At 25, he secured $134 million in funding, and he made 10 predictions for 2025

1⃣ AI agents will become billionaires.

2⃣ Multiple L1 FDVs specifically built for AI will exceed $20 billion.

3⃣ Establish benchmarks for agent groups to measure multi-agent performance.

4⃣ The first AI movie that will win an Oscar begins production.

5⃣ Following DeepSeek v3, cryptocurrency becomes a fundraising channel to support independent researchers leaving top AI labs to develop models costing less than $10 million.

6⃣ Several unicorn foundational model companies utilize blockchain as a means to acquire large amounts of IP for training.

7⃣ A single transaction between two agents exceeds $1 million.

8⃣ Celebrity-based AI agents surpass celebrities in follower count on Instagram and Twitter, with IP obtaining on-chain licensing.

9⃣ Decentralized storage solutions (IPFS, Arweave) experience a strong recovery, capable of handling large amounts of on-chain IP for AI training.

🔟 Communication protocols emerge to handle agent-to-agent communication between heterogeneous frameworks (e.g., between ai16z, ZerePy, and Virtuals).

Jason Zhao, the founder of Story, is a young entrepreneur who grew up in Silicon Valley, passionate about entrepreneurship and sharing ideas. He started experimenting with entrepreneurship in high school and launched a campus publication focused on the intersection of technology and society during college.

Inspired by blockchain research, he quit his job to start Story, receiving continuous investment from a16z, with total funding exceeding $130 million.