| 30× | “30 X” | Golden: Most Lux Lock Customers Achieve a 30x Return on Investment | Casey Golden |  TOP FOUNDERS | Apr 27, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | SemiCab reached $11M annualized transaction volume in January 2022 | Ajish Kapoor | TOP FOUNDERS | Mar 9, 2022 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Forzley: High-growth fintechs trade at 20x to 30x revenue multiples | Marwan Forzley | TOP FOUNDERS | Oct 19, 2021 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Volset: Brokered sales anchor strategic acquirers to lower private equity multiples | Einar Volset | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 10, 2020 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Soto: Guesty generates 6x to 30x LTV to CAC returns | Amiad Soto | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 9, 2019 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | CoreMedia raised April 2000 round at 30x projected forward revenue | Zoran Stamer | TOP FOUNDERS | Jul 8, 2018 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Williamson: Apple featured Yo Shirt around 30 times in 2015 | Ben Williamson | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 10, 2016 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 30× | “30 times” | Eyal: Springleap is 10 to 30 times faster than traditional market research firms | Eran Eyal | TOP FOUNDERS | Mar 5, 2016 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Randle: Benchmark's top fund investments outperform all post-ChatGPT OpenAI rounds | Everett Randle |  20VC | Nov 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 x” | Staniszewski: ElevenLabs raised at 30x revenue at $80M ARR | Mati Staniszewski | 20VC | Sep 8, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Deeter: Bessemer invested in Anthropic believing it could be a 30x return | Byron Deeter | 20VC | Aug 25, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Lemkin: 10x IPO oversubscription is not enough for a strong stock pop | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 x” | Immad Akhund generated over a 30x return on pre-seed investment in Truebill | Immad Akhund | 20VC | May 12, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 x” | Ross: NVIDIA used misleading benchmark curves to claim 30x GPU speedup | Jonathan Ross | 20VC | Feb 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Khan: High seller expectations, not the FTC, freeze the M&A market | Imran Khan | 20VC | Aug 26, 2024 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Quattrone: Private equity will not match strategic buyers' 20-40x revenue multiples | Frank Quattrone | 20VC | Mar 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 x” | Samani: Hivemapper mapped 10% of global roads, growing 10x faster than Google | Kyle Samani | 20VC | Jan 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Biswas: Flexible remote hiring expanded Samsara's talent pool by 10x to 30x | Sanjit Biswas | 20VC | Dec 8, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Loverro: Valuation corrections take 1.5 to 2 years to reach seed investors | Tom Loverro | 20VC | Feb 13, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | O'Driscoll: SaaS companies failing AI transition will trade at 8x EBITDA | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Mar 12, 2026 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | O'Driscoll: Canva and Rippling won't fetch 30x revenue premiums | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Apr 30, 2026 | Open |
| 30× | “30 X” | Chiu: Top VCs hold winning investments past 50X for 1,000X potential | Alan Chiu | 20VC | Jun 18, 2015 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Growth tech companies are trading at 20 to 30 times sales | Rob Salvagno | 20VC | Dec 30, 2019 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | VC incentives diverge from founders on $100 million versus billion-dollar exits | Rob Salvagno | 20VC | Dec 30, 2019 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | ChatGPT leads Gemini web traffic by 3x and Claude by 30x | Olivia Moore |  BIG TECHNOLOGY | Mar 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Lee: Nvidia's 30x Earnings Valuation Is Reasonable Compared to 1990s Toyota | Tom Lee | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Jun 25, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Kelty: LFP beats LMR for daily-cycling stationary energy storage | Kurt Kelty |  CATALYST | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Dreyfus: Atmospheric methane naturally converts to CO2, which is far less potent | Dr. Gabrielle Dreyfus | CATALYST | Oct 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Yeh: 30x to 100x lab-to-utility scale-ups are rarely project bankable | David Yeh | CATALYST | Dec 21, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Lacey: 2022 India-Pakistan heatwave was made 30x more likely by climate change | Stephen Lacey |  GREEN BLUEPRINT | Jul 27, 2022 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Filevine co-founder Jim Blake tried to quit 20 to 30 times | Ryan Anderson |  PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Malling: Public's first deposit metric grew 25-30x over 18 months | Jannick Malling | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | May 12, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Lieberman: $1 pre-launch reservations convert 30 times better than email signups | Alex Lieberman |  FOUNDER'S JOURNAL | Feb 7, 2023 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Guo: Baseten Has Grown 30x Over the Past Year | Sarah Guo |  NO PRIORS | May 1, 2026 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Tiwari: Blackwell GPUs achieve 90 to 100x inference efficiency over Hopper | Neil Tiwari | NO PRIORS | Feb 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Taggart: Our investment in beverage brand Poppi returned 30x | Drew Taggart |  INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Jun 24, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Alternative Asset Manager FRE Multiples Expanded From 10x to 30x | Alan Waxman | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Apr 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Moreno: Top AI sales comp plans require 10x to 30x OTE performance | Graham Moreno |  IN DEPTH | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Cook: In investing, good ideas become bad when taken to valuation extremes | Will Cook |  CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Dec 2, 2021 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Overlook liquidated all Southeast Asian consumer stocks upon reaching 30x PE | Richard Lawrence | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Aug 14, 2017 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Armstrong: Coinbase met with the SEC approximately 30 times after going public | Brian Armstrong |  DAVID SENRA | Mar 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Doherty: Fund underwrites every investment to at least 30x return | Paige Finn Doherty |  THE PITCH | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 x” | Michael Hyatt predicts Vetd will reach $40M valuation at $1M revenue | Michael Hyatt | THE PITCH | Mar 3, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Rinaldi: Jiobit battery lasts up to 30 times longer than rivals | John Rinaldi | THE PITCH | Mar 3, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Tan: Asking AI to iteratively update its own prompt compounds output quality | Garry Tan |  MIXERGY | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Evans: New non-software brands will likely yield 3x returns, not 30x | Benedict Evans |  ANOTHER PODCAST | Aug 23, 2022 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Gerstner: Wiz Deal Valued at 30x Revenue vs. Public SaaS 6-7x | Brad Gerstner |  BG2 | Mar 21, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 x” | Gurley: OpenAI o1 model costs 20 to 30 times more per query | Bill Gurley | BG2 | Oct 13, 2024 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 29× | “29 times” | Ferriss: Publishers Rejected The 4-Hour Workweek Up to 29 Times | Tim Ferriss |  HOW I BUILT THIS | Dec 21, 2020 | — |
| 29× | “29 times” | Monty Moncrief Drilled 29 Consecutive Dry Wells Before Finally Striking Oil | David Senra |  FOUNDERS | Apr 25, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 28× | “28 times” | Freedman: pgvectorscale is 28 times faster than Pinecone for high recall | Mike Freedman |  MAD | Sep 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 28× | “28 times” | Ackman: Pershing Square dollar grew 27 to 28 times over 22 years | Bill Ackman |  ALL-IN | Jun 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 28× | “28 times” | Lemkin: Multi-Billion Fund Refused 28 Board Meeting Requests for Top Startup | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Sep 20, 2023 | — |
| 28× | “28 times” | Behring: 3G Capital Generated 28x Return and 30% IRR on RBI | Alex Behring | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | May 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 27× | “27 times” | Asparouhov: China relies on mass manufacturing over reusable rocket technology | Delian Asparouhov |  TBPN | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 27× | “27 times” | Coogan: DeepSeek-R1 API is 27 times cheaper than OpenAI's o1 | John Coogan | TBPN | Jan 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 27× | “27 X” | Halligan: HubSpot's IPO order book was 40x oversubscribed | Brian Halligan | 20VC | Aug 7, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 26× | “26 times” | D'Onofrio: Average Cloud 100 valuation multiple compressed to 26x in 2023 | Mary D'Onofrio |  SAASTR | Sep 20, 2023 | Supported |
| 26× | “26 X” | Botha: Sequoia's initial Scout program fund is 26x | Roelof Botha | ALL-IN | Oct 9, 2025 | — |
| 26× | “26 times” | Chamath: Long-Term Capital Management leveraged $4.8B in capital into $125B debt | Chamath Palihapitiya | ALL-IN | Jan 30, 2021 | Supported |
| 26× | “26 times” | Early Honest Tea angel investors saw a 26x return over ten years | Seth Goldman | HOW I BUILT THIS | Jun 11, 2018 | Supported |
| 26× | “26 times” | Goldman: Early Honest Tea investors earned a 26x return | Seth Goldman | HOW I BUILT THIS | Jan 16, 2017 | Supported |
| 26× | “26 X” | Flux reached 7,000 paying customers and grew 26x year-over-year | Matthias Wagner |  LATENT SPACE | Nov 22, 2025 | — |
| 26× | “26 times” | Link: Apple's forward P/E multiple expanded from 26x to 35x | Stephanie Link | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Oct 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 26× | “26 times” | Escobari: US equities trade at 97th valuation percentile over 25 years | Martin Escobari | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Nov 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Eidelman: General practice veterinarians manage 15 to 25 emotionally volatile appointments daily | Steven Eidelman |  MASTERS OF SCALE | Apr 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Benchmark's 2011 fund reached a 25x gross return before fees | Ben Gilbert |  ACQUIRED | Sep 28, 2022 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Atluri: TERI study shows ₹15 crore simulator investment saves ₹387 crore | Ashok Atluri |  NEON SHOW | Aug 15, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Swami: Prime's dollar loss ratio is quarter to half its failure rate | Sanjay Swamy | NEON SHOW | Jun 23, 2024 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Chanchani: 2020–2021 Indian tech IPOs listed at 15–25x forward revenue | Kashyap Chanchani | NEON SHOW | Apr 19, 2024 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Sales Leaders Need Past Quota Experience of 25x Your Current ARR | Doug Pepper | SAASTR | Nov 30, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 25× | “25 x” | Specht: Recent Series A rounds averaged 25x ARR with 21x median | Peter Specht | SAASTR | Jul 27, 2023 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Parr: Nobel laureates are 22 to 25 times more likely to practice performing arts | Sam Parr |  MY FIRST MILLION | Mar 17, 2026 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Coogan: Apple struggles with software requiring rapid, continuous updates | John Coogan | TBPN | Jul 1, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Vollset: Customers pay steep markups for workflow-tailored AI applications | Einar Vollset |  STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Dec 20, 2022 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Dre Lyon: Hedge funds offered 30x multiples for Cool & Dre's catalog | Dre Lyon |  a16z | Jun 13, 2023 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | SportVU captures 3D positional data 25 times per second in NBA games | Mark McClusky | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Evans: iPhone 6 launch weekend sales contained 25x 1995 global PC power | Benedict Evans | a16z | Jul 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Evans: One iPhone launch sold 25x all 1995 computer transistors combined | Benedict Evans | a16z | Jul 15, 2017 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Stebbings: Meta acquired Manus for $2.5B at 25x ARR | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Jan 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Taneja: General Catalyst's top early investments yielded hundreds of X returns | Hemant Taneja | 20VC | Sep 22, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Mercor is highly profitable and does not need additional external financing | Brendan Foody | 20VC | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Stebbings: Databricks is undervalued at a 25x revenue multiple | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | O'Driscoll: A 25x revenue multiple requires two more years of 50% growth | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 21, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Hulme: Pre-2015 angel investments achieved 4.5x DPI and 24x TVPI | Tom Hulme | 20VC | May 8, 2024 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Constrained early markets without expansion plans rarely yield 10x returns | Sumit Gajri | 20VC | Jan 17, 2020 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Venture Capital Annual Investment Volume Grew 25x Over 25 Years | Steve Jurvetson | 20VC | Aug 3, 2020 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Feldman: Non-compute bottlenecks masked Cerebras' 20-25x speedup for a hyperscaler | Andrew Feldman | LATENT SPACE | Oct 1, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Shah: EZ Newswire makes 20 to 25 LLM calls per press release | Neil Shah | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Jul 24, 2023 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Belady: Chip efficiency gains increase total power demand via Jevons Paradox | Christian Belady | CATALYST | Jul 18, 2024 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Jaramillo: 100-hour lithium-ion storage cannot clear grid energy markets economically | Mateo Jaramillo | CATALYST | Dec 14, 2023 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Krátký-Katz: Blockthrough returned an average of 8.5X to investors, first investor 25X | Marty Krátký-Katz | PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Kolicich: NVIDIA is trading at around 25 times forward earnings | Alex Kolicich |  AMERICAN OPTIMIST | Feb 17, 2026 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Mitchell Green: Assuming 20x-25x exit multiples for AI deals is insanity | Mitchell Green | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Mar 24, 2026 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Sacerdote: Amazon Trades at 25x Forward GAAP EPS, Cheaper Than Walmart and Costco | Alex Sacerdote | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Dec 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Connaughton: Bain Capital Made 25x on Accuride Investment | John Connaughton | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 8, 2024 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Connaughton: Bain Capital targets 15-20 investments per fund seeking 3x-5x returns | John Connaughton | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 8, 2024 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | The best fund in any vintage is usually a new boutique | David Rubenstein | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 12, 2021 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Grantham: Timing bubble peaks requires tracking speculative behavior, not valuation | Jeremy Grantham | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 8, 2021 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | No fund manager successfully boosts returns by trading around long-term compounding stocks | Brian Bares | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Apr 26, 2021 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Russo: Berkshire subsidiary MiTek has probably grown 25x since acquisition | Tom Russo | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Mar 4, 2019 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Ellis: Yale Endowment grew 25x from $1B under David Swensen | Charlie Ellis | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | May 22, 2017 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | O'Shaughnessy: 10-year real equity returns strongly inversely correlate with Shiller P/E | Patrick O'Shaughnessy | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | May 2, 2017 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Mark Suster notes 2021 software multiples hit 25x against historical 10x | Mark Suster |  SOURCERY | Jun 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Jain: AI will capture massive revenue from the 25x larger services market | Arvind Jain | BG2 | Dec 23, 2025 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | UTV's 2005 IPO was oversubscribed 25 times despite bad markets | Amit Banka |  INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Sep 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Angelopoulos: A $10B AI startup needs $4B revenue in 2-3 years to 10x | Anastasios Angelopoulos | 20VC | Aug 2, 2026 | — |
| 25× | “25 X” | Stebbings: Benchmark returned roughly 640x on Uber versus 25x on WeWork | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Jul 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 24.6× | “24.6 times” | Software revenue multiples hit 24.6x in late 2021 versus 9.6x average | Mark Suster | 20VC | May 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 24× | “24 times” | Shen: Top-quartile public SaaS multiples fell from 24x to 8x revenue | Christina Shen | SAASTR | Nov 3, 2022 | Supported |
| 24× | “24 X” | Friedberg: Holding NASDAQ's top 10 companies yielded a 24x return over 24 years | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 15, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 24× | “24 X” | Friedberg: Holding the top 10 NASDAQ stocks for 24 years yielded 24x | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 24× | “24 X” | Online businesses typically sell for 24x to 36x their monthly net profit | Justin Cooke | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 28, 2016 | Supported |
| 24× | “24 X” | Hulme: Pre-2015 angel investments achieved 4.5x DPI and 24x TVPI | Tom Hulme | 20VC | May 8, 2024 | — |
| 24× | “24 X” | Berdichevsky: Silicon anodes hold 24x more lithium per atom than carbon | Gene Berdachevsky | AMERICAN OPTIMIST | Apr 21, 2022 | Supported |
| 23.7× | “23.7 X” | Jason Lemkin: Public software multiples jump sharply above 20% and 30% growth | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Nov 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 23.2× | “23.2 X” | Kantrowitz: Software forward P/E multiple compressed 30% to 23.2x | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Feb 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 23× | “23 X” | D'Onofrio: Average Cloud 100 multiple surged from 9x to 23x ARR | Mary D'Onofrio | SAASTR | Mar 14, 2021 | Supported |
| 23× | “23 times” | Shum: Microsoft's XiaoIce chatbot averages 23 conversation turns per session | Harry Shum | a16z | Jan 16, 2020 | — |
| 23× | “23 times” | Callens: Data-driven companies are 23x more likely to acquire customers | Karel Callens | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 28, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 23× | “23 times” | Roy: OpenAI o3 Repeated Walmart 23 Times in Top Retailers Query | Ranjan Roy | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Apr 19, 2025 | — |
| 23× | “23 times” | Top-three carbon credit broker applied a massive 23x markup | Alistair Frew (Alistair Fury) | CATALYST | Jun 8, 2023 | — |
| 23× | “23 times” | Gurley: Delaware Court Legal Fee Multipliers Far Exceed Federal Courts | Bill Gurley | BG2 | May 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 22× | “22 X” | Taneja: IvyCap made 22x on Purplle, returning ₹330 crore | Manish Taneja | NEON SHOW | Sep 19, 2022 | Supported |
| 22× | “22 X” | Coogan: Tesla valuation is up 22x since the 2018 take-private proposal | John Coogan | TBPN | Jan 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 22× | “22 times” | Grant: Nobel laureates are 22 times more likely to perform or act | Adam Grant | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 22× | “22 X” | Acquirers pay 18x to 22x multiples on payment gateway revenue share | Chris Federspiel | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 29, 2021 | — |
| 22× | “22 times” | Morgan: First Round's Uber Investment Returned 22x the Entire Fund | Howard Morgan | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Sep 2, 2025 | — |
| 22× | “22 times” | Aboyeji: Future Africa's first $1 million fund returned 22x | Iyinoluwa Aboyeji | AMERICAN OPTIMIST | Jan 18, 2023 | — |
| 22× | “22 times” | Trofimova: Sundae pilot increased a Swedish brand's conversion rates 22x | Anastasia Trofimova | THE PITCH | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 21× | “21 x” | Specht: Recent Series A rounds averaged 25x ARR with 21x median | Peter Specht | SAASTR | Jul 27, 2023 | — |
| 21× | “21 times” | Glyman: Ramp customer AI token spend grew 21x over the past year | Eric Glyman | ALL-IN | Jul 18, 2026 | — |
| 21× | “21 times” | Bhargava: Founders must avoid MBA-speak and rely on common sense | Manoj Bhargava | HOW I BUILT THIS | Mar 13, 2017 | — |
| 21× | “21 times” | George: a16z Growth's Recent Portfolio Grows 112% at 21x Revenue | David George | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Dec 2, 2025 | — |
| 21× | “21 times” | Gerstner: Google trades at the lowest P/E and growth rate among MANG peers | Brad Gerstner | BG2 | Feb 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Hoffman: Passing on Etsy's angel round cost a 20x to 50x return | Reid Hoffman | MASTERS OF SCALE | Nov 24, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Live podcast episodes require 10 to 20 times more production effort | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Dec 19, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Michael Ovitz proposed that Disney acquire Yahoo and CBS Records | Michael Ovitz | ACQUIRED | Dec 21, 2021 | — |
| 20× | “twenty-X” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “twenty-x” | Gilbert: IPL Grew 20x Since 2008 to Exceed $16B Valuation | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Rosenthal: Taylor Swift Enterprise Value Is $11B Using Disney's 20x Multiple | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Sep 30, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Padval: Clari grew ARR 20x after 2018 Series B investment | Umesh Padval | NEON SHOW | Feb 13, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Khalid: Oil Derivatives Market Volume Reaches 20x Physical Production | Matein Khalid | NEON SHOW | Dec 20, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Wertz's LP portfolio includes 10x–20x crypto funds and multiple 6x–8x funds | Boris Wertz | NEON SHOW | Dec 13, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Kumar: China Spends 20 Times More on R&D Than India | Prof. Arun Kumar | NEON SHOW | Sep 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Shenoy: HDFC Bank Multiples Contracted From 4x to 2.5x Book Value | Deepak Shenoy | NEON SHOW | Mar 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “twenty-x” | Agarwal: Gold jewelry making charges are 20x silver per kilogram | Ishendra Agarwal | NEON SHOW | Feb 16, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Shah: CFOs see more merit capturing 20x upside than protecting 1x downside | Mitesh Shah | NEON SHOW | Mar 30, 2021 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Asokan: Competing for talent in Silicon Valley requires 10x more capital | Ashwini Asokan | NEON SHOW | Dec 7, 2020 | — |
| 20× | “twenty-x” | Gulati: Ecom Express angel investment returned more than 20x upon Warburg entry | Mohit Gulati | NEON SHOW | Mar 29, 2020 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Gulati: Exited Grab.in investment at 7x to 8x return | Mohit Gulati | NEON SHOW | Mar 29, 2020 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Clayton: Down-round IPOs do not matter long-term with durable growth | Alex Clayton | SAASTR | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Bialecki: Klaviyo internally targets at least 10x to 20x customer ROI | Andrew Bialecki | SAASTR | May 19, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Lemkin: SaaS Multiples Will Not Return to 20x to 40x ARR | Jason Lemkin | SAASTR | Oct 3, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Specht: Most VCs view 15x to 20x as healthy Series B multiples | Peter Specht | SAASTR | Jul 27, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | D'Onofrio: Emerging cloud index average multiple rose from 5x to over 20x | Mary D'Onofrio | SAASTR | Mar 14, 2021 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 x” | Bapu: HLTH conference attendance expanded 20x from 2019 to 2023 | Akilesh Bapu | MAD | Nov 17, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 20× | “20 x” | Calacanis: AI agent managers yield 10x to 20x leverage at his firm | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Feb 13, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Dr. Oz: South Florida has 20x more DME providers than McDonald's | Dr. Mehmet Oz | ALL-IN | Jan 24, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 20× | “20 X” | Calacanis: Robinhood has 20x upside remaining | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Lafont: US internet companies spend 20x more on CapEx than Chinese peers | Thomas Laffont | ALL-IN | Jan 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 20× | “20 X” | Friedberg: Broadcom grew 8x and Nvidia 20x while Intel dropped 70% | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Jan 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Henderson: Poorest Americans are 20 times more likely to suffer sexual assault | Rob Henderson | ALL-IN | Oct 2, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 20× | “20 times” | Sacks claims his tweets get 10-20x more reach than the NYT | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Dec 24, 2022 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Sacks: High-growth private SaaS startups are landing deals at 20x ARR | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Jul 22, 2022 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Spencer Pratt states Mayor Karen Bass visited Cuba 20 times | Spencer Pratt | ALL-IN | May 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Jason Calacanis: Heritage Foundation data shows voter fraud cannot flip elections | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Jun 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Alex Hormozi: Instagram views are worth 10x to 20x more than TikTok | Alex Hormozi | MY FIRST MILLION | Aug 8, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Wilkinson: Podcast ad market could grow 20x to 100x like FM radio | Andrew Wilkinson | MY FIRST MILLION | May 12, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | SaaS Founders Can Hedge Concentration Risk by Shorting Public Competitors | Andrew Wilkinson | MY FIRST MILLION | Oct 6, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Puri: Asymmetric 20x Upside Justifies Low-Diligence Crypto Investing | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Mar 10, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Gaskill: Founders using AI agents are 10 to 20 times more productive | Remy Gaskill |  STARTUP IDEAS | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 x” | Isenberg: Late Checkout Agency's minimal redesign increased conversions 20-30x | Greg Isenberg | STARTUP IDEAS | Sep 27, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Yanowitz: Men's personal care market will grow 20x like women's did | Jason Yanowitz | STARTUP IDEAS | May 8, 2024 | Open |
| 20× | “20 X” | Siu: Top agencies sold for 15x to 20x EBITDA prior to 2022 | Eric Siu | STARTUP IDEAS | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Freeform's third-generation 3D printer will offer 10 to 20 times higher throughput | Erik Palitsch | TBPN | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Malling: Formula One provides scale equivalent to twenty Super Bowls annually | Jannick Malling | TBPN | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 x” | Hays: Nvidia valuation is hard to justify as competitive moats crack | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Jan 28, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 x” | Walling: VidHug grew from 250 to 5,000 DAUs in March 2020 | Rob Walling | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Sep 9, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Duhigg: Supercommunicators ask 10 to 20 times more questions than average | Charles Duhigg | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Jul 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Vollset: Gate security reviews and SSO behind a 20x higher enterprise tier | Einar Vollset | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Mar 2, 2021 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Acquirers are typically between five and 20 times the target's size | John Warrillow | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Jan 19, 2021 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Codex usage grew 20x since August, serving trillions of weekly tokens | Alexander Embirikos |  LENNY'S PODCAST | Dec 14, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Komoroske: I talk to Claude daily and cannot work without it | Alex Komoroske | LENNY'S PODCAST | Oct 3, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Bilkowski: Premium AI plans are a no-brainer by replacing junior software developers | Dan Bilkowski |  WE LIVE TO BUILD | Oct 21, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Blakney: SaaS Sells for 10x to 20x Multiples at Seven Figures | Ray Blakney | WE LIVE TO BUILD | Aug 6, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Weisbrot: Consulting rates were 10 to 20 times higher than coaching | Sean Weisbrot | WE LIVE TO BUILD | May 14, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Vysotsky: Implementing AI video production is 20x faster and 10x cheaper | Oleksandr Vysotsky | WE LIVE TO BUILD | May 30, 2023 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Appenzeller: Switching to reasoning models would increase inference compute needs 20x | Guido Appenzeller | a16z | Mar 5, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Collins: Serial biological testing takes 20x longer than parallel engineering | Jim Collins | a16z | Jan 17, 2019 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Andreessen: Global smartphone adoption will soon reach 6 to 7 billion people | Marc Andreessen | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | Held up |
| 20× | “20 times” | Fixed-wing drones yield 20x range and 400x coverage versus quadcopters | Keller Rinaudo | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Zipline drone delivery costs less than motorcycles and is 20x faster | Keller Rinaudo | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Evans: Modern tech market ceilings expanded 100x over prior generations | Benedict Evans | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Horowitz: Grid Battery Storage Can Yield 20x Energy and Emission Savings | Ben Horowitz | a16z | Jul 29, 2017 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Andreessen: Top programmers at portfolio companies are 20x more productive | Marc Andreessen | a16z | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Green: Thrive Market's valuation increased 20x in six months | Nick Green | HOW I BUILT THIS | Aug 12, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | McLeod: Redesigning Hinge reduced likes needed per date from 1,000 to 50 | Justin McLeod | HOW I BUILT THIS | Mar 22, 2021 | — |
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