Welcome to Startups for the Rest of Us. I'm Rob Walling. In this episode, I talk through my nine

startup predictions for 2025. I like to take a bit of time each year to think about how I think

the landscape might change in the coming year. And frankly, most of these are around SaaS,

but there are a few that aren't directly going to impact SaaS,

and so I just said startup predictions in the title. And predictions are really tough. If you're

actually looking ahead and trying to forecast things, no one knows what's going to happen.

So take these with a grain of salt. There's at least one of them that I kind of hope

doesn't happen for the sake of all the startup founders that I am rooting for. But nonetheless, if I think

there's a good chance it'll happen, I want to include it in this episode. Last episode, I went

through my predictions for 2024, and you probably noticed, I think maybe I had a, what, a 30 or 40% hit rate, 50% at best.

So keep that in mind when you hear predictions for me or anyone else that at best, we're going to be as good as maybe a coin toss.

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let's dive in to my first prediction. I'm going to go through three of them as a group because of these three I made for 2024,

and I'm just carried them through.

And I realize that's kind of cheating.

So I'm kind of combining these all into one.

My first is that Twitter will change hands in 2025. I think either the debt's going to be called due, someone's going to do a hostile

takeover. The valuation is so low, I just think it is inevitable that Twitter will change hands

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