| 40% | “40%” | DLJ risked 40% of firm equity per bridge loan in 2000 | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Costco passes 100% of supplier cost savings directly to customers | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Tony James and Steve Schwarzman agreed on 98% of decisions at Blackstone | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Blackstone grew its valuation from $1B to $170B under Tony James | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Blackstone grew its valuation from $1B to $170B under Tony James | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Blackstone grew its valuation from $1B to $170B under Tony James | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | James: Endowments allocate 50% to alternatives compared to 2% for retail | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | James: Endowments allocate 50% to alternatives compared to 2% for retail | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| $75M | “seventy-five million dollars” | James: Blackstone spent $75M annually on corporate overhead for IPO | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Blackstone turned a $119M acquisition into a $120B secondary business | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4× | “four times” | James: Every Blackstone acquisition succeeded, returning at least 3-4x | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| 20T | “20 trillion” | 30,000 mid-market private equity portfolio companies worth $20T need liquidity | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Traditional private equity drawdown funds deliver net returns comparable to municipal bonds | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two times” | Traditional private equity drawdown funds deliver net returns comparable to municipal bonds | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | — |
| 8% | “eight percent” | James: HBCU graduates earn 50% higher lifetime income than non-HBCU graduates | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 16% | “16%” | James: HBCU graduates earn 50% higher lifetime income than non-HBCU graduates | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | James: HBCU graduates earn 50% higher lifetime income than non-HBCU graduates | Tony James | May 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Rogers: EU investigation into X culminated in 120 million euro fine | Sarah Rogers | May 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sinofsky: AI agents do not solve enterprise legacy system integration | Steven Sinofsky | Apr 28, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Levie: Headless AI agents will scale to 1,000x human users | Aaron Levie | Apr 28, 2026 | — |
| 500× | “500 times” | Sinofsky: SaaS products will collapse under 500x traffic from AI agents | Steven Sinofsky | Apr 28, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Levie: AI built 80% to 90% of Box's latest product feature | Aaron Levie | Apr 28, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Levie: AI yields 2x to 3x productivity gains, not 10x | Aaron Levie | Apr 28, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Levie: AI yields 2x to 3x productivity gains, not 10x | Aaron Levie | Apr 28, 2026 | — |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Horowitz: Around $450B was stolen during US COVID stimulus programs | Ben Horowitz | Apr 14, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Levie: AI agents will outnumber human software users by 100x to 1,000x | Aaron Levie | Apr 8, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Levie: AI agent security risks are 1,000x greater than human employees | Aaron Levie | Apr 8, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Levie: Only 10% of traditional engineers ever managed cloud infrastructure spend | Aaron Levie | Apr 8, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Balaji Srinivasan: Only five crypto assets warrant 1,000+ hours of focus | Balaji Srinivasan | Apr 7, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Yang: 70–80% of OpenClaw's value is its conversational interface | Peter Yang | Apr 6, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Peter Yang gets 80% of his work drafted by AI | Peter Yang | Apr 6, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Blania: Current AI activity is under 1% of what is coming | Alex Blania | Apr 2, 2026 | — |
| 40M | “Forty million” | Blania: World has reached 18 million verified users and 40 million total | Alex Blania | Apr 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Blania: World will direct 90% of company effort to the US | Alex Blania | Apr 2, 2026 | — |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | Horowitz: $400 billion was stolen from COVID stimulus programs | Ben Horowitz | Apr 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Jennings: Engineers using AI tools achieve 10x to 100x productivity gains | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Haber: Block executed a 40% workforce reduction driven by AI | David Haber | Apr 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred x” | Jennings: AI broke the historic correlation between headcount and output | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Jennings: Block's >40% RIF heavily targeted software developers over sales | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Jennings: Block reduced internal meetings by 70% to 80% | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Jennings: Incremental layoffs at non-founder companies devastate company culture | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Jennings: Block reduced MoneyBot team from 15 to 4 plus AI tokens | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Jennings: Block's BuilderBot autonomously builds features and merges PRs | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Jennings: Block's BuilderBot autonomously builds features and merges PRs | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Jennings: Block's BuilderBot autonomously builds features and merges PRs | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Jennings: Anyone can clone software, but network effects can't be vibe coded | Owen Jennings | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Caldwell: Musk's aggressive deadlines force teams to prioritize critical paths | Turner Caldwell | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Caldwell: Startups should only vertically integrate if their existence depends on it | Turner Caldwell | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Caldwell: Startups should only vertically integrate if their existence depends on it | Turner Caldwell | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Caldwell: Startups should only vertically integrate if their existence depends on it | Turner Caldwell | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mendler: The space economy will consolidate into dominant infrastructure platforms | Bridget Mendler | Mar 23, 2026 | — |
| 6% | “six percent” | Sankar: Defense specialist spending rose from 6% in 1989 to 86% today | Shyam Sankar | Mar 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 86% | “86%” | Sankar: Defense specialist spending rose from 6% in 1989 to 86% today | Shyam Sankar | Mar 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 92% | “92%” | Sankar: Higgins boats comprised 92% of U.S. World War II landing craft | Shyam Sankar | Mar 20, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Sankar: China now hosts 50% of all global clinical trials | Shyam Sankar | Mar 20, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Sankar: Europe created zero €100B companies from scratch in 50 years | Shyam Sankar | Mar 20, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Sankar: China has an AI advantage through pragmatic focus on economic productivity | Shyam Sankar | Mar 20, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Andreessen: Direct executive communication will replace traditional corporate PR | Marc Andreessen | Mar 18, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Horowitz: a16z media strategy targets founders over mass market audience | Ben Horowitz | Mar 18, 2026 | — |
| 4% | “four percent” | Horowitz: a16z media strategy targets founders over mass market audience | Ben Horowitz | Mar 18, 2026 | — |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Michael: DOD AI adoption grew from 80k to 1.2M in 90 days | Emil Michael | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Michael: DOD AI adoption grew from 80k to 1.2M in 90 days | Emil Michael | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Michael: AI Trained on Satellite Imagery Boosts Analyst Throughput 1,000x | Emil Michael | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Michael: Four frontier AI companies rely on pool of 1,000 researchers | Emil Michael | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Moore: ChatGPT Reaches 10% Global Weekly Active User Penetration | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.7× | “2.7 times” | Moore: ChatGPT Is 30x Larger Than Claude on Web, 80x on Mobile | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.5× | “2.5 times” | Moore: ChatGPT Is 30x Larger Than Claude on Web, 80x on Mobile | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Moore: ChatGPT Is 30x Larger Than Claude on Web, 80x on Mobile | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 80× | “80 times” | Moore: ChatGPT Is 30x Larger Than Claude on Web, 80x on Mobile | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 11% | “11%” | Moore: Claude and ChatGPT App Stores Share Only 11% Overlap | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Acharya: ChatGPT Has Reached 900 Million User Signups | Anish Acharya | Mar 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Moore: China Has Lowest Combined ChatGPT and Gemini Usage at 15% | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 32% | “32%” | Moore: US Public Trust in AI Stands at Only 32% | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Acharya: 80% of People in China Hold Favorable Views on AI | Anish Acharya | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Moore: OpenAI's Sora Reached 1 Million Users Faster Than ChatGPT | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Moore: Meta Acquired AI Agent Startup Manus for Over $2B | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Moore: Perplexity Comet Peak Download Traffic Reached 5x OpenAI Atlas | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | — |
| 16% | “16%” | Moore: Teen AI Emotional Support Use Cases Will Reach 100% Adoption | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | — |
| 12% | “12%” | Moore: Teen AI Emotional Support Use Cases Will Reach 100% Adoption | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Moore: Teen AI Emotional Support Use Cases Will Reach 100% Adoption | Olivia Moore | Mar 10, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Daisy Wolf: Nearly one in seven Americans uses a GLP-1 drug | Daisy Wolf | Mar 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Rampell: Zendesk legacy per-seat revenue drops to zero without pricing pivot | Alex Rampell | Mar 6, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Cannon-Brookes: Customer service is input-constrained; higher speed yields no extra demand | Mike Cannon-Brookes | Mar 6, 2026 | — |
| $2.2B | “2.2 billion dollars” | Magic Johnson: Dodgers bought for $2.2B are now worth $8B | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Magic Johnson: Dodgers bought for $2.2B are now worth $8B | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 6B | “Six billion” | Magic Johnson: Washington Commanders valuation will rise with new stadium | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | Open |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Magic Johnson: 1979 Nike equity offer would be worth over $1B today | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Chris Lyons: A single-person startup will build a billion-dollar business using AI | Chris Lyons | Feb 11, 2026 | Open |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Magic Johnson: African American spending power reaches $1.4 trillion | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | Partly 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 |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Magic Johnson: LA Sparks bought for millions, now worth $300M | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Magic Johnson: MLS club LAFC is valued at $1.2 billion | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Magic Johnson: Dodgers group invested hundreds of millions into stadium upgrades | Earvin "Magic" Johnson | Feb 11, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Chris Lyons: 2025 startups can match 100-person speed with 10 people | Chris Lyons | Feb 11, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | David George: Top AI startups reach $100M ARR faster than SaaS predecessors | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | George: Top AI startups generate $500k to $1M ARR per employee | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | George: Chime reduced customer support costs by 60% using AI | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| 1.1M | “1.1 million” | George: Rocket Mortgage saved 1.1M underwriting hours and $40M annually via AI | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | George: Rocket Mortgage saved 1.1M underwriting hours and $40M annually via AI | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | David George: AI Winners Account for 80% of S&P 500 Returns | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three X” | David George: Pre-iPhone consensus models underestimated Apple by 3x | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 100% | “100%” | David George: Google's 7-to-8-year-old TPUs maintain 100% utilization | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | 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 |
| 80% | “80%” | David George: AI model companies will add 75-80% of public software's net revenue in 2026 | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Open |
| 5T | “five trillion” | George: $4.8T AI CapEx requires $1T annual AI revenue by 2030 | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| 4.8T | “4.8 trillion” | George: $4.8T AI CapEx requires $1T annual AI revenue by 2030 | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | George: $4.8T AI CapEx requires $1T annual AI revenue by 2030 | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | George: $4.8T AI CapEx requires $1T annual AI revenue by 2030 | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | George: $4.8T AI CapEx requires $1T annual AI revenue by 2030 | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | George: Global AI revenue is currently $50B and growing over 100% YoY | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | George: 86% of companies with over $100M in revenue remain private | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 86% | “86%” | George: 86% of companies with over $100M in revenue remain private | David George | Feb 9, 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 |
| 40% | “40%” | George: Top 10 unicorns hold nearly 40% of $5.5T total valuation | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | George: Average S&P 500 tenure dropped 40% over 50 years | David George | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Mares: Ultra-processed foods make up 70% of children's diets today | Justin Mares | Feb 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Mares: US spent nearly $100B on crop subsidies over past decade | Justin Mares | Feb 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Mares: Average American gets almost 20% of calories from soybean oil | Justin Mares | Feb 4, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 80% | “80%” | Mares: Combined US Overweight and Obesity Rate Is Nearly 80% | Justin Mares | Feb 4, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 80% | “80%” | Mares: 80% of US schools hold contracts with soda companies | Justin Mares | Feb 4, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $140M | “one hundred forty million dollars” | Mares: Coca-Cola spent $140M influencing US nutrition guidelines over 15 years | Justin Mares | Feb 4, 2026 | Partly 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 |
| 1% | “one percent” | Solomon: Top four tech spenders drove 1% of GDP growth via $400B capex | David Solomon | Feb 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1.5T | “a half trillion” | Solomon: Goldman Sachs balance sheet must reach $3.5T when JPMorgan hits $6T | David Solomon | Feb 2, 2026 | — |
| $200B | “two 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” | Solomon: Goldman Sachs holds $500B in total deposits, funding 40% of firm | David Solomon | Feb 2, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Solomon: Goldman Sachs holds $500B in total deposits, funding 40% of firm | David Solomon | Feb 2, 2026 | — |
| 18.3% | “18.3%” | Horowitz: a16z captured 18.3% of all US venture capital in 2025 | Ben Horowitz | Feb 2, 2026 | Supported |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | George: Big tech annual capex run-rate has reached $400 billion | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | George: AI model input costs dropped over 99% in two years | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | George: US software spend is 1% of GDP vs 20% for payroll | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | George: US software spend is 1% of GDP vs 20% for payroll | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | George: Tech customers capture 90% of economic value while platforms capture 10% | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | George: Tech customers capture 90% of economic value while platforms capture 10% | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 65B | “sixty five billion” | George: ChatGPT reached 365 billion searches five times faster than Google | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | George: OpenAI has 30 to 40 million paying users | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | George: OpenAI has 30 to 40 million paying users | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | a16z looks for 90%+ gross retention when evaluating software startup business models | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | George: OpenAI Has More Monetization Upside Than Downside Risk | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | George: Top AI startups hit $100M ARR four times faster than SaaS | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | George: Top AI startups hit $100M ARR four times faster than SaaS | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “a billion 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: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5T | “a half trillion” | George: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | George: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 11% | “11%” | George: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 12% | “12%” | George: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | George: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 7× | “seven X” | George: Aggregate unicorn market cap reached $3.5 trillion, growing 7x in a decade | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | George: Only 5% of public software companies forecast over 25% growth | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Open |
| 25% | “25%” | George: Only 5% of public software companies forecast over 25% growth | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Open |
| 95% | “95%” | George: Only 5% of public software companies forecast over 25% growth | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | Open |
| 2× | “two X” | George: a16z expects a 3x to 4x return on Databricks investment | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | George: a16z expects a 3x to 4x return on Databricks investment | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | George: a16z expects a 3x to 4x return on Databricks investment | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | David George: 80% of a16z growth deals tie to early-stage relationships | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two times” | George: Top a16z growth investments target 5x upside and 2x downside | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | George: Top a16z growth investments target 5x upside and 2x downside | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five x” | George: Top a16z growth investments target 5x upside and 2x downside | David George | Jan 26, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Rampell: 15 percent of global adults use ChatGPT weekly | Alex Rampell | Jan 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Haber: AI hurts hourly billers but multiplies contingency legal revenue | David Haber | Jan 19, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Haber: AI hurts hourly billers but multiplies contingency legal revenue | David Haber | Jan 19, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Haber: Customer law firms ran 100 percent of cases through Eve | David Haber | Jan 19, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Salient increases auto loan debt collections by 50 percent | Alex Rampell | Jan 19, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | McCormick: Substack will grow 10x larger than legacy media companies | Packy McCormick | Jan 15, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Horowitz: Cloud software companies are 10x larger than on-premise predecessors | Ben Horowitz | Jan 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Marc Andreessen: Substack could reach 1,000x the legacy media industry's size | Marc Andreessen | Jan 15, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Horowitz: One Bad Founder Interaction Undoes 10 Good Ones | Ben Horowitz | Jan 15, 2026 | — |
| 400M | “a three hundred million” | Horowitz: Andreessen Horowitz's First Fund Was $300M and Took 6 Months | Ben Horowitz | Jan 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Horowitz: a16z Raised $15B Fund Largely Through Two AMAs | Ben Horowitz | Jan 15, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Horowitz: a16z maintains 20% or higher equity ownership in recent investments | Ben Horowitz | Jan 13, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Horowitz: AI cycle will yield more $1B+ companies than internet era | Ben Horowitz | Jan 13, 2026 | Open |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Horowitz: AI cycle will yield more $1B+ companies than internet era | Ben Horowitz | Jan 13, 2026 | Open |
| 3M | “3003 thousand” | Andreessen: East Coast newspapers are a biased information source for Washington | Marc Andreessen | Jan 7, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Olivia Moore: Less than 10% of ChatGPT users tried rival LLMs in 2025 | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 9% | “nine percent” | Moore: Only 9% of AI users subscribe to multiple major LLMs | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Moore: ChatGPT reaches 800M-900M weekly active users in late 2025 | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| 155% | “155%” | Moore: Gemini desktop users growing 155% year over year and accelerating | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| 23% | “23%” | Moore: ChatGPT year-over-year growth slowed to 23% | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Olivia Moore: Gemini hits 50% of ChatGPT scale on Android, 17% on iOS | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 17% | “17%” | Olivia Moore: Gemini hits 50% of ChatGPT scale on Android, 17% on iOS | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Justine Moore: Sora succeeded as a creative tool but failed socially | Justine Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Justine Moore: Three times more U.S. teens have used Character.ai than Claude | Justine Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 9× | “nine X” | Moore: ChatGPT enterprise usage grew 8x to 9x year-over-year | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Moore: Top consumer AI startups reach 100%+ net revenue retention | Olivia Moore | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Angela Strange: Next-gen fintech winners will be 10x larger by capturing labor | Angela Strange | Dec 26, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Strange: AI adoption raised mortgage servicing margins from 5% to 50% | Angela Strange | Dec 26, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Strange: AI adoption raised mortgage servicing margins from 5% to 50% | Angela Strange | Dec 26, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Wang: AI offers a 10x UX jump threatening enterprise systems of record | Sarah Wang | Dec 26, 2025 | — |
| $400B | “four hundred billion dollars” | Andrusko: AI Expands Software TAM 30x by Targeting Labor Spend | Marc Andrusko | Dec 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $13T | “13 trillion dollars” | Andrusko: AI Expands Software TAM 30x by Targeting Labor Spend | Marc Andrusko | Dec 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Andrusko: AI Expands Software TAM 30x by Targeting Labor Spend | Marc Andrusko | Dec 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Andrusko: Ordinary Users Will Demand Human Approval Almost 100% of the Time | Marc Andrusko | Dec 22, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Haber: 25% of venture capital went to fintech during COVID boom | David Haber | Dec 19, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Perret: Financial fraud is growing at 18% to 20% annually | Zach Perret | Dec 19, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Perret: Plaid's 2020 acquisition agreement with Visa was fixed at over $5B | Zach Perret | Dec 19, 2025 | — |
| 53% | “53%” | Horowitz: Murderers have a 53% chance of getting away with it | Ben Horowitz | Dec 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Horowitz: Lack of enforcement creates lost generations driven by criminal pay | Ben Horowitz | Dec 17, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Horowitz: Las Vegas has the highest US murder clearance rate, exceeding 90% | Ben Horowitz | Dec 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Langley: Atlanta police staffing dropped to 60% before recovering | Garrett Langley | Dec 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
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