| 3% | “three percent” | Zima: Omni BDRs got 3% response rates while founder outreach reached 90% | Colin Zima |  PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 10, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Zima: Omni BDRs got 3% response rates while founder outreach reached 90% | Colin Zima | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 10, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Zima: Omni BDRs got 3% response rates while founder outreach reached 90% | Colin Zima | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 10, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Zima: Boutique Service Partners Adopt Software Faster Than Direct Customers | Colin Zima | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 10, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Zima: Top enterprise sellers act as corporate advisors carrying a rolodex | Colin Zima | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 10, 2026 | — |
| 9M | “nine million” | Zima: Omni raised a $9M seed and $17M Series A in 2022 | Colin Zima | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Zima: Hiring former colleagues creates a compounding talent magnet for startups | Colin Zima | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 10, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Zima: By 2026, Omni Has Become Roughly 90% AI | Colin Zima | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 10, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Zima: Looker was growing 100% annually when acquired | Colin Zima | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 10, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 26% | “26%” | Kavak: Mechanic AI sidekick reduced warranty claims by 20-26% | Ale Massa |  a16z | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Massa: Kavak AI sales agents convert 2.1x better than human teams | Ale Massa | a16z | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Massa: Kavak assigns AI agents to most of its 10M customers | Ale Massa | a16z | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Kavak: Experimental AI Branch Manager Increased Profits by 50% | Ale Massa | a16z | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 96% | “96%” | Kavak AI Agents Handle 96% of Interactions and 95% of Transactions | Ale Massa | a16z | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Kavak AI Agents Handle 96% of Interactions and 95% of Transactions | Ale Massa | a16z | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Atallah: A 10x price drop grew GPT Luna usage 13x on OpenRouter | Alex Atallah |  20VC | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Atallah: A 10x price drop grew GPT Luna usage 13x on OpenRouter | Alex Atallah | 20VC | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Atallah: A 10x price drop grew GPT Luna usage 13x on OpenRouter | Alex Atallah | 20VC | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 13× | “13 X” | Atallah: A 10x price drop grew GPT Luna usage 13x on OpenRouter | Alex Atallah | 20VC | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Senra: Shannon's circuit theory obsoleted analog computers within a decade | David Senra |  FOUNDERS | Aug 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 28% | “28%” | Claude Shannon averaged a 28% annual stock return over 30 years | David Senra | FOUNDERS | Aug 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Ward: A 10x individual performer cannot exist on a bad team | Adam Ward |  LENNY'S PODCAST | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 110% | “110%” | Ward: Recruiters perform best at 90% to 110% capacity | Adam Ward | LENNY'S PODCAST | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Ovitz: Matsushita Electric held an unheard-of $20 billion in 1980s liquidity | Michael Ovitz |  DAVID SENRA | Aug 9, 2026 | Supported |
| $900M | “nine hundred million dollars” | New Mexico judge orders Meta to pay over $900 million | John Coogan |  TBPN | Aug 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.8M | “1.8 million” | LA jury awards $6 million in Meta and Google youth addiction case | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Aug 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Google's ownership stake in Anthropic is contractually capped at 15 percent | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Aug 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 14% | “14%” | Google's ownership stake in Anthropic is contractually capped at 15 percent | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Aug 8, 2026 | Supported |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Friedberg: Google committed $200B in CapEx to AI data centers this year | David Friedberg |  ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Friedberg: Direct-to-cell Starlink could double quarterly subscriber additions to 4M-5M | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Friedberg: Direct-to-cell Starlink could double quarterly subscriber additions to 4M-5M | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Gerstner: Frontier AI labs pay 3x to 5x market price for compute | Brad Gerstner | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Sacks: Anthropic surpassed $80B ARR and will beat year-end targets early | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Sacks: Anthropic surpassed $80B ARR and will beat year-end targets early | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks: Starship launches will add over 20x more Starlink bandwidth | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Sacks: Starship launches will add over 20x more Starlink bandwidth | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Gerstner: Combined Cursor and Grok could reach $10B–$20B by year-end | Brad Gerstner | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Gerstner: Combined Cursor and Grok could reach $10B–$20B by year-end | Brad Gerstner | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Gerstner: Combined Cursor and Grok could reach $10B–$20B by year-end | Brad Gerstner | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 1.4T | “1.4 trillion” | Gerstner: SpaceX investors can triple their money over 3 to 4 years | Brad Gerstner | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Friedberg: Starlink alone could reach a $1T valuation within 18 months | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Gerstner: Nadella reports over 30% ROIC for Microsoft token infrastructure | Brad Gerstner | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4.3B | “4.3 billion” | Friedberg breaks down Starlink Q2: $4.3B revenue, $2.6B EBITDA, 12M subscribers | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 2.6B | “2.6 billion” | Friedberg breaks down Starlink Q2: $4.3B revenue, $2.6B EBITDA, 12M subscribers | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 12M | “twelve million” | Friedberg breaks down Starlink Q2: $4.3B revenue, $2.6B EBITDA, 12M subscribers | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Friedberg breaks down Starlink Q2: $4.3B revenue, $2.6B EBITDA, 12M subscribers | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 82% | “82%” | Calacanis: Google Cloud posted record 82% year-over-year revenue growth | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Friedberg: Starlink could generate $30B in annual free cash flow within a year | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 31B | “a thirty billion” | Friedberg: Starlink could generate $30B in annual free cash flow within a year | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 7.8B | “7.8 billion” | Calacanis: SpaceX Q2 revenue hit $7.8B; Elon Web Services hit $2.6B | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| $2.6B | “2.6 billion dollars” | Calacanis: SpaceX Q2 revenue hit $7.8B; Elon Web Services hit $2.6B | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 92% | “92%” | Calacanis: SpaceX Q2 revenue hit $7.8B; Elon Web Services hit $2.6B | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 67% | “67%” | Calacanis: SpaceX Q2 revenue hit $7.8B; Elon Web Services hit $2.6B | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.1B | “2.1 billion” | Stebbings: Wix is trading at 1x revenue with a $2.1B valuation | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Stebbings: VCs Should Take 50% Secondary Discounts Over Waiting Years for IPOs | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Stebbings: OpenAI and Anthropic Will Reach $1 Trillion to $2 Trillion Valuations | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | Open |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Stebbings: $50M–$100M Seed Funds Will Be the Worst-Performing Vintage | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | Open |
| 10M | “ten million” | Stebbings: $50M–$100M Seed Funds Will Be the Worst-Performing Vintage | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | Open |
| 2.6B | “2.6 billion” | Frankel: Median of top 500 companies created in 25 years is $2.6B | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Frankel: Founder Collective Is Too Small for LPs Requiring $50M Checks | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Frankel: Founder Collective seeks exits after capturing 80% of value | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Frankel: Founder Collective seeks exits after capturing 80% of value | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Frankel: Mega-Fund Seed Checks Are "Call Options" Bad for 95% of Founders | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Frankel: 95% of Startups From the Current AI Boom Will Fail | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Stebbings: The $1 Billion Valuation Has Become the New Series A Standard | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Stebbings: The $1 Billion Valuation Has Become the New Series A Standard | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Frankel: Seed VCs Should Sell 20% of Winners Early to Generate DPI | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Frankel: Seed VCs Should Sell 20% of Winners Early to Generate DPI | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Frankel: Seed VCs Should Sell 20% of Winners Early to Generate DPI | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Stebbings: 20VC Lost Hundreds of Millions Passing on Deel Over Ownership Targets | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Frankel: Fund of Funds Are Liquidating Entire Billion-Dollar Portfolios via Secondaries | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Frankel: Founders Use Founder Collective as Insurance in Mega Seed Rounds | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| $9M | “nine million dollars” | Frankel: Founders Use Founder Collective as Insurance in Mega Seed Rounds | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Frankel: Jeff Bezos Stated He Spent 50% of His Time Hiring | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Frankel: Fewer Than 100 Companies Created Since 1999 Sustainably Top $10B | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Frankel: Founder Collective sold some Uber early near $10B valuation | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Frankel: Embedded, Mission-Critical SaaS Workflows Will Survive AI Disruption | David Frankel | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 60B | “sixty billion” | Stebbings: Mega venture platforms will achieve venture returns via massive outcomes | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Goel: Cartesia's Enterprise Clients Are Approaching One Billion Audio Minutes Annually | Karan Goel |  NEON SHOW | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 4M | “a three million” | Sam Lessin: Slow Ventures invested $3M in Airtable at $90M valuation | Sam Lessin |  MORE OR LESS | Aug 7, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Dave Morin: Elon Musk claimed a $1T revenue target moved up a year | Dave Morin | MORE OR LESS | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 28M | “twenty-eight million” | Late Stage Management Executives Plead Guilty in $528M Fraud Scheme | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 6, 2026 | Supported |
| $88M | “eighty eight million dollars” | Late Stage Management Executives Plead Guilty in $528M Fraud Scheme | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Late Stage Management Executives Plead Guilty in $528M Fraud Scheme | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 6, 2026 | Supported |
| $3.2B | “3.2 billion dollars” | Intel Converted CHIPS Grants to Equity to Meet Trump Requirement | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Intel Converted CHIPS Grants to Equity to Meet Trump Requirement | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Intel Secures $7B From Nvidia and SoftBank Following Federal Intervention | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Intel Secures $7B From Nvidia and SoftBank Following Federal Intervention | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Wolf: 90% of AI Fake News Is Made by Closed-Source Models | Thomas Wolf |  MAD | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 3.6% | “3.6%” | Ayrey: Truffle Security found exposed credentials accessing 3.6% of global PII | Dylan Ayrey | a16z | Aug 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.3M | “a quarter million” | Ayrey: Truffle Security found 250,000 live access keys inside Hugging Face datasets | Dylan Ayrey | a16z | Aug 6, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Jesse Cole: Over $1M in debt during early Bananas launch | Jesse Cole |  MASTERS OF SCALE | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Parr: Remote claw machine app Claw-E generates $30M to $40M annually | Sam Parr |  MY FIRST MILLION | Aug 6, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Puri: Benihana generates $300M to $500M in annual revenue | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Aug 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Parr: World 50 generates hundreds of millions in annual revenue | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Aug 6, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Gil: Late-stage AI investors wrongly assume startups have trillion-dollar trajectories | Elad Gil |  NO PRIORS | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Hawkins: 85% of Compass data centers are prefabricated off-site | Raymond Hawkins |  CATALYST | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | DeRosa: Hearsay Brewing will exceed $1M revenue in year two | Tony DeRosa |  HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Rakhmetzhanov: 80% of industrial process drawings remain trapped in legacy formats | Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov |  INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Rakhmetzhanov: Scaled prior engineering business to $200M in annual revenue | Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 8M | “a seven million” | Rakhmetzhanov: Brother Arlan entered Y Combinator at 17, raised $7M solo | Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Aug 6, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1.5K | “a half thousand” | Rakhmetzhanov: Armeta completed a 9,500-hour, $1M engineering task in six hours | Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Rakhmetzhanov: Armeta completed a 9,500-hour, $1M engineering task in six hours | Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Alphabet stock drops five percent at market open following DeepMind news | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Alphabet stock drops five percent at market open following DeepMind news | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Yacht broker sues Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky over $20 million commission | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Recent share sale values digital bank Revolut at $115 billion | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Trojanowski: Over Three Million Accountants Work in the US | Mitch Trojanowski | MAD | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Simon Mo: vLLM supports over 1,000 model architectures | Simon Moe | a16z | Aug 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Burger: vLLM Runs on 500,000 GPUs at Any Moment | Elena Burger | a16z | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Moe: Open-weight inference can hit 500 tokens/sec, 2-3x faster than proprietary APIs | Simon Moe | a16z | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three X” | Moe: Open-weight inference can hit 500 tokens/sec, 2-3x faster than proprietary APIs | Simon Moe | a16z | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Mavrucas: US destroyers cost $3B, take 6–8 years, field ~96 VLS tubes | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 3B | “Three billion” | Mavrucas: US destroyers cost $3B, take 6–8 years, field ~96 VLS tubes | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Mavrucas: US destroyers cost $3B, take 6–8 years, field ~96 VLS tubes | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “One percent” | Mavrucas: Only 1% of the defense budget goes to autonomous systems | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 23M | “twenty three million” | Mavrucas: China outbuilds the US in shipping tonnage 230 to 1 | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Mavrucas: US-built ships cost five to six times more than Chinese ships | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.5B | “a half billion dollars” | Mavrucas: Saronic has raised $2.5 billion in private capital | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Mavrucas: China's global shipbuilding share grew from 5% to 57% | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 57% | “57%” | Mavrucas: China's global shipbuilding share grew from 5% to 57% | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mavrucas: China built 1,000 commercial ships last year versus America's five | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mavrucas: Securing the Strait of Hormuz requires under 1,000 autonomous vessels | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Altakar: Commercial 24-foot boats cannot match Corsair's 1,000-nautical-mile range | Vib Altakar | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Mavrucas: Modern shipyards can cut US shipbuilding costs in half | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Mavrucas: Modern shipyards can cut US shipbuilding costs in half | Dino Mavrucas | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Altakar: 70% of critical components on some Navy ships are single-sourced | Vib Altakar | ALL-IN | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Lemkin: Airtable's low-price acquisition will trigger a wave of SaaS capitulation sales | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lemkin: Airtable's low-price acquisition will trigger a wave of SaaS capitulation sales | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 85M | “eighty five million” | Stebbings: Airtable acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.285B at $485M ARR | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.3B | “a 1.285 billion” | Stebbings: Airtable acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.285B at $485M ARR | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Stebbings: Airtable acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.285B at $485M ARR | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | O'Driscoll: OpenAI and Anthropic drive 70% of Google and AWS compute backlogs | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Stebbings: Citadel bought Aschenbrenner's $16B public book, making $3B profit | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | Stebbings: Sequoia leads funding for Valar Atomics at a $6 billion valuation | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Stebbings: Sequoia leads funding for Valar Atomics at a $6 billion valuation | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Arora: Palo Alto Networks Acquired 40+ Companies with 75% Success Rate | Nikesh Arora | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Arora: Palo Alto Networks Acquired 40+ Companies with 75% Success Rate | Nikesh Arora | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Arora: Free consumers account for 70% of current AI compute demand | Nikesh Arora | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | O'Driscoll: Airtable will reach $300M in free cash flow in two years | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Schneider: Monitoring niche outlier creators captures 80% of industry engagement | Cody Schneider |  STARTUP IDEAS | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Schneider: Waterfall enrichment from cheap to expensive data tools hits 80% match rates | Cody Schneider | STARTUP IDEAS | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 6.66% | “6.66%” | Morris: Fed held rates steady as mortgage rates reached 6.66% high | Paul Mark Morris |  PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 5.4% | “5.4%” | Morris: June median home prices hit record $440,600 as pending sales dropped | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Morris: Brent crude trades at $88 to $90 per barrel, up over 20% in July | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Morris: Less than 2% of US homes are underwater on mortgages | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 26% | “26%” | Morris: Less than 2% of US homes are underwater on mortgages | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Morris: Buyers value assumable 3% mortgages over price discounts | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | NAR data: US median home price hit record $440,000+ despite sales drop | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6.58% | “6.58%” | Paul Mark Morris: 30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rate Hits 6.58% | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 2.4% | “2.4%” | Morris: June closed sales fell 2.4% and pending sales dropped 5.4% | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 5.4% | “5.4%” | Morris: June closed sales fell 2.4% and pending sales dropped 5.4% | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Morris: Distressed real estate sales accounted for only 2% in June | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 3.5% | “3.5%” | Morris: June CPI Cooled to 3.5% on Largest Gas Price Drop Since 2020 | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Morris: June CPI Cooled to 3.5% on Largest Gas Price Drop Since 2020 | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Morris: US home sales rose only in Northeast, falling across other regions | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Morris: US home sales rose only in Northeast, falling across other regions | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Morris: US home sales rose only in Northeast, falling across other regions | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Morris: US home sales rose only in Northeast, falling across other regions | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 26% | “26%” | Morris: Only 2% of Mortgaged US Homes Are Underwater Today | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Morris: Only 2% of Mortgaged US Homes Are Underwater Today | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| $3T | “three trillion dollars” | Cahn: AI infrastructure needs $3T in payback since ChatGPT launch | David Cahn |  BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Cahn: Humans will do only 1% of cognitive work in 50 years | David Cahn | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Cahn: Humans will do only 1% of cognitive work in 50 years | David Cahn | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Cahn: OpenAI and Anthropic generate over $100B in combined revenue | David Cahn | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Cahn: Spending $200B a year on AI CapEx without new business lines is unsustainable | David Cahn | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Cahn: Microsoft wins whether frontier AI models succeed or commoditize | David Cahn | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Ibarra: Marketo's final renewal offer was waiving an 8% fee increase | Amelia Ibarra |  SAASTR | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lemkin: Mailchimp's revenue dropped nearly 20 percent last year at Intuit | Jason Lemkin | SAASTR | Aug 5, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 90% | “90%” | Snyder: 90% of Industrial Workers Do Not Use Computers Regularly | Dustin Snyder |  WE LIVE TO BUILD | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Baker: Model routing cuts costs via margins without reducing compute demand | Gavin Baker |  INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Baker: Model routing cuts costs via margins without reducing compute demand | Gavin Baker | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Baker: Dylan Patel's company spends 30% of labor cost on AI tokens | Gavin Baker | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 10,000× | “10,000 x” | Baker: Viral water usage statistics overestimated data center consumption by 10,000x | Gavin Baker | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Baker: Grok, Next-Gen Models, and Cursor Will Rapidly Hit $10B ARR | Gavin Baker | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Rob Walling calls Wash Dry Fold POS the largest known no-code SaaS | Rob Walling |  STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 32× | “32 times” | Jacobs's companies generated 32x and 150x returns for shareholders | Brad Jacobs |  KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 150× | “150 times” | Jacobs's companies generated 32x and 150x returns for shareholders | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $3B | “Three billion dollars” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| $550M | “five hundred fifty million dollars” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Paribas gave Jacobs's early oil trading business a $1B credit line | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $90M | “ninety million dollars” | Paribas gave Jacobs's early oil trading business a $1B credit line | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $900M | “nine hundred million dollars” | Jacobs is investing $900M of his own money into QXO | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “hundred million dollars” | Jacobs is investing $900M of his own money into QXO | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “one billion dollars” | Jacobs is investing $900M of his own money into QXO | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50 billion by capturing 6% of distribution market | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Open |
| 900B | “an eight hundred billion” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50 billion by capturing 6% of distribution market | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Open |
| 6% | “six percent” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50 billion by capturing 6% of distribution market | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Open |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Jacobs: FP&A should calibrate manager forecasts against their historical accuracy | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Multiple Jacobs executives made tens of millions, and one made over $100M | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 55% | “55%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 65% | “65%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
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