| 30× | “30 times” | Quattrone: Private equity will not match strategic buyers' 20-40x revenue multiples | Frank Quattrone | Mar 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 x” | Samani: Hivemapper mapped 10% of global roads, growing 10x faster than Google | Kyle Samani | Jan 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Biswas: Flexible remote hiring expanded Samsara's talent pool by 10x to 30x | Sanjit Biswas | Dec 8, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Loverro: Valuation corrections take 1.5 to 2 years to reach seed investors | Tom Loverro | Feb 13, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | O'Driscoll: SaaS companies failing AI transition will trade at 8x EBITDA | Rory O'Driscoll | Mar 12, 2026 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | O'Driscoll: Canva and Rippling won't fetch 30x revenue premiums | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | Open |
| 30× | “30 X” | Chiu: Top VCs hold winning investments past 50X for 1,000X potential | Alan Chiu | Jun 18, 2015 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Growth tech companies are trading at 20 to 30 times sales | Rob Salvagno | Dec 30, 2019 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | VC incentives diverge from founders on $100 million versus billion-dollar exits | Rob Salvagno | Dec 30, 2019 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x | Anastasios Angelopoulos | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 28× | “28 times” | Lemkin: Multi-Billion Fund Refused 28 Board Meeting Requests for Top Startup | Jason Lemkin | Sep 20, 2023 | — |
| 27× | “27 X” | Halligan: HubSpot's IPO order book was 40x oversubscribed | Brian Halligan | Aug 7, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 25× | “25 X” | Stebbings: Meta acquired Manus for $2.5B at 25x ARR | Harry Stebbings | Jan 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Taneja: General Catalyst's top early investments yielded hundreds of X returns | Hemant Taneja | Sep 22, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Mercor is highly profitable and does not need additional external financing | Brendan Foody | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Stebbings: Databricks is undervalued at a 25x revenue multiple | Harry Stebbings | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | O'Driscoll: A 25x revenue multiple requires two more years of 50% growth | Rory O'Driscoll | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Hulme: Pre-2015 angel investments achieved 4.5x DPI and 24x TVPI | Tom Hulme | May 8, 2024 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Constrained early markets without expansion plans rarely yield 10x returns | Sumit Gajri | Jan 17, 2020 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Venture Capital Annual Investment Volume Grew 25x Over 25 Years | Steve Jurvetson | Aug 3, 2020 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x | Anastasios Angelopoulos | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Stebbings: Benchmark returned roughly 640x on Uber versus 25x on WeWork | Harry Stebbings | Jul 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 24.6× | “24.6 times” | Software revenue multiples hit 24.6x in late 2021 versus 9.6x average | Mark Suster | May 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 24× | “24 X” | Hulme: Pre-2015 angel investments achieved 4.5x DPI and 24x TVPI | Tom Hulme | May 8, 2024 | — |
| 23.7× | “23.7 X” | Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Fitzpatrick: Public software multiples fell from 20x to 10x over two years | Matt Fitzpatrick | Dec 31, 2025 | Open |
| 20× | “20 X” | Lemkin: Combining Legacy SaaS With AI Startups Fails to Yield 15x Valuations | Jason Lemkin | Dec 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Lemkin: Anthropic will go public at a $500 billion valuation | Jason Lemkin | Dec 11, 2025 | Open |
| 20× | “20 X” | O'Driscoll: VC Funds Must Choose Between Max Multiple or High Ownership | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Randle: Benchmark's top fund investments outperform all post-ChatGPT OpenAI rounds | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | O'Driscoll: Late-stage VC funds cannot return a fund from a single deal | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Lemkin: Harvey's valuation implies $400M in forward annual recurring revenue | Jason Lemkin | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Lemkin: Top public B2B SaaS companies trade at 20x ARR on 30% growth | Jason Lemkin | Oct 2, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Taneja: Anthropic raised at ~20x ARR versus 50-100x for AI peers | Hemant Taneja | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Carnegie Mellon Backed a China Fund Returning Over 20x Net | Miles Dieffenbach | Aug 4, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 20× | “20 X” | Lemkin: Unprofitable high-multiple public companies must aggressively buy assets with stock | Jason Lemkin | Jul 10, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Lemkin: 10x IPO oversubscription is not enough for a strong stock pop | Jason Lemkin | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Hulme: OpenAI is a good investment at a $12 billion run rate | Tom Hulme | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Green: Lead Edge invested in Toast at 20x revenue, $500M valuation | Mitchell Green | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Lazarte: Early Brazilian VC deals included predatory 20x liquidation preferences | Victor Lazarte | Apr 14, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Saper: Private equity typically pays 3x to 5x ARR for acquisitions | Jake Saper | Mar 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Ross: Google spent 10x to 20x more on AI inference than training | Jonathan Ross | Jan 29, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Maples: 10x seed funds require 5% 100x hits and 15% 20x hits | Mike Maples | Jan 6, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Hamid: LLM token prices will fall another 10x-20x within two years | Mamoon Hamid | Oct 21, 2024 | Open |
| 20× | “20 X” | Frankel: Public SaaS multiples dropped from 20x in 2021 to 5-6x | David Frankel | Oct 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 x” | Vishria: Replacing Developer Labor With AI Creates 20x More Economic Value | Eric Vishria | Sep 25, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Motamedi: 100x-200x AI multiples make no sense without unprecedented growth persistence | Saam Motamedi | Jul 15, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Klaviyo Seed Round Was Raised at a 20x ARR Valuation | Andrew Bialecki | Jun 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Lemkin: I have become a worse CEO over time due to impatience | Jason Lemkin | Jun 3, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Kevin Ryan: Psychedelic industry will be 20x larger in 10 years | Kevin Ryan | Apr 10, 2024 | Open |
| 20× | “20 times” | Quattrone: M&A Freezes After Market Crashes Due to Valuation Misalignment | Frank Quattrone | Mar 1, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Quattrone: Private equity will not match strategic buyers' 20-40x revenue multiples | Frank Quattrone | Mar 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 x” | Cohen: BBC receives 10x to 20x more young applicants than open roles | Danny Cohen | Nov 8, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Adamic: B2B Buyer Conversion Now Requires 16 to 20 Touchpoints | Doug Adamic | Sep 8, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Rotman: QED's 100x+ wins de-risked their business models on minimal capital | Frank Rotman | Aug 11, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Nyatta: Bicycle Capital Targets 2x-4x Returns Rather Than 10x-20x | Shu Nyatta | Jul 31, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Emberikos: OpenAI Codex grew 20x since August and doubled since December | Alexander Emberikos | Feb 21, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Zinman: LPs will eventually stop pouring money into private tech startups | Eran Zinman | Mar 2, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | O'Driscoll: Software valuations averaged 6x revenue historically versus 20x during COVID | Rory O'Driscoll | Mar 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Escobari: Three warning signals that mark the end of a bull market | Martin Escobari | Nov 11, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Escobari: Paying 20x ARR on two weeks' notice is irresponsible LP management | Martin Escobari | Nov 11, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Private growth deals hit 300x ARR while public markets peaked at 20x | Logan Bartlett | Aug 30, 2022 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Senkut: Shopify and Canva grew 10 to 20 times larger than expected | Aydin Senkut | May 27, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | O'Driscoll: Bending Spoons' $20B IPO valuation lacks organic growth justification | Rory O'Driscoll | Jun 11, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Sierra engineers report 3x to 20x productivity boost from AI agents | Clay Bavor | Jul 4, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | O'Driscoll: Software valuations will never reach 20x revenue multiples again | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | Didn’t hold up |
| 20× | “20 X” | Chiu: Top VCs hold winning investments past 50X for 1,000X potential | Alan Chiu | Jun 18, 2015 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Series B pitching requires data and KPI impact over pure vision | Carl Waldekranz | Aug 28, 2015 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | McClure's angel portfolio returned 3x without any unicorn exits | Dave McClure | Aug 15, 2016 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Venture math should focus on probability distributions, not ownership percentages | Dave McClure | Aug 15, 2016 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Series B rounds are difficult because venture capitalists pay premium valuations | Nav Athwal | Oct 21, 2016 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Matt Straz: Hire executives with a 4-to-5 year runway for 10x growth | Matt Straz | Dec 15, 2017 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Gil: Founders underestimate the upside of selling early to breakout acquirers | Elad Gil | Jul 17, 2018 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Elad Gil: Twitter's Valuation Grew Over 10x Following Its Acquisition of MixerLabs | Elad Gil | Jul 17, 2018 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Early-stage tech founders do not know how to conduct pipeline reviews | Ron Bouganim | Oct 29, 2018 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Smith: Bain expects Lime to generate a 15x to 20x return | Sarah Smith | Apr 29, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 20× | “20 times” | Feld: 20x forward revenue B2B SaaS valuations will normalize | Brad Feld | Sep 30, 2019 | Held up |
| 20× | “20 X” | Correlation Ventures study: Only 4% of startup investments return 10X+ | Sumit Gajri | Jan 17, 2020 | Supported |
| 20× | “twenty-x” | Kunst: Flat growth during a sector tailwind signals poor startup execution | Sarah Kunst | May 15, 2020 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | David Sacks: Hot SaaS Startup Valuations Dropped From 20x to 10x ARR | David Sacks | Jun 15, 2020 | Partly supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Harry Stebbings Is Executing a Startup Investment at 10x ARR | Harry Stebbings | Jun 15, 2020 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Boufarhat: Corporate events will stay online post-COVID while mega-conferences return in-person | Johnny Boufarhat | Dec 10, 2020 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Wallace: Proptech sector will grow 10x to 20x from current levels | Brendan Wallace | Feb 18, 2021 | — |
| 20× | “twenty-x” | Cloud Valuations Over 20x Revenue and Snowflake at 80x Are Unsustainable | Byron Deeter | May 27, 2021 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Gurley: 2021 Startup Burn Rates and Capital Raised Are 10-20x 1999 Levels | Bill Gurley | Dec 6, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | In 2018, Fitbit Traded at 1x Revenue While Peloton Traded at 20x | Will Ahmed | Jan 5, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 19× | “19 times” | Palo Alto Networks acquired 19 companies in five years | Nikesh Arora | May 20, 2024 | — |
| 17× | “17 times” | Bravo: Unprofitable software forward revenue multiples dropped from 17x to 3.5x | Orlando Bravo | Feb 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 17× | “17 X” | Stebbings: Investing in every met founder would yield 17x greater success | Harry Stebbings | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 16× | “16 times” | Emergence Capital's Fund III Has Reached a 16x DPI | Jake Saper | Mar 10, 2025 | — |
| 16× | “16 X” | Rory O'Driscoll: CrowdStrike traded at 16x revenue post-drop with 31% cash margins | Rory O'Driscoll | Feb 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 16× | “16 X” | Rodrigues: Autonomous truck fleets could create $6 trillion in enterprise value | Alex Rodrigues | Jul 5, 2019 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic's per-share growth is under 5x despite 15x valuation jump | Rory O'Driscoll | Jan 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Lemkin: Combining Legacy SaaS With AI Startups Fails to Yield 15x Valuations | Jason Lemkin | Dec 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | O'Driscoll: Scale backed a 2x runner-up over a 15x market leader | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | General Catalyst's top early fund expected to return 13x to 15x | Hemant Taneja | Sep 22, 2025 | Open |
| 15× | “15 X” | Lemkin: Menlo Ventures will 10x to 15x its investment in Chime | Jason Lemkin | Jun 5, 2025 | Partly held up |
| 15× | “15 times” | Lemkin: ChatGPT reached 800M users in 17 months | Jason Lemkin | Jun 5, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 15× | “15 X” | Seibert: 10-15x paper valuations often fail to deliver actual cash returns | Jeff Seibert | Nov 22, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Lemkin: Startup valuations above 15x ARR are suspect in current market | Jason Lemkin | Aug 23, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Loverro: IVP announced multiple 2022 deals at 10-15x forward ARR | Tom Loverro | Feb 13, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Clements: Cursor's AI agent product usage grew 15x last year | Miles Clements | Mar 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | O'Driscoll: High-Multiple Stocks Enable Endless Arbitrage Acquisitions | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Randle: Top public SaaS platforms trade above 15x NTM revenue | Everett Randle | Jun 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | O'Driscoll: Bending Spoons' $20B IPO valuation lacks organic growth justification | Rory O'Driscoll | Jun 11, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 x” | Feldman claims Cerebras chips are 15 times faster than competing GPUs | Andrew Feldman | May 26, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic likely grew its LLM token volume 15x in Q1 | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Tunguz: Paying 15x forward revenue for private SaaS is unsustainable | Tomasz Tunguz | Mar 7, 2016 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Accomplice passed on follow-on rounds 10 to 15 times over valuation | Jeff Fagnan | Aug 13, 2018 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Fast-Growing SaaS Startups Over $15M ARR Get 10-15x Multiples | Harry Stebbings | Oct 20, 2023 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Stebbings: 20VC to see roughly 15x return on seed stake in Poolside | Harry Stebbings | Aug 27, 2026 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Taneja has invested in Stripe across 14 separate funding rounds | Hemant Taneja | Sep 22, 2025 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Oscar Pierre Faces a Potential Six-Year Prison Sentence Over Glovo's Labor Model | Oscar Pierre | Feb 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Lacaillade: Lower middle market buyouts offer a repeatable 3x-5x return model | Peter Lacaillade | Dec 18, 2023 | — |
| 14× | “14 X” | Steckman: Anduril is valued at 10 to 14 times forward revenue | Matthew Steckman | Mar 23, 2026 | — |
| 14× | “14 X” | Console game companies trade at 12-14x EBITDA; mobile trades at 5-6x | Kevin Chou | Mar 17, 2017 | Supported |
| 13× | “13 times” | Airwallex will generate over $400M in gross profit this year | Jack Zhang | May 26, 2025 | — |
| 13× | “13 X” | Atallah: A 10x price drop grew GPT Luna usage 13x on OpenRouter | Alex Atallah | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 x” | Stebbings: Open Evidence raised at $12B valuation led by Thrive and DST | Harry Stebbings | Jan 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | O'Driscoll: Software Stocks Face Long Flat Periods Transitioning to Cash Flow | Rory O'Driscoll | Jan 22, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Aloe Blacc: The music album was invented to boost label profit margins | Aloe Blacc | Feb 18, 2023 | — |
| 12× | “12 X” | Lemkin: Emergence Capital's fund backing EchoSign returned 12x | Jason Lemkin | Nov 30, 2022 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 x” | Forquer: Legora sets sales quota multiples between 8x and 12x OTE | Patrick Forquer | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Ljungman: European VC is 6-7x smaller than US, 12x at later stages | Mattias Ljungman | Aug 31, 2015 | Supported |
| 11.8× | “11.8 X” | Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 11× | “11 times” | Zaparde: Global B2B Transaction Volume Is 11 Times B2C Volume | Rujul Zaparde | Apr 24, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Startups facing a 10x competitor lose ground every single day | Rory O'Driscoll | Feb 5, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic's three-year 10x revenue growth is unprecedented in tech history | Rory O'Driscoll | Feb 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: SaaS companies ignoring AI will see multiples fall to 4x-5x | Rory O'Driscoll | Feb 19, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 times” | O'Driscoll: 10x Cash Flow for 20% Growth Is Wildly Cheap | Rory O'Driscoll | Feb 19, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Siemiatkowski: US tech companies grant 5-10x more SBC than EU companies | Sebastian Siemiatkowski | Feb 16, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | AI Power Users Pay 10x Higher Subscription Prices Than Traditional Software | Anish Acharya | Feb 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Acharya: Multi-functional AI bundling will drive 10x enterprise productivity gains | Anish Acharya | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | O'Driscoll: Figma trades at 10x forward sales with over 30% growth | Rory O'Driscoll | Jan 22, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Rampell: Upgrade Is Worth ~10x More Than Lending Club | Alex Rampell | Jan 12, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Navan is significantly undervalued at 4x ARR | Rory O'Driscoll | Jan 8, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Fitzpatrick: Public software multiples fell from 20x to 10x over two years | Matt Fitzpatrick | Dec 31, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Tech private markets have reached over $5 trillion in market capitalization | David George | Dec 15, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Software Market Shares Lock In After Three to Four Years | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Tunguz: Nvidia revenue concentration is 10x worse than Lucent during dot-com bubble | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: VC Funds Must Choose Between Max Multiple or High Ownership | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Small High-MOIC Funds Are Best Allocation for Marginal LP Dollars | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Microsoft Achieved a 10x Return on its $13B OpenAI Investment | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Carta data shows 18% of 2018 Series Bs returned over 5x | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 times” | Cannon-Brookes: Atlassian won't pay 10x for AI tools without 10x productivity | Mike Cannon-Brookes | Oct 13, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Feldman: Cerebras sales would default to NVIDIA without 10x superiority | Andrew Feldman | Oct 6, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Ross: 10x compute scale will outperform a 10x smarter AI model | Jonathan Ross | Sep 29, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Stebbings: Decacorn CEOs spend aggressively on AI but switch easily | Harry Stebbings | Sep 18, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Tech companies will employ more software engineers in five years, not fewer | Brendan Foody | Sep 15, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Obrecht: Canva at $42B Valuation Is Barely 10x Revenue | Cliff Obrecht | Sep 4, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Public markets offer cheaper capital than private markets | Rory O'Driscoll | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Deeter: Ecosystem startups around top LLMs will produce 100x VC returns | Byron Deeter | Aug 25, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Deeter: Bessemer created 'Century Team' to re-underwrite top portfolio companies | Byron Deeter | Aug 25, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lemkin: AI token and compute usage will 10x within 24 months | Jason Lemkin | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Chime's valuation is capped at $11B by US bank efficiency | Rory O'Driscoll | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | 2002-2004 Raised More IPO Dollars Than 2022-2024 | Miles Dieffenbach | Aug 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Edwin Chen: Lean teams with 10% headcount move 10x faster | Edwin Chen | Jul 21, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Edwin Chen: Single-person $1B companies will exist due to AI | Edwin Chen | Jul 21, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Wu: AI will make software engineers 10x faster within three years | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Cognition prices Devin hourly to be 10x cheaper than developer time | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Wu: AI will make 30 million global software engineers 10x more efficient | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Wu: Cognition's Devin usage grew 5x to 10x in the past six months | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: Initialized Capital's Fund II will achieve a 10x return | Jason Lemkin | Jul 10, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Casado: AI Coding Assistants Only Double The Productivity Of 10x Software Engineers | Martin Casado | Jul 28, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Reck: GetYourGuide grew 10x between late 2021 and March 2022 | Johannes Reck | Jun 23, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 10× | “10 X” | G Squared made 8-10x on Spotify and 6-7x on Bolt | Larry Aschebrook | Jun 16, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | O'Driscoll: Bankers leverage information asymmetry against founders in IPOs | Rory O'Driscoll | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: 10x IPO oversubscription is not enough for a strong stock pop | Jason Lemkin | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Jack Zhang kept coding job while making 10x salary on side businesses | Jack Zhang | May 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Severin Hacker: AI will enable companies built with 10x fewer employees | Severin Hacker | May 19, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Mohan: AI will impact all software engineering phases, making each 10x more effective | Varun Mohan | Jun 2, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin generated a 10x return at prior VC firm before leaving | Jason Lemkin | Apr 24, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll values post-crash 2X returns over 2021 bubble 10X deals | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 24, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Missing 5X–10X deals in a firm's sweet spot is far worse than missing outliers | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 24, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Stan Boland: UK government VC fund-of-funds allocations should increase 10x | Stan Boland | Apr 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lead Edge Capital models software exits between 4x and 8x revenue | Mitchell Green | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: 15-year holding periods yield 8x to 10x venture fund returns | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Morin: Auto-scaling AI inference yields 5x to 10x spend efficiency | Steeve Morin | Feb 24, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Jonathan Ross: Training AI for intuitive reasoning requires 10x more data | Jonathan Ross | Feb 17, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Kanji: Hoxton Would Have Been a 10X Net Fund on Darktrace at Peak | Hussein Kanji | Jan 20, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Switching Odoo to open core allowed a 10x dev team expansion | Fabien Pinckaers | Feb 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Pishevar: Exceptional tech founders are 1,000x humans worth waiting to invest in | Shervin Pishevar | Jan 13, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Maples: 10x seed funds require 5% 100x hits and 15% 20x hits | Mike Maples | Jan 6, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Maples: 3x and 10x VC funds have nearly identical loss ratios | Mike Maples | Jan 6, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Moubeche: Offering 20% above market compensation attracts 10x talent | Guillaume Moubeche | Dec 13, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Fougere: Discounting small consumption accounts destroys future pricing leverage | Dan Fougere | Nov 22, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sertoglu estimates his overall angel investing track record yielded a 10x return | Cem Sertoglu | Nov 20, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Grimm: Defense will never be a venture-style winner-take-all market | Matt Grimm | Nov 11, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Altman: Scaling 10x Requires Reinventing Operations, Not Repeating Past Methods | Sam Altman | Nov 4, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Hamid: LLM token prices will fall another 10x-20x within two years | Mamoon Hamid | Oct 21, 2024 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Frankel: Founder Collective Only Invests When Seeing 10x Potential | David Frankel | Oct 14, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Kothari: SaaS companies average 5x to 10x long-term revenue multiples | Akshay Kothari | Sep 18, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Shah: Index Growth Fund returns followed power law over mid-tier multiples | Shardul Shah | Sep 16, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Schneider: Coatue underwrites growth investments for a 5x to 10x return | David Schneider | Sep 11, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Gomez: OpenAI's Best Move Was Pursuing the Scaling Hypothesis | Aidan Gomez | Aug 19, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | CapitalG Targets 3-5x Returns in Growth Deals and 10x Early Stage | Laela Sturdy | Aug 16, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: Clio reached $200M ARR prior to $900M raise | Jason Lemkin | Jul 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Klaviyo Seed Round Was Raised at a 20x ARR Valuation | Andrew Bialecki | Jun 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Bialecki: Klaviyo has at least 10x expansion potential remaining | Andrew Bialecki | Jun 26, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Alex Wang: Startups win because small teams care 10x more than corporate employees | Alex Wang | Jun 12, 2024 | — |
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