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240_018predictionAI$100T

Trillion dollar company to be built turning every individual into a one-person unicorn

Predictor: Alex Wissner-Gross · ep#240 "NVIDIA's $1 Trillion Prediction, Anthropic Beats OpenAI, Tesla vs. TSMC & The CS Job Collapse" · source

Prior probability
45.0%
Current probability
35.2%
evolves via intake + LBP
Conviction
3/5
Signal quality
C
Resolution
pending
Window
2026-04-30 – 2029-03-31
Edges in / out
6 / 0
Tickers exposed
29

Prediction text

Trillion dollar company to be built turning every individual into a one-person unicorn | I think there's probably a trillion dollar company to be built, turning every individual in the world into like one person unicorns.

Verbatim quote

From episode "NVIDIA's $1 Trillion Prediction, Anthropic Beats OpenAI, Tesla vs. TSMC & The CS Job Collapse"
I think there's probably a trillion dollar company to be built, turning every individual in the world into like one person unicorns.

Predictor: Alex Wissner-Gross

κ + Brier as of 2026-05-22
κ (discount)
0.844
Brier
0.0341
excellent
Hits / Misses
6 / 1
of 11 resolved
Hit rate
54.5%
Calibration plot (stated vs observed)

Evidence about this node from Alex Wissner-Gross is multiplied by κ in /api/intake. Lower κ = less weight; floors at 0.10 (effectively silenced) and caps at 1.00 (full weight).

Reference class

Not linked

This node isn't linked to a reference class. The Bayesian update applies without outside-view blending.

Probability over time

4 prob_history rows
0%25%50%75%100%prior 45%2026-04-302026-05-032026-05-10
intake v2milestone miss sweeplbp propagationreference class assignedlegacy v1prior_prob (analyst seed)current = 35.2%

Milestone chain

Pre-event signals (upstream prereqs + window checkpoints) → resolution event → downstream cascades. Status/dates update from linked nodes; re-derive nightly via scripts/ops/derive_milestones.py.
Leading chain: 2 fired ✓ · 5 pending
  1. 2025-02-01hitSam Altman / Dario Amodei restate one-person-unicorn 2026 forecast (70-80% odds)
    How: Multiple frontier-lab CEOs publicly assign >50% probability to first one-person $1B-valuation company within 1-2 years
    Source: deep_research_enrichedconf 95%
  2. 2026-04-01hitMedvi reaches $401M revenue Year 1 with effective headcount of 2 — first credible solo-unicorn proof point
    How: Public reporting (PYMNTS, etc.) confirms Medvi Y1 revenue ~$401M with <=5 employees; headed toward $1.8B 2026 revenue
    Source: deep_research_enrichedconf 90%
  3. 2026-10-17pendingQ1 window check-in (25%)
  4. 2027-04-05pendingQ2 window check-in (50%)
  5. 2026-09-01 → 2027-12-31pendingFirst publicly named 1-person company at $1B+ valuation
    How: Funding round or secondary at $1B+ post-money where founder is sole employee or has <=2 FTE per S-1/press; trade-press confirmation in Bloomberg, Forbes, or TechCrunch
    Source: deep_research_enrichedconf 55%
  6. 2027-09-22pendingQ3 window check-in (75%)
  7. 2027-01-01 → 2028-09-30pendingCohort scale — at least 5 named one-person (or <=5 FTE) companies cross $100M revenue
    How: Five-plus named companies with sole or <=5 FTE founder team disclose >=$100M ARR via press, Forbes Cloud 100, or pitchdecks; mirrors Medvi-class pattern
    Source: deep_research_enrichedconf 45%
  8. 2028-01-01 → 2031-03-31pendingFirst trillion-dollar valuation for a category-defining solo-founder / micro-team AI company
    How: Public-market or late-stage primary at $1T post-money for a company whose underlying model is enabling individual-as-unicorn (per Wissner-Gross thesis); criterion satisfied by any one such named entity
    Source: deep_research_enrichedconf 25%

What if this resolves?

Clamp this prediction TRUE or FALSE and run a counterfactual Gibbs sample. Surfaces the predictions whose marginals shift most under that assumption.
(live posterior: 35%)

Click a button to clamp this prediction and run a Gibbs sample. Returns the predictions whose marginals shift most. ~30s per run; ideal for stress-testing "if X resolves, what else moves?"

Evidence chain

Every probability update with full Bayesian provenance — chronological, latest first
LBP2026-05-10T02:00:02Z35.2%-1.4pp
Network propagation: 36.6% → 35.2%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00584 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run e5c18d29
LBP2026-05-03T02:00:01Z36.6%-2.8pp
Network propagation: 39.3% → 36.6%
6-iter LBP, residual 0.00677 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v3 · run 1a683ac9
LBP2026-04-30T16:39:51Z39.3%-1.9pp
Network propagation: 41.2% → 39.3%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v2 · run 0c8a4ea3
LBP2026-04-30T02:18:57Z41.2%-3.8pp
Network propagation: 45.0% → 41.2%
5-iter LBP, residual 0.00825 · damping 0.5, w_intrinsic 0.5 · method lbp_v1 · run 592311ef

Network propagation neighbors

Top edges sorted by latest LBP cross-impact
All propagation →

Top incoming (parents)

Edges that influence THIS node's belief

KindNodeTheir probP(c|s=T)P(c|s=F)Δ implied
prereqS_AGI_MID_2029
AGI mid: Kurzweil 2029 path
35.0%0.4500.050-0.162
killerTK12
Crypto Regulatory Kill Shot (Stablecoin Ban / BTC ETF Revers
8.0%0.0500.450+0.066
killerTK10
$100T Sovereign Debt Crisis
12.0%0.0500.450+0.050
killerTK05
Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028)
30.0%0.0500.450-0.022
killerTK14
Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates)
20.0%0.0500.450+0.018

Top outgoing (children)

Predictions THIS node influences

No outgoing edges.

Ticker exposure

29 ticker(s) linked

Beneficiaries (23)

SOUNCRCLIRBTRIOTMARASYMFANUYNVDABBAIGTLBAIABBNYAMZNCOINGOOGLHOODIBMMETAMSFTORCLSHOPTSLAXYZ

Adverse (5)

HYGEMBMUBTLTLQD

Prerequisites (6)

Predictions that must hit first
TypePredTitleDomainLag
prereqS_AGI_MID_2029AGI mid: Kurzweil 2029 pathagi_general_capability
killerTK05Rate Regime Persistence (10y > 5% through 2028)
killerTK04Macro Recession 2026-27 (Structural Deleveraging)
killerTK14Superbubble Pop (S&P 500 -40%, Moonshot Capital Evaporates)
killerTK10$100T Sovereign Debt Crisis
killerTK12Crypto Regulatory Kill Shot (Stablecoin Ban / BTC ETF Reversal)

Dependents (0)

Predictions enabled by this
TypePredTitleDomainLag
No dependents

Raw metadata

From Thesis_Timeline_v1.0_FINAL workbook
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      "ordinal": -3,
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      "expected_date": "2027-05-02",
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      "expected_date_range": {
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