Our 2020 Predictions For OpenAI Came True… Here’s What’s Next

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
All right, this morning, Sam texts me a great idea. He goes, let's go back through the archive. Let's find things that we predicted or strong opinions that we had at the time.
And let's bring them back up. Let's see, did we get them right?
Did we get them wrong? What did we get right? What did we get wrong? And what could we learn from it? And so we're gonna go back. Nobody does this, by the way. Everyone loves to make predictions and have opinions, and nobody ever goes back unless they were right. Well, we're gonna show you where we were wrong on a bunch of these. We did seven or eight of these that we had a strong opinion a couple of years ago, and now they've played out and we can review how we did. And at the end, we make two new predictions. So two new things that have our Spidey sense tickling, things that feel like they could be big opportunities that we're gonna plant our flag and say, look, I think this is one of the new ones.
And we'll see in two years if we're right or wrong. That's at the end of the episode. All right, enjoy.

**Sam Parr** (0:59)
All right, we're live. What are you drinking?

**Shaan Puri** (1:02)
This is my secret sauce right now. I'm not telling people about this yet.

**Sam Parr** (1:05)
Water?

**Shaan Puri** (1:06)
Nope. You can see from the color, it's a little different.

**Sam Parr** (1:10)
Green water.

**Shaan Puri** (1:11)
I'm just doing some experiments. I thought, we had Derek from More Plates, More Dates on, and he was talking about pre-workout. He created Gorilla Mind, that supplement. And then we talked about Bucked Up, and they are a pre-workout supplement.
And basically, it's like people take a scoop of something before they'd go to their workout, so that they get a way better pump, and just really like sort of dilates their, you know, vasodilation, and it gets them to have a better workout. I want that for work. I want pre-workout for work, and so I am experimenting with some things that will, how do I have like a boost of focus, a boost of productivity?

**Sam Parr** (1:51)
Yeah, caffeine, I think it's called, but that's okay.

**Shaan Puri** (1:55)
Caffeine is for mere mortals.
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All right, let's get back to the pod.

**Sam Parr** (2:38)
By the way, today's episode is going to be exciting. So we're going to actually going to go over some of the predictions that we've made, both right and wrong since the pod started. A lot of these predictions are to come from the 2020 era. We're going to look back when we're going to call it, what did you say, the I told you episode?

**Shaan Puri** (2:52)
I told you so.

**Sam Parr** (2:53)
I told you so, but it is also going to be, I told you we are stupid and we get things wrong as well.

**Shaan Puri** (3:00)
I told you so, and sorry I told you that because I might have been wrong.

**Sam Parr** (3:04)
But I definitely told you, I definitely told you.

**Shaan Puri** (3:07)
I just want you to take your right hand. I want you to put your right hand in the air real quick.
And I want you to reach back and let's give ourselves a little pat on the back here. Why? Not because our predictions are so great, but because we're actually revisiting predictions because predictions are one of these things that people love to do. People love to spout random opinions about stuff.
And then they just go, it just all gets washed away in the noise of social media.
Rarely do people ever go back. And when they do go back, it's only for one reason, when they were right. Nobody ever goes back and says, you know what? Nobody asked, but hey, I just want to tell you, I think I was wrong about that one, or I was at least half wrong about that one. And that's not the code we live by, not here, not us. And so we're going back, nobody asked us to do this. We're going back and we're revisiting some of the shit we said, and we're trying to figure out, were we right? Were we wrong or something in between? And we have a handful of these that we're going to go back. And these are, like you said, two, three years ago. So they've had time to bake and we'll see how they play out.