| 16× | “16 X” | Frockman's father earned a 16x return on his Perk.com investment | Julian Frockman |  TOP FOUNDERS | Aug 16, 2023 | — |
| 16× | “16 X” | Average SaaS Category Has 15x More Competitors Than Five Years Ago | Tripp Brockway | TOP FOUNDERS | May 23, 2023 | — |
| 16× | “16 times” | Preston Lee: Millo's newsletter reaches 30,000 subscribers 16 times monthly | Preston Lee | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 11, 2016 | — |
| 16× | “16 times” | Emergence Capital's Fund III Has Reached a 16x DPI | Jake Saper |  20VC | Mar 10, 2025 | — |
| 16× | “16 X” | Rory O'Driscoll: CrowdStrike traded at 16x revenue post-drop with 31% cash margins | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Feb 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 16× | “16 X” | Rodrigues: Autonomous truck fleets could create $6 trillion in enterprise value | Alex Rodrigues | 20VC | Jul 5, 2019 | — |
| 16× | “16 X” | Cabiyo: Global biomass demand in 2050 exceeds sustainable supply by 11x | Dr. Bodhi Cabiyo |  CATALYST | Jan 19, 2024 | — |
| 16× | “16 times” | Capital Cities Grew From 1/16th of CBS to 3x CBS's Market Value | David Senra |  FOUNDERS | Apr 15, 2024 | Supported |
| 16× | “16 times” | Moyo: SpaceX venture valuation is completely delinked from historical PE averages. | Baroness Dambisa Moyo |  CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 13, 2026 | — |
| 16× | “16 times” | O'Leary: Direct LP feedback to founders relieves internal IR teams | Shannon O'Leary | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Mar 10, 2025 | — |
| 16× | “16 X” | Tannenbaum: India's stock index matched 8x GDP growth since 1999, beating China | Dan Tannenbaum | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | May 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 16× | “16 times” | Buyout multiples doubled over 20 years, turning LBOs into equity-heavy buyouts | Ted Seides | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Nov 23, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 16× | “16 times” | Sycamore Partners achieved a 16x return on its $250M Hot Topic buyout | Stefan Kaluzny | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Oct 21, 2021 | — |
| 16× | “16 times” | US private equity multiples are distorted and significantly overpriced | Dan Rasmussen | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Feb 17, 2020 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Gilbert: Amazon grew revenue 15x year-over-year before going public | Ben Gilbert |  ACQUIRED | Aug 16, 2022 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Singh: Vahdam Teas grew 10 to 15 times between 2015 and 2019 | Kanwaljit Singh |  NEON SHOW | Sep 19, 2019 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Riparbelli: Next Synthesia foundation model will launch with 10-15x quality boost | Victor Riparbelli |  SAASTR | Sep 18, 2024 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Specht: 2x to 3x Growth Results in 15x Valuation Multiples | Peter Specht | SAASTR | Jul 27, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Lemkin: Bay Area post-seed startups cap at 10x to 15x current revenue | Jason Lemkin | SAASTR | May 18, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Western: Raising VC funding removes attractive mid-tier startup exits | Alex Western | SAASTR | Jan 29, 2019 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Top 10 public SaaS companies trade at 14-15x revenue multiples | Aman Kabeer |  MAD | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Impala on Alluxio over Amazon S3 yields a 15x performance gain | Haoyuan Li | MAD | Apr 13, 2016 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Sacks: US economy is 15x larger than Russia's, despite their 6000 nukes | David Sacks |  ALL-IN | Sep 1, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Sacks: Average public SaaS revenue multiple collapsed from 15x to 5.6x | David Sacks | ALL-IN | May 13, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Sacks: US economy is 15x Russia's and equal to China's | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Apr 9, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Puri: Content creator incentives compromise advice from online health influencers | Shaan Puri |  MY FIRST MILLION | Jan 24, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Means: Ozempic is 15 times cheaper in Europe than in the US | Calley Means | MY FIRST MILLION | Jun 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | B2B Trade Show Businesses Can Last Decades Due To High Durability | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Jun 20, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Puri: Roll-ups capture multiple arbitrage from 7x small EBITDA to 15x scale | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Jan 24, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 x” | Parr: Well-resourced startups offer competitive pay plus 5x to 15x upside | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Sep 17, 2021 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Hudack: Targeted Facebook ads no longer work well for acquiring early adopters | Mike Hudack |  STARTUP IDEAS | Dec 18, 2024 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Glyman: Ramp AI agent delivers 15x throughput at 99% accuracy | Eric Glyman |  TBPN | Aug 2, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Schneider: China Can Manufacture Drones 15 Times Cheaper Than the US | Jordan Schneider | TBPN | Mar 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Walling saw a negative-churn SaaS spark a bidding war at 15x ARR | Rob Walling |  STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Feb 10, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Taber: Bluetick Yields More Profit Than Partner CRM Despite 15x Revenue Gap | Mike Taber | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Jun 1, 2021 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Walling: 10x to 15x Revenue Acquisition Offers May Be Once-in-a-Lifetime | Rob Walling | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Mar 23, 2021 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Abel: Enterprise clients demand 15x value to justify a 10x contract increase | Jen Abel |  LENNY'S PODCAST | Nov 9, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Mohan: Codeium's engineering pass rate is under 0.6% post-take-home | Varun Mohan | LENNY'S PODCAST | Apr 20, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Mangaluzzo: PCS receives 10 to 15 buyout inquiries per week | Anthony Mongeluzzo |  WE LIVE TO BUILD | Nov 16, 2022 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Indoor robotic farms yield 15x more than open fields using 95% less water | Frank Chen |  a16z | Feb 9, 2019 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Krause: I have appeared on Shark Tank almost 15 times | Aaron Krause |  HOW I BUILT THIS | Mar 16, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 15× | “15 X” | Scott Tannen: Boll & Branch Early Investors Made 12x to 15x Returns | Scott Tannen | HOW I BUILT THIS | Nov 11, 2024 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | The first Bandcamp Friday generated 15 times normal Friday sales | Ethan Diamond | HOW I BUILT THIS | Apr 8, 2021 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Lawmatics raised Series A at greater than a 15x ARR multiple | Matt Spiegel | TOP FOUNDERS | Feb 4, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Donovan: Median SaaS multiples fell two-thirds from 15x to 5x | Jeremey Donovan | TOP FOUNDERS | May 4, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Budget-strapped startups must target a narrow TAM segment to ensure frequency | Eli Rubel | TOP FOUNDERS | Nov 24, 2022 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Medina: Higherport can 10x to 15x revenue with current infrastructure | Bram Medina | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 1, 2022 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Fisher: Dispensary ATMs Can Be 15x More Profitable Than Regular ATMs | Justin Fisher | TOP FOUNDERS | Jul 17, 2021 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | DeckRobot targets 15x revenue growth for the 2021 calendar year | Tony Urban | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 12, 2021 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Miglietti Notes 2020 SaaS Multiples Between 10x and 15x ARR | Charles Miglietti | TOP FOUNDERS | Nov 29, 2020 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Volset: Brokered sales anchor strategic acquirers to lower private equity multiples | Einar Volset | TOP FOUNDERS | Jun 10, 2020 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Bean: Aha.com investors achieved an estimated 15x return | Jay Bean | TOP FOUNDERS | Jan 27, 2016 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic's per-share growth is under 5x despite 15x valuation jump | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Jan 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Lemkin: Combining Legacy SaaS With AI Startups Fails to Yield 15x Valuations | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Dec 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | O'Driscoll: Scale backed a 2x runner-up over a 15x market leader | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | General Catalyst's top early fund expected to return 13x to 15x | Hemant Taneja | 20VC | Sep 22, 2025 | Open |
| 15× | “15 X” | Lemkin: Menlo Ventures will 10x to 15x its investment in Chime | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Jun 5, 2025 | Partly held up |
| 15× | “15 times” | Lemkin: ChatGPT reached 800M users in 17 months | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Jun 5, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 15× | “15 X” | Seibert: 10-15x paper valuations often fail to deliver actual cash returns | Jeff Seibert | 20VC | Nov 22, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Lemkin: Startup valuations above 15x ARR are suspect in current market | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 23, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Loverro: IVP announced multiple 2022 deals at 10-15x forward ARR | Tom Loverro | 20VC | Feb 13, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Clements: Cursor's AI agent product usage grew 15x last year | Miles Clements | 20VC | Mar 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | O'Driscoll: High-Multiple Stocks Enable Endless Arbitrage Acquisitions | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Randle: Top public SaaS platforms trade above 15x NTM revenue | Everett Randle | 20VC | Jun 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | O'Driscoll: Bending Spoons' $20B IPO valuation lacks organic growth justification | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Jun 11, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 x” | Feldman claims Cerebras chips are 15 times faster than competing GPUs | Andrew Feldman | 20VC | May 26, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | O'Driscoll: Anthropic likely grew its LLM token volume 15x in Q1 | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | May 7, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Tunguz: Paying 15x forward revenue for private SaaS is unsustainable | Tomasz Tunguz | 20VC | Mar 7, 2016 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Accomplice passed on follow-on rounds 10 to 15 times over valuation | Jeff Fagnan | 20VC | Aug 13, 2018 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Fast-Growing SaaS Startups Over $15M ARR Get 10-15x Multiples | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Oct 20, 2023 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Krause: Hafnium prices surged 10x to 15x due to Chinese supply dominance | Joseph Krause |  LATENT SPACE | Jun 17, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Ball: Amp core team has 8 people, ships 15 times daily without code reviews | Thorsten Ball | LATENT SPACE | Sep 25, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Davis: Multi-agent research consumes 15x baseline tokens versus 4x for single-agent | Dylan Davis | LATENT SPACE | Jul 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Swyx: Distilling GPT-4 to Mini cut costs 15x with 2% hit | Shawn Wang | LATENT SPACE | Oct 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Enterprise Spend On AI Tokens Surged 15x Over 16 Months | Ara Kharazian |  BIG TECHNOLOGY | Jun 17, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Mager: Precision and other BCIs will reach market within five years | Michael Mager | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Sep 5, 2025 | Open |
| 15× | “15 times” | Singleton: Paying 15x Earnings Yields No Premium Over Treasury Bills | Shane Parrish |  KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Apr 22, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Internal benchmarking causes founders to hire 2x instead of 10x executives | Alex Lieberman |  FOUNDER'S JOURNAL | Sep 4, 2023 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Galloway: Spun-off PayPal is worth 15 times more than eBay | Scott Galloway |  BIGDEAL | Oct 30, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 15× | “15 times” | Loeb: Nvidia represents a catch-up trade at 15x 2027 earnings | Dan Loeb |  INVEST LIKE THE BEST | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Alternative Asset Manager FRE Multiples Expanded From 10x to 30x | Alan Waxman | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Apr 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Kamath: Biggest upcoming portfolio allocation will be Indian IT and banking | Nikhil Kamath |  WTF | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Kamath prefers Indian IT stocks at 15x PE over US AI stocks | Nikhil Kamath | WTF | Apr 20, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Perelman: GSP avoids roll-up categories with bolt-on multiples above 8x cash flow | Matt Perelman | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Ripley: Raising VC fund size without securing more ownership breaks fund math | Jay Ripley | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Goldman's Special Situations Group Levered Its Balance Sheet 8 to 15 Times | Josh Kopowitz | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Alpine aims to reduce add-on multiples to 5x EBITDA within 12 months | Graham Weaver | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jun 10, 2024 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | TDM Growth Partners targets 10 to 15x returns over 10-year holding periods | Hamish Corlett | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Oct 14, 2021 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Brandel: Public-sourced stories perform 11 to 15 times better than traditional stories | Jennifer Brandel |  THE PITCH | Mar 3, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Shim: Microsoft Copilot launch drove 15x surge in Teams usage on Read.ai | David Shim |  MIXERGY | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Dave Morin: Figure AI's valuation increased 15x in one year | Dave Morin |  MORE OR LESS | Mar 7, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 15× | “15 times” | Patel: NVIDIA is cutting Blackwell margins to compete with custom ASICs | Dylan Patel |  BG2 | Dec 23, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Lütke predicts Shopify's internal workflow system becomes a standard software category | Tobi Lütke |  CHEEKY PINT | Oct 6, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Wu: Enterprises measure 8x to 15x productivity gains using Devin for migrations | Scott Wu | CHEEKY PINT | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Mavrookas: Saronic's Mirage carries 3,500 pounds with a 2,500-nautical-mile range | Dino Mavrookas |  SOURCERY | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 X” | Stebbings: 20VC to see roughly 15x return on seed stake in Poolside | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Aug 27, 2026 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | US theater attendance fell from 32 to 14 between 1947 and 1956 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Jun 23, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 14× | “14 X” | Gilbert: Microsoft P/E multiple compressed from 75x to 14x under Ballmer | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Jul 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Scale-Up Sales Leaders Need Quota Experience 14x Your Current ARR | Christine Edmonds | SAASTR | Nov 30, 2023 | — |
| 14× | “14 x” | Friedberg: Capitalism increased per-capita human consumption nearly 10x over 500 years | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Dec 4, 2020 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 X” | Puri: Google increased Maps API costs 14x to $14 per thousand calls | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | May 10, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Mentioning "ibuprofen" predicts suicide 14x more accurately than the word "suicide" | Frank Chen | a16z | Feb 9, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | McCarter: Frederick add-on delivers 14x ROI based on monthly bookings | Josh McCarter | TOP FOUNDERS | Apr 10, 2017 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Taneja has invested in Stripe across 14 separate funding rounds | Hemant Taneja | 20VC | Sep 22, 2025 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Oscar Pierre Faces a Potential Six-Year Prison Sentence Over Glovo's Labor Model | Oscar Pierre | 20VC | Feb 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Lacaillade: Lower middle market buyouts offer a repeatable 3x-5x return model | Peter Lacaillade | 20VC | Dec 18, 2023 | — |
| 14× | “14 X” | Steckman: Anduril is valued at 10 to 14 times forward revenue | Matthew Steckman | 20VC | Mar 23, 2026 | — |
| 14× | “14 X” | Console game companies trade at 12-14x EBITDA; mobile trades at 5-6x | Kevin Chou | 20VC | Mar 17, 2017 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Mohan: Training optimizer state requires 14x model parameter size in memory | Varun Mohan | LATENT SPACE | Jul 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Calacanis: Launch hosted 13 to 14 Founder University cohorts, half for women and transgender people | Jason Calacanis | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Apr 14, 2020 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Shtabtsovsky: Backtested AI Deal-Sourcing Algorithm Yields 14x Portfolio Returns | Cyril Shtabtsovsky |  INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Aug 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 X” | Balaji: China produces 14x more steel than the US, reversing 1970 ratios | Balaji Srinivasan |  AMERICAN OPTIMIST | May 11, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Escobari: Equities trade at 14x in Europe, 9x in Brazil | Martin Escobari | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Nov 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Kamath: Meta at 14x Earnings Is Cheaper Than Indian Tech Startups | Nikhil Kamath | WTF | Mar 12, 2023 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Escobari: China's GDP was 20% larger than Brazil's in 2000, now 14x | Martin Escobari | WTF | May 28, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 14× | “14 times” | Bitar: Latin American regional platforms command 10x to 14x EBITDA | Rodrigo Bitar | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Apr 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Morehead: Midstream MLPs Offered 3-4x to 12-14x EBITDA Arbitrage | David Morehead | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Apr 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Stavros: KKR Bought C.H.I. at 13x and Exited at 14x EBITDA | Pete Stavros | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Sep 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 X” | Trofimova: Social commerce will grow 14x over the next five years | Anastasia Trofimova | THE PITCH | Jun 18, 2025 | Open |
| 14× | “14 times” | Segura: Babyscripts reduces prenatal doctor visits from 14 to eight | Juan Pablo Segura | THE PITCH | Mar 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Yang: 10K-user health bot achieved 80% opens sending 14 messages weekly | Mikael Yang | MIXERGY | May 26, 2017 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Capital One acquired Brex at a 13.4x forward gross profit multiple | Pedro Franceschi | SOURCERY | Jan 30, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 14× | “14 X” | Wander has grown its platform locations 14x year-over-year | John Andrew | SOURCERY | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Gerstner: Wiz IPO would yield $14B valuation, defying Google's $23B offer | Brad Gerstner | BG2 | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Lie: Cerebras runs OpenAI's flagship model 14x faster than GPUs | Sean Lie | LATENT SPACE | Sep 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 13.5× | “13.5 X” | OpenAI's funding deal was priced at 13.5x forward revenue | Matt Turck | MAD | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 13× | “13 times” | Luxury handbag profits are typically 10 to 12 times their production cost. | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Feb 20, 2024 | — |
| 13× | “13 x” | Google Anthos drove a 13x deployment velocity gain for a financial client | Amr Awadallah | MAD | Feb 20, 2020 | — |
| 13× | “13 X” | Marini: Investors bought Grindr for $600M at 12x to 13x EBITDA | Rick Marini | MY FIRST MILLION | Oct 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 13× | “13 X” | Hormozi: Acquired founders average 13x return on retained equity | Alex Hormozi | MY FIRST MILLION | Aug 15, 2024 | — |
| 13× | “13 times” | Jonathan Weiner Sold Money20/20 And Shoptalk For Over $100M Each | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Jun 20, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 13× | “13 X” | Puri: Crocs stock rose 13x in one year following March 2020 | Shaan Puri | MY FIRST MILLION | Dec 31, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 13× | “13 times” | Hobson: Ariel buys companies at a 40% valuation discount or 13x forward earnings | Mellody Hobson | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 13× | “13 X” | Spiegel: Lawmatics can reach a 12x-13x valuation multiple with AI | Matt Spiegel | TOP FOUNDERS | Feb 4, 2026 | — |
| 13× | “13 X” | Harris: Cloudbeds' Amplify product delivers a 13x return on ad spend | Adam Harris | TOP FOUNDERS | Dec 5, 2023 | — |
| 13× | “13 times” | Dayton: Clearview Social sold at a 13x multiple on ~$500k EBITDA | Adrian Dayton | TOP FOUNDERS | Dec 1, 2022 | — |
| 13× | “13 X” | Dayton: Private equity buys SaaS at 13x EBITDA to sell at 20x | Adrian Dayton | TOP FOUNDERS | Dec 1, 2022 | — |
| 13× | “13 times” | Airwallex will generate over $400M in gross profit this year | Jack Zhang | 20VC | May 26, 2025 | — |
| 13× | “13 times” | Alpine Investors pays 13x multiples today for companies it bought at 5x | Graham Weaver | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 13× | “13 times” | Stavros: KKR Bought C.H.I. at 13x and Exited at 14x EBITDA | Pete Stavros | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Sep 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 13× | “13 times” | US private equity multiples are distorted and significantly overpriced | Dan Rasmussen | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Feb 17, 2020 | — |
| 13× | “13 x” | Clements: Accel's $150M PIPE investment in Nebius is up 13x in 16 months | Miles Clements | SOURCERY | Jul 6, 2026 | — |
| 13× | “13 X” | Atallah: A 10x price drop grew GPT Luna usage 13x on OpenRouter | Alex Atallah | 20VC | Aug 9, 2026 | — |
| 12.6× | “12.6 times” | Frankel: AdGreetz boosted Tanishq CTR 4.6x and watch duration 12.6x | Eric Frankel | TOP FOUNDERS | Sep 18, 2020 | — |
| 12.4× | “12.4 times” | Costco turns its inventory 12.4 times yearly compared to Walmart's 8 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 21, 2023 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Barrocas: SharkNinja leadership visited China 10–12 times yearly to find factories | Mark Barrocas |  MASTERS OF SCALE | Aug 15, 2025 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Nortman: Angel City FC model required 10,000 fans 12 times a year | Kara Nortman | MASTERS OF SCALE | May 11, 2024 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Dimon: Big investment banks increased leverage from 12x to 35x before 2008 | Jamie Dimon | ACQUIRED | Jul 16, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Luxury handbag profits are typically 10 to 12 times their production cost. | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Feb 20, 2024 | — |
| 12× | “12 X” | Sacheti: CaratLane grew revenue 10-12X to 140Cr during Tiger Global tenure | Mithun Sacheti | NEON SHOW | Feb 27, 2023 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 X” | Kumar: Family business received 12x EBITDA acquisition offer in 2012 | Pawan Raj Kumar | NEON SHOW | Sep 14, 2019 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Queener: 90-Day Rep Onboarding Fails Because Product Value Props Change Constantly | Brett Queener | SAASTR | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 12× | “12 X” | Clayton: Modern SaaS IPOs demand $400M ARR and 30% growth | Alex Clayton | SAASTR | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Divvy raised annual revenue targets 12 times in a single year | Sterling Snow | SAASTR | Jul 5, 2023 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Matthew: CrowdStrike trades at 12x current ARR and 9.5x forward | Arun Matthew | SAASTR | Dec 2, 2022 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 x” | Deeter: Average public cloud company returned 12x over eight years | Byron Deeter | SAASTR | Oct 14, 2021 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 x” | Deeter: Bessemer Cloud Index gained over 12x in a decade | Byron Deeter | SAASTR | Mar 14, 2021 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 X” | NVIDIA stock outperformed private AI chip startup investments 12x to 2x | Nathan Benaich | MAD | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 X” | Calacanis: Airtable's 78x revenue multiple far exceeded public peers | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Sep 22, 2023 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Sacks: A one-week pandemic delay explains New York's 12x higher infection rate | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Apr 11, 2020 | — |
| 12× | “12 X” | Pompliano: Joining OpenAI or Anduril offers 2x to 5x upside, not 10x | Anthony Pompliano | MY FIRST MILLION | Mar 27, 2024 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Parr: Executive network Evanta sold in 2016 for $375M on $23M profit | Sam Parr | MY FIRST MILLION | Mar 12, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 12× | “12 X” | Pompliano: Bay Area Times reached 260,000 subscribers in five months | Anthony Pompliano | STARTUP IDEAS | Nov 9, 2023 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Tailoring sample app data builds customer trust and connection | Zoelle Egner | LENNY'S PODCAST | Jan 29, 2023 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Steve Zhao: Sandbox VR players replay zombie game over 12 times | Steve Zhao | a16z | Feb 22, 2023 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Grant: Nobel laureates are 22 times more likely to perform or act | Adam Grant | a16z | Jan 2, 2019 | — |
| 12× | “12 X” | Vandenberghe: Base10 offered Chili Piper $15M on $55M pre at 12x ARR | Nicolas Vandenberghe | TOP FOUNDERS | May 4, 2022 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Britton: Suzy Received Inbound Acquisition Offers of 10x to 12x ARR | Matt Britton | TOP FOUNDERS | Aug 30, 2021 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Wolkomir: Fleeq converts freemium at ~8% with >$200 LTV | Shai Wolkomir | TOP FOUNDERS | Jan 6, 2019 | — |
| 12× | “12 X” | Lorang: SaaS companies growing over 100% YoY command 8-12x revenue multiples | Bart Lorang | TOP FOUNDERS | Dec 20, 2016 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | AI and machine learning startups command 11x to 12x valuation multiples | Allan Wille | TOP FOUNDERS | Dec 12, 2016 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Kale: AppZen grew revenue twelvefold in 11 months | Anant Kale | TOP FOUNDERS | Jul 28, 2016 | — |
| 12× | “12 x” | Stebbings: Open Evidence raised at $12B valuation led by Thrive and DST | Harry Stebbings | 20VC | Jan 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | O'Driscoll: Software Stocks Face Long Flat Periods Transitioning to Cash Flow | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Jan 22, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Aloe Blacc: The music album was invented to boost label profit margins | Aloe Blacc | 20VC | Feb 18, 2023 | — |
| 12× | “12 X” | Lemkin: Emergence Capital's fund backing EchoSign returned 12x | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Nov 30, 2022 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 x” | Forquer: Legora sets sales quota multiples between 8x and 12x OTE | Patrick Forquer | 20VC | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Ljungman: European VC is 6-7x smaller than US, 12x at later stages | Mattias Ljungman | 20VC | Aug 31, 2015 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 x” | Morcos: Datology matches DCLM performance 12x faster with under 10% tokens | Ari Morcos | LATENT SPACE | Aug 29, 2025 | Open |
| 12× | “12 times” | Nooyi: Frito-Lay chips turn 40 to 50 times annually, beverages 60 to 70 | Indra Nooyi | KNOWLEDGE PROJECT | Jun 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 x” | Cameo raised at $1B post-money on $75M net revenue | Steven Galanis |  PRODUCT MARKET FIT | Nov 12, 2024 | — |
| 12× | “12 x” | Smith: Kickstart Invested in $2M Revenue Startup at 11x-12x Multiple | Matt Smith | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 12× | “12 X” | Metcalf: 2021 EdTech multiples reached unsustainable 10x to 12x revenue | Adam Metcalf | INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Galloway cites extreme disparities in male suicide, addiction, homelessness, and incarceration | Scott Galloway | BIGDEAL | Mar 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Galloway: Young men face vastly higher rates of suicide, addiction, and incarceration | Scott Galloway | BIGDEAL | Oct 30, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 12× | “12 x” | Kaplan: Cognition measured 6x to 12x productivity gains with Devin in 2024 | Russell Kaplan | AMERICAN OPTIMIST | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Loeb: Nvidia represents a catch-up trade at 15x 2027 earnings | Dan Loeb | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Bijli: South India leads cinema attendance at 12 visits per year | Ajay Bijli | WTF | Aug 14, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Kamath: Biggest upcoming portfolio allocation will be Indian IT and banking | Nikhil Kamath | WTF | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | High-quality companies earn 12x higher ROI than low-price competitors | David Senra | FOUNDERS | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Dorsey: Fund Managers Privilege Obscure, Complex Ideas Over Cheap Mega-Cap Stocks | Pat Dorsey | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jul 6, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Jain: Established software at 10-12x earnings shows strong growth and lock-in | Rajiv Jain | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Khoury: Cold Storage REITs Trade at 50 Cents on the Dollar | John Khoury | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Dec 1, 2025 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Sandler: Stock multiples expand due to shifting marginal buyers, not personal valuations | Ricky Sandler | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Oct 28, 2024 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Schwartz: Popeyes 18x EBITDA multiple bought down to ~12x via synergies | Daniel Schwartz | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | May 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | KKR has 25 active broad-based employee ownership programs across US portfolio | Pete Stavros | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Sep 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Constellation Returned 6x to 12x in Top Brazilian Market Leaders | Florian Bartunek | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jan 20, 2022 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Private equity managers entering at 12x EBITDA underwrite exits at 10x | John Toomey | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Jun 21, 2021 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | No fund manager successfully boosts returns by trading around long-term compounding stocks | Brian Bares | CAPITAL ALLOCATORS | Apr 26, 2021 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Goldberg: CPG startups require high initial profitability or high repeat frequency | David Goldberg | THE PITCH | Mar 3, 2025 | — |
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