| 3B | “three billion” | Armstrong: Two to three billion cell phone owners are unbanked | Brian Armstrong | Jan 2, 2019 | Contradicted |
| 3B | “three billion” | Evans: Global internet population grew from 400M in 2000 to 3B | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Benedict Evans: Global smartphone adoption will reach three billion units | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Held up |
| 3B | “three billion” | Active Android devices will reach 2-3B; iOS will reach 700-900M | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Held up |
| 3B | “three billion” | Despacito Reached 3 Billion YouTube Views Five Times Faster Than Gangnam Style | Andrew Chen | Dec 8, 2018 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Evans: Mobile market reached 3 billion smartphones and 5 billion total phones | Benedict Evans | Dec 5, 2017 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Evans: Global internet population reached 3 billion, smartphone users 2 billion | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Evans: Three billion people are online and two billion use smartphones | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | — |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Moore: Meta Acquired AI Agent Startup Manus for Over $2B | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Tan: Turning down early Palantir offer was a $2B to $4B mistake | Garry Tan | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 2.8B | “2.8 billion” | Ganguli: ESM-3 model trained on 2.8 billion amino acid sequences | Surya Ganguli | Oct 3, 2024 | Supported |
| 2.4B | “2.4 billion” | Kevin Chou: There are 2.4 billion gamers in the world | Kevin Chou | Mar 9, 2020 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | George: OpenAI has 30 to 40 million paying users | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Global Payments grew its annual technology spending to over $2 billion | Jeff Sloan | Apr 30, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 2B | “two billion” | Andreessen: US parking lots cover an area equivalent to Connecticut | Marc Andreessen | Nov 9, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Riccitiello: Mobile gaming reaches over 2B users vs. millions on console | John Riccitiello | Mar 16, 2020 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Activision traded a 51% stake for Blizzard and $2B in cash | Bobby Kotick | Feb 26, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Arthur Brooks: Free enterprise pulled two billion people out of poverty | Arthur Brooks | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Michael Jordan's Nike shoe line generates $2 billion in annual sales | Andre Iguodala | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Benedict Evans: Global active smartphones will reach 5 to 6 billion | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 2B | “two billion” | Evans predicts global hardware will settle at 4 to 5 billion smartphones | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 2B | “two billion” | Evans: Google Play paid $5B to developers over 12 months | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Chen: Dyson committed £2 billion to launch an EV by 2020 | Frank Chen | Feb 3, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 2B | “a one billion” | Mars: Apple built a $1 billion data center for Siri's launch | Jason Mars | Jul 28, 2017 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Chan: China's $5B Livestreaming Market Rivals Its Film Box Office | Connie Chan | Jul 16, 2017 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Evans: Global internet population reached 3 billion, smartphone users 2 billion | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Evans: Three billion people are online and two billion use smartphones | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | — |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | Simpson: 65% of unbanked global population has mobile device access | Arianna Simpson | Aug 29, 2019 | Supported |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | Kamvar: 3.5 billion people globally lack active bank accounts | Sep Kamvar | Aug 29, 2019 | Supported |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | Yahya: 1.7B people are unbanked while credit card fraud hits $190B yearly | Ali Yahya | Dec 16, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | Yahya: DAI offers Bitcoin's advantages with price stability for hyperinflationary economies | Ali Yahya | Dec 16, 2018 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Riccitiello: Unity tracks 2.0 to 2.5 billion monthly users | John Riccitiello | Mar 16, 2020 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Kamvar: 3.5 billion people globally lack active bank accounts | Sep Kamvar | Aug 29, 2019 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Carrocchio: Global esports revenue will surpass $1 billion in 2019 | Bennett Carrocchio | Jun 7, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: 800M to 900M of Earth's 4B smartphones are iPhones | Benedict Evans | Apr 1, 2019 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Dixon: League of Legends generated $2.5B purely from cosmetic purchases | Chris Dixon | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: 3.5 billion people worldwide own a smartphone as of 2018 | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Waters: Open source 'dog piles' destroy potential for $500M revenue | James Waters | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Apple's 900M active iOS devices rival 1.5B global PCs | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Adobe Creative Cloud has 7 million subscribers vs. 1.5B PCs | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Only 50 million of 1.5 billion PC users are power users | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Pritzker: Asia-Pacific middle class will reach 2.5B-3.5B in 15 years | Penny Pritzker | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Global iOS and Android devices will reach five billion | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Held up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: iOS and Android ship 1.5B units annually with 3B active devices | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Contradicted |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: 4 to 4.5 billion adults globally will be online | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Held up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | ESPN digital hit 10 billion monthly minutes, 1.5 billion from fantasy | Ryan Spoon | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans predicts global hardware will settle at 4 to 5 billion smartphones | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Only 700 to 800 million PCs worldwide are in consumer homes | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Mobile shift expands computing market from 1.5B PCs to 5B smartphones | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Modern tech market ceilings expanded 100x over prior generations | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Benedict Evans: Global smartphone adoption will reach three billion units | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Held up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Dixon: Smartphone users will hit 5 billion as hardware drops to $3 | Chris Dixon | Dec 21, 2018 | Held up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: PC installed base reached roughly 1.5 billion global units | Benedict Evans | Dec 5, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Mobile market reached 3 billion smartphones and 5 billion total phones | Benedict Evans | Dec 5, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Bitcoin market capitalization has stabilized around $3.5 billion | Dan Boneh | Jul 28, 2017 | Contradicted |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans predicts global smartphone ownership will double to 5 billion | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Held up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: The global PC base of 1.5 billion is starting to decline | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: 4 billion people buy phones every two years, dwarfing PC sales | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Facebook built a $7.5B mobile ad business in two years | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Evans: Facebook built a $6.5B mobile ad run rate in 24 months | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | McCall: Incumbents made up to $500M in revenue when Samsara entered ELD market | Andy McCall | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.4B | “1.4 billion” | a16z's Nicira investment exited for more than Instagram | Chris Dixon | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1.4B | “1.4 billion” | Isaacman: NASA loses $1.4B annually to staffing contractor markups | Jared Isaacman | May 6, 2026 | — |
| 1.4B | “1.36 billion” | Chan: China Has Fewer Than 436 Million Credit Cards for 1.36B People | Connie Chan | Jul 16, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.3B | “1.3 billion” | Chan: Chinese startup innovation is driven by survival and scale | Connie Chan | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1.2B | “a three seven hundred seventy five million” | Kalanick: a16z agreed to $375M pre-money valuation for Uber in 2011 | Travis Kalanick | Jul 22, 2026 | — |
| 1.1B | “1.1 billion” | Simpson: 65% of unbanked global population has mobile device access | Arianna Simpson | Aug 29, 2019 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Chris Lyons: A single-person startup will build a billion-dollar business using AI | Chris Lyons | Feb 11, 2026 | Open |
| 1B | “a billion” | Evans: Fewer than 1 billion consumer PCs vs 5-6 billion smartphones exist | Benedict Evans | Dec 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Kuyda: Nearly one billion people use AI tools for simple tasks | Eugenia Kuyda | Nov 5, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Andreessen: AI is the fastest-adopted technology in human history | Marc Andreessen | Nov 3, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Hsu: Arc Institute will soon generate one billion perturbed single cells | Patrick Hsu | Sep 15, 2025 | Open |
| 1B | “a billion” | Dixon: Raising massive capital creates a defensive moat in AI | Chris Dixon | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Srinivasan: Regulators lack intuition for financial scales beyond personal bank accounts | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 8, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Trollin: Function Health projects reaching nearly 1 billion lab tests by 2026 | Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin) | Jul 31, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lee: Cluely has surpassed 1 billion total content views | Roy Lee | Jun 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Sinofsky: China lifted a billion people out of poverty through factory labor | Steven Sinofsky | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Neumann: Flow raised $300M Saudi fund from 33 local investors | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | George: Consumer AI reached one billion users faster than any predecessor | David George | May 31, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Halozyme guides to $1 billion in revenue in coming years | Jonathan Lim | Apr 30, 2025 | Held up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Sivulka: B2B enterprise AI apps are becoming feature-bloated like Salesforce | George Sivulka | Feb 14, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Immerman: Google AI Overviews has reached 1 billion monthly active users | Alex Immerman | Dec 9, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Immerman: Apple could gain 1 billion search users overnight | Alex Immerman | Dec 9, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Mark Casey: Only 1.5 billion people globally have ever flown on an airplane | Mark Casey | Jul 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Andreessen: Training future frontier AI models will cost $1 billion | Marc Andreessen | Apr 2, 2024 | Open |
| 1B | “a billion” | Andreessen: San Francisco spends over $1 billion annually on homelessness non-profits | Marc Andreessen | Dec 20, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Robbins achieved his one billion meal campaign goal in eight years | Tony Robbins | Dec 20, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Guo: Genshin Impact cost several hundred million dollars to build | Robin Guo | Dec 17, 2023 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Garmin's off-the-shelf navigation map business generates over one billion dollars | Mitch Lee | Jun 12, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Diamandis: Digitization enables small teams to build billion-dollar startups in record time | Peter Diamandis | May 25, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Evans: Apple has 800M iPhones and 500M weekly App Store visitors | Benedict Evans | Apr 1, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | McCullough: Reaching a billion users today requires qualitatively superior products | Brian McCullough | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Armstrong: One billion people will use open finance within 20 years | Brian Armstrong | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Gil: Half of private unicorns are not worth $1 billion | Elad Gil | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Rachleff: 60 VCs, including himself, rejected Veritas before its $1B success | Andy Rachleff | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Qasar Younis: 100 Tier 1 automotive suppliers generate over $1B annually | Qasar Younis | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Wilson: The municipal bond market issues $1 billion per day | Jace Wilson | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Hastings: Netflix spent $5 billion on content and $1 billion on tech in 2017 | Reed Hastings | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Sinofsky argues custom silicon requires a scale of one billion devices. | Steven Sinofsky | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Benedict Evans: Global active smartphones will reach 5 to 6 billion | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Evans predicts one billion people will first experience the internet via smartphones | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Held up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Andreessen: Only the Catholic Church and Coca-Cola reached 1B people before tech | Marc Andreessen | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Evans: Android's next billion users will not raise average app spending | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Balaji: Compounding capital faces steep diminishing returns at scale | Balaji Srinivasan | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | a16z's Nicira investment exited for more than Instagram | Chris Dixon | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Balaji: Bitcoin will reach one billion users and 1,000x growth | Balaji Srinivasan | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Pande: Billion-dollar drug candidates fail clinical trials almost every week | Vijay Pande | Jan 11, 2018 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Chen: YouTube auto-subtitled over one billion videos using AI | Frank Chen | Dec 8, 2017 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Evans: Developers can now assume users have high-end smartphones | Benedict Evans | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Casado: Nicira built a $1B company on just $40M in funding | Martín Casado | Jul 15, 2017 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | DLJ risked 40% of firm equity per bridge loan in 2000 | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Younis: Applied Intuition aims to deploy AI on one billion machines | Qasar Younis | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Tan: AI 'harness wars' for 1B consumers will erupt around 2027 | Garry Tan | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Raghuram: AI agents for knowledge workers will multiply compute demand tenfold | Raghu Raghuram | Aug 28, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Starship Reusability Drops Orbital Compute Launch Costs Under $1B per Gigawatt | Gavin Baker | Aug 31, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | LaFontaine: Whatnot surpassed $1B in sales last year and YTD | Grant LaFontaine | Aug 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Moore: ChatGPT reaches 800M-900M weekly active users in late 2025 | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Evans: ChatGPT has 800-900 million weekly active users, 5% paying | Benedict Evans | Dec 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Evans: OpenAI's huge user base is fragile without network effects | Benedict Evans | Dec 12, 2025 | — |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Sinofsky: Apple services do not need 900M subscribers each to be successful businesses | Steven Sinofsky | Apr 1, 2019 | — |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Evans: Apple's 900M active iOS devices rival 1.5B global PCs | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Evans estimates actual personal computer equivalents at only 700M to 900M | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Active Android devices will reach 2-3B; iOS will reach 700-900M | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Held up |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Acharya: ChatGPT Has Reached 900 Million User Signups | Anish Acharya | Mar 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Sherman Wu: ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users | Sherman Wu | Nov 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Evans: Apple has 800M iPhones and 500M weekly App Store visitors | Benedict Evans | Apr 1, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Granger: Excel is the world's most popular programming language | Chris Granger | Jan 2, 2019 | Contradicted |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Evans estimates actual personal computer equivalents at only 700M to 900M | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Evans: Only 700 to 800 million PCs worldwide are in consumer homes | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Evans: WhatsApp processes 50% more messages than global SMS with 40 staff | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Evans: Apple iOS has 700M to 800M active devices | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Chan: WeChat Had Over 800 Million Monthly Active Users in 2017 | Connie Chan | Jul 16, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Andreessen claims the SPLC holds an $800 million endowment | Marc Andreessen | May 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Evans estimates actual personal computer equivalents at only 700M to 900M | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 700M | “a six hundred million” | Nicira reached $600M run rate post-VMware acquisition, half from security | Martin Casado | Jul 16, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 700M | “a six hundred million” | Casado: Nicira built a $1B company on just $40M in funding | Martín Casado | Jul 15, 2017 | — |
| 650M | “six hundred fifty million” | Carrocchio: Global esports audience will reach 650 million viewers by 2022 | Bennett Carrocchio | Jun 7, 2019 | Didn’t hold up |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Andreessen: AI is the fastest-adopted technology in human history | Marc Andreessen | Nov 3, 2025 | — |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Casado: Early AI coding tools reached $400M to $600M in ARR | Martin Casado | Aug 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Glueck: TouchTunes is a $500M business across 65,000 locations | Jeff Glueck | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Sinofsky: There are roughly 600 million business computers globally | Steven Sinofsky | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Overstock ran a $500M+ business with just 13 developers in 2005 | Patrick Byrne | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Acharya: ChatGPT has roughly 500 million monthly active users | Anish Acharya | May 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Immerman: Meta AI services have reached 500 million monthly active users | Alex Immerman | Dec 9, 2024 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Russian app Travelboast hit #1 in US after gaining 500M TikTok views | Olivia Moore | Feb 9, 2023 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Peretti: BuzzFeed drives $500 million in direct commerce gross merchandise value | Jonah Peretti | Dec 19, 2019 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio provides internet access to 500 million low-income Indians | Marc Andreessen | Dec 12, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Evans: Apple has 800M iPhones and 500M weekly App Store visitors | Benedict Evans | Apr 1, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Pritzker: Asia-Pacific middle class will reach 2.5B-3.5B in 15 years | Penny Pritzker | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Blockchain forensics traced $500 million Mt. Gox hack to BTC-e | Katie Haun | Dec 15, 2018 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Chan: iQIYI reached 500 million MAUs and 67 million paid members | Connie Chan | Dec 5, 2018 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | An estimated 500 million farmers globally lack crop insurance | Angela Strange | Nov 30, 2018 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Paul Krugman estimates daily Bitcoin transaction volume is under $1 billion | Paul Krugman | Nov 2, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Kirkland & Ellis Committed $500M to Build Internal AI | David George | Aug 31, 2026 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Strange: Scaling past $50M requires recruiting sales leaders from mature markets | Angela Strange | Aug 20, 2026 | — |
| 450M | “four hundred fifty million” | Carrocchio: Global esports viewership surpassed 450 million in 2019 | Bennett Carrocchio | Jun 7, 2019 | Supported |
| 450M | “four hundred fifty million” | Evans: Apple generates double Android's developer revenue on half the devices | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 436M | “four hundred thirty six million” | Chan: China Has Fewer Than 436 Million Credit Cards for 1.36B People | Connie Chan | Jul 16, 2017 | Supported |
| 400M | “a three hundred million” | Horowitz: Andreessen Horowitz's First Fund Was $300M and Took 6 Months | Ben Horowitz | Jan 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 400M | “a three hundred million” | Horowitz: a16z founders took zero management pay from $300M Fund 1 | Ben Horowitz | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Moore: ChatGPT doubled weekly active users to 400M in six months | Olivia Moore | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Carrocchio: Global esports viewership surpassed 450 million in 2019 | Bennett Carrocchio | Jun 7, 2019 | Supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Activision Blizzard serves 400 million customers across 196 countries | Bobby Kotick | Feb 26, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Nick Tomaino: November 2017 saw $400 million in ICO token sales | Nick Tomaino | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Evans: Only 25% of active iPhone users have installed Google Maps | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Evans: Apple generated $65 billion in lifetime revenue from 400 million iPods | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Peretti: BuzzFeed hit 400M monthly video views with half on mobile | Jonah Peretti | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Evans: Global internet population grew from 400M in 2000 to 3B | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Verdian: Cursor recently raised at a $400M valuation on $3M ARR | Aram Verdian | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 335M | “three hundred thirty five million” | Carrocchio: Global esports viewership surpassed 450 million in 2019 | Bennett Carrocchio | Jun 7, 2019 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Sinofsky: US manufacturing does not need to replicate China's migrant labor model | Steven Sinofsky | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Neumann: Flow raised $300M Saudi fund from 33 local investors | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Global Payments grew its annual technology spending to over $2 billion | Jeff Sloan | Apr 30, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Host: Duolingo grew from 3M to 300M users with no paid budget | Steph Smith | Jul 21, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Schroeder: Pakistan's top e-commerce player has $200M-$300M in GMV | Chris Schroeder | Apr 19, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Masad: Global developer count will reach 300 million by 2030 | Amjad Masad | Feb 16, 2023 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Chan: China's online education market to hit 300M users by 2020 | Connie Chan | Feb 2, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Khanna: Global expat population reached 300 million | Parag Khanna | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Andreessen: Twitter generates $3B revenue with 300M active users | Marc Andreessen | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Benedict Evans: Global active smartphones will reach 5 to 6 billion | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Netflix Began International Expansion After Hitting 30 Million U.S. Subscribers | Alex Rampell | Oct 26, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Lee: Predecessor tool Interview Coder reached 250 million impressions | Roy Lee | Jun 25, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Strange: Indonesia has 250 million people but only 2% credit card penetration | Angela Strange | Jan 21, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 220M | “two hundred twenty million” | Schroeder: Pakistan's top e-commerce player has $200M-$300M in GMV | Chris Schroeder | Apr 19, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Moore: ChatGPT doubled weekly active users to 400M in six months | Olivia Moore | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Andreessen: 200 million people are alive today because of nuclear deterrence | Marc Andreessen | Aug 2, 2023 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Evans: Active iPad installed base exceeds active Mac base by 2x | Benedict Evans | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 187M | “hundred eighty seven million” | Dorado: A two-kilogram drone causes human injury once per 187M flight hours | Eli Dorado | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 150M | “a hundred fifty million” | Angelopoulos: Chatbot Arena has 1M+ monthly users and 150M+ conversations | Anastasios Angelopoulos | May 29, 2025 | — |
| 150M | “a hundred fifty million” | Moore: Around 150 million people used Snapchat's MyAI chatbot | Olivia Moore | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 150M | “a hundred fifty million” | Chan: China's online education market to hit 300M users by 2020 | Connie Chan | Feb 2, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 150M | “a hundred fifty million” | Young: A $150M Bay Area project generated 15,000 blueprint sheets | Tracy Young | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 150M | “hundred fifty million” | Glueck: Foursquare profiles 150 million Americans via location data | Jeff Glueck | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 120M | “a hundred twenty million” | Shum: Microsoft's XiaoIce social chatbot has 120 million monthly active users | Harry Shum | Jan 16, 2020 | — |
| 120M | “a hundred twenty million” | Zhao: 120M consoles exist worldwide compared to only 5M VR headsets | Steve Zhao | May 3, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Magic Johnson: Dodgers group invested hundreds of millions into stadium upgrades | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | George: Top AI startups hit $100M ARR four times faster than SaaS | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | David George: Top AI startups reach $100M ARR faster than SaaS predecessors | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | George: 86% of companies with over $100M in revenue remain private | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Masad: AI coding models work for any language with 100M+ speakers | Amjad Masad | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
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