One of the strangest things about venture capital is how much time investors spend trying to predict the future and how little time they spend checking their old predictions. Every year, VCs publish their big predictions. The future of AI. The next trillion-dollar market. The industries about to be disrupted. Some of these predictions are genuinely insightful. Most are forgotten within six months. Here’s an idea. Every VC who publishes their predictions for 2027 should first publish how their 2026 predictions turned out. What did you get right? What did you completely miss? Which companies or markets did you think would explode that went absolutely nowhere? And most importantly, did you actually invest based on those predictions? Because there’s a big difference between predicting that AI will change everything and putting your own capital behind a specific company before everyone else figures it out. I love a good market thesis. But a thesis without accountability is basically a horoscope with a pitch deck. And the venture industry already has enough people getting paid to sound smart.