| 90% | “90%” | Slack says hiring early PMs or marketers is an outdated practice | Quinn Slack |  LATENT SPACE | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Vaccarella predicts that Bogg Bag will become a billion-dollar brand | Kim Vaccarella |  HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | Open |
| 25% | “25%” | Vaccarella gave a 25% stake in Bogg Bag for a $120,000 investment | Kim Vaccarella | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Bogg Bag reached $50 million in 2023 revenue with five core employees | Kim Vaccarella | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Guy Raz says Vaccarella was rejected from Shark Tank four times | Guy Raz | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Vaccarella says up to 1,000 bags in a 1,200-unit order arrived defective | Kim Vaccarella | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Bogg Bag hit $20 million in sales while taking orders manually | Kim Vaccarella | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Vaccarella sold a 40% stake in Bogg Bag to preserve founder control | Kim Vaccarella | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | A public company offered over $100 million for a Bogg Bag majority | Kim Vaccarella | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Vaccarella says Bogg Bag reached $1 million in sales in 2018 | Kim Vaccarella | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Vaccarella kept Bogg Bag at 90% wholesale during the COVID-19 pandemic | Kim Vaccarella | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| $33M | “thirty three million dollars” | Yeung: IM8 doubled marketing spend to $33M while CAC decreased | Danny Yeung |  MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 28M | “twenty-eight million” | Yeung: Prenetics ran 40,000 PCR tests daily and 28 million total | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Yeung: Prenetics netted over $100 million from COVID-19 testing | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 2B | “two billion” | Yeung: Lucira went bankrupt 18 months after COVID because it overbuilt | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Danny Yeung: Groupon HK reached $200M in annual revenue by 2014 | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Yeung: Prenetics generated over $700M in revenue over three pandemic years | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4M | “four million” | Yeung: Cold-calling MGM secured a $4 million furniture contract | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Yeung: Operating successfully in China requires a completely different model and team | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Yeung: Prenetics' market cap collapsed from over $1B to $50M | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Yeung: Prenetics' market cap collapsed from over $1B to $50M | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Yeung: IM8 reached $100M revenue run rate in 11 months | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 72M | “seventy-two million” | Yeung: Prenetics' revenue plunged 95% after reaching $272M in 2022 | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Yeung: Prenetics' revenue plunged 95% after reaching $272M in 2022 | Danny Yeung | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Schumm: Vestwell has over 2.5 million active savers on its platform | Aaron Schumm |  PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| $1.5M | “half a million dollars” | Schumm says Vestwell now generates its 2018 annual revenue daily | Aaron Schumm | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| $1.5M | “a half million dollars” | Schumm: Vestwell closed a $4.5M seed round in September 2016 | Aaron Schumm | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Schumm: Workplace savings plans grow faster than individual wealth accounts | Aaron Schumm | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Schumm: Workplace savings plans grow faster than individual wealth accounts | Aaron Schumm | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 0.1% | “0.1%” | Mavrookas: China outbuilds the US 230-to-1 in shipbuilding | Dino Mavrookas |  SOURCERY | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 92M | “ninety two million” | Mavrookas: Saronic announced $392M Navy contract in December 2025 | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mavrookas: Saronic's Mirage carries 3,500 pounds with a 2,500-nautical-mile range | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Mavrookas: Saronic's Mirage carries 3,500 pounds with a 2,500-nautical-mile range | Dino Mavrookas | SOURCERY | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Greze: AI wrappers face broken economics paying suppliers 70% margins to compete | Jean-Denis Greze |  20VC | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Greze: 30% of users churn immediately when required to connect email and calendar | Jean-Denis Greze | 20VC | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 65M | “sixty five million” | Greze: Silicon Valley startups routinely inflate headline valuations via blended rounds | Jean-Denis Greze | 20VC | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Greze: Over 15% of users who try Town convert to paid | Jean-Denis Greze | 20VC | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| $1.5B | “a half billion dollars” | Stebbings: Instinct raised at a $2.5 billion valuation without monetization | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Greze: Town can hit $100B valuation with 10M paying users | Jean-Denis Greze | 20VC | Sep 7, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Dell: 80% of Texas electricity market is deregulated, 20% regulated | Zach Dell |  DAVID SENRA | Sep 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Dell: 80% of Texas electricity market is deregulated, 20% regulated | Zach Dell | DAVID SENRA | Sep 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Dell: US electricity demand CAGR will jump 5x to 10% | Zach Dell | DAVID SENRA | Sep 6, 2026 | Open |
| 10% | “10%” | Dell: US electricity demand CAGR will jump 5x to 10% | Zach Dell | DAVID SENRA | Sep 6, 2026 | Open |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | a16z avoids seed-stage startups whose ideas are too small | Anish Acharya |  LENNY'S PODCAST | Sep 6, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Weitzman: Speechify Simba 3.2 ranks number one globally for quality | Cliff Weitzman | 20VC | Sep 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Stebbings: 30 to 40 startups have raised $100M to $300M seed rounds | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 5, 2026 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Weitzman: Speechify holds 98% of B2C text-to-speech App Store installs | Cliff Weitzman | 20VC | Sep 5, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Stebbings says Chief Revenue Officer compensation packages can exceed $50 million | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 5, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Weitzman: NVIDIA guarantees 25% GPU buybacks with Wall Street lenders | Cliff Weitzman | 20VC | Sep 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $15M | “fifteen million dollars” | Stebbings sees compensation packages up to $15 million at seed-stage companies | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 5, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Stebbings argues buying GPUs is a mistake due to marginal cost savings | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 5, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “5 X” | Stebbings argues buying GPUs is a mistake due to marginal cost savings | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 5, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Brit Morin: Uses Tesla Self-Driving on 95% of Personal Drives | Brit Morin |  MORE OR LESS | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Jessica Lessin: Prominent media lists are driven by corporate sponsorship | Jessica Lessin | MORE OR LESS | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Brit Morin: 95% of people on media lists are pitched by PR | Brit Morin | MORE OR LESS | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Suds: AI code volume breaks traditional CI pipelines and raises costs | Sudarshan "Suds" | MORE OR LESS | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Jenik: A single 5-trillion-token model run generated 22 terabytes of output | Benedikt Jenik | LATENT SPACE | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Jenik: Accelerated Understanding has trained physics models up to 1-trillion parameters | Benedikt Jenik | LATENT SPACE | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Jenik: Accelerated Understanding achieved 5-trillion token inference context length | Benedikt Jenik | LATENT SPACE | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Jenik: Accelerated Understanding achieved 5-trillion token inference context length | Benedikt Jenik | LATENT SPACE | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 6T | “a five trillion” | Anandkumar: Standard Transformers cannot scale to 5-trillion context lengths for physics | Anima Anandkumar | LATENT SPACE | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Parr: Nick Gray grew Museum Hack to $3M revenue in 3-4 years | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Sam Parr: Nearly every business can reach $5M to $10M in revenue | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 35% | “35%” | Puri: Dolly Parton's Cash Incentive Dropped High School Dropout Rate to 6% | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 6% | “six percent” | Puri: Dolly Parton's Cash Incentive Dropped High School Dropout Rate to 6% | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $85M | “eighty-five million dollars” | Parr: Equine Network sold for $300M with $85M revenue and 200 employees | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Parr: Equine Network sold for $300M with $85M revenue and 200 employees | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Puri: LeBron James raised $300M upfront via a 30-year bond under 5% | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Puri: LeBron James raised $300M upfront via a 30-year bond under 5% | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Parton reinvested $10M from song royalties into housing for a Black community | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Sacks: Anthropic IPO will be 4x all past SF IPOs combined | David Sacks |  ALL-IN | Sep 4, 2026 | Open |
| 83% | “83%” | Calacanis: MIT study found 83% of LLM essay writers could not quote their work | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.5T | “half a trillion dollars” | Chamath: Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs will fund over $500B in charity | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Sep 4, 2026 | Open |
| 3M | “three million” | Sacks: Venezuela's oil production fell by two-thirds under Maduro | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Sacks: Venezuela's oil production fell by two-thirds under Maduro | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Calacanis: Late-stage tech valuations at 50 to 100x revenue are unsustainable | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Calacanis: OpenAI's Polymarket odds for 2026 best model spiked above 20% | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Chamath: Frontier AI models are converging across 98% to 99% of key tasks | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Coogan: GPT-6 Astra achieves 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 benchmark | John Coogan |  TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Nvidia offers $1B in employee retention packages to Hugging Face team | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| $12.9B | “12.9303 billion dollars” | Nvidia buys Hugging Face for $12.93B, matching the emoji's decimal code | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Coogan: AI Companion Market Is Far Below One Trillion Dollars | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Coogan: Hugging Face Turned Down $500M From Nvidia at $7B Valuation | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 8B | “a seven billion” | Coogan: Hugging Face Turned Down $500M From Nvidia at $7B Valuation | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 64.6% | “64.6%” | Coogan: GPT-6 Astra scores 64.6% on Terminal Bench Science | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Coogan: 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic Enterprise Revenue Comes from 1% of Customers | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Coogan: 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic Enterprise Revenue Comes from 1% of Customers | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Coogan: Hugging Face Reached 18M Developers and 3M Models | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Coogan: Hugging Face Reached 18M Developers and 3M Models | John Coogan | TBPN | Sep 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 16M | “a fifteen million” | Janous: Data centers spurred massive civic investment and job gains in Quincy | Brian Janous |  CATALYST | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Janous: Data centers spurred massive civic investment and job gains in Quincy | Brian Janous | CATALYST | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 29% | “29%” | Janous: Data centers spurred massive civic investment and job gains in Quincy | Brian Janous | CATALYST | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6% | “six percent” | Janous: Data centers spurred massive civic investment and job gains in Quincy | Brian Janous | CATALYST | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1.8M | “1.8 million” | Alpert: Gielish Hit $1.8M in Wholesale Sales in Its First Year | Darren Alpert | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Alpert: Gielish Will Reach Approximately $3.5M in Sales This Year | Darren Alpert | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Raz: Olipop Is Valued at Over $2 Billion | Guy Raz | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Goodwin: Olipop Gross Revenue Tops $500M, Targeting $1 Billion | Ben Goodwin | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Goodwin: Olipop Gross Revenue Tops $500M, Targeting $1 Billion | Ben Goodwin | HOW I BUILT THIS | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| $1.5T | “half a trillion dollars” | Tandon: US healthcare creates $500B in annual administrative bloat | Tanay Tandon |  NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $500B | “five hundred billion dollars” | Tandon: US healthcare creates $500B in annual administrative bloat | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Tandon: Epic holds only 30% to 40% of the EMR market | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Tandon: US healthcare software spending is $70B to $80B | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Tandon: Healthcare transaction costs run at 15% to 20% | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Tandon: Healthcare transaction costs run at 15% to 20% | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Tandon: Inpatient hospital procedures pay 3x to 4x outpatient rates | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Tandon: Inpatient hospital procedures pay 3x to 4x outpatient rates | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 85% | “85%” | Tandon: 85% of Commure's Claims Are Processed Entirely Autonomously by AI | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Tandon: Commure is not a success unless it reaches $100B valuation | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Tandon: Commure Powers 7% of All US Healthcare Visits | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Tandon: Clinicians spend 20% to 40% of time on paperwork | Tanay Tandon | NEON SHOW | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Haas: AI Won't Push-Button Design Frontier Chips Outperforming Leading Architectures | Rene Haas |  NO PRIORS | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Haas: AI Won't Push-Button Design Frontier Chips Outperforming Leading Architectures | Rene Haas | NO PRIORS | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Haas: AI Won't Push-Button Design Frontier Chips Outperforming Leading Architectures | Rene Haas | NO PRIORS | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Haas: 80% to 90% of Arm engineers use AI daily | Rene Haas | NO PRIORS | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Levchin: Seeing peers' human vulnerabilities inspired PayPal alumni to pursue massive ideas | Max Levchin |  a16z | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Rampell: Higher payment transaction sizes yield smaller percentage take rates | Alex Rampell | a16z | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Levchin: Instacart grocery delivery is already 100% agentic commerce | Max Levchin | a16z | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Levchin: Up-funnel Affirm installment options drove a 30% conversion increase at Beautylish | Max Levchin | a16z | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Levchin: Every niche in payments is at least $100 billion | Max Levchin | a16z | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Torre: Aspiration signed a $300M jersey patch deal with the Clippers | Pablo Torre | TBPN | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $30M | “thirty million dollars” | Torre: NBA Hit Steve Ballmer With Largest Owner Sanction in American Sports History | Pablo Torre | TBPN | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Torre: NBA Hit Steve Ballmer With Largest Owner Sanction in American Sports History | Pablo Torre | TBPN | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $48M | “forty-eight million dollars” | Torre: Kawhi Leonard was contracted for $48M from Aspiration to do nothing | Pablo Torre | TBPN | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | O'Driscoll: Enterprise buyers like JPMorgan will not 10x software purchase budgets | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Enterprise AI Startup Town Valued at $1B by Index and Benchmark | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | AI Startup Instinct Raised Venture Funding at $2.5B Valuation | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Lemkin: AI Agents Will Consume 10x–100x More GTM Usage Than Humans | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Linear Reaches $100M ARR Growing at 100% With Tender Offer | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Linear Reaches $100M ARR Growing at 100% With Tender Offer | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 96.2B | “96.2 billion” | Nvidia Reported $96.2B Quarter and Acquired Hugging Face for $12.9B | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 12.9B | “12.9 billion” | Nvidia Reported $96.2B Quarter and Acquired Hugging Face for $12.9B | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $500B | “five hundred billion dollars” | O'Driscoll: US software labor spend is roughly $500B annually | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.3B | “2.3 billion” | Restaurant AI Platform Owner Raised Capital at $2.3B Valuation | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $46B | “forty six billion dollars” | Cognition Reportedly Raising at $46B Valuation With $1.6B Projected ARR | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Open |
| 1.6B | “1.6 billion” | Cognition Reportedly Raising at $46B Valuation With $1.6B Projected ARR | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Open |
| 70% | “70%” | Lemkin: Nvidia Paying $12.9B for Hugging Face Is Defensible to Control Market | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lemkin: Nvidia Paying $12.9B for Hugging Face Is Defensible to Control Market | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | Lemkin: Linear at $2.5B Will Look Cheap as AI Coding Explodes | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Lemkin: Linear at $2.5B Will Look Cheap as AI Coding Explodes | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | OpenAI Made the Right Strategic Decision in Cutting Off Cursor | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | Salesforce Spends $6B on Engineering and $300M on Anthropic Annually | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Salesforce Spends $6B on Engineering and $300M on Anthropic Annually | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Lemkin: Cognition will never catch Anthropic but needs $5B-$10B ARR | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Lemkin: Developers are building 100x more software than 18 months ago | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Clay Reportedly Raising at $7B Valuation Led by Wellington | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Nvidia Projected 70% Revenue Growth for Fiscal Year Ending Jan 2028 | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 44% | “44%” | Nvidia Projected 70% Revenue Growth for Fiscal Year Ending Jan 2028 | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 27B | “twenty seven billion” | Hugging Face Valuation Multiple Far Exceeds Slack's $27B Acquisition | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Hugging Face Valuation Multiple Far Exceeds Slack's $27B Acquisition | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Prince: Cloudflare Handles 500M Transactions Per Second vs Visa's 20,000 | Matthew Prince |  BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Prince: AI micropayments must scale beyond 100 million transactions per second | Matthew Prince | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Prince: AI micropayments must scale beyond 100 million transactions per second | Matthew Prince | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two times” | Prince: Google Crawls 2x More Web Content Than OpenAI | Matthew Prince | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Prince: Google Crawls 2x More Web Content Than OpenAI | Matthew Prince | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Prince: Google Crawls 2x More Web Content Than OpenAI | Matthew Prince | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Prince: Automated Web Traffic Will Be 1,000x Human Traffic Within Five Years | Matthew Prince | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 2, 2026 | Open |
| 40× | “40 times” | Prince: Universal containerized AI agents require 40x global annual CPU production | Matthew Prince | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Sean Lie: 95% of High-Quality Open Models Come From Chinese Labs | Sean Lie | LATENT SPACE | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Sean Lie: 95% of High-Quality Open Models Come From Chinese Labs | Sean Lie | LATENT SPACE | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Sean Lie: Next Cerebras Chip Will Run Frontier AI at 5,000 TPS | Sean Lie | LATENT SPACE | Sep 2, 2026 | Open |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Lie: Cerebras chips have 100x more memory than Groq LPUs | Sean Lie | LATENT SPACE | Sep 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Lie: Cerebras runs OpenAI's flagship model 14x faster than GPUs | Sean Lie | LATENT SPACE | Sep 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Puri: The final ten percent of ruthless focus doubles your impact | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Puri: The final ten percent of ruthless focus doubles your impact | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Parr: The people remembered from history are rarely remembered for wealth | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Bancel: Moderna's mRNA shot is the first cancer vaccine that works | Stéphane Bancel | a16z | Sep 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Bancel: 80% of Phase 2 cancer vaccine patients remain disease-free after 5 years | Stéphane Bancel | a16z | Sep 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Iovine: Meta selling two million smart glasses is not a massive success | Jimmy Iovine | TBPN | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Iovine: Meta selling two million smart glasses is not a massive success | Jimmy Iovine | TBPN | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Iovine: Generative AI music startups are training on 60M unlicensed tracks | Jimmy Iovine | TBPN | Sep 2, 2026 | Supported |
| $70M | “seventy million dollars” | Iovine: Dr. Dre and I wrote a $70M check in a month for USC | Jimmy Iovine | TBPN | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Turner: Swipeby Paused Hair Salon Expansion Over a 5% Product Gap | Carl Turner |  TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 1, 2026 | — |
| 400% | “400%” | Turner: Swipeby grows at 400% year over year with accelerating growth | Carl Turner | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 1, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Turner: Swipeby Clones Business Owners' Voices to Autonomously Answer Phone Calls | Carl Turner | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Steve Jobs Held Over $100 Million When Forced Out of Apple | Shane Parrish |  KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Liquid Death gained three million views from a $1,500 test video | Rob Walling |  STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Only 3% of successful SaaS founders find ideas through online research | Rob Walling | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Sep 1, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 20% | “20%” | Morris: Austin home values dropped 20% while Hartford rose 20% | Paul Mark Morris |  PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Lane: Property management fees of 20-30% eliminate short-term rental margins | Jamie Lane | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Lane: Property management fees of 20-30% eliminate short-term rental margins | Jamie Lane | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Morris: Cost segregation allows 100% first-year depreciation on rental amenities | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Lane: Short-term rental investment growth is near all-time lows at 2.5% | Jamie Lane | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Lane: Short-term rental investment growth is near all-time lows at 2.5% | Jamie Lane | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Lane: A $1,000 fire pit setup pays multiple times over in rentals | Jamie Lane | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lane: Dynamic pricing tools boost short-term rental revenue by 20% | Jamie Lane | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Lane: All San Diego short-term rental lottery applicants received permits | Jamie Lane | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Lane: Hosts should never rely on one channel for over 60% of revenue | Jamie Lane | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Lane: Short-term rental revenues are up 5% in 2026 | Jamie Lane | PAUL MORRIS | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Retail 'Ants' Drive Majority of South Korea's Stock Trading Volume | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 31, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Retail 'Ants' Drive Majority of South Korea's Stock Trading Volume | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 31, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5T | “1.5 trillion” | Kantrowitz: Meta Laying Off Workers to Fund AI Compute Is Unjustified | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 31, 2026 | — |
| 3T | “a two trillion” | Roy: Anthropic Must Destroy Salesforce to Justify a $2 Trillion Valuation | Ranjan Roy | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 31, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Sanchez: Average Business Owner Holds 80% of Net Worth in Company | Codie Sanchez |  BIGDEAL | Aug 31, 2026 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Dawes: Cape Cod Potato Chips was bought back for under $3M | Nicole Bernard Dawes | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 31, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Dawes: Late July's sandwich cookies needed 3x higher pricing to work | Nicole Bernard Dawes | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 31, 2026 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Late July discontinued its $2 million cookie line due to lack of profitability | Nicole Bernard Dawes | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 31, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Dawes: Scaling a brand from $10M to $50M is harder than reaching $100M | Nicole Bernard Dawes | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 31, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Dawes: Scaling a brand from $10M to $50M is harder than reaching $100M | Nicole Bernard Dawes | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 31, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Dawes: Scaling a brand from $10M to $50M is harder than reaching $100M | Nicole Bernard Dawes | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 31, 2026 | — |
| 20.4% | “20.4%” | Senra: Teledyne delivered 20.4% annual compound returns under Singleton | David Senra |  FOUNDERS | Aug 31, 2026 | Supported |
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