| $18T | “18 trillion dollars” | Lim: $18 trillion in US home equity is locked without non-debt options | Eddie Lim | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $16T | “16 trillion dollars” | Yahya: Stablecoins generate $16 trillion in annual volume | Ali Yahya | Jul 9, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $13T | “13 trillion dollars” | Andrusko: AI Expands Software TAM 30x by Targeting Labor Spend | Marc Andrusko | Dec 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $10T | “10 trillion dollars” | Evans: Tech industry cannot spend $10 trillion annually on AI infrastructure | Benedict Evans | Jun 8, 2026 | Open |
| $7T | “seven trillion dollars” | Andreessen: Sam Altman is seeking $7 trillion for proprietary chip fabs | Marc Andreessen | Feb 28, 2024 | Supported |
| $6T | “six trillion dollars” | Andreessen: $6T in global bonds currently trade at negative yields | Marc Andreessen | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $6T | “six trillion dollars” | George predicts companies staying private longer will not reverse | David George | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| $5T | “Five trillion dollars” | The global insurance industry is worth $5 trillion | Angela Strange | Nov 30, 2018 | Supported |
| $4.3T | “4.3 trillion dollars” | Yoo: US healthcare spending reaches $4.3 trillion annually, 20% of GDP | Julie Yoo | May 9, 2023 | Supported |
| $4T | “four trillion dollars” | Sinclair: A 10% cancer reduction saves the U.S. $3-4 trillion | David Sinclair | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $4T | “four trillion dollars” | Khanna: Tech and telecom firms will spend $4 trillion on infrastructure by 2020 | Parag Khanna | Jan 2, 2019 | Didn’t hold up |
| $3T | “three trillion dollars” | Global Payments processed approximately $3 trillion in transaction volume in 2023 | Jeff Sloan | Apr 30, 2024 | Contradicted |
| $2.5T | “a half a trillion dollars” | Conde: U.S. drug market generates $500B in annual sales | Jorge Conde | Dec 15, 2017 | Supported |
| $2.2T | “2.2 trillion dollars” | Rampell: Global SaaS market is $300B annually with $2.2T market cap | Alex Rampell | Oct 3, 2025 | Supported |
| $2.2T | “2.2 trillion dollars” | Rampell: The $2.2T software industry was built on digitizing filing cabinets | Alex Rampell | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| $2T | “two trillion dollars” | Strange: $2 trillion is laundered annually, but only 3% is caught | Angela Strange | Jan 27, 2023 | Partly supported |
| $2T | “two trillion dollars” | Evans: Tech industry will spend $1T to $2T on AI CapEx | Benedict Evans | Jun 8, 2026 | Open |
| $2T | “two trillion dollars” | Evans: Only 3 to 6 companies will build frontier AI models | Benedict Evans | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| $1.7T | “1.7 trillion dollars” | Vance: Trump secured $1.7 trillion in new domestic investments | J.D. Vance | Apr 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $1.5T | “a half trillion dollars” | George: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.5T | “a half trillion dollars” | George: Top 10 unicorns hold nearly 40% of $5.5T total valuation | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.5T | “a half trillion dollars” | The United States insurance market is worth nearly $1.5 trillion | Angela Strange | Nov 30, 2018 | Supported |
| $1.4T | “1.4 trillion dollars” | Magic Johnson: African American spending power reaches $1.4 trillion | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1.4T | “1.4 trillion dollars” | Pritzker: Comprehensive immigration reform would add $1.4 trillion to US economy | Penny Pritzker | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| $1.2T | “1.2 trillion dollars” | Beshara: Only $5B of $1.2T US peer-to-peer payments happen digitally | James Beshara | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $1.2T | “1.2 trillion dollars” | Evans: Global car and telecom revenues each total $1.2 trillion annually | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | George: $4.8T AI CapEx requires $1T annual AI revenue by 2030 | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Hsu: GLP-1 market value exceeds 40 years of biotech startups combined | Patrick Hsu | Sep 15, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Sinofsky: $1T market selloff over DeepSeek was a complete overreaction | Steven Sinofsky | Feb 6, 2025 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Horowitz: Bitcoin reached a $1 trillion market cap without a corporate structure | Ben Horowitz | Feb 28, 2024 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Andreessen: Solving AI correctness and security are trillion-dollar market opportunities | Marc Andreessen | Jun 10, 2023 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Foxx: ASCE studies show a $1T US transportation infrastructure deficit | Anthony Foxx | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Alex Rampell: US banks earn up to $180B yearly in credit card interest | Alex Rampell | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Bahl: India's retail market will hit $1 trillion by 2019 | Kunal Bahl | Jan 2, 2019 | Didn’t hold up |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Andreessen: S&P 500 returns $1T to shareholders while tech gets $50B | Marc Andreessen | Jan 2, 2019 | Contradicted |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Evans: Global advertising and marketing spending totals nearly $1 trillion | Benedict Evans | Nov 16, 2018 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Angela Strange: US credit card debt has reached $1 trillion | Angela Strange | Jan 21, 2018 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Rampell: Chase pays 0.1% yield on $1 trillion in core deposits | Alex Rampell | Oct 26, 2017 | Partly supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Rampell: US credit card debt stands at $1 trillion with 15% interest | Alex Rampell | Jul 16, 2017 | Partly supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | George: Top AI IPOs will individually exceed all recent VC IPOs combined | David George | May 29, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Evans: Telecom stocks stayed flat despite 2,000x mobile data growth | Benedict Evans | Jun 8, 2026 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Evans: Current AI compute and token scarcity is transitory | Benedict Evans | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Evans: Global advertising is a $1T market while retail is $25T | Benedict Evans | Jun 8, 2026 | Open |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Rowan: Apollo Global Management manages over $1 trillion in assets | Marc Rowan | May 27, 2026 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Kalanick: Scour was sued for $250B by 33 major media companies | Travis Kalanick | Aug 13, 2026 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Rampell: The AI labor market is vastly larger than traditional software | Alex Rampell | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Raghuram: Hyperscaler capex hits $700 billion this year, $1 trillion next year | Raghu Raghuram | Aug 28, 2026 | Supported |
| $700B | “seven hundred billion dollars” | Fraden: Enterprise AI spending has reached $700 billion and is growing | Russ Fraden | Dec 1, 2025 | Supported |
| $700B | “700 billion dollars” | Raghuram: Hyperscaler capex hits $700 billion this year, $1 trillion next year | Raghu Raghuram | Aug 28, 2026 | Supported |
| $600B | “six hundred billion dollars” | Rampell: U.S. nurse wage market exceeds $600B per year | Alex Rampell | Jan 14, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $600B | “six hundred billion dollars” | Rampell: Worldwide software market is under $600 billion | Alex Rampell | Jan 14, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $600B | “six hundred billion dollars” | Bahl: India's retail market will hit $1 trillion by 2019 | Kunal Bahl | Jan 2, 2019 | Didn’t hold up |
| $500B | “five hundred billion dollars” | Solomon: Goldman Sachs holds $500B in total deposits, funding 40% of firm | David Solomon | Feb 2, 2026 | — |
| $500B | “five hundred billion dollars” | Seema Amble: Annual US marketing spend exceeds $500 billion | Seema Amble | Nov 21, 2024 | Supported |
| $500B | “five hundred billion dollars” | Evans: Tech's addressable market is $50 trillion in global consumer spending | Benedict Evans | Nov 16, 2018 | — |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | George: Big tech annual capex run-rate has reached $400 billion | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | Solomon: Top four tech spenders drove 1% of GDP growth via $400B capex | David Solomon | Feb 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | Andrusko: AI Expands Software TAM 30x by Targeting Labor Spend | Marc Andrusko | Dec 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | CoinMarketCap listed 1,600 crypto assets with a $400B market cap in 2018 | Linda Xie | May 5, 2018 | Supported |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | Horowitz: $400 billion was stolen from COVID stimulus programs | Ben Horowitz | Apr 2, 2026 | Supported |
| $300B | “three hundred billion dollars” | Rampell: Global SaaS market is $300B annually with $2.2T market cap | Alex Rampell | Oct 3, 2025 | Supported |
| $300B | “three hundred billion dollars” | Rampell: The $2.2T software industry was built on digitizing filing cabinets | Alex Rampell | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| $300B | “three hundred billion dollars” | Burgum: Top five tech companies spending $300B capex on AI and energy | Doug Burgum | Apr 23, 2025 | Supported |
| $300B | “three hundred billion dollars” | Ross: Declassified US estimate puts Chinese cyber IP theft above $300B annually | Alec Ross | Jan 2, 2019 | Contradicted |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Solomon: Goldman Sachs holds $500B in total deposits, funding 40% of firm | David Solomon | Feb 2, 2026 | — |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Most skilled US defense manufacturing workers are 62 years old | Chris Power | May 1, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Sen. Young: CHIPS Act spurred $200B private capital before $1B federal spending | Todd Young | Mar 5, 2024 | Supported |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Langer: Seven of Top 10 Best-Selling Drugs Are Protein Biologics | Bob Langer | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Goldman Sachs estimated Bitcoin could save consumers $200 billion | Balaji Srinivasan | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Evans: Telecom stocks stayed flat despite 2,000x mobile data growth | Benedict Evans | Jun 8, 2026 | Supported |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Evans: Only 3 to 6 companies will build frontier AI models | Benedict Evans | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| $162B | “a 161 billion dollars” | Mark Cuban claims a major health insurer did $161B in intercompany transfers | Mark Cuban | Sep 9, 2025 | Supported |
| $150B | “hundred fifty billion dollars” | Chou: $93B of the $150B gaming market comes from in-game purchases | Kevin Chou | Mar 9, 2020 | Supported |
| $150B | “a hundred fifty billion dollars” | Hirasaki: Top 10 biopharma companies held $150B cash entering 2018 | Koki Hirasaki | Feb 28, 2019 | Supported |
| $120B | “a hundred twenty billion dollars” | Chen: Full EV transition requires 14 to 27 Tesla-sized Gigafactories | Frank Chen | Feb 3, 2018 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Mares: US spent nearly $100B on crop subsidies over past decade | Justin Mares | Feb 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $100B | “hundred billion dollars” | Fraden: JPMorgan Chase spends $18B on IT versus $200B on payroll | Russ Fraden | Dec 1, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Casado: AV unit economics remain on par with Uber despite $100B invested | Martin Casado | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Patel: NVIDIA will hold over $100B in cash by late 2025 | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | Didn’t hold up |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Casado: Tech industry has invested $100 billion in autonomous vehicles | Martin Casado | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Hicks: Defense tech saw over $100B across 2,000 deals since 2021 | Kathleen Hicks | Mar 5, 2024 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Chen: SNAP will distribute $100B in EBT benefits in 2022 | Jimmy Chen | Feb 6, 2023 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Casado: Enterprise Cybersecurity Investment Will Exceed $100 Billion in 2020 | Martin Casado | Feb 20, 2020 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Otte: 80% of US cancer spending goes toward end-of-life care | Gabriel Ott | Jan 2, 2019 | Contradicted |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Rampell: US residential real estate commissions total $100 billion annually | Alex Rampell | Nov 29, 2018 | Supported |
| $100B | “hundred billion dollars” | Evans: Tech's addressable market is $50 trillion in global consumer spending | Benedict Evans | Nov 16, 2018 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Rampell: Global IPv4 addresses sell for $22 each, totaling $100 billion | Alex Rampell | Dec 9, 2017 | Contradicted |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Clark: Top 1% VC exit threshold could pass $100B by September | David Clark | May 29, 2026 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Jeff Woo: Managing $100 billion takes no more headcount than managing $100 | Jeff Woo | Jun 22, 2026 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Levchin: Every niche in payments is at least $100 billion | Max Levchin | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| $90B | “ninety billion dollars” | Yahya: 1.7B people are unbanked while credit card fraud hits $190B yearly | Ali Yahya | Dec 16, 2018 | Partly supported |
| $80B | “eighty billion dollars” | Dwarkesh: Meta paying $100M for top AI researchers is ROI positive | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | — |
| $80B | “eighty billion dollars” | Chen: 2014 global gaming revenue reached $80 billion, doubling box office | Frank Chen | Jun 7, 2019 | Supported |
| $80B | “eighty billion dollars” | Alex Rampell: US banks earn up to $180B yearly in credit card interest | Alex Rampell | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $80B | “eighty billion dollars” | Pritzker: US-EU digital commerce reaches $280B annually | Penny Pritzker | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $75B | “seventy five billion dollars” | Casado: Autonomous vehicle unit economics remain worse than Uber and Lyft | Martin Casado | Mar 5, 2024 | Supported |
| $75B | “seventy-five billion dollars” | Robotaxi unit economics remain worse than human drivers despite $75B invested | Martin Casado | Sep 25, 2023 | — |
| $75B | “seventy five billion dollars” | Rampell: Hard money residential real estate lending is a $75B market | Alex Rampell | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $75B | “seventy five billion dollars” | Conde: U.S. biopharma spends $75B annually on R&D | Jorge Conde | Dec 15, 2017 | Supported |
| $73B | “seventy three billion dollars” | Evans: Apple holds $237 billion in cash, Google holds $73 billion | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| $70B | “seventy billion dollars” | Balaji Srinivasan: US newspaper revenue collapsed post-2008 as tech advertising spiked | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 1, 2025 | Supported |
| $70B | “seventy billion dollars” | Chan: China's online education market to hit 300M users by 2020 | Connie Chan | Feb 2, 2019 | Partly held up |
| $70B | “seventy billion dollars” | Strange: Food stamp program spends $70B annually on 1 in 7 families | Angela Strange | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $70B | “seventy billion dollars” | Jimmy Chen: $70B is spent annually through food stamps at grocery stores | Jimmy Chen | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $70B | “Seventy billion dollars” | Strange: SNAP Serves 40 Million Americans Across 1 in 7 Households | Angela Strange | Jan 21, 2018 | Partly supported |
| $65B | “sixty-five billion dollars” | Evans: Apple generated $65 billion in lifetime revenue from 400 million iPods | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $60B | “sixty billion dollars” | Patel: Wall Street projects $360B hyperscaler CapEx next year | Dylan Patel | Sep 22, 2025 | Supported |
| $55B | “fifty-five billion dollars” | Torenberg: Apple's $55B annual China investment rivals the Marshall Plan | Erik Torenberg | Jun 18, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $53B | “fifty three billion dollars” | Evans: Apple is the world's 10th largest retailer by revenue | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Open |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Rampell: US nurse wages exceed total global software market revenue | Alex Rampell | Oct 3, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Horowitz: Top university endowments reach $30 billion to $50 billion | Ben Horowitz | Feb 1, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Strange: Banks paid over $250 billion in compliance fines since 2008 | Angela Strange | Jan 27, 2023 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Novartis executed $50 billion in deals in 2018 | Vas Narasimhan | Jan 17, 2019 | — |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Friedman: NASDAQ Indexes Represent $150 Billion in Assets | Adina Friedman | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Andreessen: S&P 500 returns $1T to shareholders while tech gets $50B | Marc Andreessen | Jan 2, 2019 | Contradicted |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Bezos reinvests hundreds of billions into Amazon's infrastructure over holding cash | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Insurance ad spend accounts for $50 billion of Google's market cap | Angela Strange | Nov 30, 2018 | — |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Horowitz: Around $450B was stolen during US COVID stimulus programs | Ben Horowitz | Apr 14, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | A $50 Billion NVIDIA Data Center Requires Only $15 Billion in Equity | Gavin Baker | Aug 31, 2026 | — |
| $48B | “forty eight billion dollars” | Chen: Gaming generates $148 billion annually, surpassing music and box office | Andrew Chen | Mar 16, 2020 | Supported |
| $46B | “forty six billion dollars” | George: OpenAI and Anthropic added half of public software's 2025 net revenue | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| $45B | “forty-five billion dollars” | Hicks: DoD 2024 R&D request of $145B triples Cold War spending | Kathleen Hicks | Mar 5, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $41.9B | “41.9 billion dollars” | Walden: AWS-3 spectrum auction defied skeptics, raising $41.9 billion | Greg Walden | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Sinofsky: Microsoft spent $30B to $40B developing Bing | Steven Sinofsky | Feb 6, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $37B | “thirty seven billion dollars” | Evans: Apple holds $237 billion in cash, Google holds $73 billion | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| $35B | “thirty five billion dollars” | Hicks: DoD flexible acquisition pathways processed $35B, saving up to six years | Kathleen Hicks | Mar 5, 2024 | Supported |
| $35B | “thirty-five billion dollars” | eBay generated $83 billion in gross merchandise sales and $3 billion FCF | Jeff Jordan | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| $34B | “thirty four billion dollars” | Evans: Big Tech annual capital expenditure reached $34 billion in 2015 | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Contradicted |
| $32B | “thirty two billion dollars” | David Clark: Top 1% VC exit threshold reached $32 billion | David Clark | May 29, 2026 | — |
| $30B | “thirty billion dollars” | Volz: The Inflation Reduction Act earmarks $30 billion for nuclear credits | Michelle Volz | Jan 27, 2023 | Supported |
| $30B | “Thirty billion dollars” | Strange: North American banks spend $30B annually on AML compliance | Angela Strange | Oct 14, 2021 | Supported |
| $30B | “thirty billion dollars” | Haun: Remittance middlemen take 7.5% globally, costing consumers $30 billion annually | Catherine (Katie) Haun | Nov 2, 2018 | Supported |
| $30B | “thirty billion dollars” | Haun: Germany took four years to repatriate $30 billion in physical gold | Catherine (Katie) Haun | Nov 2, 2018 | Supported |
| $28B | “twenty eight billion dollars” | Dollar General achieves $28 billion market cap and $20 billion annual revenue | Jeff Jordan | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $25B | “twenty five billion dollars” | Chan: Alibaba recorded $25 billion in GMV on 2017 Singles' Day | Connie Chan | Mar 7, 2018 | Supported |
| $25B | “twenty-five billion dollars” | Isaacman: NASA's $25B annual budget is fully sufficient | Jared Isaacman | May 6, 2026 | — |
| $24B | “twenty four billion dollars” | Rivers: Public markets would never permit Dell's $67B acquisition of EMC | J.R. Rivers | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Andreessen: Meta spends roughly $20 billion annually on VR | Marc Andreessen | Jun 19, 2024 | Supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Dixon: Video game industry grew from $20B to $180B since internet started | Chris Dixon | Feb 28, 2024 | Supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Dollar General achieves $28 billion market cap and $20 billion annual revenue | Jeff Jordan | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | ICIJ uncovered $20 billion in offshore wealth linked to Vladimir Putin's associate | Jared Ryle | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Rivers: Dell effectively paid only $20 billion net for EMC | J.R. Rivers | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Haun: 99.9% of fiat money laundering succeeds despite $20B compliance spend | Catherine (Katie) Haun | Nov 2, 2018 | Supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Strange: Alternative financial services processed $320 billion in transactions in 2016 | Angela Strange | Jan 21, 2018 | Supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Rampell: Chase pays 0.1% yield on $1 trillion in core deposits | Alex Rampell | Oct 26, 2017 | Partly supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | David Clark: Top 1% VC exit threshold reached $32 billion | David Clark | May 29, 2026 | — |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Horowitz: a16z Raised $15B Fund Largely Through Two AMAs | Ben Horowitz | Jan 15, 2026 | — |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Novartis spent $15 billion on gene therapy acquisitions in 2018 | Vas Narasimhan | Jan 17, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Rampell: SoFi reached $15 billion in loan originations in six years | Alex Rampell | Oct 26, 2017 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Horowitz: AI cycle will yield more $1B+ companies than internet era | Ben Horowitz | Jan 13, 2026 | Open |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Rampell: Rocket Companies generated $10 billion in net income in 2021 | Alex Rampell | Nov 12, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Hershberg: Illumina grew next-generation sequencing sales from zero to over $10B | Elliot Hershberg | Nov 14, 2025 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Patel: NVIDIA is the only $10B+ semiconductor company founded post-1990 | Dylan Patel | Sep 22, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Patel: OpenAI makes $10B annually, less than McDonald's or Kohl's | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Brown: The top 98 VC-backed defense startups capture 1% of DoD budget | Jason Brown | Apr 14, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | a16z's Sima: Gusto is valued at nearly $10B with 300,000 businesses | Seema Amble | Dec 5, 2024 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Amodei: AI training costs will hit $1B in 2024 and up to $10B in 2025 | Dario Amodei | Sep 25, 2023 | Didn’t hold up |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Strange: Only 3% of global laundered money is ever caught | Angela Strange | Oct 14, 2021 | Partly supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Beshara: Tesla generated $14 billion in Model 3 pre-orders in days | James Beshara | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Jordan: Consumers will spend $10 billion on Airbnb in 2016 | Jeff Jordan | Jan 2, 2019 | Held up |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | David Clark: Top 1% VC exit threshold reached $32 billion | David Clark | May 29, 2026 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Casado: Multibillion-dollar AI training costs justify building per-model custom ASICs | Martin Casado | Aug 28, 2026 | — |
| $9B | “nine billion dollars” | Global Payments revenue grew from $2B to $9B under Jeff Sloan | Angela Strange | Apr 30, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $9B | “nine billion dollars” | Novartis employs 17,000 R&D staff and spends $9B+ annually | Vas Narasimhan | Jan 17, 2019 | Supported |
| $9B | “nine billion dollars” | Xie: Mitsubishi UFJ wrote a physical $9B check to Morgan Stanley in 2008 | Linda Xie | Dec 15, 2018 | Supported |
| $9B | “nine billion dollars” | Mitsubishi UFJ hand-delivered a physical $9B check to Morgan Stanley in 2008 | Linda Xie | May 5, 2018 | Supported |
| $8B | “eight billion dollars” | Burgum: Over $8B in VC funding has gone into small modular nuclear | Doug Burgum | Apr 23, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $8B | “eight billion dollars” | Schenck: LA County added 2.1 million cars and $8B auto spend | Joshua Schenck | Jan 2, 2019 | Contradicted |
| $8B | “eight billion dollars” | Katie Haun estimates ICOs raised $7 to $8 billion in 2018 | Katie Haun | Nov 2, 2018 | Partly supported |
| $7.2B | “7.2 billion dollars” | Horowitz: a16z raised $7.2B and created LP AI assistant | Ben Horowitz | May 9, 2024 | — |
| $7B | “seven billion dollars” | Ludwin: $7B of value is transmitting on the Bitcoin network | Adam Ludwin | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $7B | “seven billion dollars” | Katie Haun estimates ICOs raised $7 to $8 billion in 2018 | Katie Haun | Nov 2, 2018 | Partly supported |
| $6.7B | “6.7 billion dollars” | Rampell: Satoshi Nakamoto holds 1 million Bitcoin worth $6.7B | Alex Rampell | Dec 9, 2017 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Perret: Plaid's 2020 acquisition agreement with Visa was fixed at over $5B | Zach Perret | Dec 19, 2025 | — |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Ehrsam: A working sharding upgrade would boost Ethereum's market value by 10-20% | Fred Ehrsam | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Burbidge: Barclays spends $5 billion annually on technology | Eileen Burbage | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Evans: Google Play paid $5B to developers over 12 months | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Chan: The Chinese podcast market is estimated between $3B and $5B | Connie Chan | Dec 5, 2018 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Casado: Multibillion-dollar AI training costs justify building per-model custom ASICs | Martin Casado | Aug 28, 2026 | — |
| $4.7B | “4.7 billion dollars” | Blackstone interviewed Ancestry CEO Deb Liu entirely on Zoom after $4.7B acquisition | Deb Liu | Apr 12, 2023 | Supported |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Casey: Study Buffett, Tan, and Howley for capital allocation mastery | Mark Casey | Jul 23, 2024 | — |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Tomaino: Over $4 billion raised in token sales to date | Nick Tomaino | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Evans notes the Apple Watch is the second-largest watch business by revenue. | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $3.8B | “3.8 billion dollars” | Guo: miHoYo generated over $3.8B in 2022 from Genshin and Honkai | Robin Guo | Dec 17, 2023 | Partly supported |
| $3.7B | “3.7 billion dollars” | Cisco acquired AppDynamics for $3.7 billion right before its IPO | Sonal Chokshi | Feb 26, 2019 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Strange: TD Bank Fined $3 Billion Over Compliance Alert Backlog | Angela Strange | Dec 16, 2024 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Conde: Human genome sequencing cost dropped from $3B to under $1,000 | Jorge Conde | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Pandey: Sequencing cost drop from $3B enables commercial clinical genomics | Vijay Pande | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Andreessen: Twitter generates $3B revenue with 300M active users | Marc Andreessen | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | eBay generated $83 billion in gross merchandise sales and $3 billion FCF | Jeff Jordan | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| $3B | “Three billion dollars” | Horowitz: Billions in compute can now instantly erase a startup's multi-year lead | Ben Horowitz | Aug 28, 2026 | — |
| $2.5B | “2.5 billion dollars” | Ganguli: Bringing a drug to market costs $2.5B and takes 10–15 years | Surya Ganguli | Oct 3, 2024 | Supported |
| $2.2B | “2.2 billion dollars” | Magic Johnson: Dodgers bought for $2.2B are now worth $8B | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | Supported |
| $2.1B | “2.1 billion dollars” | China announced a $2.1 billion investment in a new AI center | Gregory Allen | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Nuzhna: Drug development costs exceed $2 billion per approval | Lada Nuzhna | Nov 14, 2025 | Supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | McCracken: Over half of Fortnite's $2B annual revenue comes from cosmetics | Doug McCracken | Jan 25, 2023 | Supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Beshara: Tesla used customer pre-orders to secure $2 billion in debt | James Beshara | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| $2B | “a one billion dollars” | Overtoom: US dental automation is a $1B recurring revenue market | Stein Overtoom | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Casado: Multibillion-dollar AI training costs justify building per-model custom ASICs | Martin Casado | Aug 28, 2026 | — |
| $1.7B | “1.7 billion dollars” | Telegram raised $1.7 billion in its initial coin offering | Linda Xie | May 5, 2018 | Supported |
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