Travis Kalanick

5 tracked predictions · 0 hit · 0 partial · 0 miss · 5 still open

open Travis Kalanick: eVTOL air taxis (companies like Joby and Archer) will reach roughly 150 mph trips and become a viable, fast commuting option that changes urban travel.
EP #164 · 2025-04-10 · due: unspecified · ▶ watch
“it's pretty clear if you can get from here to there at 150 mph... I think it changes the game in a lot of ways”
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open Travis Kalanick: The traditional consulting industry will be radically transformed and largely disintermediated by AI, hitting hardest the consultants who just execute rather than design.
EP #164 · 2025-04-10 · due: unspecified · ▶ watch
“consulting is about to get radically transformed with AI right now”
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open Travis Kalanick: CloudKitchens-style prepared meals will get cheap and convenient enough to approach the cost of grocery shopping, doing to home cooking what Uber did to car ownership.
EP #164 · 2025-04-10 · due: unspecified · ▶ watch
“can you get a meal that is prepared and delivered to you so high quality and so cost-efficient... that it is approaching the cost of going to the grocery store”
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open Travis Kalanick: A new category of physical-world AI models ('Adam's AI') will need to be invented to let machines like humanoids move and act in the real world, beyond today's chat-focused AI.
EP #164 · 2025-04-10 · due: unspecified · ▶ watch
“there's a whole other set of models that are going to need to be invented to make that real”
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open Travis Kalanick: AI and robots won't broadly replace human jobs, because history shows technology-driven labor shifts tend to work out, aided by the fact that robots don't hold bank accounts to spend into the economy.
EP #164 · 2025-04-10 · due: unspecified · ▶ watch
“the history of technology basically says we're fine... robots don't have bank accounts yet”
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