| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Mark Cuban says Alyssa's Cookies generates $14M profit without ad spend | Mark Cuban | Sep 9, 2025 | — |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Mark Cuban says a 15% tariff would wipe out small business margins | Mark Cuban | Sep 9, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Mark Cuban says a 15% tariff would wipe out small business margins | Mark Cuban | Sep 9, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | McCune: Startup policy interests often diverge from big tech incumbents | Colin McCune | Sep 8, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Polovets: Humba Ventures paused defense investing due to inflated valuations | Leo Polovets | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| $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” | Casado: AV unit economics remain on par with Uber despite $100B invested | Martin Casado | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| $1.2B | “1.2 billion dollars” | Casado: Nicira was acquired for $1.2B with under $10M in ARR | Martin Casado | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Casado: Nicira was acquired for $1.2B with under $10M in ARR | Martin Casado | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| $600M | “six hundred million dollars” | Casado: Nicira reached a $600M run rate 3.5 years post-acquisition | Martin Casado | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Casado: a16z portfolio includes four $100 billion companies | Martin Casado | Sep 4, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Polovets: In a consensus VC market, cost of capital dictates winners | Leo Polovets | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Polovets: In a consensus VC market, cost of capital dictates winners | Leo Polovets | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Polovets: Multi-stage VCs win repeat founders by pricing seed higher | Leo Polovets | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Casado: AI coding tools will deliver a 10x engineer productivity boost | Martin Casado | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “A hundred million” | Best: Substack raised $100 million in its recent funding round | Chris Best | Sep 2, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Google Gemini reaches half of ChatGPT's mobile app traffic | Olivia Moore | Aug 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Google Labs traffic spikes 15% upon Veo 3 release | Olivia Moore | Aug 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 91M | “a ninety million” | Manus hits $90M ARR with top traffic from Brazil and US | Olivia Moore | Aug 27, 2025 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Lovable announces $100 million in annual recurring revenue | Olivia Moore | Aug 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Vibe coding platforms see over 100% revenue retention in first months | Olivia Moore | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Scharfstein: Forward-deployed engineering must feed custom client fixes back into platform core | Ben Scharfstein | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Scharfstein: Forward-deployed engineering must feed custom client fixes back into platform core | Ben Scharfstein | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Scharfstein: Forward-deployed engineering must feed custom client fixes back into platform core | Ben Scharfstein | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Scharfstein: Solving end-to-end enterprise problems unlocks 10x larger contracts | Ben Scharfstein | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Ben Scharfstein estimates enterprise AI solutions are 70 percent unglamorous integration work | Ben Scharfstein | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Scharfstein: Difficult 10x engineers belong on platform teams, not client teams | Ben Scharfstein | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Scale AI's Ben Scharfstein: AI startups must avoid vanity revenue metrics when delivering services | Ben Scharfstein | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Scale AI's Ben Scharfstein: AI startups must avoid vanity revenue metrics when delivering services | Ben Scharfstein | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Ben Scharfstein says AI foundation model labs operate like movie studios | Ben Scharfstein | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Levie: Expert engineers achieve 10x productivity gains from AI tools | Aaron Levie | Aug 25, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Horowitz predicts 100x improvement in crypto infrastructure within a year | Ben Horowitz | Aug 23, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Wang: AI model inference costs dropped 10x year-over-year | Sarah Wang | Aug 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Wang: AI-native companies reach $100M ARR faster than SaaS predecessors | Sarah Wang | Aug 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Casado: Early AI coding tools reached $400M to $600M in ARR | Martin Casado | Aug 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Wang: a16z portfolio CTOs reported 10% to 15% AI productivity gains | Sarah Wang | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Wang: All 24 surveyed a16z startups use Cursor, driving up to 10x productivity | Sarah Wang | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Wang: All 24 surveyed a16z startups use Cursor, driving up to 10x productivity | Sarah Wang | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Wang: All 24 surveyed a16z startups use Cursor, driving up to 10x productivity | Sarah Wang | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Wang: Decagon cuts support costs by up to 80% and doubles CSAT scores | Sarah Wang | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Wang: Decagon cuts support costs by up to 80% and doubles CSAT scores | Sarah Wang | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Wang: AI applications lack 95% gross dollar retention of 2010s SaaS | Sarah Wang | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 42% | “42%” | Song: Housing and healthcare consume 42% of household budgets and 40% GDP | Mina Song | Aug 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Song: Housing and healthcare consume 42% of household budgets and 40% GDP | Mina Song | Aug 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Song: US needs 2 million new housing units annually to prevent shortfall | Mina Song | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Song: US needs 2 million new housing units annually to prevent shortfall | Mina Song | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Song: Analysts project US housing construction pipeline will drop 50% by 2026 | Mina Song | Aug 21, 2025 | Partly held up |
| 2% | “two percent” | Song: EliseAI boosts apartment occupancy by 2% over the market average | Mina Song | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 31% | “31%” | Stoyanov: Minneapolis zoning reform kept rents flat while US rents rose 31% | Tony Stoyanov | Aug 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Stoyanov: Minneapolis zoning reform kept rents flat while US rents rose 31% | Tony Stoyanov | Aug 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Stoyanov: San Francisco's residential housing vacancy rate is approximately 3.5% | Tony Stoyanov | Aug 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 42% | “42%” | Song: AI can reduce household spending on housing and healthcare to 20% | Mina Song | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Cass: A 10 percent baseline tariff would protect domestic production | Oren Cass | Aug 20, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Patel: 10% of Etsy's traffic originates from AI chatbots | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Patel: OpenAI and Anthropic consume 30% of top-tier AI chips | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Patel: OpenAI captures under 10% of the value created by ChatGPT | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Patel: Tech hyperscalers can grow AI capex 20% to 30% next year | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Patel: Microsoft's custom AI silicon lags behind Amazon, Google, and Meta | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Patel: NVIDIA maintains 75% gross margins compared to AMD's 50% | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Patel: NVIDIA maintains 75% gross margins compared to AMD's 50% | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Patel: AI chip startups need a 5x hardware advantage to beat NVIDIA | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Patel: AI chip startups need a 5x hardware advantage to beat NVIDIA | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Patel: Alfalfa farming uses 100x more water than AI data centers | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Patel: AI data centers will consume 10% of US electricity by 2030 | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | Open |
| 80% | “80%” | Patel: Capital equipment represents 80% of Blackwell data center costs | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Patel: Capital equipment represents 80% of Blackwell data center costs | Dylan Patel | Aug 18, 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 |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lingelbach: LLMs, not video models, limit real-time AI actors | Michael Lingelbach | Aug 14, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Srinivasan: Regulators lack intuition for financial scales beyond personal bank accounts | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 8, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Srinivasan: Regulators lack intuition for financial scales beyond personal bank accounts | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 8, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Srinivasan: Regulators lack intuition for financial scales beyond personal bank accounts | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 8, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Sinofsky: Big companies make the wrong M&A bet 90% of the time | Steven Sinofsky | Aug 8, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Srinivasan: Startup competition regulates big tech better than government antitrust policy | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 8, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Srinivasan: Google paid over $100 million into Windsurf's account for dividends | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Patel: A 15% product improvement cannot displace enterprise incumbents; 10x is required | Jeetu Patel | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “tenx” | Patel: A 15% product improvement cannot displace enterprise incumbents; 10x is required | Jeetu Patel | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Jitu Patel: Cisco is 70% through transition to product-led enterprise | Jeetu Patel | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Patel: AI Infrastructure Scale Will Expand by 100x to 1000x | Jeetu Patel | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Patel: AI Infrastructure Scale Will Expand by 100x to 1000x | Jeetu Patel | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Patel: Refusing integration with 20%+ market share competitors self-excludes products | Jeetu Patel | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Andreessen's new California city project acquired four times Manhattan's acreage | Marc Andreessen | Aug 5, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Andreessen: US healthcare is 20 percent of the economy, heading to 50 | Marc Andreessen | Aug 5, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Andreessen: US healthcare is 20 percent of the economy, heading to 50 | Marc Andreessen | Aug 5, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Andreessen: A four-year college degree is on track to cost $1 million | Marc Andreessen | Aug 5, 2025 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Patel: OpenAI makes $10B annually, less than McDonald's or Kohl's | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Dwarkesh Patel: Post-AGI annual economic growth will exceed 20% | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | Open |
| 1M | “A million” | Smith: Chinese subsidies force BYD to rely on supplier loans | Noah Smith | Aug 4, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Patel: There are currently 10 million H100 equivalent GPUs worldwide | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Patel: UBI is the only viable redistribution model if AGI eliminates wages | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Patel: Frontier AI training compute grew 4x annually over past decade | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Dwarkesh Patel: Study found AI slowed senior developers down 20% | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Dwarkesh Patel puts 20% probability on an intelligence explosion | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Dwarkesh: Meta paying $100M for top AI researchers is ROI positive | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | — |
| $80B | “eighty billion dollars” | Dwarkesh: Meta paying $100M for top AI researchers is ROI positive | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Dwarkesh: Meta paying $100M for top AI researchers is ROI positive | Dwarkesh Patel | Aug 4, 2025 | — |
| $70B | “seventy billion dollars” | Balaji Srinivasan: US newspaper revenue collapsed post-2008 as tech advertising spiked | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Balaji Srinivasan: Future democracy will replace two-party systems with a thousand-city model | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 1, 2025 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | Balaji Srinivasan: Future democracy will replace two-party systems with a thousand-city model | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 1, 2025 | — |
| 54% | “54%” | Cahn: 54% of individuals with mental illness receive no care | Daniel Reid Cahn | Jul 31, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Trollin: Function Health projects reaching nearly 1 billion lab tests by 2026 | Jonathan (Jonathan Trollin) | Jul 31, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Cahn: Ash AI therapy users average engagement at least thrice weekly | Daniel Reid Cahn | Jul 31, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Hayes: Users are fleeing public feeds for private group chats | Chris Hayes | Jul 30, 2025 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | García Martínez: At least 97% of Instagram ad viewers do not engage | Antonio García Martínez | Jul 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Balaji Srinivasan: AI will drive global professional wages toward $20K equilibrium | Balaji Srinivasan | Jul 28, 2025 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Horowitz: Early AIDS transmission was almost entirely gay sex and IV drugs | Ben Horowitz | Jul 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Horowitz: Early AIDS transmission was almost entirely gay sex and IV drugs | Ben Horowitz | Jul 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Horowitz: Closing bathhouses early would have prevented 75% of AIDS deaths | Ben Horowitz | Jul 25, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Caldwell: Global lithium production capacity must 4x within 10 years | Turner Caldwell | Jul 23, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Caldwell: Indonesia accounts for roughly 70% of global nickel supply | Turner Caldwell | Jul 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Li: Global developer count has grown beyond 50 million | Jennifer Li | Jul 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Wu: Salesforce changed its fundamental pricing structure three times in 12 months | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Wu: Usage-based pricing converts software billing into a data infrastructure problem | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Wu: Usage-based pricing converts software billing into a data infrastructure problem | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Wu: Public company manages $1B in usage billing entirely by hand | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Wu: 99% accuracy in financial billing data is equivalent to fraud | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Wu: Salesforce tests roughly a thousand pricing variants behind the scenes | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Wu: AI startups are capping gross margins at 20% via cost-plus pricing | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Scott Wu: Intercom offers a $1M refund guarantee for Fin AI agent | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 65% | “65%” | Scott Wu: Intercom offers a $1M refund guarantee for Fin AI agent | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Wu: Usage-based software companies must meter out performance optimizations to protect revenue | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Wu: Usage-based software companies must meter out performance optimizations to protect revenue | Scott Wu | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | McEntush: Grid costs spike once renewables reach 50-75% penetration | Ryan McEntush | Jul 16, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Price-Wright: Residential electricity costs spike 10x during peak 4-9 PM hours | Erin Price-Wright | Jul 16, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Levie: Enterprise buy-in for AI is 5x higher than early cloud | Aaron Levie | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Levie: Over 90% of workers do not want to prompt AI | Aaron Levie | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Levie: AI will trigger a 10x surge in custom software creation | Aaron Levie | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Levie: AI will invent new work rather than just automate tasks | Aaron Levie | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Levie: Enterprise AI coding tools cost just 1% of an engineer's salary | Aaron Levie | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Levie: Enterprise AI coding tools cost just 1% of an engineer's salary | Aaron Levie | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| $16T | “16 trillion dollars” | Yahya: Stablecoins generate $16 trillion in annual volume | Ali Yahya | Jul 9, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Yahya: Cross-border remittances take up to 7 days and cost up to 10% | Ali Yahya | Jul 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Yahya: Google refused to pursue crypto beyond basic node hosting | Ali Yahya | Jul 9, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Chime: Prepared grew to 1,000 emergency call centers across US | Michael Chime | Jun 27, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Chime: Prepared on track to process over 20M emergency calls in 2025 | Michael Chime | Jun 27, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Chime: New York City spends ~$50M annually on 311 | Michael Chime | Jun 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Sinofsky: Best-selling novels will be AI-generated within a few years | Steven Sinofsky | Jun 27, 2025 | Open |
| 5M | “five million” | Infinitus AI has completed over 5M calls and 100M audio hours | Ankit Jain | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Infinitus AI has completed over 5M calls and 100M audio hours | Ankit Jain | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Jain: Administrative delays stop 50% of chronic patients from starting therapy | Ankit Jain | Jun 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Infinitus retrieves 30% to 40% of healthcare call data digitally | Ankit Jain | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Jain: Calling healthcare payers twice yields different answers 25% of time | Ankit Jain | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Jain: Payers correct errors 70-80% of time when AI pushes back | Ankit Jain | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 45% | “45%” | Jain: Infinitus supports nearly 45% of Fortune 50 companies | Ankit Jain | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Jain: Social determinants of health data is missing 80% of time | Ankit Jain | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Roy Lee: Cluely reached $1M enterprise revenue within 10 weeks | Roy Lee | Jun 25, 2025 | — |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Lee: Predecessor tool Interview Coder reached 250 million impressions | Roy Lee | Jun 25, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lee: Cluely has surpassed 1 billion total content views | Roy Lee | Jun 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 7× | “seven times” | Horowitz: a16z operates as seven distinct practices on shared infrastructure | Ben Horowitz | Jun 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Andreessen: Some AI-detection software tools have 40% false positive rates | Marc Andreessen | Jun 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Zach Cohen: Generative AI tools make teachers 10x better at their jobs | Zach Cohen | Jun 20, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Cohen: 80% of US K-12 school districts have AI procurement teams | Zach Cohen | Jun 20, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Cohen: 50% of US teachers have used MagicSchool AI | Zach Cohen | Jun 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Cohen: 50% of US teachers have used MagicSchool AI | Zach Cohen | Jun 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Cohen: Alpha School students rank in top 1-2% nationally | Zach Cohen | Jun 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Cohen: Hesitant to invest in AI edtech focused solely on teacher productivity | Zach Cohen | Jun 20, 2025 | — |
| $55B | “fifty-five billion dollars” | Torenberg: Apple's $55B annual China investment rivals the Marshall Plan | Erik Torenberg | Jun 18, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Sinofsky: China lifted a billion people out of poverty through factory labor | Steven Sinofsky | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Sinofsky: Automation, not cheap labor, keeps iPhone prices low | Steven Sinofsky | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Sinofsky: US manufacturing does not need to replicate China's migrant labor model | Steven Sinofsky | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Mytton: 50% of Current Internet Traffic Comes From Automated Bots | David Mytton | Jun 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | De la Garza: ChatGPT is 100% accurate at detecting suspicious emails | Joel de la Garza | Jun 16, 2025 | — |
| $4.2M | “4.2 million dollars” | Olivia Moore: Consumer AI startups reach $4.2M median ARR in Year 1 | Olivia Moore | Jun 13, 2025 | — |
| 2.9M | “2.9 million” | Olivia Moore: Consumer AI startups reach $4.2M median ARR in Year 1 | Olivia Moore | Jun 13, 2025 | — |
| 8.7M | “8.7 million” | Olivia Moore: Consumer AI startups reach $4.2M median ARR in Year 1 | Olivia Moore | Jun 13, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Neumann: Post-WeWork social circle plummeted from 1,000 friends to 10 | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Neumann: Hilton and Marriott Own Less Than 1% of Their Hotel Properties | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Horowitz: Flow achieves unprecedented returns and higher rents on identical spaces | Ben Horowitz | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Neumann: Flow's Fort Lauderdale NOI grew 30% after takeover | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Neumann: 90% of Flow's tenant inquiries come direct, bypassing brokers | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Neumann: 90% of Flow's tenant inquiries come direct, bypassing brokers | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Neumann: 70% of Americans under age 40 are renters | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 70% | “70%” | Neumann: 70% of Saudi Arabia's population is under 40 | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Neumann: Flow raised $300M Saudi fund from 33 local investors | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Neumann: Flow raised $300M Saudi fund from 33 local investors | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Neumann: Flow achieved 90% occupancy in 60 days in Saudi Arabia | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Neumann: Flow bought 30% of Israeli public firm for South Florida deals | Adam Neumann | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Bhardwaj: Enterprise AI clients prioritize predictability over baseline accuracy | Anant Bhardwaj | Jun 10, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Bhardwaj: Enterprise AI clients prioritize predictability over baseline accuracy | Anant Bhardwaj | Jun 10, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Bhardwaj: Enterprise AI clients prioritize predictability over baseline accuracy | Anant Bhardwaj | Jun 10, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Bhardwaj: Enterprise AI clients prioritize predictability over baseline accuracy | Anant Bhardwaj | Jun 10, 2025 | — |
| 300% | “300%” | Olivia Moore: Enterprises are adopting AI voice to replace offshore call centers | Olivia Moore | Jun 6, 2025 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Casado: Tech industry has invested $100 billion in autonomous vehicles | Martin Casado | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Andreessen: Yahoo bought Flickr and Delicious for $25 million each | Marc Andreessen | Jun 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | George: AI inference costs have dropped 99% over the past two years | David George | May 31, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | George: Consumer AI reached one billion users faster than any predecessor | David George | May 31, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Pande: Multiple startups are vying to become trillion-dollar consumer health giants | Vijay Pande | May 30, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Wolf: US healthcare is five times larger than the global advertising industry | Daisy Wolf | May 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 88% | “88%” | Wolf: 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy | Daisy Wolf | May 30, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Wolf: The US spends 20% of GDP on healthcare for worse outcomes | Daisy Wolf | May 30, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Wolf: 90% of healthcare will soon be delivered at home via phones | Daisy Wolf | May 30, 2025 | Open |
| 20% | “20%” | Wolf: 20% of all AI venture capital dollars go to healthcare | Daisy Wolf | May 30, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 75% | “75%” | Stoica: Over 70% of daily LMArena prompts are completely unique | Ion Stoica | May 29, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Angelopoulos: Chatbot Arena has 1M+ monthly users and 150M+ conversations | Anastasios Angelopoulos | May 29, 2025 | — |
| 150M | “a hundred fifty million” | Angelopoulos: Chatbot Arena has 1M+ monthly users and 150M+ conversations | Anastasios Angelopoulos | May 29, 2025 | — |
| 8B | “a seven billion” | Angelopoulos: LMArena router model outperforms all constituent models on Chatbot Arena | Anastasios Angelopoulos | May 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 2× | “two X” | Angelopoulos: LMArena prompt router yields double the performance per dollar | Anastasios Angelopoulos | May 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Rick Rubin claims a top neurosurgeon said half of medical textbooks are wrong | Rick Rubin | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Marc Andreessen claims extreme progressives dominate most AI companies except Elon Musk's | Marc Andreessen | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Marc Andreessen claims extreme progressives dominate most AI companies except Elon Musk's | Marc Andreessen | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Topol: Lifestyle changes can prevent up to 90% of cardiovascular disease | Dr. Eric Topol | May 27, 2025 | Supported |
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