| 50× | “50 X” | Friedberg: Open-source AI drops the cost of AI by 50x | David Friedberg |  ALL-IN | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Friedberg: US nuclear power costs $15B per gigawatt versus $1B in China | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Sep 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5.5M | “5500 thousand” | Friedberg: OpenAI's math solution equaled tens of thousands of human work years | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 10,000× | “10,000 X” | Friedberg: New tech cuts AI power cost per token by 10,000x | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Sep 12, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 10% | “10%” | Coogan: Debating exact p(doom) percentages and extinction mechanics is a sideshow | John Coogan |  TBPN | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Franceschetti: Word of mouth drives about 40% of Eight Sleep revenue | Matteo Franceschetti |  20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Franceschetti: Early hardware BOM and COGS projections are usually off by 50% | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Franceschetti: Probably 80% of Formula 1 drivers sleep on Eight Sleep | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Franceschetti: Eight Sleep Retained Hardware Lead Against 3x Competing RSU Offer | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Franceschetti: AI bots replaced Eight Sleep's email team and generate $100M | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Franceschetti: Eating pizza raises resting heart rate 10-15% and drops HRV 12% | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 12% | “12%” | Franceschetti: Eating pizza raises resting heart rate 10-15% and drops HRV 12% | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Franceschetti predicts Eight Sleep will hit $1B revenue with 250 people in three years | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Franceschetti: AI spending as share of engineering budgets will fall net-net | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Franceschetti: AI spending as share of engineering budgets will fall net-net | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Franceschetti: Startup joiners should seek 100x to 1,000x equity upside | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Franceschetti: Startup joiners should seek 100x to 1,000x equity upside | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Franceschetti: Eight Sleep's two-person paid media team generates $200M to $300M | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Franceschetti: 95% of health value comes from basics, not supplements | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Franceschetti: Meta-reported CAC is probably 20% lower than true CAC | Matteo Franceschetti | 20VC | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Bates: 30% of consumers will leave a brand after one bad experience | Tony Bates |  BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Lubershain: Energy accounts for 5% to 10% of data center operational costs | Andy Lubershane |  CATALYST | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5% | “1.5%” | Lubershain: Electricity accounts for 1% to 1.5% of average personal income | Andy Lubershane | CATALYST | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 6% | “six percent” | Lubershain: EPRI found data centers already slightly lower average customer bills | Andy Lubershane | CATALYST | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2× | “two times” | Lubershain: Grid equipment and gas plant costs have doubled or tripled | Andy Lubershane | CATALYST | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Lubershain: Grid equipment and gas plant costs have doubled or tripled | Andy Lubershane | CATALYST | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Lubershain: Large data centers add 10% to 30%+ to mid-sized utility loads | Andy Lubershane | CATALYST | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lubershain: Large data centers add 10% to 30%+ to mid-sized utility loads | Andy Lubershane | CATALYST | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Lubershain: Large data centers add 10% to 30%+ to mid-sized utility loads | Andy Lubershane | CATALYST | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Raz: The Container Store filed bankruptcy and was acquired for $150M | Guy Raz |  HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 97M | “ninety seven million” | Raz: Virality is borrowed attention; build brands around feelings, not products | Guy Raz | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Tindell capped The Container Store's annual growth at 20% for 40 years | Kip Tindell | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Haim: Hazel Grove Customs generated over $300k last year and aims for $350k | David Haim | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 197M | “a hundred ninety-seven million” | Kao: Sherpa Nest generated over 197M organic views without outside capital | Caitlin Kao | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Kao: Sherpa Nest generated over 197M organic views without outside capital | Caitlin Kao | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Anagnost says former CEO Carl Bass strained Autodesk by not pruning projects | Andrew Anagnost |  MASTERS OF SCALE | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Sanchez: Bed Bath & Beyond mailed nearly one billion coupons annually | Codie Sanchez |  BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Sanchez: A 30% to 45% close rate indicates optimal business pricing | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Sanchez: A 30% to 45% close rate indicates optimal business pricing | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Sanchez: A 30% to 45% close rate indicates optimal business pricing | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Sanchez: Deep discounting trains customers to buy discounts, lowering base pricing | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Sanchez: Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams generates $100M in annual revenue | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Sanchez: Price services at 10% to 30% of client value created | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Sanchez: Price services at 10% to 30% of client value created | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Sanchez: Price services at 10% to 30% of client value created | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Sanchez: Price services at 10% to 30% of client value created | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Sanchez: Most small businesses are underpriced by 30% to 300% | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 300% | “300%” | Sanchez: Most small businesses are underpriced by 30% to 300% | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Sanchez: 1% price hike lifts operating profit 11% per HBR | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 11% | “11%” | Sanchez: 1% price hike lifts operating profit 11% per HBR | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Sanchez: McKinsey study found 80% to 90% of pricing mistakes are underpricing | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Sankar: Data engineers spend roughly 80% of time debugging | Prukalpa Sankar |  NEON SHOW | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Sankar: 50% of Atlan's platform users are AI agents | Prukalpa Sankar | NEON SHOW | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Sankar: Settling for average PMF stalls startups at $5M to $7M | Prukalpa Sankar | NEON SHOW | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 7M | “seven million” | Sankar: Settling for average PMF stalls startups at $5M to $7M | Prukalpa Sankar | NEON SHOW | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Sankar: Atlan maintains an 85% competitive win rate against rivals | Prukalpa Sankar | NEON SHOW | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Sankar: Less than 10% of human job performance stems from cognitive intelligence | Prukalpa Sankar | NEON SHOW | Sep 10, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 40% | “40%” | Sankar: Analysts spend 30% to 40% of time discovering data | Prukalpa Sankar | NEON SHOW | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Sankar: About 20% of Fortune 500 are Atlan customers | Prukalpa Sankar | NEON SHOW | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Armstrong: Coinbase prediction markets reached ~$100M run rate within months | Brian Armstrong |  NO PRIORS | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Armstrong: Coinbase prediction markets reached ~$100M run rate within months | Brian Armstrong | NO PRIORS | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Armstrong: About 0.5% of global GDP runs on cryptocurrency | Brian Armstrong | NO PRIORS | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 88% | “88%” | Armstrong: 88% of Coinbase revenue comes from non-Bitcoin trading | Brian Armstrong | NO PRIORS | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Armstrong estimates an effective ALD drug might be worth $20 billion | Brian Armstrong | NO PRIORS | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Armstrong predicts skin rejuvenation is probably a trillion-dollar market | Brian Armstrong | NO PRIORS | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 76% | “76%” | Armstrong: 76% of agentic commerce transactions are under 30 cents | Brian Armstrong | NO PRIORS | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Armstrong estimates 50M to 100M people actively use crypto monthly | Brian Armstrong | NO PRIORS | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Armstrong estimates 50M to 100M people actively use crypto monthly | Brian Armstrong | NO PRIORS | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mavrookas: China built over 1,000 commercial ships in 2024 versus five in the US | Dino Mavrookas |  SOURCERY | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1% | “One percent” | Mavrookas: Only one percent of the defense budget went toward autonomy | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 57% | “57%” | Mavrookas: China controls 57% of global shipbuilding capacity | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Verdian: AI TAM can be 10x larger than traditional SaaS | Aram Verdian |  a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | George: US economy spends roughly 40x more on labor than software | David George | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| $6T | “six trillion dollars” | George predicts companies staying private longer will not reverse | David George | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Kha predicts top venture outcomes will reach $100B with OpenAI and Anthropic | Jen Kha | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | Open |
| 20% | “20%” | George: Growth-stage venture loss rates should be 10% to 20% | David George | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | George: Growth-stage venture loss rates should be 10% to 20% | David George | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two x” | Verdian: Average 10-year VC return trails public markets at 1-2x net | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | George: Top decile venture outcomes have increased from $10B to $40B | David George | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 40B | “forty billion” | George: Top decile venture outcomes have increased from $10B to $40B | David George | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Verdian: Late-stage funds require 5% to 10% position sizing in top company | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Verdian: AI reached $100B revenue in 4 years vs 15 for SaaS | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | George: Median US firm spends $12/employee/month on AI, top 1% spends $7,000 | David George | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Verdian: Only 15 to 20 public SaaS companies trade above 10x revenue | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Verdian: Private equity is refusing to buy slow-growing seat-based software companies | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | George: a16z's best-performing early-stage venture funds have a 60% loss rate | David George | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Verdian: Cursor recently raised at a $400M valuation on $3M ARR | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Verdian: Cursor recently raised at a $400M valuation on $3M ARR | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | Verdian: 2021-2022 software LBOs valued at 25-32x EBITDA are now worth half | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Verdian: 2021-2022 software LBOs valued at 25-32x EBITDA are now worth half | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 32× | “32 times” | Verdian: 2021-2022 software LBOs valued at 25-32x EBITDA are now worth half | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three X” | Verdian: Only 20 of 3,000 US VC firms consistently returned 3x net | Aram Verdian | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 1.7M | “1.7 million” | John Coogan: Monthly AI job losses are under 1% of total US losses | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | John Coogan: Monthly AI job losses are under 1% of total US losses | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | John Coogan: Concrete narratives communicate AI risk better than abstract percentages | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | John Coogan: Concrete narratives communicate AI risk better than abstract percentages | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Jordi Hays predicts high-valuation startups will sell at 90% discounts within three years | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 1.8B | “1.79 billion” | Hays: Bending Spoons acquires Miro for $1.79B | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | O'Driscoll: Sierra must become a complete customer ecosystem to justify massive valuation | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 2.5T | “a half a trillion” | O'Driscoll: Coding is a half-trillion dollar industry | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lemkin: Gorgias' WhatsApp AI agent reached double-digit usage in weeks | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 2.5T | “a half a trillion” | Stebbings: AI in legal services could be a half-trillion dollar market | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 1.5T | “a half trillion” | Stebbings: AI in legal services could be a half-trillion dollar market | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | O'Driscoll: Holding competing late-stage AI stakes creates no real conflict | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | O'Driscoll predicts AI captures 10-15% of legal spend versus 30-50% in coding | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | O'Driscoll predicts AI captures 10-15% of legal spend versus 30-50% in coding | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lemkin: Oura will have a pretty successful IPO | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 18% | “18%” | Lemkin: Oura will have a pretty successful IPO | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 21% | “21%” | Kantrowitz: Motorola folding phone launch drove 21% sales surge and 17% higher ASP | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 17% | “17%” | Kantrowitz: Motorola folding phone launch drove 21% sales surge and 17% higher ASP | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6% | “six percent” | Kantrowitz: Samsung's 2021 foldable push grew sales 6% and revenue 11% | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 11% | “11%” | Kantrowitz: Samsung's 2021 foldable push grew sales 6% and revenue 11% | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Canary says Mast buried ten million pounds of fire-killed trees in Montana | Grant Canary |  GREEN BLUEPRINT | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Hawk required sponsors to donate 10% to 20% to his foundation | Tony Hawk |  MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $4.5M | “4.5 million dollars” | Tony Hawk: Activision gave him a $4.5M check for Pro Skater | Tony Hawk | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tony Hawk: Airwalk cut his monthly sponsorship pay from $1,500 to $300 within one year | Tony Hawk | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tony Hawk: Foundation has contributed to nearly 1,000 skate parks | Tony Hawk | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 9, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $1.5M | “half a million dollars” | Hawk says declining Activision's $500,000 royalty buyout led to his first million | Tony Hawk | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $2.5M | “a half a million dollars” | Hawk says declining Activision's $500,000 royalty buyout led to his first million | Tony Hawk | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 600% | “600%” | Reina: ElevenLabs account executives achieve 300% to 600% quota attainment | Carles Reina |  SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 300% | “300%” | Reina: ElevenLabs account executives achieve 300% to 600% quota attainment | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “one million dollars” | Reina says he told reps $1M ARR added $33M to valuation | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $33M | “thirty-three million dollars” | Reina says he told reps $1M ARR added $33M to valuation | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “hundred million dollars” | Reina: GTM teams must test 100 ideas because one hit yields $100M ARR | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Reina: ElevenLabs set a 20x quota-to-base ratio with uncapped commissions | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Reina: ElevenLabs scaled from $0 to over $600M ARR in 41 months | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Reina: ElevenLabs scaled from $0 to over $600M ARR in 41 months | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Reina: ElevenLabs scaled from $0 to over $600M ARR in 41 months | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Reina: ElevenLabs scaled from $0 to over $600M ARR in 41 months | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Reina: ElevenLabs would have neared $1B ARR with earlier senior sales hiring | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Reina: Over 10% of ElevenLabs' enterprise revenue came from startup grants | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Blond: Startups should not blindly copy ElevenLabs' 20x sales quota | Sam Blond | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Blond: Startups should not blindly copy ElevenLabs' 20x sales quota | Sam Blond | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Blond: Startups should not blindly copy ElevenLabs' 20x sales quota | Sam Blond | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Reina: ElevenLabs paid zero sales commissions on POCs, only recurring revenue | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 167% | “167%” | Reina: ElevenLabs GTM team averages 167% quarterly quota attainment | Carles Reina | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Blond: Sales leaders should adjust quotas mid-quarter if reps fall behind | Sam Blond | SAASTR | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Magow: 75 to 80 percent of travel bookings happen in mobile apps | Rajesh Magow |  WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 88% | “88%” | Chhatwal: 88% of IHCL revenues come from asset-heavy properties | Puneet Chhatwal | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Magow: IRCTC commands 80 percent of Indian online rail bookings | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Magow: IRCTC commands 80 percent of Indian online rail bookings | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $11B | “eleven billion dollars” | Magow: MakeMyTrip reported $11B in gross booking value last year | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “5%” | Kamath: India Spends 0.5% of GDP on Tourism | Nikhil Kamath | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 70% | “70%” | Chhatwal: IHCL lowered asset-heavy portfolio share to 30% | Puneet Chhatwal | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Chhatwal: IHCL lowered asset-heavy portfolio share to 30% | Puneet Chhatwal | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 200% | “200%” | Kamath: Airport handling and landing charges in Mumbai increased 200% | Nikhil Kamath | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 1.7M | “1.67 million” | Magow: India possesses only 1.5 to 1.67 million hotel rooms | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Rajesh Magow: Scaled travel platforms secure inventory via soft blocks without prepaying | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Rajesh Magow: MakeMyTrip gets 75% of its user traffic directly, bypassing Google | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Magow: India has over 900M internet users but only 250M-300M online buyers | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Magow: India has over 900M internet users but only 250M-300M online buyers | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Magow: MakeMyTrip holds about 30% share of Indian domestic flights | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Magow: 50% of Ayodhya visitors also visited Varanasi on the same trip | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 10% | “10%” | Chhatwal: Goa and Shimla infrastructure cannot handle more short-term tourism load | Puneet Chhatwal | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Magow: 95% of MakeMyTrip's bookings come from Indian travelers | Rajesh Magow | WTF | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| $1.5M | “1.5 million dollars” | Chi: Vals consumed $1.5M in model tokens in one month, 10x salaries | Ryan Chi | a16z | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Chi: Vals consumed $1.5M in model tokens in one month, 10x salaries | Ryan Chi | a16z | Sep 9, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Coogan: AI created one million US jobs versus 200,000 related layoffs | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 9, 2026 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Coogan: AI labs will likely solve the Millennium Prize problems this year | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 9, 2026 | Open |
| 85% | “85%” | European Small Businesses Employ Two-Thirds of the Workforce | Oliver Moseni |  TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Lending Tech Fails If It Keeps Traditional Banks' Low Risk Appetites | Oliver Moseni | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Lending Tech Fails If It Keeps Traditional Banks' Low Risk Appetites | Oliver Moseni | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 16% | “16%” | Froda Averages a 16% Annual Percentage Rate Across Its Loans | Oliver Moseni | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 3.5% | “3.5%” | Froda Expects Elevated Credit Losses to Normalize Back to 3% | Oliver Moseni | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Froda Takes a 3% to 5% Upfront Credit Loss Buffer | Oliver Moseni | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 49M | “forty nine million” | Froda Has Raised $49 Million in Total Equity Funding | Oliver Moseni | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 57M | “fifty-seven million” | Froda Generated Approximately $57 Million in Revenue Last Year | Oliver Moseni | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | Open |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Froda Reaches $500 Million in Active Outstanding Loan Balance | Oliver Moseni | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | Open |
| 30% | “30%” | Froda Maintains 30% Year-Over-Year Growth Despite Challenging Macroeconomic Conditions | Oliver Moseni | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Perez: Releasing essays at 80% completion tests audience resonance for books | Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) | BIGDEAL | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Perez: Wisdom Ventures raised a $10M Fund I and $77M Fund II | Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) | BIGDEAL | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 77M | “seventy-seven million” | Perez: Wisdom Ventures raised a $10M Fund I and $77M Fund II | Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) | BIGDEAL | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Ugarte: 99% of GrokBot automations are built using natural language | Roman Ugarte |  LENNY'S PODCAST | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Ugarte: 90% task delegation still cognitively burdens delegators unlike full delegation | Roman Ugarte | LENNY'S PODCAST | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Ugarte: Cursor scaled from 15 to over 1,000 employees before joining SpaceXAI | Roman Ugarte | LENNY'S PODCAST | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.5B | “a half a billion” | Gupta says his early startup rejected a $500M buyout before collapsing | Nikhil Gupta | NEON SHOW | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Gupta repeatedly discourages prospective founders to test their genuine commitment | Nikhil Gupta | NEON SHOW | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 2.5B | “a half a billion” | Gupta: Cloud security pain persisted despite $500M invested in 2016-2017 startups | Nikhil Gupta | NEON SHOW | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gupta: Security is the only hindrance holding AI back from 10x scale | Nikhil Gupta | NEON SHOW | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Romanesco puts down 25% to finance overseas property purchases | Leslie Romanesco |  PAUL MORRIS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Morris removed a Joshua Tree property from a fund to protect returns | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 6% | “six percent” | Morris removed a Joshua Tree property from a fund to protect returns | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| $6.2M | “6.2 million dollars” | Morris renovated a $2.1M Santa Monica home and sold for $6.2M | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Mead notes India's GDP fell from 60 percent of China's to 17 percent | Walter Russell Mead |  INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Sep 8, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 65% | “65%” | Mead notes India's GDP fell from 60 percent of China's to 17 percent | Walter Russell Mead | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Sep 8, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 17% | “17%” | Mead notes India's GDP fell from 60 percent of China's to 17 percent | Walter Russell Mead | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Sep 8, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mavrookas: China built 1,000+ commercial ships in 2024 versus five US ships | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 1.5T | “1.5 trillion” | Mavrookas: Only 1% of US defense budget allocated to autonomy | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Mavrookas: Only 1% of US defense budget allocated to autonomy | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Mavrookas: Only 1% of US defense budget allocated to autonomy | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 57% | “57%” | Mavrookas: China controls 57% of global shipbuilding capacity | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Mavrookas: Saronic announced multi-hundred million dollar Navy contract in December 2025 | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 60B | “sixty billion” | Mavrookas: Port Alpha will create 10,000 jobs and $160B economic impact | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 8, 2026 | Open |
| $1.2T | “1.2 trillion dollars” | Mavrookas: US Navy 30-year shipbuilding plan will cost $1.2 trillion | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Brockman: OpenAI surpasses one billion weekly active users | Greg Brockman | TBPN | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Brockman: 300 million people use ChatGPT for health queries weekly | Greg Brockman | TBPN | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Roy: Doubts over competitive lead could harm Anthropic's two trillion dollar IPO | Ranjan Roy | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Kantrowitz: Greg Brockman previously said OpenAI was 80% toward AGI | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| $6M | “six million dollars” | Swyx says he spent six million dollars on AV this year | Shawn Wang |  LATENT SPACE | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Slack says hiring early PMs or marketers is an outdated practice | Quinn Slack | LATENT SPACE | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
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