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Khosla: A 10-person company will hit $1B in revenue within ten years
“And sometime in the next 10 years, we will see a company with a billion dollars of revenue that has only 10 employees.”
Harari: People will increasingly consult AI instead of human religious leaders
“That can read and remember all the books, and has a chance of becoming the new authority. That people will increasingly, they have a question, they will not go to a human rabbi, they will go to an AI, and it's the same in Christianity, and it's the same with I…”
Khosla: Most cars in most cities will be eliminated by 2050
“So one of my goals in my lifetime is to eliminate most cars in most cities. So if we put a 25 year metric on that, by twenty-fifty, we should be able to eliminate that. Now, there isn't another person in the world who told me that's reasonable. I'm pretty sure…”
Sharma: Largest AI models will eventually be trainable on a single server
“There will be a time where you will be able to train largest of the models using one single server. You will not need a farm of servers.”
Kamath: Humanity will abandon fossil fuels within 10 years
“Like, if you look at these guys, Bill Gates, like I was mentioning and all that, I think, five, 10 years from now, I don't think we'll be thinking how we're thinking right now. I don't think we'll be going to fossil for energy. 10 years from now, for sure.”
Screwvala: India's top consumer segment will double in four to five years
“This India one is gonna grow, right? So whatever India one is today, by the time you get into real business in four or five years, that India one will double.”
Dalio: India has the best fundamentals for highest 10-year economic growth
“India is going to have probably the, has the best fundamentals to have the best growth rate in that, because you're going from not having enough money to having, that has infrastructure.”
Musk: Goods output growth will outpace money supply within three years
“In three years or less, my guess is goods and services output will exceed the rate of inflation. Like goods and services growth will exceed money supply growth in about three years.”
Musk: Mandating payment codes on federal transfers saves $200B yearly
“I mean, some of them are very basic efficiencies, like just adding in requirements for federal payments that, that any given payment must have an assigned congressional payment code and a comment field with something in it that's more than nothing. Like, that,…”
Adcock: Billions of Humanoid Robots Will Exist Within Our Lifetime
“I think we'll, we'll see billions of humanoids on the planet in our, in, like, our lifetime, and they will do everything for us from things at home, like, doing the laundry, washing dishes unpacking groceries cleaning up the house to, we will see billions in t…”
Adcock: True general-purpose humanoid robots are under 10 years away
“I don't, it's not something we'll solve in a month, but it's certainly not something that's 10 years away at this point.”
Adcock: Humanoid robotics will create the world's largest company by far
“My view is that there's going to be a generational company to be built that We'll be able to put, ultimately, billions of robots on the planet that will build, like, the largest company we've ever seen in the world by a long shot.”
Modi: Prestige beauty will reach 10% of India's market in 3-4 years
“Today, prestige is only four percent of the beauty market. As I was telling him, it'll be 10% in the next three to four years.”
Kamath: The era of the Indian rupee depreciating 4-5% annually is over
“I think that rupee depreciating four percent a year versus the dollar or five percent on average, that error is over.”
Sharma: Global equity markets will outperform the US over the next decade
“No, my view is very clear just now, that over the next 10, five, 10 years, I think the rest of the world outperforms the US.”
Khosrowshahi: Uber will inevitably overtake DoorDash in the US delivery market
“They're beating us right now in the U.S., but not for long, and we're beating them outside the U.S., and the two companies going against each other makes both companies better and actually builds a better service for consumers and couriers and restaurants all …”
Khosla: AI deflation could make $10K in 2050 outbuy $50K today
“25 years from now, it could be that 10,000 dollars today, ah, in twenty-fifty, buys more goods and services that you need, whether it's food or housing or medical services or entertainment or education, than 50,000 dollars buys today.”
Khosla: Over 80% of 2025 investments will lose money despite net market gains
“Even in twenty-twenty-five, most investments that are made will lose money. The vast majority. I might even guess north of 80%. But more money will be made than lost.”
Sarandos: Ads will top out at 20% of Netflix's business
“In fact, I think that our business will be primarily a subscription for the foreseeable future. We'll grow the ad business to be a good part of our business for sure. But I think that even, even when it's very healthy, it'll still be 20% of the business.”
Khatri: Non-invasive CGM tech will arrive on wearables in 2-3 years
“So I think in two, three years time, you'll see it there.”
Srinivas: Google will remain dominant for years via transaction capture
“Another thing I'll tell you why they'll, they'll still continue to be dominant for a few years is let's say you do your research on like what microphones to buy, whatever, or like, you know, Let's say the best headphones for podcast recording. You're buying eq…”
Nilekani: India will progressively liberalize capital accounts as remittances reach $200B
“In my view, It'll get more and more liberalized, because India will get lots and lots of dollars. Only we get a hundred and eight billion dollars of remittances, that'll go to, say, two hundred billion.”
KL Rahul: Koffee with Karan interview and suspension scarred me massively
“That interview happened.
[5311] Nikhil Kamath: But now you don't.
[5313] KL Rahul: Now I don't, because that interview, like, you know, and this- Scarred you?
[5318] KL Rahul: Scarred me massively. I mean, there was, you know, getting suspended from, from- You…”
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.”
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…”
Kamath: Nothing's revenue grew from $500M to about $900M
“The sales look great. I think they went from 500 mil last year to about 900 mil this year.”
Adcock: Figure AI robots can work full human shifts today
“I wouldn't say it's a blocker today. Like, we can, we, like, we can do work In a lot of cases, almost the whole day, depending on what the task looks like and if it's not that, if it's, you know, a task that has a lot of locomotion and movements, we can do kin…”
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: 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.”
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.”
Most U.S. YouTube content is now consumed on television screens
“Well in the U.S., the majority of content Is actually consumed on television screens. And, you know, that could happen in the rest of the world. It's our fastest growing screen.”
Kalra: India Will Be the Third-Largest Global Consumer Market by 2030
“But, India as a market, from a food perspective, from a consumer, consumer perspective, is going to be the biggest, ah, the third biggest consumer market in the world by 2030. After the U.S. And China.”
Bedi: Broadcast TV will be entirely replaced by IP streaming
“So broadcast will go away. It'll all become IP based, right?”
Armstrong: Stablecoins enable sub-second, sub-cent payments impossible with credit cards
“You can send a payment anywhere in the world in under one second and one cent US. So we're seeing a lot of agentic commerce send small transactions, even a couple cents US, to, you know, gather, read this research paper, or get through this paywall, and or jus…”
Harari: Climate change will make Greenland strategically and economically important
“Climate change will make Greenland more important. Because climate change will make Greenland more important. The ice will melt. You'll have trade routes. You'll have, perhaps, you'll have easier access to some mineral wealth in Greenland.”
AI will translate video across languages while preserving speaker tone
“Why not give it to me in a thousand different languages? And why not do it in a way where it captures my tone, my inflection? And AI will be able to do that. And that will be magical, too.”
Sharma: Micromax hired Nokia's top R&D team after Nokia sale
“When Nokia got sold, we had the, you know, we took all the top Nokia, they had the gold, you know, division. We got all gold guys from Nokia and doing the R&D at that time.”
Bytes Targets Deployment in 500,000 Two-Wheelers Within Three Years
“So our vision is to, we have to be present in half a million units of vehicles by the next three years, where we are even seeing a strong interest from the Asian countries like Indonesia, because the two wheelers is a very high”
Gulati: Solid-state storage holds 6x more hydrogen than compressed cylinders
“Our system is able to give you six X more hydrogen in the same space of storage than you would in a compressed cylinder.”
Gulati: Nisadia storage is twice as dense as liquid hydrogen
“It's also two times more dense than liquid hydrogen is.”
Kamath: 15-year-olds will spend more time and money in cafes than nightclubs
“Like a fifteen-year-old today in three years is much more likely to spend time in a coffee shop versus a nightclub and spend more of his money there.”
Gogri: Global population is projected to peak around 2060 at 10 billion
“The population peak I think they are saying it's around 2060 at ten billion. So by 2100, your number is not going to be that, any case.”
Kalra: Indian Restaurant Sector Grows 21% Annually, Doubling Every 3.5 Years
“Compounded annually, we're growing around 21%, which means every three and a half odd years, you're doubling in size. So the number of people employed will double in size.”
Nithin Kamath Predicts Current Generation Life Expectancy Will Reach 80 To 90
“And it'll probably, by the time the current generation of people are 70 years old, the life expectancy will probably have gone to 80, 90.”
Juneja: GLP-1 adoption will drive increased sales of protein and nutritional supplements
“What we basically imagine, going forward, the sales of protein products, different kind of proteins, supplements, protein supplements, vitamins, minerals, other enzymes, cocaine, all sort of things, they will further increase.”