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May the earnest among us rise up: Techies, it’s prediction season. It’s my favorite time of the year, not because I’m a glutton for threads or care deeply about why DTC’s worst is still ahead of us — a take that echoes loudly for the third year in a row, mind you — but because it’s nice to see us all sit down and reflect.
Before I jump into what I’m thinking, some of my favorite prediction pieces and threads have come from Ganas VC’s Lolita Taub, QED Investors’ Nigel Morris and our very own.
OK, with that …