All-In PodcastE160: 2024 Predictions! Markets, tech, politics, and more
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
All-In Besties Forecast 2024: Geopolitics, AI, Markets, and Mayhem
- The hosts of the All-In Podcast share wide-ranging 2024 predictions across politics, business, technology, and markets, framed by a mix of dark geopolitical risk and optimism about innovation.
- Politically, they foresee Vladimir Putin and non-traditional US political movements as major winners, with Ukraine, Netanyahu, and the broader ‘collective West’ likely to lose ground.
- On the business and tech front, they predict big upside for commodities, energy, uranium, Bitcoin, bootstrapped startups, and defense tech like Anduril, while warning of serious pain for overvalued AI/LLM startups, late-stage private SaaS, vertical SaaS, and possibly OpenAI’s valuation.
- They expect AI to be profoundly deflationary, driving custom in-house software, generative media, AI-powered news, and efficiency via automation and global talent, while macro turbulence, high debt, and rising conflict risks—including a non-trivial chance of nuclear use—create a highly uncertain backdrop.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasPutin is positioned as a major geopolitical ‘winner’ in 2024.
Sacks argues Russia has stabilized its economy, gained ground in Ukraine, and increased influence in the Global South and BRICS, turning Western sanctions and ‘Project Ukraine’ into strategic own-goals for the West.
Independent and centrist candidates could meaningfully disrupt the US two‑party system.
Multiple hosts highlight growing voter disgust with both Democrats and Republicans, pointing to RFK Jr. and broader third‑party interest as the start of a structural break in US politics.
AI will drive a brutal reset in software economics, especially for vertical and late‑stage SaaS.
Friedberg and Chamath see generative tools and low‑code platforms enabling cheap in‑house replacements for expensive vertical SaaS, compressing pricing and margins, and hammering overvalued private SaaS valuations.
Training data and IP rights-holders may become structurally powerful in the AI stack.
JCal predicts that publishers like The New York Times, Reddit, X, and Disney will secure nine‑figure licensing deals or revenue shares as LLMs are forced to respect copyright, creating a durable economic position for content owners.
Macro and geopolitical risks remain high, with non-trivial nuclear escalation risk.
Friedberg warns that depleted munitions, high global debt, and multiple active conflicts raise the probability—still low but rising—of a tactical nuclear weapon being used, as well as potential fractures in NATO (e.g., around Turkey).
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotes“My prediction for biggest political winner in 2024 is Vladimir Putin.”
— David Sacks
“I think this election starts the breakdown of the two-party system.”
— Chamath Palihapitiya
“Vertical SaaS businesses… are gonna get smacked this year.”
— David Friedberg
“This is the most important year for Bitcoin that has ever existed.”
— Chamath Palihapitiya
“People buying secondary at 90 billion [OpenAI] right now will be underwater next year.”
— Chamath Palihapitiya
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