| 90% | “90%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs |  KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Jacobs structures executive equity to double-vest above the 85th percentile | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Ramaswamy: Insurance AI can automate 95% of workflows, but requires human sign-off | Deepak Ramaswamy |  INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Ramaswamy: Insurance AI can automate 95% of workflows, but requires human sign-off | Deepak Ramaswamy | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “10 million” | Hays: Ben Broca's solo AI business is pacing toward $10M revenue | Jordi Hays |  TBPN | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Hays: Stripe data shows $1M+ solopreneurs doubled between 2023 and 2025 | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Coogan: Study shows AI startups operate with 25% fewer employees | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 56% | “56%” | Baseten's vision-retrofitted GLM-5.2 scored 56% on MMLU Pro without text degradation | Philip Kiely |  LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Baseten terminates or reprocesses generations after four identical repeating tokens | Ali Taha | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Inference optimization is only solved once researchers report mere 1% speedups | Philip Kiely | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Unoptimized GLM-5.2 delivers a baseline 30 to 40 tokens per second | Philip Kiely | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Software optimizations yield 2x to 4x inference speedups on identical hardware | Philip Kiely | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Quantization, speculative decoding, and prefill-decode disaggregation each yield 2x speedups | Philip Kiely | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Quantization, speculative decoding, and prefill-decode disaggregation each yield 2x speedups | Philip Kiely | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Custom $50B ASICs become economically rational for $500B AI training runs | Shawn Wang | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Custom $50B ASICs become economically rational for $500B AI training runs | Shawn Wang | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Custom $50B ASICs become economically rational for $500B AI training runs | Shawn Wang | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Custom $50B ASICs become economically rational for $500B AI training runs | Shawn Wang | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 2.8T | “2.8 trillion” | Fitting a 2.8-trillion parameter model on one node requires eight GB300s | Philip Kiely | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Ultra-fast network interface cards could deliver 100x speedups in disaggregated AI inference | Ali Taha | LATENT SPACE | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Kantrowitz: Leopold Aschenbrenner's $20B Fund Blew Up and Sold to Citadel | Alex Kantrowitz |  BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | Kantrowitz: Nvidia Invested $5B Into Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Beck: 60% of data center projects are delayed due to resource bottlenecks | Christophe Beck | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 97% | “97%” | Beck: 95% to 97% of existing data centers use air cooling | Christophe Beck | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Beck: Semiconductor water is a million times purer than used in pharmaceuticals | Christophe Beck | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Beck: Compute consumes roughly 60% of data center power, cooling takes 40% | Christophe Beck | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Beck: Compute consumes roughly 60% of data center power, cooling takes 40% | Christophe Beck | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Beck: Data center construction jumped from one yearly pre-COVID to one weekly | Christophe Beck | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Beck: Data center construction jumped from one yearly pre-COVID to one weekly | Christophe Beck | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Beck: Data center construction jumped from one yearly pre-COVID to one weekly | Christophe Beck | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 56% | “56%” | Beck: Global Water Demand Had a 56% Supply Gap Before AI | Christophe Beck | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Codie Sanchez: A 100k subscriber newsletter can beat 1M social followers | Codie Sanchez |  BIGDEAL | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Serena & Lily secured $100,000 in wholesale orders within weeks of launch | Lily Kanter |  HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Founders used an 'oversold' pretext to secure 50% deposits from wholesale buyers | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Kanter funded cash shortfalls via loans to preserve Dugan's 50% equity | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 17% | “17%” | A private equity firm demanded controlling interest in exchange for 17% equity | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | In 2007, Serena & Lily had zero e-commerce sales across 600-800 stores | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | The 2008 financial crisis wiped out 50% of Serena & Lily's wholesale | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Serena & Lily direct-to-consumer revenue doubled annually to $20M in year three | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Serena & Lily direct-to-consumer revenue doubled annually to $20M in year three | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Serena & Lily direct-to-consumer revenue doubled annually to $20M in year three | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Williams-Sonoma and Restoration Hardware saw 30% revenue contractions in 2008 | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Serena & Lily maintained a 70% CAGR over a seven-year period | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | A 2X participating preferred term blocked Serena & Lily from raising capital | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Serena & Lily recapitalization offered existing investors over a 3x return | Lily Kanter | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Broshi: AI Hype Will Die After IPO Drops 40% on Poor ROI | Rafael Broshi |  PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| $7M | “seven million dollars” | Broshi: Notch raised $7M and then a $30M round after pivoting | Rafael Broshi | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Broshi: Notch raised $7M and then a $30M round after pivoting | Rafael Broshi | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Broshi: Notch Closed an Insurance Enterprise Contract Exceeding $1M Annually | Rafael Broshi | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Srugo: Decagon Is a $5B AI Customer Experience Company | Pablo Srugo | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Broshi: Notch Pivoted With $2M Left, Two Engineers, and Froze Hiring | Rafael Broshi | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lopez: Base Power acts as a retail energy provider without requiring batteries | Justin Lopas |  SOURCERY | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Lopez: Base Power batteries offer 40 kWh capacity, triple traditional home units | Justin Lopas | SOURCERY | Aug 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Angelopoulos: Arena has passed a $100M annualized revenue run rate | Anastasios Angelopoulos |  20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two times” | Angelopoulos: Arena has passed a $100M annualized revenue run rate | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Stebbings: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei will successfully lobby for AI restrictions | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Stebbings: AI infrastructure companies operate at mid-thirties gross margins | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Angelopoulos: Enterprise AI adoption will 10X Nvidia reliably | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | Open |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Angelopoulos: US Will Have a Multi-Hundred Billion Dollar Open-Source AI Company | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Stebbings: AI data providers Handshake, Mercor, and Surge each surpass $1B revenue | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Stebbings: AI data providers Handshake, Mercor, and Surge each surpass $1B revenue | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Stebbings: ElevenLabs has $800M in revenue and is raising at $22B | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 22B | “twenty two billion” | Stebbings: ElevenLabs has $800M in revenue and is raising at $22B | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Angelopoulos: AI data market will reach $100B to $1T by 2030 | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | Open |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Angelopoulos: AI data market will reach $100B to $1T by 2030 | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | Open |
| 20% | “20%” | Angelopoulos: Frontier AI labs spend 10% to 20% of GPU compute budgets on data | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Verrilli: Whatnot PM managers spend 90%-plus time on IC work | Tom Verrilli |  LENNY'S PODCAST | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Verrilli spends 10x more time in data, talks less to data scientists | Tom Verrilli | LENNY'S PODCAST | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | E-commerce has never exceeded 20% of total US retail spend | Tom Verrilli | LENNY'S PODCAST | Aug 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Verrilli: Twitch assumed streams under 1,000 viewers were uneconomic | Tom Verrilli | LENNY'S PODCAST | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Japanese Twitter users tweeted 6x more often than Western users | Tom Verrilli | LENNY'S PODCAST | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Deprecating low-adoption features often destroys critical workflows for core subgroups | Tom Verrilli | LENNY'S PODCAST | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Deprecating low-adoption features often destroys critical workflows for core subgroups | Tom Verrilli | LENNY'S PODCAST | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Malka: Lemon Bank scaled to 7,000 Brazil locations serving 15 million customers | Micky Malka |  DAVID SENRA | Aug 2, 2026 | Supported |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Park: Simile raised $200M, reaching $300M total funding in six months | Joon Sung Park | 20VC | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Park: Simile raised $200M, reaching $300M total funding in six months | Joon Sung Park | 20VC | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Park: Within three years, single AI simulations will cost $20M | Joon Sung Park | 20VC | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Park: Within three years, single AI simulations will cost $20M | Joon Sung Park | 20VC | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Park: Simile models predict human behavior with 85% accuracy | Joon Sung Park | 20VC | Jul 31, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Park: Simile cut production simulation model run costs by roughly 100x | Joon Sung Park | 20VC | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Krishnan: Rapid growth and 10x product improvements trump AI defensibility | Vijay Krishnan |  NEON SHOW | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Krishnan: Rapid growth and 10x product improvements trump AI defensibility | Vijay Krishnan | NEON SHOW | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Krishnan: Prediction of a 10x AI-driven startup surge was wrong | Vijay Krishnan | NEON SHOW | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Krishnan: Prediction of a 10x AI-driven startup surge was wrong | Vijay Krishnan | NEON SHOW | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Krishnan: AI Accelerates Execution but Not Fundamental Innovation | Vijay Krishnan | NEON SHOW | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 16% | “16%” | Ahluwalia: Call Centers Generate 16% of the Philippines' GDP | Siddhartha Ahluwalia | NEON SHOW | Jul 31, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Lessin: Meta's AI Infrastructure Is an Aircraft Carrier, Not a Miata | Sam Lessin |  MORE OR LESS | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Lessin: Zuckerberg Uniquely Positioned to Sell AI's Optimistic Vision | Sam Lessin | MORE OR LESS | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Tokmak: Over 70% of Netic's enterprise customers use AI-first interactions | Melisa Tokmak |  NO PRIORS | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 2.5M | “a half a million” | Tokmak: Netic closed a $500k enterprise contract in 14 days | Melisa Tokmak | NO PRIORS | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| $600M | “six hundred million dollars” | Tokmak: Netic has generated over $600M in customer revenue from AI interactions | Melisa Tokmak | NO PRIORS | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Fox: Coding Agents Have Expanded AssemblyAI's TAM by 100x | Dylan Fox | SOURCERY | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Fox: AssemblyAI processes four times YouTube's daily audio volume on peak weeks | Dylan Fox | SOURCERY | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Fox: AssemblyAI processes four times YouTube's daily audio volume on peak weeks | Dylan Fox | SOURCERY | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Fox: AssemblyAI processes four times YouTube's daily audio volume on peak weeks | Dylan Fox | SOURCERY | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Fox: AssemblyAI handles nearly 100 million daily API calls from developers | Dylan Fox | SOURCERY | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Fox: AssemblyAI handles nearly 100 million daily API calls from developers | Dylan Fox | SOURCERY | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Fox: Training data drives roughly 75 percent of AI model performance | Dylan Fox | SOURCERY | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 800% | “800%” | Fox: AssemblyAI weekly conversation volume grew 800 percent over three years | Dylan Fox | SOURCERY | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Sreenivas: AI productivity gains will drive companies to build more, not fire | Ashwin Sreenivas |  a16z | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Zhang: 90% of Decagon's workflow runs on open-source models | Jesse Zhang | a16z | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 17% | “17%” | Calacanis: ASML stock falls 17% as Chinese competitor CXMT surges 500% | Jason Calacanis |  ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 500% | “500%” | Calacanis: ASML stock falls 17% as Chinese competitor CXMT surges 500% | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “1.5 billion” | Calacanis: Anthropic paid $1.5B in the largest US copyright settlement | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 7M | “seven million” | Calacanis: Anthropic paid $1.5B in the largest US copyright settlement | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Calacanis: Anthropic paid $1.5B in the largest US copyright settlement | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 6× | “six X” | Chamath: US electricity deficit will reach 1.7 TWh by 2050 | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 80% | “80%” | Chamath: Solar will dominate power generation before nuclear SMRs reach production | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Calacanis: Around 350,000 South Korean leveraged accounts fully liquidated | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Sacks: Anthropic is surpassing $70B in ARR this year | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Sacks: Anthropic is surpassing $70B in ARR this year | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks: Anthropic is surpassing $70B in ARR this year | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 75% | “75%” | Chamath: Upcoming AI Efficiencies Will Cut Token Consumption 50% to 75% | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Calacanis: Mamdani proposes $70M plan for 5 NYC-owned grocery stores by 2029 | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Friedberg: Emergent biological complexity extends far beyond any silicon AI model | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Friedberg: Emergent biological complexity extends far beyond any silicon AI model | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Calacanis: Major enterprise customers will abandon OpenAI and Anthropic for open-source | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Calacanis: Major enterprise customers will abandon OpenAI and Anthropic for open-source | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Sachs: Dario Amodei and Anthropic's Political Influence Will Grow Post-IPO | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Sachs: Dario Amodei and Anthropic's Political Influence Will Grow Post-IPO | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 5.2% | “5.2%” | Friedberg: 30-year Treasury yield crossed 5.2% for first time in 20 years | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 200× | “200 times” | Sacks: Anthropic iterated prompts over 200 times in AI blackmail study | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Chamath: New Mexico Natural Gas Share Dropped From Nearly 100% to Sub-30% | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks: AI market correction is driven by momentum, not deteriorating fundamentals | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Sacks: Aschenbrenner grew his hedge fund from $200M to $20B | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Sacks: Aschenbrenner grew his hedge fund from $200M to $20B | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Friedberg: Cambridge and Princeton Researchers Mapped All 139,000 Fruit Fly Neurons | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Calacanis: Semiconductor index drops over 20% into bear market territory | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 46B | “a forty five billion” | Situational Awareness reached roughly $45 billion NAV before its liquidation | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Dean: 1,000x energy penalty for moving data forces machine learning batching | Jeff Dean |  Y COMBINATOR | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Dean: AI startups should target tasks with 1% model success, not 20% | Jeff Dean | Y COMBINATOR | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Dean: AI startups should target tasks with 1% model success, not 20% | Jeff Dean | Y COMBINATOR | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Jeff Dean: Frontier AI models consume 1,000x more data than 18-year-old humans | Jeff Dean | Y COMBINATOR | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Shkreli was offered a $100M block of Anthropic stock during liquidations | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 90B | “90 billion” | Shkreli: Prime brokers will liquidate leveraged funds rather than absorb losses | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 2.1T | “a 1.1 trillion” | Shkreli: Aschenbrenner shopped Anthropic stake at $1.1T valuation for liquidity | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Shkreli: Buyer of Aschenbrenner's public book made $3B-$4B instant markup | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Shkreli: Total hedge fund AI trade unwind is $500B to $1T | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Shkreli: Some tech funds will be revealed down 30% to 40% | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Shkreli: Some tech funds will be revealed down 30% to 40% | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Shkreli: A $50M newsletter business beats almost every hedge fund | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Shkreli: A $50M newsletter business beats almost every hedge fund | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Shkreli: Traders consistently size positions 2x to 10x larger than optimal | Martin Shkreli | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Walls: Postiz Could Hit $1M/Month If Chosen as Default AI Agent Tool | Pat Walls |  STARTER STORY | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| $1.5M | “half a million dollars” | Mike Salguero's previous startup CustomMade burned $500,000 monthly at its peak | Mike Salguero |  MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| $30M | “thirty million dollars” | Salguero: CustomMade raised about $30 million in venture capital | Mike Salguero | MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Salguero: ButcherBox hit a $1M run rate within five months | Mike Salguero | MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Salguero: ButcherBox hit a $1M run rate within five months | Mike Salguero | MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | ButcherBox reached $50 million in revenue relying solely on affiliate marketing | Mike Salguero | MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 35M | “thirty five million” | ButcherBox reached $50 million in revenue relying solely on affiliate marketing | Mike Salguero | MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | ButcherBox reached $50 million in revenue relying solely on affiliate marketing | Mike Salguero | MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | ButcherBox reached $50 million in revenue relying solely on affiliate marketing | Mike Salguero | MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Salguero: Online groceries account for 14% to 20% of the market | Mike Salguero | MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 2× | “two times” | Salguero: ButcherBox customers visit physical grocery stores twice weekly | Mike Salguero | MASTERS OF SCALE | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Hade: Utility scale is 90% of US battery growth and C&I is virtually zero | Tim Hade |  CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Hade: Utility scale is 90% of US battery growth and C&I is virtually zero | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Hade: 5% electricity savings opens C&I battery talks; 10% wins them | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Hade: 5% electricity savings opens C&I battery talks; 10% wins them | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 11× | “11 X” | Hade: PJM capacity prices have increased 11x over 36 months | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Hade: Much of US battery storage qualifies for 50% tax credits | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Hade: Much of US battery storage qualifies for 50% tax credits | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Hade: Much of US battery storage qualifies for 50% tax credits | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Hade: Battery storage hardware costs dropped 30% to 40% over 18 months | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Hade: Battery storage hardware costs dropped 30% to 40% over 18 months | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Hade: AI tooling will slash C&I battery transaction costs 90% in three years | Tim Hade | CATALYST | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 40% | “40%” | Hochfelder: Silicon Valley industrial real estate rents jumped 40% recently | Lauren Hochfelder |  CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Hochfelder: Inland Empire industrial real estate rents dropped roughly 40% | Lauren Hochfelder | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Hochfelder: Investors cannot make a 15% return on toll roads anymore | Lauren Hochfelder | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Hochfelder: The 80-plus age demographic is growing nearly 5% annually | Lauren Hochfelder | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 9M | “nine million” | Untuckit Lost $9M to Tariffs and De Minimis Rule Changes | Chris Riccobono | HOW I BUILT THIS | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Golf Apparel Brands Can Generate $150M Solely Through Pro Shops | Chris Riccobono | HOW I BUILT THIS | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 60% | “60%” | AeroShorts Has a 60 Percent Repeat Customer Purchase Rate | Adrian Alvarez | HOW I BUILT THIS | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | UNTUCKit Reached $500K in Revenue Before Raising Outside Capital | Chris Riccobono | HOW I BUILT THIS | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Snug Safety Generates $400K ARR and Projects 70 Percent Growth | Preet Anand | HOW I BUILT THIS | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Word of Mouth Drives 70 Percent of Snug Safety Growth | Preet Anand | HOW I BUILT THIS | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Marquez's pre-revenue telemedicine startup raised $2.5 million before crashing | Kristian Marquez | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Coogan: China controls 85% of the global humanoid robotics market | John Coogan | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Hays: Leading robotics teams will raise 10x more capital as use cases ramp | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 48M | “forty eight million” | Hays: eBay settlement awards couple $48M plus $7M in charitable donations | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6M | “six million” | Hays: eBay settlement awards couple $48M plus $7M in charitable donations | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Hays: eBay settlement awards couple $48M plus $7M in charitable donations | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Coogan: SK Hynix stock fell 10% despite 500% AI profit growth | John Coogan | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 500% | “500%” | Coogan: SK Hynix stock fell 10% despite 500% AI profit growth | John Coogan | TBPN | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Levie: Scaling to $100M Revenue in Two Years Is Unprecedented in Software | Aaron Levie |  AMERICAN OPTIMIST | Jul 30, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Levie: Scaling to $100M Revenue in Two Years Is Unprecedented in Software | Aaron Levie | AMERICAN OPTIMIST | Jul 30, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 50% | “50%” | Stuart: GPU networking can consume up to 50% of LLaMA pre-fill runtime | Stuart (Stu) | Y COMBINATOR | Jul 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Stuart: Bypassing NCCL intermediate buffers speeds up all-reduce by 80% | Stuart (Stu) | Y COMBINATOR | Jul 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Samsara-connected vehicles drive 99% of U.S. roads every single day | Sanjit Biswas |  MAD | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | About 10% of Americans do not regularly wear their seatbelts | Sanjit Biswas | MAD | Jul 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 65% | “65%” | Home Depot achieved a 65% reduction in auto claims using Samsara | Sanjit Biswas | MAD | Jul 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three-X” | Major US utility plans to triple 125-year grid capacity in five years | Sanjit Biswas | MAD | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Cerebras cloud achieves 10x inference speedup over fast GPUs on Gemma | Sanjit Biswas | MAD | Jul 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Physical operations industries account for 40% to 50% of global GDP | Sanjit Biswas | MAD | Jul 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 98% | “98%” | Overtoom: Lassie's first agent achieves a 98% automation rate | Stein Overtoom | a16z | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Rampell: The AI labor market is vastly larger than traditional software | Alex Rampell | a16z | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
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