Poor Google. The European Union landed a punch to its solar plexus earlier this week, saying it broke EU competition rules.
Google’s parent company Alphabet (Nasdaq: GOOG) faces a $1.2 billion fine.
The following day, Canada’s Supreme Court dealt Google an uppercut to the chin. It wants Google to scrub search results about pirated products not just in Canada, but everywhere else in the world too.
Google is one of America’s most successful tech giants. It’s going to take more than a couple of punches to topple this powerful company.
The FAANGs Aren’t the Future
But if the news this week made you think twice about Google’s future, then that’s not such a bad thing. Google and its fellow tech megacaps – Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) – have enjoyed great success.
Since 2016, they’ve accounted for more than 30% of the S&P 500 rise. That’s nothing to sneeze at.
But I’ve got news for you: The FAANGs aren’t the future. Sure, they’ve had a great run, and it’s not over yet.
But for an investor looking for exceptional growth opportunities, it might as well be over.
To get those kinds of gains, I’m looking for the next Google. It’s not going to be the current one.
I’m also looking for the next Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Netflix. And I’ll be finding them in the technologies and markets of the future…
Which is why I like virtual reality. And I don’t like wearables.
I’ve done my research. And it doesn’t involve reading thousands of pages.
I’ve got a shortcut. Amazingly, it points me where I need to be looking for the next generation of great tech companies.
And now I’m going to be sharing my secret shortcut with you.
Some Proof
I have a dozen charts I could show you. Here are the two I’ve chosen…
As you can see, the soaring successes of Uber, Airbnb and Instagram were predicted way back in 2010 and 2011.
Yahoo was recently taken over by Verizon (NYSE: VZ) for pennies on the dollar. When did you see that coming? This chart shows that Yahoo’s decline was predicted in 2009. The underperformance of eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) was pegged in 2008, when this dataset first began.
The Oracle-Like Crowd Wisdom of Founders
These charts come from Y Combinator – the U.S.’s top startup accelerator. It has developed an incredible set of predictive data.
Its source?
The data came from tens of thousands of applications received from startup founders wishing to join it since 2008.
Founders were asked questions like, “Who do you see as your main competitors.” The answers were broken down into keywords, which were assigned percentages based on how many times applicants mentioned them.
The results allow you to see into the future. I have the space to show you only a few, unfortunately. What they say about the future – the future of technology – is simply fascinating.
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The Rise of Virtual Reality
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