| 50× | “50 X” | Lemkin: Aims to invest in one AI agent startup per quarter | Jason Lemkin |  20VC | Jan 8, 2026 | Open |
| 50× | “50 X” | Stebbings: Early investment in Poolside founder's previous startup returned 50x | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Obrecht: Canva valuation dropped from $40B to $26B in 2022 | Cliff Obrecht | 20VC | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Lemkin: Developer AI total addressable market will grow 50x | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Jul 31, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | O'Driscoll: No analytical investor believes Circle is worth 50x run-rate revenue | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Kanji: Seed investors should sell early if offered a 50x return | Hussein Kanji | 20VC | Jan 20, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Khan: High seller expectations, not the FTC, freeze the M&A market | Imran Khan | 20VC | Aug 26, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Hulme: Angel investors should refrain from making follow-on investments | Tom Hulme | 20VC | May 8, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Tavel: Selling AI work expands target markets by 10x-50x over software | Sarah Tavel | 20VC | May 6, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Glyman: Business spending increases up to 50x when scaling to 20 employees | Eric Glyman | 20VC | May 3, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Lemkin: Initialized Capital's early funds achieved up to 100x returns | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Jan 4, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Stebbings turned down a 50x angel return offer in Fast | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Nov 22, 2023 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Velez: Branchless digital banking lowers cost-to-serve by 20x to 50x | David Vélez | 20VC | Sep 11, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 50× | “50 X” | Swisher: Coatue evaluates valuation last for hyper-growth companies | Lucas Swisher | 20VC | Feb 23, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | O'Driscoll: Mature software sectors never regain 50x ARR valuation multiples | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Chiu: Top VCs hold winning investments past 50X for 1,000X potential | Alan Chiu | 20VC | Jun 18, 2015 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Venture math should focus on probability distributions, not ownership percentages | Dave McClure | 20VC | Aug 15, 2016 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Holland: Fast's largest merchant was twice the size of Bolt's | Dom Holland | 20VC | Apr 13, 2022 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Wiz's marketing team stopped growing headcount because AI 50x'd designer output | Raz Herzberg | 20VC | Dec 12, 2025 | Open |
| 50× | “50 X” | Stebbings: Hot AI Series A valuations hit $500M on $5M revenue | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Jul 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Clément Delangue: Deep AI Startups Can Execute 100x Better Than Incumbents | Clément Delangue | 20VC | Sep 15, 2023 | — |
| 50× | “50 x” | Dean: AI systems will achieve 20x to 50x lower latency | Jeff Dean |  LATENT SPACE | Feb 12, 2026 | Open |
| 50× | “50 times” | Sands: Manual writing forces first-principles reasoning that LLMs dangerously bypass | Emily Glassberg Sands | LATENT SPACE | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Reinforcement Learning Fails Without Initial SFT to Seed Rewardable Behaviors | Misha Laskin | LATENT SPACE | Mar 7, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Shulman: Gaming dwarfs music 50x because music is mostly passive consumption | Mikey Shulman | LATENT SPACE | Mar 14, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 x” | Levie: Knowledge work AI market is 30 to 50x larger than coding alone | Aaron Levie |  BIG TECHNOLOGY | Apr 8, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Lanzone: Ask Jeeves 50x'd its stock after adopting Google AdWords in 2002 | Jim Lanzone | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Apr 4, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Peak Energy's passive sodium-ion system uses 50x less aux power than LFP | Landon Mossberg |  CATALYST | Aug 14, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Kelty: LFP beats LMR for daily-cycling stationary energy storage | Kurt Kelty | CATALYST | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Lubershane: Solar PV and motors require 50x less land than animal power | Andy Lubershane | CATALYST | Jun 2, 2022 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Rutherford: Batteries are 40 to 50 times less energy dense than jet fuel | Dan Rutherford | CATALYST | Dec 2, 2021 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Flora: nVision founder Surbhi Sarna faced over 50 investor rejections initially | Brad Flora |  Y COMBINATOR | Mar 29, 2023 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Buchheit: Wufoo angel investment returned roughly 50x | Paul Buchheit | Y COMBINATOR | Oct 24, 2018 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Gil says passing on Lyft's $90M Series C was a major mistake | Elad Gil | Y COMBINATOR | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Nooyi: Frito-Lay chips turn 40 to 50 times annually, beverages 60 to 70 | Indra Nooyi |  KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Jun 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | The Patriots were the first NFL team to win two 50-pass games | Michael Lombardi | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | May 29, 2015 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 x” | Instalily's AI agents amplify commercial service technicians by 20x to 50x | Amit Shah |  PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Robinson: 6sense raised at 50x revenue and did not grow last year | Adam Robinson | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Schroter: Startups.com Achieved a 50x Return Acquiring Distressed Startups | Will Schroter |  ACQUISITION STORIES | Feb 27, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 x” | Morgan: First Round Capital Fund II Returned 50x | Howard Morgan |  INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Sep 2, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Jain: IdeaScale spends 10-50x less on paid ads than average competitors | Nick Jain | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Nov 14, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Zaharia: 6B parameter models can achieve instruction following with 50x less data | Matei Zaharia |  NO PRIORS | Apr 25, 2023 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Yassin: How/why, superlatives, and paradoxes are the best title formulas | Nuseir Yassin |  WTF | Nov 20, 2023 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Jain: Paying high multiples on peak margins for cyclicals causes massive losses | Rajiv Jain |  CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Sub-$200M Venture Funds Offer Asymmetric Outcomes That Established Mega-Funds Cannot Match | Bruce MacDonald | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Apr 6, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “fifty-x” | Mahr: LTCM Would Not Have Failed Without 50x Leverage | Daniel Mahr | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Distressed Russian Assets Will Return 50x Rapidly Upon Any Regime Change | Rob Citrone | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 11, 2022 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Hamed: Seed deals need 30x to 50x returns, Series A needs 10x | Ali Hamed | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Samani: Multicoin Capital has guided founders through 30 to 50 token launches | Kyle Samani | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Nov 18, 2021 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Aitken: Fixed Income Funds Routinely Run 40 to 50x Leverage | James Aitken | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Mar 18, 2020 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 x” | Lütke: Shopify traded above 50x revenue at its peak | Tobi Lütke |  DAVID SENRA | Jan 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 X” | Suds: AI code volume breaks traditional CI pipelines and raises costs | Sudarshan "Suds" |  MORE OR LESS | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Rao: Unconventional AI has very high chance of hitting 50x efficiency first go | Naveen Rao |  SOURCERY | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Evans: Outsized venture returns only come from contentious deals that look dumb | Benedict Evans |  ANOTHER PODCAST | Aug 23, 2022 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Patel: Reasoning models like OpenAI o1 increase compute costs by 50x | Dylan Patel |  BG2 | Dec 23, 2024 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Friedberg: Open-source AI drops the cost of AI by 50x | David Friedberg |  ALL-IN | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 49× | “49 times” | Kamath: Investors and traders fail 49 times out of 100 | Nikhil Kamath | WTF | Jul 27, 2024 | — |
| 49× | “49 times” | Jain: O'Connor hired him after two rapid math and probability questions | Bobby Jain | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Feb 16, 2026 | — |
| 48× | “48 X” | Cloud instances cost $30 hourly for A100s and $100 hourly for H100s | Ben Gilbert |  ACQUIRED | Sep 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 45× | “45 times” | Vaynerchuk: Being right once in 45 hypotheses fully pays for exploration | Gary Vaynerchuk |  MASTERS OF SCALE | Nov 16, 2023 | — |
| 45× | “45 X” | Coogan: DeepSeek V3 Was ~45x More Training-Efficient Than Competitors | John Coogan |  TBPN | Jan 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 45× | “45 times” | Graham: Leaders must repeat roles and expectations dozens of times | Molly Graham |  LENNY'S PODCAST | Jan 4, 2026 | — |
| 45× | “45 times” | Firefly Health members engage with care teams 45 times yearly on average | Fay Rottenberg |  a16z | Jul 14, 2023 | — |
| 45× | “45 times” | Quiguela: DocSales sees $1,400 LTV and 1.4% monthly churn among accountants | Mauricio Quiguela |  TOP FOUNDERS | Oct 24, 2022 | — |
| 45× | “45 X” | 170 new manufacturing facilities will bring large volumes of 45X tax credits | Alfred Johnson | CATALYST | Mar 21, 2025 | — |
| 45× | “45 times” | Bullard: Larry Fink's letters dropped climate mentions from 45 to five | Nat Bullard | CATALYST | Jan 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 45× | “45 X” | Alfred Johnson: Section 45X credits were second most common deal type | Alfred Johnson | CATALYST | Feb 20, 2024 | Supported |
| 45× | “45 X” | Johnson: First Solar tax credit deal hit high watermark at 96 cents | Alfred Johnson | CATALYST | Feb 20, 2024 | Supported |
| 45× | “45 X” | Lacey: First Solar Sold $700M of 45X Tax Credits | Stephen Lacey |  GREEN BLUEPRINT | Feb 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 45× | “45 X” | Lacey: Heliene Committed 1.3 GW U.S. Solar Manufacturing via 45X | Stephen Lacey | GREEN BLUEPRINT | Feb 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 45× | “45 times” | Lieberman: Cursor Raised $300M at a $9B Valuation (45x Revenue) | Alex Lieberman |  FOUNDER'S JOURNAL | May 12, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 44× | “44 X” | Buchheit: Wufoo angel investment returned ~44x on SurveyMonkey acquisition | Paul Buchheit | Y COMBINATOR | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 44× | “44 times” | HDPE piping is 44 times less carbon intensive than concrete | Lauren Taylor Wolfe | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 2, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 43× | “43 X” | Rauch: Ramp handled 43x traffic spike with 100% uptime on Vercel | Guillermo Rauch | LENNY'S PODCAST | Apr 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 42× | “42 times” | Lazarte: Mobile app downloads grew 42x between 2008 and 2009 | Victor Lazarte | 20VC | Apr 14, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 41× | “41 times” | Mackey: Socialism has failed in all 41 attempts over 100 years | John Mackey |  AMERICAN OPTIMIST | Sep 15, 2021 | — |
| 40× | “forty-X” | Rosenthal: Sequoia invested $150k in Apple and sold entirely for $6M | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Jun 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | 1920s Americans averaged over 40 movie theater visits annually | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Jun 23, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 40× | “40 times” | US theater attendance fell from 32 to 14 between 1947 and 1956 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Jun 23, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Nvidia's 40x PE valuation is not outrageous given its 75% margins | Alok Sama |  NEON SHOW | Nov 29, 2024 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Lunia: Excessive dilution leads founders to get ousted before major post-IPO gains | Anand Lunia | NEON SHOW | Nov 3, 2023 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | High-quality incumbent Indian banks leave little room for neobank startups | Ganesh Rengaswamy | NEON SHOW | Jun 14, 2020 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Lemkin: SaaS Multiples Will Not Return to 20x to 40x ARR | Jason Lemkin |  SAASTR | Oct 3, 2023 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Prince: One AI agent per worker requires 40x annual global CPU output | Matthew Prince |  MAD | Jun 25, 2026 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Musk: Tesla AI5 silicon will improve 40x over AI4 | Elon Musk | ALL-IN | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Friedberg: Snap paid employees 40x its 2023 free cash flow in stock comp | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Feb 9, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Sacks: Jordan Neely had over 40 prior arrests, including attempted kidnapping | David Sacks | ALL-IN | May 19, 2023 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | Sacks: Airbnb Series C investment generated roughly a 40x return | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Dec 18, 2020 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Chamath: Companies should go public sooner to capture public market premiums | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Sep 30, 2020 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Gurley: Tech progress since 1891 radically improved global living standards | Bill Gurley | ALL-IN | May 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Fankhauser: Some ANYbotics customers run robot inspection missions 40 times daily | Dr. Peter Fankhauser | ALL-IN | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Puri: Net worth grew 40x post-exit, primarily from private business ownership | Shaan Puri |  MY FIRST MILLION | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Braziel: Original Mt. Gox bankruptcy claim investor achieved over 40x returns | Thomas Braziel | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 19, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Puri: Triple Whale investment is up roughly 30x to 50x from $5M valuation | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 7, 2023 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | Puri: Fund Holds 2-3 Companies at 40x-80x Unrealized Returns | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Oct 11, 2022 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Reed: Sequoia Made Single-Digit Millions on a 40x Return in Apple | Andrew Reed | TBPN | Mar 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | Vollset: Low-valuation $75M exits yield identical 40x returns to $1B unicorns | Einar Vollset |  STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Jan 14, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Li: Virtual production directors reported Marble reduced production time by 40x | Dr. Fei-Fei Li | LENNY'S PODCAST | Nov 16, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise lead volume grew 40x overnight upon launch | Krithika Shankarraman | LENNY'S PODCAST | May 25, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Zlokazov: Revolut can easily become a trillion-dollar company | Dmitry Zlokazov | LENNY'S PODCAST | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Henrickson: Coinbase usage grew 40x over the course of 2017 | Jeremy Henrickson | LENNY'S PODCAST | Jun 4, 2023 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 x” | Ismail: Top exponential Fortune 100 companies outperformed bottom 10 by 40x | Salim Ismail | a16z | May 25, 2023 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Chen: Mojo Vision's micro-display features 14,000 PPI density | Frank Chen | a16z | Dec 30, 2019 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Collison: Bitcoin consumes 40 times more power than the Visa network | John Collison | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Friedrich: Chicken creates 40 times more climate impact per protein calorie than legumes | Bruce Friedrich | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 x” | Chan: China has over six million convenience stores | Connie Chan | a16z | May 15, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Grant: Founders trained to think scientifically generated 40x more revenue | Adam Grant |  HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 19, 2021 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | Latka estimates Zwo's valuation at $300M-$400M based on market comparables | Nathan Latka | TOP FOUNDERS | May 16, 2022 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Latka: Series A SaaS startups are seeing 25x to 40x revenue multiples | Nathan Latka | TOP FOUNDERS | Apr 15, 2022 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Purwar: 2021 California wildfires affected 40x more homes than prior decade combined | Abhilasha Purwar | TOP FOUNDERS | Nov 6, 2021 | Contradicted |
| 40× | “40 times” | Zekitz: Customer Offered 30-40x Higher Pricing Tied to Conversions | Nick Zekitz | TOP FOUNDERS | Mar 18, 2021 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Income-generating starter sites sell for 30x to 40x monthly revenue | Brian Brewer | TOP FOUNDERS | Oct 5, 2020 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Cloudability grew revenue 40x while its dataset expanded ten million-fold | Matt Ellis | TOP FOUNDERS | Nov 21, 2018 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Hua: SaaS valuation multiples are random, ranging from 5x to 40x | Nancy Hua | TOP FOUNDERS | Jul 12, 2018 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | O'Driscoll: SpaceX Valued Over 40x Run Rate at $15B Revenue | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Dec 11, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | Randle: Figma investment at 100x ARR generated a 30-40x return | Everett Randle | 20VC | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | O'Driscoll: OpenAI will reach a $1 trillion valuation in two years | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Oct 30, 2025 | Open |
| 40× | “40 X” | Halligan: HubSpot's IPO order book was 40x oversubscribed | Brian Halligan | 20VC | Aug 7, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 40× | “40 times” | Lemkin: Competitors Net Positive for Startups with Superior Product Teams | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | May 27, 2024 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Quattrone: Private equity will not match strategic buyers' 20-40x revenue multiples | Frank Quattrone | 20VC | Mar 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Tunguz: Software forward revenue multiples dropped from 40x during QE to ~6x | Tomasz Tunguz | 20VC | Apr 21, 2023 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | O'Driscoll: MongoDB stock dropped 25% due to 40x EBITDA valuation | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Mar 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | YC startup Squire grew revenue 40x within months of Middleton's investment | Jesse Middleton | 20VC | Aug 31, 2016 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Veolia Acquired Kurion for $400M, Yielding >40x Return for Lux Capital | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | May 10, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Gurley: SaaS valuation multiples of 20-40x revenue match 1999 bubble | Bill Gurley | 20VC | Jan 4, 2021 | Supported |
| 40× | “forty-x” | Mullen's First Angel Investment Generated a 40x Return via Warrants | Mark Mullen | 20VC | Jun 24, 2021 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Fanton: Achieved 40x Return On $50K Mercado Libre Investment Over 14 Years | Fernando Fanton | 20VC | Jul 27, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Lee: Nvidia's 30x Earnings Valuation Is Reasonable Compared to 1990s Toyota | Tom Lee | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Jun 25, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Batnick: Nvidia trades at 40x forward earnings compared to Cisco's dot-com 130x | Michael Batnick | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Jun 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Needham: CFS grew global superconducting tape supply capacity 40x | Rick Needham | GREEN BLUEPRINT | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Post-War Korean Construction Contracts Paid Up to 40 Times Auto Repair | Shane Parrish | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Lieberman: $1 Kickstarter backers convert 30-40x better than email leads | Alex Lieberman | FOUNDER'S JOURNAL | Mar 16, 2023 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Baker: Semi-cap equipment trades at 40x earnings vs DRAM at single digits | Gavin Baker |  INVEST LIKE THE BEST | May 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Deshpande: Profitable beauty brands jump from revenue multiples to 40x EBITDA | Shantanu Deshpande | WTF | Sep 20, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Traditional PE fee structures incentivize managers to scale funds for themselves | André Bourbonnais | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 22, 2019 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Godin: Isaac Asimov wrote 400 books working 6 to 10 a.m. daily | Seth Godin |  MIXERGY | Jan 25, 2010 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | Altman: Cost per unit of intelligence has dropped roughly 40x annually | Sam Altman | BG2 | Oct 31, 2025 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | George: US economy spends roughly 40x more on labor than software | David George | a16z | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Prince: Universal containerized AI agents require 40x global annual CPU production | Matthew Prince | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| 38× | “38 times” | Braziel: Original Mt. Gox bankruptcy claim investor achieved over 40x returns | Thomas Braziel | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 19, 2025 | — |
| 37× | “37 X” | Coogan: Apple's P/E ratio expanded from 10x in 2011 to 37x | John Coogan | TBPN | Dec 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 37× | “37 times” | Vohra: Superhuman users average 37 'Write with AI' uses per week | Rahul Vohra | LENNY'S PODCAST | Mar 23, 2025 | — |
| 37× | “37 times” | Altemus: NASA team flew lunar lander test bed 37 times at KSC | Steve Altemus | HOW I BUILT THIS | Dec 21, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 36× | “36 times” | Thusoo: Qubole clusters regularly auto-scale 36x for average customers | Ashish Thusoo | MAD | Nov 9, 2016 | — |
| 36× | “36 X” | Online businesses typically sell for 24x to 36x their monthly net profit | Justin Cooke | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 28, 2016 | Supported |
| 36× | “36 X” | Cliff Weitzman: Brother Tyler made 36x return on levered Nvidia options in 2022 | Cliff Weitzman | 20VC | May 9, 2026 | — |
| 36× | “36 times” | Roy: OpenAI o3 Repeated Walmart 23 Times in Top Retailers Query | Ranjan Roy | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Apr 19, 2025 | — |
| 35× | “35 times” | Dimon: Big investment banks increased leverage from 12x to 35x before 2008 | Jamie Dimon | ACQUIRED | Jul 16, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | 98% of households purchase candy an average of 35 times annually | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Dec 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | Shenoy: HDFC Bank Multiples Contracted From 4x to 2.5x Book Value | Deepak Shenoy | NEON SHOW | Mar 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | Baid: Buffett Mentioned 'Culture' 35+ Times After 1970 vs Zero Pre-1970 | Gautam Baid | NEON SHOW | Feb 7, 2022 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 X” | Deeter: Salesforce paid record 35x multiple for Slack acquisition | Byron Deeter | SAASTR | Mar 14, 2021 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | Calacanis: DeepSeek V3.2 EXP API pricing is 10x to 35x cheaper than Claude | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Oct 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | Chamath: Companies should go public sooner to capture public market premiums | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Sep 30, 2020 | — |
| 35× | “35 times” | O'Brien: Seagrass captures carbon 35x faster than rainforests | Will O'Brien | MY FIRST MILLION | Apr 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | Bartlett: Apple's secretive, cautious culture is antithetical to AI development | Logan Bartlett | TBPN | Mar 17, 2025 | — |
| 35× | “35 times” | Link: Apple's forward P/E multiple expanded from 26x to 35x | Stephanie Link | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Oct 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | Link: Amazon trades cheaper than Apple at 32x forward earnings vs 35x | Stephanie Link | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Oct 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 X” | Mehta: DeepSeek achieved a 35x token cost reduction versus OpenAI reasoning models | Neil Mehta | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Apr 15, 2025 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | Grantham: Timing bubble peaks requires tracking speculative behavior, not valuation | Jeremy Grantham | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 8, 2021 | — |
| 35× | “35 times” | Simple Contrarian Valuation Multiple-Hunting Is First-Level Thinking and Typically Fails | Drew Dickson | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Nov 25, 2019 | — |
| 35× | “35 times” | Tripathi: Non-linear video game writing requires vastly more effort than films | Amish Tripathi | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Mar 19, 2026 | — |
| 34× | “34 times” | D'Onofrio: Average Cloud 100 valuation multiple compressed to 26x in 2023 | Mary D'Onofrio | SAASTR | Sep 20, 2023 | Supported |
| 34× | “34 X” | D'Onofrio: Cloud 100 average multiples grew from 9x to 34x | Mary D'Onofrio | SAASTR | Oct 14, 2021 | Supported |
| 34× | “34 X” | Kanji: Hoxton Ventures achieved a 34x realized return on Deliveroo | Hussein Kanji | 20VC | Jan 20, 2025 | — |
| 33× | “33 times” | Dübendorfer: 40 angel investments yielded two total losses and up to 33x returns | Thomas Dübendorfer | NEON SHOW | Oct 14, 2025 | — |
| 33× | “33 times” | Venkatachalam: Investing in Bajaj Auto Finance in 2009 was extremely lucky | Arun Venkatachalam | NEON SHOW | Mar 9, 2021 | — |
| 32× | “32 times” | US theater attendance fell from 32 to 14 between 1947 and 1956 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Jun 23, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 32× | “32 X” | Ibarra: SaaStr's AI agents scaled outbound email volume 32x over human SDRs | Amelia Ibarra | SAASTR | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 32× | “32 X” | Zeev: AI does not change compounding startup growth math | Oren Zeev | 20VC | Feb 2, 2026 | — |
| 32× | “32 times” | Jacobs's companies generated 32x and 150x returns for shareholders | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 32× | “32 times” | Jacobs delivered 32x to 150x returns across five consecutive companies | Brad Jacobs | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Mar 19, 2024 | 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 |
| 30× | “30 times” | Nvidia's H100 GPU is nine times faster for AI training than A100 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Sep 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | SoftBank made 4x on Nvidia but missed out on 30x returns | Alok Sama | NEON SHOW | Nov 29, 2024 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Adam: Angel investments in Bizongo, Chaayos, and mCaffeine yield 30x returns | Farooq Adam | NEON SHOW | Jun 28, 2021 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | BetterPlace grew 30x in revenue over five years | Pravin Agarwala | NEON SHOW | Apr 25, 2021 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 30× | “30 X” | Nithrakashyap: Ignore startup advice to say no; say yes to everything | Arvind Nithrakashyap | SAASTR | Jun 25, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Fonseca: AI patent filings in 2021 grew 30x over six years | Lucy Fonseca | SAASTR | Mar 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | D'Onofrio: Average Cloud 100 valuation multiple compressed to 26x in 2023 | Mary D'Onofrio | SAASTR | Sep 20, 2023 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Specht: 70% of VCs consider 20x to 30x healthy Series A multiples | Peter Specht | SAASTR | Jul 27, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | ICONIQ Models Exit Revenue Multiples Compressing From 30x to 10x | Doug Pepper | SAASTR | May 6, 2022 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Baidu queries data 30 times faster using Alluxio | Haoyuan Li | MAD | Apr 13, 2016 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Calacanis: Total AI query volume will grow 20 to 30 times | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Dec 6, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Friedberg: Moderna vaccine myocarditis risk up to 30x higher in young people | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Jan 27, 2023 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Sacks: Top-tier startups fundraising next year will get 20x-30x ARR multiples | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jun 24, 2022 | Didn’t hold up |
| 30× | “30 x” | Calacanis: Robinhood could eventually become a trillion-dollar company | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jul 30, 2021 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Chamath: Companies should go public sooner to capture public market premiums | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Sep 30, 2020 | — |
| 30× | “30 x” | Isenberg: Late Checkout Agency's minimal redesign increased conversions 20-30x | Greg Isenberg |  STARTUP IDEAS | Sep 27, 2024 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Friedberg: Animal protein production requires 30x the energy it produces | Dave Friedberg | STARTUP IDEAS | Mar 3, 2022 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Frank: AI tutors will accelerate learning and eliminate need for homework | Chrisman Frank | TBPN | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Uber had 30 times Lyft's revenue and headcount around 2014 | Benjamin Lauzier | LENNY'S PODCAST | Sep 29, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Niedel: Rereading one book 30 times beats reading 30 different books | Ryan Niedel |  WE LIVE TO BUILD | Feb 1, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Andrusko: AI Expands Software TAM 30x by Targeting Labor Spend | Marc Andrusko | a16z | Dec 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Dre Lyon: Hedge funds offered 30x multiples for Cool & Dre's catalog | Dre Lyon | a16z | Jun 13, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Smith: US healthcare service prices can vary by up to 30x | Steph Smith | a16z | May 9, 2023 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Moore: ChatGPT Is 30x Larger Than Claude on Web, 80x on Mobile | Olivia Moore | a16z | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Singh: PAR Stock Traded at 30x Revenue in 2021 | Savneet Singh | TOP FOUNDERS | Jan 14, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Rajesh Jain succeeded twice and failed 30 times in 30 years | Rajesh Jain | TOP FOUNDERS | Jul 12, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Singh: No company deserves to trade at 30x revenue long-term | Savneet Singh | TOP FOUNDERS | May 16, 2023 | — |
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