Apr 17, 2020 · Episode 99

World Health Organization in the crosshairs, the robot revolution, Softbank's struggling Vision Fund and a big prediction: Amazon is going to be a $2 trillion company by 2020

3 predictions · 0–3 · 0% accuracy

Scott's predictions3

The number of students taking a gap year between high school and college will increase by 2,000% to 3,000% in fall 2020 compared to prior years.
“you're about to see gap years, taking a year off between You're high school and about to see that increase two to 3000% this fall.”
Other · Judgment call · by Dec 1, 2020
Didn’t happenResolved Dec 2020
Amazon will become the first company to reach a $2 trillion market capitalization, achieving this by the end of 2020.
“My prediction is by the end of twenty twenty, Amazon is the first $2,000,000,000,000 market capitalization company.”
Markets · Checkable · by Dec 31, 2020
Didn’t happenResolved Aug 19, 2020
Google and Facebook's financial recovery from the COVID-19 downturn will be V-shaped (sharp decline followed by sharp rebound), while other media companies' recoveries will be L-shaped, declining further rather than rebounding.
“Their recovery will in fact be a V shape, whereas the recovery for every other media company is gonna look like a chair. It's going to be an L, and then it's going to go down again.”
Markets · Judgment call · by Apr 17, 2021 (inferred)
Didn’t happenResolved Dec 2021