prescient

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Lemssouguer made prescient trades ahead of the Covid-19 pandemic and the software industry selloff this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Andreessen’s prescient call foreshadowed 15 years of transformation and arguably trillions in value creation.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

One prescient call in 2023 from its “age of scarcity” predicted an era of cheap credit and commodities was ending and that so-called real assets and infrastructure would benefit.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 5, 2026

“It felt prescient then,” Messineo said of engaging Martinez last year, “and I think even more so now.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

In some cases, we will find that Eratosthenes was prescient in his thinking; in others, that he was sloppy or mistaken, but that his errors had the fortuitous effect of canceling each other out.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro