| 10M | “ten million” | Rory O'Driscoll: Enterprise change management will limit Sierra's growth speed | Rory O’Driscoll | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Rory O'Driscoll: Enterprise change management will limit Sierra's growth speed | Rory O’Driscoll | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Rory O'Driscoll: Enterprise change management will limit Sierra's growth speed | Rory O’Driscoll | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 45M | “Forty-five million” | Jason Lemkin: Portfolio firm sees 100% AI growth alongside flat legacy revenue | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Jason Lemkin: Portfolio firm sees 100% AI growth alongside flat legacy revenue | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Jason Lemkin: Portfolio firm sees 100% AI growth alongside flat legacy revenue | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Jason Lemkin: Base Zendesk AI achieves 20% ticket automation without custom training | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Jason Lemkin: AI music startup Suno retains only 20% of customers annually | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 5× | “five X” | Jason Lemkin: Low-growth software companies are worth only 3x to 5x ARR | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 5.1× | “5.1 X” | Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 11.8× | “11.8 X” | Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 23.7× | “23.7 X” | Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Jason Lemkin: SaaStr overall traffic grew 50% while SEO traffic dropped 8% | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Jason Lemkin: SaaStr overall traffic grew 50% while SEO traffic dropped 8% | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Jason Lemkin: SaaStr overall traffic grew 50% while SEO traffic dropped 8% | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Jason Lemkin: AI marketing tools will reach $1B ARR in 36 months | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Jason Lemkin: Figma's public valuation is 30-40% below Adobe's acquisition offer | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Jason Lemkin: Most teen-percentage software growth is driven by price increases | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 9% | “nine percent” | Jason Lemkin: Most teen-percentage software growth is driven by price increases | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | Rory O'Driscoll: AI-first startups have a growth edge over incumbents like Wix | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Jason Lemkin: Acquired AI founders can raise at $1B valuations for startups | Jason Lemkin | Nov 27, 2025 | — |
| $80M | “eighty million dollars” | Shlomo: AI enables tiny teams to create immense value with fewer people | Maor Shlomo | Nov 24, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Shlomo: 95% to 100% of code will be AI-written in two years | Maor Shlomo | Nov 24, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Shlomo: 95% to 100% of code will be AI-written in two years | Maor Shlomo | Nov 24, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Shlomo: Nearly 90% of Base44's code is already AI-generated | Maor Shlomo | Nov 24, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Altman: Scaling Silicon Valley venture capital degraded interpersonal trust among VCs | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 9B | “nine billion” | Hydrazine Capital missed $2B by distributing Reddit stock post-lockup | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 39B | “thirty-nine billion” | Hydrazine Capital missed $2B by distributing Reddit stock post-lockup | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Hydrazine Capital missed $2B by distributing Reddit stock post-lockup | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Hydrazine Capital missed $2B by distributing Reddit stock post-lockup | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Max Altman predicts numerous $100B AI startup exits by 2033 | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Altman: Founders care about investor portfolio prestige, not check size | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Max Altman says his earlier venture funds achieved 4x DPI | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 80% | “80%” | Altman advises seed funds to model receiving only 70-80% of pro rata | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Altman: Capital supply grew 10x while top-tier startups only grew 2-3x | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 800M | “a seven hundred million” | Altman: Mid-sized $700M VC funds face severe structural challenges | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Max Altman admits holding Gusto past its $10B valuation was a mistake | Max Altman | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “5006 thousand” | Lemkin: AI coding tools will reach 100% developer adoption | Jason Lemkin | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lemkin: AI coding tools will reach 100% developer adoption | Jason Lemkin | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Tunguz: Cursor will retain 75% of its users in five years | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 21B | “a twenty billion” | Tunguz: Theory Ventures distilled a 20B model to 1/50th size with 97% accuracy | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | Tunguz: Theory Ventures distilled a 20B model to 1/50th size with 97% accuracy | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Software Market Shares Lock In After Three to Four Years | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | O'Driscoll: 15% of Q1 newly minted unicorns saw valuation step-ups by Q3 | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 20, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 40% | “40%” | Tunguz: Nvidia revenue concentration is 10x worse than Lucent during dot-com bubble | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | Open |
| 4% | “Four percent” | Tunguz: Nvidia revenue concentration is 10x worse than Lucent during dot-com bubble | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | Open |
| 50% | “50%” | Tunguz: Nvidia revenue concentration is 10x worse than Lucent during dot-com bubble | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 times” | Tunguz: Nvidia revenue concentration is 10x worse than Lucent during dot-com bubble | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | Open |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lemkin: 100% chance the US venture market hits $500B by 2030 | Jason Lemkin | Nov 20, 2025 | Open |
| 184B | “a hundred eighty four billion” | Lemkin: Half of the $184B invested in VC in 2025 went to four companies | Jason Lemkin | Nov 20, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 183B | “a hundred eighty three billion” | Lemkin: Half of the $184B invested in VC in 2025 went to four companies | Jason Lemkin | Nov 20, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Tom Tunguz: Microsoft went public with $50M revenue and $2M fees | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Rory O'Driscoll: IPO transaction costs consume 6% to 7% of funds raised | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 20, 2025 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Stebbings: Coatue has raised $3B in retail venture funds | Harry Stebbings | Nov 20, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Tunguz: Secondary transactions now account for 10% to 12% of VC liquidity | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 12% | “12%” | Tunguz: PE Took 12% of Public Software Companies Private in 2022 | Tomasz Tunguz | Nov 20, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Andrew Ng: Closed AI models and high salaries slow Western AI innovation | Andrew Ng | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Andrew Ng: AI application capital recycles through model providers to Nvidia | Andrew Ng | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Andrew Ng: High capital efficiency hinders deploying billions in AI applications | Andrew Ng | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Andrew Ng: High capital efficiency hinders deploying billions in AI applications | Andrew Ng | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Harry Stebbings: AI coding startups pay 80% of pass-through revenue to Anthropic | Harry Stebbings | Nov 17, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Andrew Ng: AI creates value by accelerating workflows and expanding scale | Andrew Ng | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Andrew Ng: The AI application layer is already delivering clear ROI | Andrew Ng | Nov 17, 2025 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Andrew Ng: AI Fund typically invests $1M at a $4M valuation cap | Andrew Ng | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “a four million” | Andrew Ng: AI Fund typically invests $1M at a $4M valuation cap | Andrew Ng | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Andrew Ng: AI Fund typically invests $1M at a $4M valuation cap | Andrew Ng | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Figma Shifted From First to Last Step in AI Design Workflows | Carl Rivera | Nov 14, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Shopify's design depth increased 5x with AI, while pace remained flat | Carl Rivera | Nov 14, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | O'Driscoll: Palantir and AI CapEx Will Face a Major Correction Within Two Years | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | Open |
| 120× | “120 times” | O'Driscoll: Palantir and AI CapEx Will Face a Major Correction Within Two Years | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | Open |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Stebbings: Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Hit $20B ARR This Year | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Stebbings: Anthropic Projects Reaching $70B in ARR by 2028 | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | Held up |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Stebbings: Gamma Hit $100M ARR With 50 Employees | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3.1B | “a 2.1 billion” | Stebbings: Gamma Hit $100M ARR With 50 Employees | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Stebbings: Gamma Hit $100M ARR With 50 Employees | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Lemkin: SaaStr Requires $8M Annually in Sponsorships to Keep Lights On | Jason Lemkin | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 7× | “seven X” | Stebbings: LP Position in 150-Deal Seed Fund Returned 7x | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | O'Driscoll: Sharing Startup Data Serially With Select VCs Is a Mistake | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Stebbings: SaaS Startup Needed 120 Meetings for One Term Sheet Despite 10x Growth | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Stebbings: SaaS Startup Needed 120 Meetings for One Term Sheet Despite 10x Growth | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 15M | “Fifteen million” | Stebbings: Datadog Stock Surged 23% Following AI Customer Revenue Growth | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 23% | “23%” | Stebbings: Datadog Stock Surged 23% Following AI Customer Revenue Growth | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Lemkin: Legal Tech Company Clio Reached a $5B Valuation | Jason Lemkin | Nov 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Lemkin: Legal Tech Company Clio Reached a $5B Valuation | Jason Lemkin | Nov 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 900M | “an eight hundred million” | Stebbings: Hummingbird Held an $800M Position in the BillionToOne IPO | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Stebbings: Hummingbird Held an $800M Position in the BillionToOne IPO | Harry Stebbings | Nov 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 18% | “18%” | Lemkin: I Will Never Hold 18% Ownership at IPO Again | Jason Lemkin | Nov 13, 2025 | Open |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | O'Driscoll: VC Funds Must Choose Between Max Multiple or High Ownership | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | O'Driscoll: VC Funds Must Choose Between Max Multiple or High Ownership | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: VC Funds Must Choose Between Max Multiple or High Ownership | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | O'Driscoll: VC Funds Must Choose Between Max Multiple or High Ownership | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 13, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five 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 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Randle: Mega-fund leaders like Andreessen and Horowitz cannot promise 5x returns | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 32B | “thirty-two billion” | Randle: Passed on OpenAI at $32B valuation over structural concerns | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Randle: OpenAI could raise at a $1T valuation next year | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Open |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Randle: OpenAI could raise at a $1T valuation next year | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Open |
| $7B | “seven billion dollars” | Randle: Code generation market reached $6B to $7B ARR in 30 months | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Randle: Multi-stage VC funds must invest in $1B ARR 'golden categories' | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Randle: Code generation market will add $4B to $5B ARR this year | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Open |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Randle: Code generation market will add $4B to $5B ARR this year | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Open |
| 5× | “five X” | Randle: AI apps achieve 5x higher gross profit per customer than SaaS | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Randle: AWS would be worth $1 trillion if spun out of Amazon | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 60× | “60 X” | Randle: Benchmark's top fund investments outperform all post-ChatGPT OpenAI rounds | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Randle: Benchmark's top fund investments outperform all post-ChatGPT OpenAI rounds | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Randle: Benchmark's top fund investments outperform all post-ChatGPT OpenAI rounds | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Randle: Tech offers far more $100B opportunities today than 15 years ago | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Randle: Benchmark does not strictly adhere to fixed 20% ownership targets | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Randle: Each Benchmark GP holds a 25% equal stake in the firm | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Randle: First deal back at Kleiner Perkins was SpaceX at $150B | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Randle: Figma investment at 100x ARR generated a 30-40x return | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | Randle: Figma investment at 100x ARR generated a 30-40x return | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Randle: Writing mega-growth checks prevents firms from staying focused on Series A | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| $12B | “twelve billion dollars” | Randle: Writing mega-growth checks prevents firms from staying focused on Series A | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Randle: Writing mega-growth checks prevents firms from staying focused on Series A | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Randle: Benchmark targets over 5x net returns for LPs | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Randle: AI boom will face an inevitable crash before producing massive winners | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Randle: CoreWeave and AI cloud providers will eventually crash 70% | Everett Randle | Nov 10, 2025 | Open |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Sales Ability Is Innate and Cannot Be Taught From Scratch | Chad Peets | Nov 7, 2025 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Chris Degnan Is the Only CRO to Scale From $0 to $3B | Chad Peets | Nov 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Field Sales Reps Must Yield 3x Their On-Target Earnings | Chad Peets | Nov 7, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | 90% Gross Retention Indicates Strong Product Fit; 70% Signals Failure | Chad Peets | Nov 7, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | 90% Gross Retention Indicates Strong Product Fit; 70% Signals Failure | Chad Peets | Nov 7, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | O'Driscoll: Mature 30%-growth SaaS companies are valued at 6-7x NTM revenue | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | O'Driscoll: Mature 30%-growth SaaS companies are valued at 6-7x NTM revenue | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Stebbings: Lightspeed turned $257M into $1B on Navan for ~4x return | Harry Stebbings | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 4× | “four X” | Stebbings: Lightspeed turned $257M into $1B on Navan for ~4x return | Harry Stebbings | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 5% | “Five percent” | O'Driscoll: Late-stage VC funds cannot return a fund from a single deal | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | O'Driscoll: Late-stage VC funds cannot return a fund from a single deal | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Stebbings: AI startup Harvey raised $150M at an $8B valuation | Harry Stebbings | Nov 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 8B | “Eight billion” | Stebbings: AI startup Harvey raised $150M at an $8B valuation | Harry Stebbings | Nov 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Stebbings: Harvey hit $150M ARR with 170% net dollar retention | Harry Stebbings | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Stebbings: Harvey hit $150M ARR with 170% net dollar retention | Harry Stebbings | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 98% | “98%” | Stebbings: Harvey hit $150M ARR with 170% net dollar retention | Harry Stebbings | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 170% | “170%” | Stebbings: Harvey hit $150M ARR with 170% net dollar retention | Harry Stebbings | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Lemkin: Harvey's valuation implies $400M in forward annual recurring revenue | Jason Lemkin | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Lemkin says his last three VC investments yielded 6-8% ownership | Jason Lemkin | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 11% | “11%” | Scale Venture Partners targets 10-11% average equity ownership per deal | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Lemkin: YC Advises Founders to Sell Max 10% Equity Around Demo Day | Jason Lemkin | Nov 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Lemkin: Anthropic projects $70 billion in revenue by 2028 | Jason Lemkin | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| $70B | “seventy billion dollars” | O'Driscoll: Meta spending $70 billion on AI is inefficient | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 20B | “Twenty billion” | O'Driscoll: Legacy SaaS giants have lost high-valuation growth premium | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | O'Driscoll: Legacy SaaS giants have lost high-valuation growth premium | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | O'Driscoll: Legacy SaaS giants have lost high-valuation growth premium | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | O'Driscoll: Legacy SaaS giants have lost high-valuation growth premium | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | O'Driscoll: Legacy SaaS giants have lost high-valuation growth premium | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 123× | “123 times” | Rory O'Driscoll: Palantir is cash flow positive trading at 123x revenue | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Lemkin: Harvey will improve next year and replace more legal associates | Jason Lemkin | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | O'Driscoll: Salesforce must automate 20-30% of customers within two years | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | O'Driscoll: Salesforce must automate 20-30% of customers within two years | Rory O'Driscoll | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Pineau: Meta's 2019 RoBERTa model hit 20M monthly downloads during LLM hype | Joelle Pineau | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Ferriss deliberately alienates 10% of his audience to preserve his authenticity | Tim Ferriss | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Ferriss: Viral video clips with 100M+ views drove zero podcast growth | Tim Ferriss | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Ferriss estimates 70% to 80% of his wealth came from angel investing | Tim Ferriss | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Ferriss estimates 70% to 80% of his wealth came from angel investing | Tim Ferriss | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Ferriss estimates 70% to 80% of his wealth came from angel investing | Tim Ferriss | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Ferriss: Selling Shopify shares immediately after IPO lockup cost him $150 million | Tim Ferriss | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Ferriss: Personal investment policy is now holding all startup equity indefinitely | Tim Ferriss | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 75M | “seventy-five million” | Ferriss: Venture managers scale fund sizes primarily due to management fee economics | Tim Ferriss | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Microsoft Achieved a 10x Return on its $13B OpenAI Investment | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| $44B | “forty four billion dollars” | O'Driscoll: Bret Taylor Forced Elon Musk to Complete $44B Twitter Acquisition | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | O'Driscoll: Microsoft was the only investor to give OpenAI $1B in 2019 | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | O'Driscoll: VC Ownership Targets Matter Usually, But Not for Outliers | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | O'Driscoll: VC Ownership Targets Matter Usually, But Not for Outliers | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | O'Driscoll: VC Ownership Targets Matter Usually, But Not for Outliers | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | O'Driscoll: VC Ownership Targets Matter Usually, But Not for Outliers | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | O'Driscoll: SoftBank is funding OpenAI at $300B and $500B valuations simultaneously | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | O'Driscoll: SoftBank is funding OpenAI at $300B and $500B valuations simultaneously | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | O'Driscoll: OpenAI will reach a $1 trillion valuation in two years | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | O'Driscoll: OpenAI will reach a $1 trillion valuation in two years | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 40× | “40 times” | O'Driscoll: OpenAI will reach a $1 trillion valuation in two years | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 2× | “two times” | Stebbings: Top VC firms force LPs into 2:1 fund stapling requirement | Harry Stebbings | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Stebbings: Mercor hit $500M revenue run rate in 17 months | Harry Stebbings | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | O'Driscoll: AI model companies spend $300B to $400B on compute | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | O'Driscoll: AI model companies spend $300B to $400B on compute | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Stebbings: Two buyers generate over 50% of AI labeling revenues | Harry Stebbings | Oct 30, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 23B | “twenty three billion” | Lemkin: $23B to $30B valuation bump is not a real up-round | Jason Lemkin | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Lemkin: $23B to $30B valuation bump is not a real up-round | Jason Lemkin | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 18% | “18%” | O'Driscoll: Carta data shows 18% of 2018 Series Bs returned over 5x | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 10% | “10%” | O'Driscoll: Carta data shows 18% of 2018 Series Bs returned over 5x | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 2× | “two X” | O'Driscoll: Carta data shows 18% of 2018 Series Bs returned over 5x | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 5× | “five X” | O'Driscoll: Carta data shows 18% of 2018 Series Bs returned over 5x | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | O'Driscoll: Carta data shows 18% of 2018 Series Bs returned over 5x | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 100× | “hundred X” | O'Driscoll: Carta data shows 18% of 2018 Series Bs returned over 5x | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 60% | “60%” | O'Driscoll: At most 50% to 60% of fund capital goes to follow-ons | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | O'Driscoll: Scale backed a 2x runner-up over a 15x market leader | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | O'Driscoll: Scale backed a 2x runner-up over a 15x market leader | Rory O'Driscoll | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Lemkin: Salesloft exit at $2.5B in December 2021 was market peak | Jason Lemkin | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 14% | “14%” | Stebbings: Google owns 14% of Anthropic | Harry Stebbings | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Stebbings: Ramp reaches $1B revenue as Brex hits $700M near breakeven | Harry Stebbings | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 150B | “one hundred fifty billion” | Cahn: AI infrastructure investment requires $840B in end-user revenue | David Cahn | Oct 27, 2025 | — |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | Cahn: AI infrastructure investment requires $840B in end-user revenue | David Cahn | Oct 27, 2025 | — |
| 600B | “six hundred billion” | Cahn: AI infrastructure investment requires $840B in end-user revenue | David Cahn | Oct 27, 2025 | — |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Cahn: AI infrastructure investment requires $840B in end-user revenue | David Cahn | Oct 27, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Cahn: AI infrastructure investment requires $840B in end-user revenue | David Cahn | Oct 27, 2025 | — |
| 5.1B | “a fifty hundred million” | Cahn: Top AI researchers command $50M to $1B compensation packages | David Cahn | Oct 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Cahn: Top AI researchers command $50M to $1B compensation packages | David Cahn | Oct 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Cahn: Meta's $100M AI packages stem from underperformance | David Cahn | Oct 27, 2025 | — |
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