| 10,000× | “10,000 times” | Gilbert: Human-curated web directories cannot scale as internet content multiplies exponentially | Ben Gilbert | Jun 30, 2025 | — |
| 2,500× | “2500 X” | Gilbert: NFL TV Rights Contract Value Grew 2,500x Over 62 Years | Ben Gilbert | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 2,300× | “2300 X” | Web traffic grew 2,300x between January 1993 and January 1994 | David Rosenthal | Aug 16, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 2,300× | “2300 X” | US Sports Franchises Returned 13% Annualized from 1961 to 2024 | Ben Gilbert | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 1,500× | “1500 X” | Gilbert: $1,800 invested in Amazon's IPO grew to $2.6M by 2022 | Ben Gilbert | Aug 16, 2022 | Supported |
| 800× | “800 X” | Gilbert: Starbucks' 1991 Employee Stock Option Grants Have Appreciated 800x | Ben Gilbert | Jun 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 550× | “550 X” | US Sports Franchises Returned 13% Annualized from 1961 to 2024 | Ben Gilbert | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 405× | “405 X” | Berkshire Hathaway delivered a 39,000x return since 1965 versus S&P's 405x | Ben Gilbert | May 18, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 330× | “330 X” | A $10,000 investment in Costco's 1985 IPO generated a 330x return by 2023 | Ben Gilbert | Aug 21, 2023 | Supported |
| 160× | “160 times” | Ferrari is worth more than Ford, VW, Stellantis, and Mercedes | Ben Gilbert | Apr 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “100 times” | There are 100 times as many venture capitalists today as the 1990s | Ben Gilbert | Sep 28, 2022 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Nvidia IPO'd at a $600M Valuation in 1999 | David Rosenthal | Mar 28, 2022 | Supported |
| 92× | “92 X” | Benchmark's first fund delivered a 92x return on invested capital | Ben Gilbert | Sep 28, 2022 | Supported |
| 75× | “75 X” | Gilbert: Microsoft P/E multiple compressed from 75x to 14x under Ballmer | Ben Gilbert | Jul 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 64× | “64 times” | Formula 1 Logistics Generate 64 Times More Emissions Than the Race Cars | Ben Gilbert | Mar 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 64× | “64 X” | Gilbert: Starbucks' 1991 Employee Stock Option Grants Have Appreciated 800x | Ben Gilbert | Jun 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 60× | “60 times” | Gilbert: Trader Joe's turns over its entire inventory 60 times annually | Ben Gilbert | Oct 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 50× | “fifty-x” | Google's Monthly AI Token Volume Grew 50x in One Year | Ben Gilbert | Oct 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 X” | Rosenthal: First Round Capital's first institutional fund achieved a 50x return | David Rosenthal | Mar 18, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 48× | “48 X” | Cloud instances cost $30 hourly for A100s and $100 hourly for H100s | Ben Gilbert | Sep 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 40× | “forty-X” | Rosenthal: Sequoia invested $150k in Apple and sold entirely for $6M | David Rosenthal | Jun 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | 1920s Americans averaged over 40 movie theater visits annually | Ben Gilbert | Jun 23, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 40× | “40 times” | US theater attendance fell from 32 to 14 between 1947 and 1956 | Ben Gilbert | Jun 23, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | Dimon: Big investment banks increased leverage from 12x to 35x before 2008 | Jamie Dimon | Jul 16, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | 98% of households purchase candy an average of 35 times annually | Ben Gilbert | Dec 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 32× | “32 times” | US theater attendance fell from 32 to 14 between 1947 and 1956 | Ben Gilbert | Jun 23, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Nvidia's H100 GPU is nine times faster for AI training than A100 | Ben Gilbert | Sep 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Benchmark's 2011 fund reached a 25x gross return before fees | Ben Gilbert | Sep 28, 2022 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Live podcast episodes require 10 to 20 times more production effort | Ben Gilbert | Dec 19, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Michael Ovitz proposed that Disney acquire Yahoo and CBS Records | Michael Ovitz | Dec 21, 2021 | — |
| 20× | “twenty-X” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “twenty-x” | Gilbert: IPL Grew 20x Since 2008 to Exceed $16B Valuation | Ben Gilbert | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Rosenthal: Taylor Swift Enterprise Value Is $11B Using Disney's 20x Multiple | David Rosenthal | Sep 30, 2024 | — |
| 16× | “16 X” | Hermès' market capitalization increased 16-fold between 2010 and 2024. | David Rosenthal | Feb 20, 2024 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Gilbert: Amazon grew revenue 15x year-over-year before going public | Ben Gilbert | Aug 16, 2022 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | US theater attendance fell from 32 to 14 between 1947 and 1956 | Ben Gilbert | Jun 23, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 14× | “14 X” | Gilbert: Microsoft P/E multiple compressed from 75x to 14x under Ballmer | Ben Gilbert | Jul 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 13× | “13 times” | Luxury handbag profits are typically 10 to 12 times their production cost. | Ben Gilbert | Feb 20, 2024 | — |
| 12.4× | “12.4 times” | Costco turns its inventory 12.4 times yearly compared to Walmart's 8 | Ben Gilbert | Aug 21, 2023 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Dimon: Big investment banks increased leverage from 12x to 35x before 2008 | Jamie Dimon | Jul 16, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Luxury handbag profits are typically 10 to 12 times their production cost. | Ben Gilbert | Feb 20, 2024 | — |
| 10.7× | “10.7 x” | Gilbert: NFL revenue multiple expanded from 6.4x to 10.7x over five years | Ben Gilbert | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Costco generates approximately ten times more revenue per SKU than Walmart | Ben Gilbert | Aug 21, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Gross Margins Across Automakers: BMW 17%, Porsche 29%, Ferrari 48% | Ben Gilbert | Jun 27, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “ten-x” | Rosenthal: Buying Enron stock at 61 cents yielded over a 10x return | David Rosenthal | Nov 29, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | Rosenthal: Amazon 10xed revenue in 1997 to nearly $150M | David Rosenthal | Aug 16, 2022 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gilbert: 10x computing gains every 5-7 years continue via GPUs | Ben Gilbert | Jun 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gassner: Veeva Vault has 5x to 10x the potential of Veeva CRM | Peter Gassner | May 19, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 times” | Gilbert: Nvidia's Graphics Head Start Made It the Best Machine Learning Hardware Company | Ben Gilbert | Mar 28, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Peloton's digital trials spiked 10x to 1.2M users at COVID-19's onset | Ben Gilbert | Feb 10, 2022 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Michael Ovitz proposed that Disney acquire Yahoo and CBS Records | Michael Ovitz | Dec 21, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gilbert: FTX grew trading volume 10x in 2020 | Ben Gilbert | Dec 15, 2021 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gilbert: FTX grew trading volume 10x in H1 2021 alone | Ben Gilbert | Dec 15, 2021 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Johns: Expensive valuations force investors to make predictions | Brinton Johns | Nov 3, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | By 1994, Disney's market cap topped all other traditional media companies | David Rosenthal | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | LeBron James has 10x the social media following of top NFL stars | David Rosenthal | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Solid milk chocolate and conching vastly expanded the chocolate market | Ben Gilbert | Dec 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gilbert: In September 2005, Facebook held one-third of US college students at 70% DAU | Ben Gilbert | Oct 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Gilbert: Company leaders must repeat core messaging 10x more than expected | Ben Gilbert | Jul 22, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Berkshire Hathaway bought Apple when its valuation fell to 10x earnings | Charlie Munger | Oct 30, 2023 | Supported |
| 9× | “nine x” | Gilbert: NFL revenue multiple expanded from 6.4x to 10.7x over five years | Ben Gilbert | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 9× | “nine times” | Transformer attention computational cost scales quadratically with input prompt length | Ben Gilbert | Sep 6, 2023 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Nvidia's H100 GPU is nine times faster for AI training than A100 | Ben Gilbert | Sep 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Costco turns its inventory 12.4 times yearly compared to Walmart's 8 | Ben Gilbert | Aug 21, 2023 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Rosenthal: Disney operating profit increased nearly 8x between 1984 and 1994 | David Rosenthal | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 7.5× | “7.5 X” | Enron's reported revenue surged 7.5x from $13.3 billion to over $100 billion | David Rosenthal | Nov 29, 2022 | Supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Carolyn Davidson's 500 Pre-IPO Nike Shares Are Worth $7 Million Today | Ben Gilbert | Jul 25, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Google Toolbar users averaged seven times more searches | Ben Gilbert | Jun 30, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 6.4× | “6.4 x” | Gilbert: NFL revenue multiple expanded from 6.4x to 10.7x over five years | Ben Gilbert | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Bank of America Suffered $20M Fraud in Fresno Credit Card Pilot | David Rosenthal | Nov 27, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Munger says great investment opportunities only happen five or six times | Charlie Munger | Oct 30, 2023 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Costco turns its inventory 12.4 times yearly compared to Walmart's 8 | Ben Gilbert | Aug 21, 2023 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Gassner: Veeva Vault has 5x to 10x the potential of Veeva CRM | Peter Gassner | May 19, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 5× | “five X” | Rosenthal: Nvidia's 1999 GeForce 256 offered 5x better graphics performance than competitors | David Rosenthal | Mar 28, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Gilbert: Disney net income grew fivefold to $12.4B under Iger | Ben Gilbert | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Google's Core Business Has Grown 5x Since 2015/2016 | David Rosenthal | Oct 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Google Cloud Exceeds $50B Run Rate at 30% Growth | Ben Gilbert | Oct 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Nvidia Charges 75% to 80% Gross Margins on AI Chips | Ben Gilbert | Oct 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Jeff Dean built AdWords, AdSense, MapReduce, and Gemini | David Rosenthal | Jun 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Rosenthal: Google grew revenue over 5x from 2001 to 2002 | David Rosenthal | Jun 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Rosenthal: Rolex's historic Aegler order was five times the company's capital | David Rosenthal | Feb 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Gilbert: Free ad-supported search makes 3x to 5x more per user than software | Ben Gilbert | Jul 22, 2024 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Microsoft employs five times more people per market-cap dollar than Nvidia | Ben Gilbert | Sep 6, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 4× | “four X” | Rosenthal: Disney grew market cap from $50B to $200B from 2005-2015 | David Rosenthal | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 4× | “four X” | Bernie Ecclestone Increased Average Formula 1 Team Race Payouts to $200,000 | David Rosenthal | Mar 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4× | “four times” | The NFL Monetizes Fans at $127 Annually Compared to Formula 1's $7 | Ben Gilbert | Mar 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 4× | “four X” | Acquired is 3x to 4x oversubscribed on potential sponsors | Ben Gilbert | Dec 15, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | The original Coca-Cola formula contained four times today's caffeine content | Ben Gilbert | Nov 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Forrest Mars' independent empire reached $200 million, quadrupling Chicago Mars' revenue | David Rosenthal | Dec 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Munger says an investor only has to get rich once in life | Charlie Munger | Oct 30, 2023 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Walmart's US revenue is approximately triple Costco's US revenue | Ben Gilbert | Aug 21, 2023 | Supported |
| 3× | “three X” | Gilbert: NVIDIA data center revenue tripled to over $10.5B annually | Ben Gilbert | Apr 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Gilbert: NVIDIA trades at 3x Apple's P/S and 2x Microsoft's | Ben Gilbert | Apr 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 3× | “three X” | John Foley correctly identified that treadmills are a 3x larger market | Ben Gilbert | Feb 10, 2022 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Gilbert: Disney net income grew fivefold to $12.4B under Iger | Ben Gilbert | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Football is three times more popular than basketball in America | Ben Gilbert | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three X” | Product placement in E.T. tripled sales of Reese's Pieces | Ben Gilbert | Dec 16, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three X” | Gilbert: Microsoft revenue grew 3.5x to $84B during Ballmer's CEO tenure | Ben Gilbert | Jul 22, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Munger says great investment opportunities only happen five or six times | Charlie Munger | Oct 30, 2023 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Munger says Berkshire Hathaway would be 3x larger with slightly more leverage | Charlie Munger | Oct 30, 2023 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Opportunities like Japan trading house arbitrage happen twice a century | Charlie Munger | Oct 30, 2023 | — |
| 2× | “two x” | Gilbert: NVIDIA trades at 3x Apple's P/S and 2x Microsoft's | Ben Gilbert | Apr 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 2× | “two X” | By 2015, Disney generated over $50B annually in gross retail merchandise sales | David Rosenthal | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2× | “two x” | Schultz: Starbucks Employee Tenure Is Double the Industry Average | Howard Schultz | Jun 4, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 2× | “two X” | Novo Nordisk Foundation's $120 billion endowment doubles the Gates Foundation | David Rosenthal | Jan 22, 2024 | Partly supported |
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