your brain's system, right?”
Kamath: Social media platforms will start charging for data access
“We will probably evolve to the point that everybody starts charging for access to their data, right? Like Twitter will charge, Reddit will charge Quora will charge, social media will charge in its own way.”
Mayya: Nvidia will maintain a monopoly over AI compute
“Nvidia will own everything. That's the only monopoly in any market that I've ever seen.”
Radhakrishna: Access to real-time human data will decide future AI winners
“How much real time content every day Do you have access to will define future success. There's not past, past everybody has.”
Bedi: Global treaties will curtail AI weapons of mass destruction
“So I think my prediction for the future in 10 years is, one, yes, this is a weapon of mass destruction is the way I'll frame it.
Weapons of mass destruction around the world, there will be
One example of a Hiroshima and a Pearl Harbor, I'm sure that will happe…”
Kamath: AI will boost global productivity and trigger universal basic income
“My optimistic expectation is productivity goes up across the world, across the board. UBI comes into play. UBI brings some kind of equanimity across the world.”
Christodoulides: Global politics and economics will shift center-right
“I see more to the right, center to the right. I think the left coming also what happened in the Soviet Union. They failed. It may be very good in textbooks, in, in academia, but the reality is much more different, so I see the world going to center to the righ…”
Staniszewski: Users will carry pendants or wristbands for AI context capture
“I do think there will be some version of a pendant or a wristband that you will carry to just capture more.”
Kamath: Owning hardware will become increasingly essential for AI companies
“I feel like for AI at some point it will become relevant that hardware comes pre-installed and with the software, which is AI first and to be in hardware for all of these AI companies will become increasingly relevant.”
Kamath: AI's major future use case will be solving loneliness and intimacy
“I think the, a big use case in the world tomorrow will be to solve for loneliness, you know, for intimacy.”
Palihapitiya: America will remain the heartbeat of global tech and culture
“America is still the heartbeat of so many really important innovative technologies, medicines, capabilities, culture, and I don't think any of that changes.”
Amodei: AI will drive a biotech renaissance curing many diseases
“I, I'm positive on, like, I think biotech is about to have a renaissance. Like, ultimately we'll be driven by AI. You know, I'm not going to name a particular company, but like you know, nor will I say whether I think it's better to bet on the big pharma compa…”
Kamath: Manual trades like plumbing will outlast analytical jobs under AI
“I feel like the easiest of jobs will get replaced late. So I think if I were a plumber, my job would probably last longer than if I were above a plumber in the Maslow's law of hierarchy in a way.”
Al Olama: AI will simulate policy data, but humans will decide
“But I think there is going to be this beautiful harmony of man and machine. Where you'll be able to simulate things, crunch data, and then the humans take the policy decisions related to the new things that emerge.”
Musk: Future internet interaction will be mostly real-time AI video
“Most interaction is going to be video in the future. Most interaction is going to be a real-time video with AI, so real-time video comprehension, real-time video generation.”
Musk: Google will be extremely valuable due to its AI groundwork
“I think, you know, Google is going to be pretty valuable in the future. They've laid the groundwork for An immense amount of value creation from an AI standpoint.”
Adcock: Humanoids will combine off-board cloud brains with fast on-board models
“I think you will certainly have off board reasoning. I think you will have, I think you'll have both. I think you'll have off-board, like, a big brain off-board that you need to talk to that can do very complex maybe planning and reasoning. You'll have on-boar…”
Kamath: Elite shift away from sustainability will trickle down to consumers
“But for sustainability, I think the thought leaders of the world today are moving away from sustainability. And hence, I think it'll trickle down, permeate down to the consumer as well.”
Deshpande: Sustainability will differentiate brands for young Indian consumers
“India for sure, young consumers, urban, young, affluent consumers will care. It'll be a differentiator.”
Modi: Beauty Will Be 33% Online and 67% Offline by 2028
“By twenty-twenty-eight beauty will be 33% online and, ah, 67% offline.”
Kamath: Premium beauty will grow significantly faster than mass segment
“Tomorrow we will care a lot more for how we look as a means of getting validation. So anything that aids that will likely grow, both in the mass and the premium segment, I think the affluent will probably adapt faster. So the premium will go significantly fast…”
Sharma: US net immigration likely to fall below 500,000 this year
“This year, I'm told that number is likely to drop to less than half a million.”
Kamath: Capital account convertibility would yield net inflows for India
“I personally believe that if India were to become capital account convertible, more money would come in than go out.”
Sharma: Manufacturing is the only sector that can drive India's growth
“Has to, there's only one, and I think it's manufacturing. I'm saying, if it, if growth has to happen, I don't see, like, anything else.”
Kothari: The economy will not return to zero interest-rate policy
“I don't think we're going to go back to Zerp any time soon. So interest rates might go down, like, 50 bips or a dot, but it doesn't change the outcome that much.”
Kothari: Technological Abundance Could Cut Standard Workday to Six Hours
“We'll have more time to do more leisureful activities, like the workday might go down from 12 hours a day to six hours a day, and that means we have more time for, like, art and music and entertainment and, I don't know, like, spending time with, like, our lov…”
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.”
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…”
Kothari: Over-indexing on viral distribution over product quality will peter out
“There's so much attention and attention that people are discounting building a good product, where they cannot kind of reset in a white labeled world where you just have to build an okay product and this distribution matters. I think that will peter out in the…”
Das: Majority of US cars will be electric within ten years
“I don't know, a hundred percent, but I would say, like, it would, a majority of cars will be EV in 10 years, in my mind.”
Kothari: US EV policy mandates won't be popular for next six years
“I think eight, primarily because I think, especially in the US, like, with the conservative government, like, oil and gas is not going anywhere. It'll take a long time for us to, like, move, like, from a politics perspective, EB Force is not going to be very p…”
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.”
Bonatsos: The Future of Gaming Will Largely Not Be AAA Titles
“I think the future of gaming is largely not going to be AAA.”
Khosrowshahi: AI agents will never fully automate travel bookings without human approval
“The cost of a bad decision in travel is very high. So I don't think you're going to get to a place, and I'm certainly not going to get to a place where I tell an agent to find me a hotel in San Francisco and just book it, and then, you know, on the day when I …”