| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: Founders Shouldn't Stress About Losing Single-Digit Millions for VCs | Jason Lemkin | Jun 3, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Lerner: Quick growth marketing wins provide one-time jumps, not continuous scale | Matt Lerner | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Levie: The workflow automation market could grow 100x due to AI | Aaron Levie | May 22, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Blomfield: Monzo revenue grew nearly 10x from $100M at departure | Tom Blomfield | May 13, 2024 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Zaparde: Max Levchin's hiring rule on doubt is wrong 20% of the time | Rujul Zaparde | Apr 24, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Stalled $50M Revenue Startups Are Worth $200M, Not 10x Revenue | Kevin Ryan | Apr 10, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Stephens: 10x Potential Bets Fail to Return Large VC Funds | Trae Stephens | Apr 3, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Ehrenberg: Holding The Trade Desk Longer Would Have Added 5x-10x Fund Return | Roger Ehrenberg | Feb 19, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Tisch: No seed investor is ten times more accurate than peers | David Tisch | Feb 5, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Brian Halligan advises leaders to hire around weaknesses and maximize 10x strengths | Brian Halligan | Jan 15, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Rabois: Ramp will beat Brex and become 10x more valuable | Keith Rabois | Jan 12, 2024 | Held up |
| 10× | “10 times” | Sim: Founders must deliver 10x value narrowly before expanding their platform vision | Ed Sim | Jan 10, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Samani: Hivemapper mapped 10% of global roads, growing 10x faster than Google | Kyle Samani | Jan 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: Initialized Capital's early funds achieved up to 100x returns | Jason Lemkin | Jan 4, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Davis Smith: Ten investor rejections is far too few when fundraising | Davis Smith | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Biswas: Samsara will scale 10x twice over if executed properly | Sanjit Biswas | Dec 8, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Biswas: Flexible remote hiring expanded Samsara's talent pool by 10x to 30x | Sanjit Biswas | Dec 8, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Richter: US market competition is 10x tougher than in Europe | Dominik Richter | Dec 1, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Cabane: Growth teams incentivized on non-revenue KPIs won't deliver revenue | Guillaume Cabane | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Petersen: Flexport would be 10x better if top departed talent remained | Ryan Petersen | Nov 13, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Stebbings: AI will 10x the supply of media content within three years | Harry Stebbings | Nov 8, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Cohen: BBC receives 10x to 20x more young applicants than open roles | Danny Cohen | Nov 8, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Altman: Investor help does not scale proportionally with check size | Jack Altman | Nov 3, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lemkin: Early-stage VCs must evaluate 10x more startups than five years ago | Jason Lemkin | Nov 3, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Rouif: Mobile Software Market Is Ten Times Larger Than Desktop | Matthieu Rouif | Oct 23, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Rouif: Mobile subscription apps consistently have 10x more free users than paid | Matthieu Rouif | Oct 23, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Rouif: PhotoRoom is 10x faster than competitors via focused models | Matthieu Rouif | Oct 23, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 times” | Prince: Every pre-IPO Cloudflare investor generated at least 10x returns | Matthew Prince | Oct 16, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Farquhar: Heavily funded startups outpace bootstrapped rivals in crowded markets | Scott Farquhar | Oct 9, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Zullo: Funds Can Achieve 10x Returns Without Decacorn Exits | Rick Zullo | Aug 23, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 10× | “10 times” | Huber: Raising children is ten times more important than a corporate career | Nick Huber | Aug 21, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Khosla: Decade-old clean tech bets like QuantumScape returned 5-10x multiples | Vinod Khosla | Aug 7, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Khosla: Nuclear fusion will demonstrate net positive energy by 2025 or 2026 | Vinod Khosla | Aug 7, 2023 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: I have achieved a 10x lifetime return on venture investments | Jason Lemkin | Aug 9, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Nyatta: Bicycle Capital Targets 2x-4x Returns Rather Than 10x-20x | Shu Nyatta | Jul 31, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | UX Innovation in Software Has Plateaued | Jean-Denis Greze | Jul 21, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | WhatsApp's search-bar invite prompt drove 10x more invites than other attempts | Ryan Wiggins | May 19, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Liu: Execution speed carries a 10x premium in fast-changing markets | Rich Liu | Jun 7, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Hankes: Bet on Startups Creating Novel User Experiences Over Incumbents | Vince Hankes | May 3, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lacher: La Famiglia's First Fund Achieved a 10x Return | Rob Lacher | Apr 7, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 10× | “10 X” | Reses: Wave of Fintech Market Rationalization Is Coming for Weak Startups | Jackie Reses | Mar 31, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Startups can relaunch products 10 times without the public noticing | Alex Bouaziz | Feb 1, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Patel: Homebrew requires a 5x-10x return potential for follow-on investments | Satya Patel | Jan 31, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: Startups that raise massive early capital become un-acquirable and "dead" | Jason Lemkin | Jan 13, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Stebbings: Lovable's ARR jumped from $3M to $20M during Series A legals | Harry Stebbings | Feb 23, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Swisher: Coatue evaluates valuation last for hyper-growth companies | Lucas Swisher | Feb 23, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Swisher: Probability of 10x returns increases in higher valuation bands | Lucas Swisher | Feb 23, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 10× | “10 X” | Green: Lead Edge Capital has had only one or two write-offs ever | Mitchell Green | Mar 7, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Green: Lead Edge Was Wrong Refusing 10X Revenue Software Multiples | Mitchell Green | Mar 7, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Clements: AI coding leads other verticals due to quick and durable value | Miles Clements | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Clements: Accel lost ServiceTitan over rigid valuation caps before $9B valuation | Miles Clements | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Escobari: Three warning signals that mark the end of a bull market | Martin Escobari | Nov 11, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Emil Michael: Startup board seats should have term limits after 10x returns | Emil Michael | Oct 25, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lewis: Bedrock underwrites for a 10x return without projecting beyond that | Geoff Lewis | Oct 5, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Clubhouse grew 10x month-over-month for two months during its viral spike | Paul Davison | Sep 26, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Redpoint's growth framework targets 3x-5x returns with 10x upside | Logan Bartlett | Aug 30, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “tenx” | Mike Chalfen requires 10x return potential for follow-on venture investments | Mike Chalfen | Jul 8, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Chalfen: Recycling capital from 3x to 10x deals optimizes VC returns | Mike Chalfen | Jul 8, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Zeev: Founders should shut down failing startups before running completely dry | Oren Zeev | May 24, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Chris Sacca pays Lowercarbon employees six to ten times the industry standard | Chris Sacca | Jan 20, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Shah: Companies must allocate resources to 10x to 100x outlier bets | Dharmesh Shah | Jun 13, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Hassabis: AGI impact will be 10x the Industrial Revolution at 10x speed | Demis Hassabis | Apr 7, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Levie: AI agents tapping OpEx budgets will double global tech spend | Aaron Levie | Apr 20, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Adam Foroughi: Top Engineers Achieve 10x-100x Leverage Using AI Coding Tools | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: Small emerging fund returns are irrelevant to large endowments | Jason Lemkin | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Tobi Lütke: Government operations cost 10x as much as private enterprise | Tobi Lütke | May 4, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Grinberg: Developer experience investments yield 10x to 100x impact with AI agents | Matan Grinberg | Jun 13, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lauritzen: Legora now designs all software systems to scale to 100x usage | Jacob Lauritzen | Jun 6, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Current frontier AI models will be 5x-10x cheaper in a year | Rory O'Driscoll | Jun 4, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Hypergrowth software startups decelerate gradually, never stopping suddenly | Rory O'Driscoll | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Stebbings: Isomorphic Labs round was 8x to 10x oversubscribed | Harry Stebbings | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Jain: AI-amplified companies producing 10x output will beat those shrinking headcount | Arvind Jain | Jul 11, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Jain: Securing enterprise AI clients later will be 10x harder | Arvind Jain | Jul 11, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | O'Driscoll: Bending Spoons grows via price hikes and cost cuts, not users | Rory O'Driscoll | Jul 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Arora: Corporate acquisitions must deliver 10x to 100x business value or fail | Nikesh Arora | Jun 22, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Browder: For-profit companies achieve 10x the impact of non-profits | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: AI token output per dollar increases 10x every two years | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Atlassian will never be a 5x or 10x AI growth company | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: AI compute token prices drop by 10x every 18 months | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: AI has expanded the customer experience TAM by 50%, not 10x | Jason Lemkin | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Australia Will Produce Multiple $100M+ Tech Venture Funds by 2020 | Alan Jones | Jun 15, 2015 | Held up |
| 10× | “10 X” | Matt Williams: LiveBid delivered a 10x return when acquired by Amazon | Matt Williams | Jul 31, 2015 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Clavier: Micro VC Market Grew to 250 Funds and $4B by 2015 | Jeff Clavier | Sep 7, 2015 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Mazour: E-commerce is a $2T to $3T market | Ivan Mazour | Jan 8, 2016 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Willis: A 10x return target is too low for seed-stage winners | Tyler Willis | Feb 17, 2016 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | UK seed investments grew 10x between 2011 and 2016 | Christian Hernandez | Mar 9, 2016 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 times” | Biyani: Sprig power users already order three to ten times weekly | Gagan Biyani | Apr 8, 2016 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lefcourt: Consumer startup products must be 10x better and cheaper | Jenny Lefcourt | May 18, 2016 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Hyatt: Startups should target new markets or 10x user experience improvements | Nabeel Hyatt | Jun 8, 2016 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Top-performing small venture capital funds should target 5x to 10x net returns | Alex Bangash | Jul 20, 2016 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Minshew: Value alignment in executive hires is 10x more critical | Kathryn Minshew | Sep 2, 2016 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Series B rounds are difficult because venture capitalists pay premium valuations | Nav Athwal | Oct 21, 2016 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Rick Marini Strives to Deliver 10x Value Relative to Check Size | Rick Marini | Nov 14, 2016 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Square Wallet failed because Square backed it too long without 10x value | Rishi Garg | Jan 18, 2017 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Foundry Group completes between seven and ten investments per year | Ryan McIntyre | Feb 1, 2017 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Jason Lemkin gets 100% of his deal flow from SaaStr | Jason Lemkin | Mar 20, 2017 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Friedman: YC Demo Day Has 500 Seats for 5,000 Interested Investors | Jared Friedman | Mar 29, 2017 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Raney: Very early stage venture deals expanded 10x from 2007 to 2015 | Scott Raney | May 17, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gil: Expecting a 5-10x return on a $1B valuation is highly improbable | Elad Gil | Jun 21, 2017 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Levchin: High-potential hires step up to major challenges 90%+ of the time | Max Levchin | Jul 14, 2017 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Andy Weissman: USV invests in 8 to 10 companies annually | Andy Weissman | Sep 11, 2017 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Matt Straz: Hire executives with a 4-to-5 year runway for 10x growth | Matt Straz | Dec 15, 2017 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sternberg: Honor hires small, highly selective engineering teams of 10x talent | Seth Sternberg | May 18, 2018 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Brown: Imaginary expects 10x venture returns from disciplined physical product investments | Nick Brown | Aug 6, 2018 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Investors should pay premium valuations for startups demonstrating clear network effects | Sarah Tavel | Sep 24, 2018 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | US government procurement spending is ten times Amazon's Gross Merchandise Volume | Ron Bouganim | Oct 29, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 times” | Coelius led Mud Wtr's note while it grew 100% month-over-month | Zach Coelius | Jun 3, 2019 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Kupor: Average IPO revenue grew 10x from $17M in 2000 to $170M | Scott Kupor | Jun 10, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gurley: Uber in San Francisco was already 10x the local taxi market | Bill Gurley | Jun 24, 2019 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | Brian Norgard: Everyday customers do not care about VC startup jargon | Brian Norgard | Jul 26, 2019 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Puttagunta: Historical TAM analysis is a trap; market spend can expand 100x | Chetan Puttagunta | Aug 5, 2019 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Correlation Ventures study: Only 4% of startup investments return 10X+ | Sumit Gajri | Jan 17, 2020 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Constrained early markets without expansion plans rarely yield 10x returns | Sumit Gajri | Jan 17, 2020 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Hefetz: Headcount Is a Flawed Vanity Metric for Startup Growth | Adena Hefets | Mar 13, 2020 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Viswanathan: NewView Capital requires potential for 10x returns on every growth deal | Ravi Viswanathan | Apr 6, 2020 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Maples: iPhone 3GS improved smartphone GPS accuracy tenfold | Mike Maples | May 11, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | Helmer: Andy Grove's '10x better' product rule is a poor startup framework | Hamilton Helmer | May 18, 2020 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Elad Gil: Selling to a 10x breakout acquirer yields optimal exit outcomes | Elad Gil | May 26, 2020 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | David Sacks: Hot SaaS Startup Valuations Dropped From 20x to 10x ARR | David Sacks | Jun 15, 2020 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Harry Stebbings Is Executing a Startup Investment at 10x ARR | Harry Stebbings | Jun 15, 2020 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | David Sacks: Top Startup Outcomes End Up 10x Larger Than Founders Expect | David Sacks | Jun 15, 2020 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Boards Give Random Advice Unless Founders Make Specific Asks | Austen Allred | Sep 18, 2020 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | CapitalG Underwrites Deals to 3X Base Market Growth and 10X Upside | David Lawee | Oct 8, 2020 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Velez: Brazilian consumers face 450% APRs and massive banking concentration | David Vélez | Mar 26, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Archegos liquidation drove Farfetch trading volume to 10x its average | José Neves | May 20, 2021 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | High-potential hires need multiple role trials to find their superpower | Tony Xu | Jun 7, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Ilishayev: Founders must scale leadership 10x when their company grows 3x | Rafael Ilishayev | Jun 14, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | George: Front-end engineers doing design expands Figma's market by 10x | David George | Jul 19, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | a16z Growth targets 3x to 5x returns with a 10% loss rate | David George | Jul 19, 2021 | Didn’t hold up |
| 10× | “10 X” | George: Loom was growing 10x year-over-year at scale when a16z invested | David George | Jul 19, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Kaszek sets a 5x minimum return threshold for its Opportunity Fund | Nicolas Szekasy | Aug 16, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Claure: SoftBank Generated a 10x Return on VTEX IPO | Marcelo Claure | Aug 30, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Contentful's original seed pitch deck targeted a $12M total addressable market | Christoph Janz | Nov 24, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lewis: Vercel grew over 10x in the year following Bedrock's check | Geoff Lewis | Feb 14, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Unhappy customers create 10x more downside than happy customers create upside | Scott Dietzen | Feb 28, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Siegel: Niche Domain Specialists Are 100Xers, Not Just 10Xers | Ian Siegel | May 20, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Hanks: Startups creating entirely new user experiences will beat incumbents | Vince Hankes | Jun 2, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Stebbings: 20VC Invested in Lovable at a 10x Revenue Multiple | Harry Stebbings | May 23, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | 20VC's Audio Audience Is 10x Larger Than Its Video Audience | Harry Stebbings | Jun 6, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Kansu: Current AI coding tools only boost developer productivity by 10-20% | Cem Kansu | Jun 20, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Enterprise sales reps should spend 10 hours preparing for a one-hour meeting | Ron Gabrisko | Aug 4, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Zhang: Enterprise human labor budgets are 10x larger than software spend | Jesse Zhang | Sep 19, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Altman: Capital supply grew 10x while top-tier startups only grew 2-3x | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Simionato: Mature software products should focus on retaining existing users | Federico Simionato | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Wiz's marketing team stopped growing headcount because AI 50x'd designer output | Raz Herzberg | Dec 12, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 times” | Sijbrandij: GitLab has evolved to have ten times the scope of GitHub | Sid Sijbrandij | Jul 19, 2019 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | CapitalG targets a minimum 3x to 5x return on growth investments | Laela Sturdy | Jul 8, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | A single feature flip made Snowflake 10x cheaper than competitor Qubole | Chris Degnan | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: 10x annual growth with positive margins covers all overhead | Rory O'Driscoll | Jul 23, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: Founders shouldn't reject major buyout offers unless 10x upside exists | Jason Lemkin | Jul 23, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Nitski: Mercor's total headcount grew over 10x in the last year | Osvald Nitski | Jul 25, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | Nitski: Founder-led AI data startups cannot scale to enterprise lab demands | Osvald Nitski | Jul 25, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lowercarbon's compensation plan is six to ten times VC industry standards | Chris Sacca | Oct 11, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Clément Delangue: Deep AI Startups Can Execute 100x Better Than Incumbents | Clément Delangue | Sep 15, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Curative Returned 10x Capital To Early Investors Via Post-COVID Dividend | Fred Turner | Jul 18, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Small initial check increases next-round lead likelihood by 10x | Matt Murphy | Jul 27, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lin Qiao: AI token costs will drop 10x in three years, driving 100x usage | Lin Qiao | Jul 20, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lin Qiao: Fireworks has achieved 5x to 10x inference cost reductions | Lin Qiao | Jul 20, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Late-stage investors design mega CEO incentive packages around 10x return hurdles | Jason Lemkin | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Angelopoulos: Enterprise AI adoption will 10X Nvidia reliably | Anastasios Angelopoulos | Aug 2, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Atallah: A 10x price drop grew GPT Luna usage 13x on OpenRouter | Alex Atallah | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Murdock: Fireworks Is 10x Better Business Than Baseten Due to Capital Efficiency | Jerry Murdock | Aug 22, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | O'Driscoll: Enterprise buyers like JPMorgan will not 10x software purchase budgets | Rory O'Driscoll | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Weitzman: Speechify Simba 3.2 ranks number one globally for quality | Cliff Weitzman | Sep 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Stebbings argues buying GPUs is a mistake due to marginal cost savings | Harry Stebbings | Sep 5, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Rory O'Driscoll: Notion would price at $4B-$8B in an IPO today | Rory O'Driscoll | Sep 25, 2025 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic's valuation is 8-9x next year's revenue if growth persists | Rory O'Driscoll | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 9× | “nine X” | O'Driscoll: Low-multiple SaaS stocks jump on minor earnings beats | Rory O'Driscoll | Aug 28, 2025 | — |
| 9× | “nine X” | O'Driscoll: Founders Fund leads large-scale VCs in generating 8-9x returns | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Fiechtner: Sales methodologies succeed 90% of the time with proper research | Ben Fiechtner | Aug 2, 2024 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | 90% of Initial Sales Prospects Cannot Sign Order Forms | Sean Murray | Jan 24, 2024 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Altman: Replacing an early-stage founder CEO fails 90% of the time | Jack Altman | Nov 3, 2023 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | O'Driscoll: Levered PE-backed SaaS firms will face severe headcount cuts | Rory O'Driscoll | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | O'Driscoll: Markets Reset Decelerating SaaS Valuation Multiples to 8-9x Revenue | Rory O'Driscoll | Mar 12, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | O'Driscoll: VCs should prefer coaching or selling over firing founders | Rory O'Driscoll | Mar 19, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Calacanis: 90% of founders fail to research investors before pitching | Jason Calacanis | Jun 1, 2015 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Loftus: Acquirers usually do not realize they are crushing startups during diligence | James Loftus | Mar 26, 2018 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Chang: Americans consume almost eight times more energy than Europeans | Alan Chang | Jan 5, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 8× | “8 X” | O'Driscoll: Early TVPI at 3-4 years correlates with final venture fund returns | Rory O'Driscoll | Jun 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Akhund: Seed investments in unicorns can return as low as 8x | Immad Akhund | May 12, 2025 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Lead Edge Capital models software exits between 4x and 8x revenue | Mitchell Green | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Morin: AMD GPUs achieve 4x inference throughput over Nvidia setups | Steeve Morin | Feb 24, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 8× | “eight times” | Solomou: The US market offers 5 to 8 times more opportunity than the UK | Solly Solomou | Feb 14, 2025 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Flo Health increased onboarding premium conversion by 8x through A/B testing | Dmitry Gurski | Sep 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Western Union's high margins allow them to outspend Wise on search marketing | Nilan Peiris | Jul 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Avi Eyal: Entrée Capital sells down investments across three systematic stages | Avi Eyal | Jul 3, 2024 | — |
| 8× | “eight X” | Lemkin: Public SaaS revenue valuation multiples currently average around 6x | Jason Lemkin | Jun 3, 2024 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Lemkin bets $20k that public SaaS multiples reach 8x by end of 2025 | Jason Lemkin | Jun 3, 2024 | Didn’t hold up |
| 8× | “eight X” | Levie: Box's 4x valuation multiple is way undervalued and should be 6-8x | Aaron Levie | May 22, 2024 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Kevin Ryan Sold Meetup for 7x to 8x His $10M Purchase Price | Kevin Ryan | Apr 10, 2024 | — |
| 8× | “eight X” | Mario Schlosser: A 95% drop and 8x rally proves market inefficiency | Mario Schlosser | Apr 5, 2024 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Quattrone: Cloud software M&A multiples are back to 6x-8x revenue | Frank Quattrone | Mar 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | MITIMCo invested $120M in Coupang, returning 7-8x at distribution | Ryan Akkina | Jan 29, 2024 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Ball: Public software companies average 7x to 8x forward revenue multiples | Jamin Ball | Jan 10, 2024 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Lemkin: Emerging VCs Promised Unrealistic 8x Net Returns to LPs | Jason Lemkin | Jan 4, 2024 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Lacaillade: Lower middle market buyouts offer a repeatable 3x-5x return model | Peter Lacaillade | Dec 18, 2023 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Rory O'Driscoll: DocuSign and Toast are absurdly cheap at 7-8x revenue | Rory O'Driscoll | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
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