What Kevin Ryan has said about Trend forecasting
2 quotes · 1 episode · Sep 24, 2026
Kevin Ryan, American entrepreneur and investor, founder and CEO of AlleyCorp and former CEO of DoubleClick, has been quoted on Trend forecasting 2 times in 1 episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, most recently on September 24, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Ryan argues that building an important company takes about ten years, so founders must bet on long-term trends.
“First of all, 10 years is important because to build an important company, unfortunately, you can't do it in two or three years”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #884: How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many More (Sep 24, 2026) · Listen from 4:46
Ryan recounts that in 2003 his team foresaw video serving costs falling below ad revenue but failed to start a YouTube-like company.
“we looked at the trend and thought, you know, by 2005, 2006, they're going to cross. And we should have started YouTube, and we didn't”
The Tim Ferriss Show: #884: How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many More (Sep 24, 2026) · Listen from 14:12
Episodes
#884: How to Spot 10-Year Trends and Build Billion-Dollar Companies — Kevin Ryan of DoubleClick, MongoDB, Business Insider, and Many MoreThe Tim Ferriss Show · Sep 24, 2026 · 1 h 26 min
Tim Ferriss talks with investor Kevin Ryan about spotting 10-year trends, building DoubleClick, Gilt, Business Insider and MongoDB, psychedelic drug development, deep tech, and immigration.
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