| 10B | “ten billion” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic GAAP Revenue Doubled From $5B to $10B | Rory O'Driscoll | May 28, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 59M | “fifty nine million” | Stebbings: Anthropic Gross Margins Reached 70% With $559M Projected Q2 Profit | Harry Stebbings | May 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 38% | “38%” | Stebbings: Anthropic Gross Margins Reached 70% With $559M Projected Q2 Profit | Harry Stebbings | May 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Stebbings: Anthropic Gross Margins Reached 70% With $559M Projected Q2 Profit | Harry Stebbings | May 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Lemkin: $2M Revenue Per Employee Is New Normal For Scaling Startups | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Lemkin: $2M Revenue Per Employee Is New Normal For Scaling Startups | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Lemkin: SpaceX Is Allocating 30% of Its IPO to Retail Investors | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Lemkin: X Revenue Has Shrunk 50% Since Musk's Acquisition | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.3B | “1.25 billion” | O'Driscoll: xAI Rented Colossus Cluster to Anthropic for $1.25B Monthly | Rory O'Driscoll | May 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Stebbings: Pulsia Raised $30M–$40M at a $250M Valuation | Harry Stebbings | May 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Stebbings: Pulsia Raised $30M–$40M at a $250M Valuation | Harry Stebbings | May 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Lemkin: Over 90% of Neon Databases Are Built by AI Agents | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 85% | “85%” | Feldman claims Micron achieves software-like 80% to 85% margins on memory | Andrew Feldman | May 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 x” | Feldman claims Cerebras chips are 15 times faster than competing GPUs | Andrew Feldman | May 26, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Feldman claims NeoClouds face massive cost disadvantages buying Nvidia hardware | Andrew Feldman | May 26, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Feldman asserts 90% to 95% of recent tech layoffs are AI-washed | Andrew Feldman | May 26, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Feldman asserts 90% to 95% of recent tech layoffs are AI-washed | Andrew Feldman | May 26, 2026 | — |
| 47M | “forty-seven million” | Feldman claims global software engineers represent a $5 trillion AI token market | Andrew Feldman | May 26, 2026 | Supported |
| $5T | “five trillion dollars” | Feldman claims global software engineers represent a $5 trillion AI token market | Andrew Feldman | May 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Feldman reveals Cerebras burned $8 million monthly for 18 months solving hardware | Andrew Feldman | May 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Peets: Chief Revenue Officers are receiving $100M compensation packages | Chad Peets | May 23, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Peets: Anthropic will reach a $4T to $5T valuation | Chad Peets | May 23, 2026 | Open |
| $4M | “four million dollars” | Degnan: Reps hitting $3M-$4M productivity signal quotas are too low | Chris Degnan | May 23, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Degnan: Snowflake invoked windfall clauses five times to limit commissions | Chris Degnan | May 23, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Peets: Sales reps are only productive when hitting full quarterly quota | Chad Peets | May 23, 2026 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Degnan: 99% of VCs fail at board guidance lacking operator experience | Chris Degnan | May 23, 2026 | — |
| 55B | “Fifty five billion” | Peets: Databricks is not worth 2.5x Snowflake's $55B market cap | Chad Peets | May 23, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Peets: Healthy Sales Orgs Must Attrit Bottom 10% Annually | Chad Peets | May 23, 2026 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | O'Driscoll: One Gigawatt of High-End Compute Costs $40B-$50B | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | Supported |
| $5.8B | “5.8 billion dollars” | O'Driscoll: Salesforce's $300M Anthropic spend is 4% of developer payroll | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | O'Driscoll: Salesforce's $300M Anthropic spend is 4% of developer payroll | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | O'Driscoll: $1T AI revenue requires taking 20% of engineering payroll | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | O'Driscoll: $1T AI revenue requires taking 20% of engineering payroll | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | O'Driscoll: Mature software sectors never regain 50x ARR valuation multiples | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | — |
| $500M | “five hundred million Dollars” | Lemkin: Figma lost $500M+ failing to launch design-to-code natively | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | O'Driscoll: Buying back stock to offset employee share dilution is a bogus strategy | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | O'Driscoll: AI capex splits 50% to Nvidia, 20% to power and networking | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | O'Driscoll: AI capex splits 50% to Nvidia, 20% to power and networking | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | O'Driscoll: AI capex splits 50% to Nvidia, 20% to power and networking | Rory O'Driscoll | May 21, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three X” | Lemkin: SpaceX market valuation will triple in 2026 driven by retail investors | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2026 | Open |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Stebbings: Altman Offered $2M in OpenAI Tokens to Every YC Startup | Harry Stebbings | May 21, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Browder: Tech wealth gap between AI and laid-off workers is unsustainable | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Browder: Top entrepreneurs demonstrate elite skill in childhood side projects | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Josh Browder: Browder Capital targets sub-$5M valuations for initial checks | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Browder: For-profit companies achieve 10x the impact of non-profits | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Browder: Startup pitches should be conducted by the CEO alone | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Browder: Micro1 is his best-performing investment at over 1,000x return | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Browder: Accept Sequoia or Founders Fund Over Double Valuation Term Sheets | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Browder: Predatory VCs act like sharks by demanding 15% seed option pools | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Browder: Takes 5% to 7% startup equity and saves founders more over time | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Browder: DoNotPay acquires over 90% of customers organically | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Browder: DoNotPay could have raised $100M during 2021 market peak | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Browder: Nevada land investments generate 10% to 20% safe IRR | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Browder: AI labs award data labeling startups up to $1B contracts | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | Open |
| 1B | “a billion” | Browder: AI labs award data labeling startups up to $1B contracts | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | Open |
| 3M | “three million” | Stebbings: Series A is the worst stage in venture capital | Harry Stebbings | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 200× | “200 X” | Stebbings: Series A is the worst stage in venture capital | Harry Stebbings | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Browder: Late-stage billion-dollar investments can be better than Series A | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Stebbings: Startups cannot IPO today with under $500M revenue | Harry Stebbings | May 18, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Browder: DoNotPay achieves a 100% success rate on in-flight Wi-Fi refunds | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Browder: US startup ambition and outcomes are 100x larger than UK's | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Josh Browder: Anthropic will reach $1 trillion in revenue | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | Open |
| 75% | “75%” | Browder: 75% of VCs invest only because someone else did | Josh Browder | May 18, 2026 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Abridge raised a $5M seed round at a $15M pre-money valuation | Shiv Rao | May 16, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | 800,000 US doctors actively practice, mostly in large delivery systems | Shiv Rao | May 16, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | JAMA study showed 30% of US nurses planned to leave profession | Shiv Rao | May 16, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5.3T | “5.3 trillion” | US healthcare sector is $5.3T and 18-19% of GDP | Shiv Rao | May 16, 2026 | Supported |
| 19% | “19%” | US healthcare sector is $5.3T and 18-19% of GDP | Shiv Rao | May 16, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Forty percent of Abridge's model outputs come from in-house models | Shiv Rao | May 16, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | O'Driscoll: Software valuations will never reach 20x revenue multiples again | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | Didn’t hold up |
| 5× | “five times” | O'Driscoll: Software valuations will never reach 20x revenue multiples again | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | Didn’t hold up |
| 20× | “20 times” | O'Driscoll: Software valuations will never reach 20x revenue multiples again | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | Didn’t hold up |
| 11% | “11%” | O'Driscoll: xAI data center was only 11% utilized | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | O'Driscoll: SpaceX revenue run rate is around $20 billion | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Stebbings: Anthropic committed $200B to Google Cloud over five years | Harry Stebbings | May 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic deal makes up 40% of Google's future backlog | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Lemkin: WSJ data shows Claude enterprise share jumped to 48% | Jason Lemkin | May 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three 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: AI token output per dollar increases 10x every two years | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | Open |
| 35% | “35%” | Lemkin: ZoomInfo trades at 1x revenue with 35% operating margin | Jason Lemkin | May 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 9% | “nine percent” | O'Driscoll: Benchmark, Foundation, and Eclipse each hold 8–9% of Cerebras | Rory O'Driscoll | May 14, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lemkin: Founders should accept buyouts unless they refuse $1 billion | Jason Lemkin | May 14, 2026 | — |
| 78% | “78%” | Forquer: Legora converts 78% of sales pilots to closed-won deals | Patrick Forquer | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 52% | “52%” | Stebbings: Charging $35 for Yoga Increased Attendance from 52% to 92% | Harry Stebbings | May 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 92% | “92%” | Stebbings: Charging $35 for Yoga Increased Attendance from 52% to 92% | Harry Stebbings | May 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Forquer: Legora leverages investors like Bessemer and GC to close deals | Patrick Forquer | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 x” | Forquer: Legora sets sales quota multiples between 8x and 12x OTE | Patrick Forquer | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 280% | “280%” | Forquer: Legora sales team averaged 280% quota attainment last year | Patrick Forquer | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Speechify currently tests nearly 1,000 data-generated ads daily | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Speechify reads over 10M books worth of words annually | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Weitzman: Speechify rap song ad about dyslexia generated $3 million | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Weitzman: Speechify rap song ad about dyslexia generated $3 million | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Weitzman: Speechify Has Passed 50 Million Consumer Users | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Cliff Weitzman: 15% of Speechify's users come organically from ChatGPT | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Weitzman: Speechify will never hire candidates motivated primarily by higher pay | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Weitzman: 40% of incarcerated people have dyslexia versus 17% of general population | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 17% | “17%” | Weitzman: 40% of incarcerated people have dyslexia versus 17% of general population | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Weitzman claims 40% of billionaires are dyslexic | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Stebbings: Investing in every met founder would yield 17x greater success | Harry Stebbings | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Stebbings: Investing in every met founder would yield 17x greater success | Harry Stebbings | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 17× | “17 X” | Stebbings: Investing in every met founder would yield 17x greater success | Harry Stebbings | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 7× | “seven X” | Stebbings: Investing in every met founder would yield 17x greater success | Harry Stebbings | May 9, 2026 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Speechify surpassed $5M in annual revenue four years after launching | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 94% | “94%” | Weitzman: Speechify holds 94% of the B2C voice agent market | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Weitzman: Live Streaming Is Now the Best Format for Content Creators | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Cliff Weitzman: Brother Tyler made 36x return on levered Nvidia options in 2022 | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 36× | “36 X” | Cliff Weitzman: Brother Tyler made 36x return on levered Nvidia options in 2022 | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Weitzman: Speechify cut voice AI inference costs to single-digit dollars per million characters | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Weitzman: Podcasts and audiobooks have reached 40% penetration in most markets | Cliff Weitzman | May 9, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 60% | “60%” | O'Driscoll: Big Tech AI CapEx growth consumes most free cash flow | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic likely grew its LLM token volume 15x in Q1 | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 150B | “a hundred fifty billion” | O'Driscoll: Meta's $150B AI CapEx to boost ad revenue is a mistake | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 300B | “a two hundred billion” | O'Driscoll: Meta's $150B AI CapEx to boost ad revenue is a mistake | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | O'Driscoll: Meta's $150B AI CapEx to boost ad revenue is a mistake | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Atlassian will never be a 5x or 10x AI growth company | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | Open |
| 5× | “five X” | O'Driscoll: Atlassian will never be a 5x or 10x AI growth company | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | Open |
| 10% | “ten percent” | O'Driscoll: Non-coding knowledge jobs have less than 10% task automation potential | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | O'Driscoll: AI increasing developer efficiency will lead companies to hire more engineers | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | Open |
| 3× | “three X” | O'Driscoll: AI increasing developer efficiency will lead companies to hire more engineers | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | Open |
| 3× | “three X” | O'Driscoll: AI compute token prices drop by 10x every 18 months | 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 |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic should accept a $50B private round instead of an IPO | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four x” | O'Driscoll: AI requires $3 to $4 in CapEx per $1 of revenue | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Stebbings: OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor is raising a $950 million venture fund | Harry Stebbings | May 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 400B | “four hundred billion” | Lemkin: AI has expanded the customer experience TAM by 50%, not 10x | Jason Lemkin | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lemkin: AI has expanded the customer experience TAM by 50%, not 10x | Jason Lemkin | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Lemkin: AI has expanded the customer experience TAM by 50%, not 10x | Jason Lemkin | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: AI has expanded the customer experience TAM by 50%, not 10x | Jason Lemkin | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | O'Driscoll: Customer support software TAM is $30B compared to $400B labor spend | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 400B | “four hundred billion” | O'Driscoll: Customer support software TAM is $30B compared to $400B labor spend | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “ten percent” | O'Driscoll: Sierra's LLM token spend is likely under 10% of its revenue | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | O'Driscoll: Executives must spend 10% of their time directly using new technology | Rory O'Driscoll | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 1.7B | “1.67 billion” | Tobi Lütke: Shopify IPO'd at $1.67B valuation and grew 100x | Tobi Lütke | May 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Tobi Lütke: Shopify IPO'd at $1.67B valuation and grew 100x | Tobi Lütke | May 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred x” | Tobi Lütke aims to keep Shopify headcount flat with 100x AI productivity | Tobi Lütke | May 4, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 times” | Tobi Lütke: Government operations cost 10x as much as private enterprise | Tobi Lütke | May 4, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Tobi Lütke: Over 60% of Canadians view US as top national risk | Tobi Lütke | May 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Tobi Lütke: Over 50% of Shopify's code is AI-generated | Tobi Lütke | May 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Tobi Lütke: 10 million people work daily on Shopify | Tobi Lütke | May 4, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 110% | “110%” | Lindquist: High sales quotas must heavily reward overperformance | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Becca Lindquist: Taking a CRO Title Below $50M ARR Is Short-Sighted | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | — |
| 200% | “200%” | Lindquist: Clay had near-200% NDR and zero churn when she joined | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Lindquist: Discount startup equity offers based on proven liquidity track record | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “3 X” | Lindquist: Discount startup equity offers based on proven liquidity track record | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Lindquist: Heap's early sales comp paid 25% to 33% commission after base payback | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | — |
| 33% | “33%” | Lindquist: Heap's early sales comp paid 25% to 33% commission after base payback | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Lindquist: Sales cultures thrive when 60% of reps beat quota | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lindquist: Sales cultures thrive when 60% of reps beat quota | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lindquist: Sales cultures thrive when 60% of reps beat quota | Becca Lindquist | May 2, 2026 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | O'Driscoll: Canva and Rippling won't fetch 30x revenue premiums | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | Open |
| 55% | “55%” | O'Driscoll: GPUs account for 50-55% of total datacenter buildout Capex | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | O'Driscoll: Nvidia makes $14B in raw profit per gigawatt of datacenter compute | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three X” | O'Driscoll: Private equity will no longer provide 3x revenue fallback exits | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | Held up |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lemkin: Blocked SaaS founders will increasingly pass company control to peer CEOs | Jason Lemkin | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | O'Driscoll: Operators will roll up mid-market SaaS into 30% EBITDA compounders | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | O'Driscoll: Operators will roll up mid-market SaaS into 30% EBITDA compounders | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Lemkin: A $100 billion startup exit will happen within a year | Jason Lemkin | Apr 30, 2026 | Held up |
| 25% | “25%” | O'Driscoll: Y Combinator holds 25% seed market share | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Lemkin: Ryan Smith's Utah Jazz investment quadrupled, outpacing software returns | Jason Lemkin | Apr 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Lemkin: Ryan Smith's Utah Jazz investment quadrupled, outpacing software returns | Jason Lemkin | Apr 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3.61% | “3.61%” | Lemkin: AngelList charges a 3.61% annual management fee for USVC fund | Jason Lemkin | Apr 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | O'Driscoll: Successful VC funds face a 4% to 5% fee drag between gross and net | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | O'Driscoll: Successful VC funds face a 4% to 5% fee drag between gross and net | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | O'Driscoll: Successful VC funds face a 4% to 5% fee drag between gross and net | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | O'Driscoll: VC requires 25%+ gross returns to justify 2&20 fees over public markets | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | O'Driscoll: VC requires 25%+ gross returns to justify 2&20 fees over public markets | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | O'Driscoll: VC requires 25%+ gross returns to justify 2&20 fees over public markets | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 12% | “12%” | O'Driscoll: VC requires 25%+ gross returns to justify 2&20 fees over public markets | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Stebbings: Sold Figma position at a 40% loss | Harry Stebbings | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | AppLovin Market Cap Dropped 92% in 2022 to Under $4 Billion | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 92% | “92%” | AppLovin Market Cap Dropped 92% in 2022 to Under $4 Billion | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 100% | “100%” | Adam Foroughi: Public CEOs Who Claim They Ignore Stock Prices Are Unrealistic | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | AppLovin Cut Departmental Staff 40-50% in 2024 Despite Fast Growth | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 2× | “two X” | Adam Foroughi: Top Engineers Achieve 10x-100x Leverage Using AI Coding Tools | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Adam Foroughi: Top Engineers Achieve 10x-100x Leverage Using AI Coding Tools | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Adam Foroughi: Top Engineers Achieve 10x-100x Leverage Using AI Coding Tools | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | AppLovin Core Ad Business Generates Over $10M EBITDA Per Employee | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | AppLovin Core Ad Business Generates Over $10M EBITDA Per Employee | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Adam Foroughi: Fixing a Bloated Company Requires Firing 99% of Staff | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | AppLovin Issues Roughly $300M in Stock-Based Compensation Annually | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | AppLovin Restricts Equity Grants to Only the Top 10-15% of Employees | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Adam Foroughi: 80% to 90% of AppLovin's Code Is AI-Generated | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 92% | “92%” | AppLovin Shut Down Investor Relations to Buy Back Stock During 92% Crash | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 11B | “eleven billion” | Adam Foroughi: AppLovin Platform Reached $11B Ad Spend Run Rate | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Adam Foroughi: AppLovin's 2022 Stock Buyback Created $50 Billion in Market Value | Adam Foroughi | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Masad: Anthropic operates at 40% gross margins due to Nvidia chip costs | Amjad Masad | Apr 25, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Masad: Late 2025 AI coding hype was driven by free token giveaways | Amjad Masad | Apr 25, 2026 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Masad: 75% of Replit's users are non-engineers | Amjad Masad | Apr 25, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | O'Driscoll: High-Multiple Stocks Enable Endless Arbitrage Acquisitions | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | O'Driscoll: High-Multiple Stocks Enable Endless Arbitrage Acquisitions | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | O'Driscoll: Thrive Capital turned $2 billion into $6 billion | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | O'Driscoll: Thrive Capital turned $2 billion into $6 billion | Rory O'Driscoll | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Lemkin: Small emerging fund returns are irrelevant to large endowments | Jason Lemkin | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lemkin: Small emerging fund returns are irrelevant to large endowments | Jason Lemkin | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Stebbings: Anthropic secondary market pricing has reached $1 trillion | Harry Stebbings | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Stebbings: Accel and Sequoia raised $4B and $7B AI growth funds | Harry Stebbings | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Stebbings: Accel and Sequoia raised $4B and $7B AI growth funds | Harry Stebbings | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Stebbings: Anthropic SPVs are charging up to 8% in upfront fees | Harry Stebbings | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lemkin: Rippling reached $1B ARR while accelerating growth past 70% | Jason Lemkin | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 14% | “14%” | Lemkin: Core CRM accounts for only 14% of Salesforce revenue | Jason Lemkin | Apr 23, 2026 | Contradicted |
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