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Self-made billionaire’s three mind-blowing predictions for the future are all coming true

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Published 16:50 26 Aug 2024 GMT+1

Self-made billionaire’s three mind-blowing predictions for the future are all coming true

We think this genius Irishman living in California can see into the future, because he hasn't missed a beat with these predictions

Joe Yates

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One man has gone under the radar predicting our future... and he's got it all right.

Usually when I cover predictions for the future it's somebody claiming the world is going to end or some other tripe, because whether you are religious and believe in God or you don't...Earth will still be orbiting the Sun by the time we die.

Self-made billionaire Patrick Collison. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for WIRED)
Self-made billionaire Patrick Collison. (Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images for WIRED)

But that isn't what this is about; no it's something entirely different and it comes from a genius mathematician.

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Self-made billionaire Patrick Collison, who was born in the small village of Dromineer in the heart of Ireland, made three mind-blowing assumptions in how the world will operate in the future - and they are all coming true.

The 35-year-old CEO of Stripe, a US multinational financial services and software as a service company - dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, and Dublin, the capital of his home country.

In 2022, he predicted that AI would run empires while we sleep, and that the next big app will be built by someone who can't code.

With his third prediction being that understanding APIs (Application Programming Interface) will be as crucial as reading and writing.

Collison is the CEO of Stripe - a company worth more than PayPal. (AOP.Press/Corbis via Getty Images)
Collison is the CEO of Stripe - a company worth more than PayPal. (AOP.Press/Corbis via Getty Images)

We all know how much AI and technology as a whole have completely taken off in recent years, but there's a hidden connection between them all.

And apparently the connection is APIs.

But what is it?

Well, according to AltexSoft, an API is a set of programming code that enables data transmission between one software product and another.

It is all very confusing.

So how are his predictions coming true, then?

Well, AI reportedly trades $250 billion every day on the stock exchange at JPMorgan - on its own, without humans.

Is Collison the next Steve Jobs? (Matthias Oesterle/Corbis via Getty Images)
Is Collison the next Steve Jobs? (Matthias Oesterle/Corbis via Getty Images)

Yes, the trading stock market is widely being used by AI which makes a decision on whether or not to invest in stock, or to even disinvest.

His second prediction about 'the next big app' being built by 'someone who can't code', also came true.

According to the CEO of Api Days, Baptiste Parravicini, 'no-code apps have reached $1 billion in yearly valuations'.

He also took to Twitter to share that Collison was right about his third prediction too - which was that understanding APIs will be as crucial as reading and writing.

Baptiste wrote: "Tech skills are a requirement in 90% of jobs."

So, is Collison the next Steve Jobs?

I think it's a name we'll definitely hear of again.

Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Million Stories Media

Topics: Technology, Business, Artificial Intelligence

Joe Yates
Joe Yates

Joe is a journalist for UNILAD, who particularly enjoys writing about crime. He has worked in journalism for five years, and has covered everything from murder trials to celeb news.

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