So the 2010s were an uninterrupted bull-market in stocks and had Netflix delivering +4.000% in return. What will the best performing S&P500 stock of the 2020s?
Energy breakthrough making it cheaper - everything needs energy to function, that's probably an obvious pick.
Internet in rural places - access to internet is needed for everything: new jobs, entertainment, services, goods etc. If there'll be a way to access internet in rural places all over the world - it'll probably be one of the best companies (thinking starlink or something similar, since preferably you'll need low latency).
Content production or content delivery - people will always want entertainment, ie games, movies or streams. It is very far from ideal both in production and delivery. Solving it will give insane reach and insane amounts of money.
Reimagination of hiring and changing professions.
Probably another social network - people are not satisfied, someone has to try.
My take is on health tech related companies. Similar to frequency therapeutics and their fx322. I think this decade we will see the commoditisation of health improvements.
AMD and many other semiconductors. I'm up 500% on my semiconductor portfolio and it's still early, there's a lot of emerging smaller companies getting involved now, from FPGAs to potential x86 competitors. The foundries and supply chain are doing great too
I'm putting together a spreadsheet of semiconductor and other hardware manufacturing stocks and weighting them by Glassdoor rankings of company culture, those will be my long-term picks. So far Analog Devices and Cirrus Logic are looking very strong. And Apple of course.
I've been building a position in Lattice since $6, it's $19 today. Jim Anderson left AMD to be CEO there. I bought on the chance there's a future merge/acquisition but they're doing great work regardless
MCD - McDonalds will manage to eke out a small gain over the decade, and be the winner of the 2020's.
Following a recession, all new investors will panic and withdraw all their money and keep it out for years. They didn't know the market could be down two years in a row. Boomers reach a phase in their lives where they are only taking money out of the stock market, and spending it on Chinese goods. Inflation picks up, and smart money moves from stocks to gold and then bonds. This combination will lead to one of the worst decades for stocks since the great depression. 2028 and 2029 sees money starting to go back into the market. But the decade as a whole sees low gains.
But even in a recession, people still treat themselves by eating out at McDonalds and their new $5 Keto menu.
1. The probability of some paradigm changing breakthrough in AI over the next 10 years - the kind that can potentially give you the massive market returns - is extremely low.
2. The breakthroughs that will happen will most likely come from the big companies with massive budgets and talented research teams.
What you said has always been true, in every field.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Facebook - all of them competed with big companies when they started and none of them relied on any single paradigm changing breakthrough, yet they managed to change paradigms.
Energy breakthrough making it cheaper - everything needs energy to function, that's probably an obvious pick.
Internet in rural places - access to internet is needed for everything: new jobs, entertainment, services, goods etc. If there'll be a way to access internet in rural places all over the world - it'll probably be one of the best companies (thinking starlink or something similar, since preferably you'll need low latency).
Content production or content delivery - people will always want entertainment, ie games, movies or streams. It is very far from ideal both in production and delivery. Solving it will give insane reach and insane amounts of money.
Reimagination of hiring and changing professions.
Probably another social network - people are not satisfied, someone has to try.