| 75% | “75%” | AppLovin generates over $7B EBITDA run rate with 75% cash conversion | Adam Foroughi |  SOURCERY | Aug 14, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Foroughi: AppLovin CEO avoids angel investing, conferences, and social media | Adam Foroughi | SOURCERY | Aug 14, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred-billion” | AppLovin dropped 92% post-IPO before rebounding to a $100B valuation | Adam Foroughi | SOURCERY | Aug 14, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 92% | “92%” | AppLovin dropped 92% post-IPO before rebounding to a $100B valuation | Adam Foroughi | SOURCERY | Aug 14, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Foroughi: Mobile gaming ad spend cannot support a $1T valuation | Adam Foroughi | SOURCERY | Aug 14, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Former AppLovin CTO Basil personally wrote roughly 60% of the company's code | Adam Foroughi | SOURCERY | Aug 14, 2026 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Kalanick: Uber's first venture round had a $4M pre-money valuation | Travis Kalanick |  a16z | Aug 13, 2026 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Kalanick: Scour was sued for $250B by 33 major media companies | Travis Kalanick | a16z | Aug 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 1T | “1 trillion” | Baker: xAI will release Grok 4.7 in a few weeks | Gavin Baker |  ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | Open |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Calacanis: US AI spend will hit $1T as companies adopt tokens | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Calacanis: US AI spend will hit $1T as companies adopt tokens | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Baker: Approximating a human brain requires the power of 1M homes | Gavin Baker | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Baker: Approximating a human brain requires the power of 1M homes | Gavin Baker | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| $100B | “100 billion dollars” | Calacanis: Unnamed hyperscaler pivoted a nine-figure AI strategy to open source | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Baker: Frontier models will capture 65 to 85 percent of value | Gavin Baker | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Baker: Frontier models will capture 65 to 85 percent of value | Gavin Baker | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Calacanis: Nvidia partnering with Goldman and BlackRock for $500B financing | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Baker: Anthropic reaching $400B to $500B revenue by 2027 is realistic | Gavin Baker | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Baker: Elon Musk is building a $10B solar plant in Texas | Gavin Baker | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Calacanis: AI chip inference efficiency will improve 5x-10x every 12-18 months | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Calacanis: AI chip inference efficiency will improve 5x-10x every 12-18 months | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Sacks: OpenAI revenue growth exceeds 20 percent month-over-month | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks: OpenAI revenue growth exceeds 20 percent month-over-month | David Sacks | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Calacanis: Anthropic's revenue growth will slow and miss $1T next year | Jason Calacanis | ALL-IN | Aug 13, 2026 | Open |
| 1M | “a million” | Freston: Viacom offered $1.5 million to buy Facebook in early days | Tom Freston |  MASTERS OF SCALE | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Freston: Viacom sued YouTube for $1 billion and lost after a decade | Tom Freston | MASTERS OF SCALE | Aug 13, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Chess.com has 10 million daily and 50 million monthly active users | Erik Allebest |  NO PRIORS | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Chess.com has 10 million daily and 50 million monthly active users | Erik Allebest | NO PRIORS | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Allebest: Chess.com has over 250 million registered members | Erik Allebest | NO PRIORS | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Chess.com had roughly one million daily active users before COVID-19 | Erik Allebest | NO PRIORS | Aug 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 3.2T | “a 2.2 trillion” | Chen: SpaceX IPO completed at a $2.2T valuation | Adam Chen |  INNOVATORS & INVESTORS | Aug 13, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | McCall: Incumbents made up to $500M in revenue when Samsara entered ELD market | Andy McCall | a16z | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | McCall: Early-stage founders should spend 1% on strategy, 99% executing | Andy McCall | a16z | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | McCall: Early-stage founders should spend 1% on strategy, 99% executing | Andy McCall | a16z | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | McCall: Startups with 40-50% quota attainment have flawed targets or hiring | Andy McCall | a16z | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Friedberg: Housing, college, and healthcare inflation significantly outpaced average 2.5% inflation | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Friedberg: Housing, college, and healthcare inflation significantly outpaced average 2.5% inflation | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6% | “six percent” | Friedberg: Housing, college, and healthcare inflation significantly outpaced average 2.5% inflation | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Friedberg: China has 20 times the US manufacturing square footage | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 50% | “50%” | Emanuel: Illiteracy causes kids to effectively drop out in third grade | Rahm Emanuel | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Emanuel proposes 20% full-tuition foreign student cap to subsidize 3-year degrees | Rahm Emanuel | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Emanuel: China's Auto Industry Exports Are Rising While Profits Are Down 20% | Rahm Emanuel | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Friedberg: College administrative staff grew from 10% to 60% in 30 years | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 60% | “60%” | Friedberg: College administrative staff grew from 10% to 60% in 30 years | David Friedberg | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Emanuel: Iran Invested $40B+ Over 40 Years in Regional Proxy Network | Rahm Emanuel | ALL-IN | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 18% | “18%” | Palantir accelerated revenue growth from 18% to 98% following AI pivot | Jason Lemkin |  20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 98% | “98%” | Palantir accelerated revenue growth from 18% to 98% following AI pivot | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Enterprise software companies only pretend to offer outcome-based pricing | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Seed models must assume 75% dilution and 4x effective entry prices | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Seed models must assume 75% dilution and 4x effective entry prices | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Any startup investment not run by a founder will be a zero | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Any startup investment not run by a founder will be a zero | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Late-stage investors design mega CEO incentive packages around 10x return hurdles | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Datadog benefits from AI scale without changing its core business model | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Canva lowered its 2026 revenue growth forecast from 30% to 20% | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Canva lowered its 2026 revenue growth forecast from 30% to 20% | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Canva lowered its 2026 revenue growth forecast from 30% to 20% | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Whatnot recently raised $500 million at a $20 billion valuation | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Whatnot recently raised $500 million at a $20 billion valuation | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Whatnot's GMV is doubling to $16 billion with a 12% take rate | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Open |
| 12% | “12%” | Whatnot's GMV is doubling to $16 billion with a 12% take rate | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Open |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Vibe coding a custom CRM makes no sense for most companies | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Google Cloud generates 30% operating margins selling compute to Anthropic | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Datadog's largest customer, OpenAI, slashed its $150 million software spend | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | A $1 million Anthropic stock grant from 2023 is worth $51 million | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 51M | “fifty one million” | A $1 million Anthropic stock grant from 2023 is worth $51 million | Rory O'Driscoll | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Canva is currently worth only $12 billion in public market value | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Canva is currently worth only $12 billion in public market value | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Canva is currently worth only $12 billion in public market value | Jason Lemkin | 20VC | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Miller: Building a basic AI workforce puts users in top 0.5% | Ali K. Miller |  STARTUP IDEAS | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “5%” | Miller: Building a basic AI workforce puts users in top 0.5% | Ali K. Miller | STARTUP IDEAS | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Kedrosky: Over 50% of data center funding is external financing as of Q2 2026 | Paul Kedrosky |  BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Kedrosky: AI infrastructure models based on labor TAM are ridiculous and speculative | Paul Kedrosky | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| $12T | “12 trillion dollars” | Kedrosky: AI infrastructure models based on labor TAM are ridiculous and speculative | Paul Kedrosky | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Kedrosky: AI infrastructure models based on labor TAM are ridiculous and speculative | Paul Kedrosky | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Kedrosky: AI Token Prices Fall 70-80% YoY on Constant Performance | Paul Kedrosky | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Kedrosky: Token demand is unlikely to achieve 100M-fold growth in 6 years | Paul Kedrosky | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 12, 2026 | Open |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Kedrosky: Sovereign funds filter investments by check size rather than economic value | Paul Kedrosky | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 101B | “a hundred one billion” | Kedrosky: Sovereign funds filter investments by check size rather than economic value | Paul Kedrosky | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Godin: YouTube creators cannot make a living with under one million followers | Seth Godin |  BIGDEAL | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Sanchez: Contrarian Thinking generates 130M monthly views and 3K-5K annual buyers | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Jurowicz: Reactor equipment accounts for only 7% of nuclear build costs | Jake Jurowicz |  GREEN BLUEPRINT | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 35B | “thirty five billion” | Jurowicz: Venture Global raised over $35B in project finance for modular LNG | Jake Jurowicz | GREEN BLUEPRINT | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 600B | “a five hundred billion” | Coogan: Nvidia assembles $500B AI financing package with Wall Street firms | John Coogan |  TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| $500B | “five hundred billion dollars” | Huang: $500B was invested globally into AI startups over six months | Jensen Huang | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10B | “Ten billion” | Coogan: $500B of compute only covers one year of AI scaling | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Coogan: $500B of compute only covers one year of AI scaling | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 8M | “a seven million” | Coogan: Paramount faces seven million dollar daily ticking fee to WBD | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| $7M | “seven million dollars” | Coogan: Paramount faces seven million dollar daily ticking fee to WBD | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Coogan: Tesla Could Build 1M Robotaxis in One to Two Years | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Coogan: Tesla Acquisition Eliminates Musk's Operational Pay Milestones | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 8.5T | “8.5 trillion” | Coogan: $8.5T Acquisition Triggers Full 423M Share Pay Package for Musk | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 23M | “twenty three million” | Coogan: $8.5T Acquisition Triggers Full 423M Share Pay Package for Musk | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 11B | “eleven billion” | Coogan: Bending Spoons Added $11B Market Cap Post-Airtable Acquisition | John Coogan | TBPN | Aug 12, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 1M | “a million” | Neros CEO: Millennium One facility is sized for 1M drones annually | Soren Monroe-Anderson | SOURCERY | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Tan: YC advice prompt was reduced 90% in Claude before open-sourcing | Garry Tan | a16z | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Tan: Turning down early Palantir offer was a $2B to $4B mistake | Garry Tan | a16z | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Tan: Turning down early Palantir offer was a $2B to $4B mistake | Garry Tan | a16z | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Tan: AI 'harness wars' for 1B consumers will erupt around 2027 | Garry Tan | a16z | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | McPartlon: Chai-2 generated binders for 25 targets with 20% hit rate | Matt McPartlon |  LATENT SPACE | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 11% | “11%” | McPartlon: AlphaFold-Multimer gets antibody-antigen prediction right only 11% of the time | Matt McPartlon | LATENT SPACE | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | McPartlon: AlphaFold-Multimer gets antibody-antigen prediction right only 11% of the time | Matt McPartlon | LATENT SPACE | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | McPartlon: Multi-specific antibody modalities must be designed computationally from first principles | Matt McPartlon | LATENT SPACE | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 3B | “a one a billion” | McPartlon: Multi-specific antibody modalities must be designed computationally from first principles | Matt McPartlon | LATENT SPACE | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 4M | “a three million” | Todd Anthony: Pinwheel Agency is a $3 million time-and-materials business | Todd Anthony |  WE LIVE TO BUILD | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 350M | “three hundred fifty million” | Kantrowitz: Cribl Has 1,200 Employees and $350 Million in ARR | Alex Kantrowitz | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 100% | “100%” | Sharp: AI model providers will launch competing telemetry products within 18 months | Clint Sharp | BIG TECHNOLOGY | Aug 11, 2026 | Open |
| 60% | “60%” | Raman: 60% of 2018 jobs did not exist in 1940, per MIT | Aneesh Raman | MASTERS OF SCALE | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Sanchez: 1989 Research Shows Prospective Hindsight Improves Cause Identification by 30% | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Sanchez: Bezos pitched Amazon seed investors with a 70% failure estimate | Codie Sanchez | BIGDEAL | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 2× | “two X” | Garg: Practice by Numbers customers generate 2x national average revenue | Rohit Garg |  TOP FOUNDERS | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| $90M | “ninety million dollars” | Garg: Practice by Numbers processes about $190 million in payments GMV | Rohit Garg | TOP FOUNDERS | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Garg: Practice by Numbers targets 35% to 40% growth at Rule of 70-80 | Rohit Garg | TOP FOUNDERS | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Garg: Practice by Numbers will exceed $100M in revenue within 10 years | Rohit Garg | TOP FOUNDERS | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Vishria: Fireworks achieves 5x speed and higher throughput than major clouds | Eric Vishria |  INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Vishria: AI will yield an oligopoly and multiple $100B specialized winners | Eric Vishria | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 11, 2026 | Held up |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Vishria: AI sales reps generate $10M to $30M, breaking SaaS quota models | Eric Vishria | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Vishria: China is adding ten times more energy capacity than the US | Eric Vishria | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 11, 2026 | Open |
| 80% | “80%” | Vishria: An architectural blueprint is 80% of software but 2% of hardware | Eric Vishria | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Vishria: An architectural blueprint is 80% of software but 2% of hardware | Eric Vishria | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Vishria: High-multiple VC returns are no longer restricted to early stage | Eric Vishria | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Vishria: Foundation model labs like Anthropic will not capture 98% of AI value | Eric Vishria | INVEST LIKE THE BEST | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Walling: Acquirers will inspect all signed contracts for uncapped liabilities | Rob Walling |  STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Walling: Idea validation only provides 30% to 50% certainty | Rob Walling | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Walling: Idea validation only provides 30% to 50% certainty | Rob Walling | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Walling: Idea validation only provides 30% to 50% certainty | Rob Walling | STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Tillis claims Biden's Keystone XL cancellation destroyed two billion dollars of capital | Tom Tillis |  CATALYST | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 6.66% | “6.66%” | Morris: Freddie Mac 30-Year Mortgage Rate Hit One-Year High of 6.66% | Paul Mark Morris |  PAUL MORRIS | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 5.4% | “5.4%” | Morris: Median Home Price Hit Record $440,600 as Pending Sales Fell 5.4% | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Morris: 5- and 15-Year Property Items Qualify for 100% Bonus Depreciation | Paul Mark Morris | PAUL MORRIS | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 13% | “13%” | Hays: SpaceX is up 13% in five days, partly from SemiAnalysis report | Jordi Hays | TBPN | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Monroe-Anderson says 90% of Russian Shahed drones are intercepted midair | Soren Monroe-Anderson | SOURCERY | Aug 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 7M | “seven million” | Ukraine is projected to consume seven million FPV drones in 2026 | Soren Monroe-Anderson | SOURCERY | Aug 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Monroe-Anderson: Neros sized its facility to eventually build 1M drones annually | Soren Monroe-Anderson | SOURCERY | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Monroe-Anderson: Neros raised a $250M Series C at a $2.5B valuation | Soren Monroe-Anderson | SOURCERY | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 2.5B | “2.5 billion” | Monroe-Anderson: Neros raised a $250M Series C at a $2.5B valuation | Soren Monroe-Anderson | SOURCERY | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Rosenthal: Bass family acquired ~25% stake in Disney in 1984 | David Rosenthal |  ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.3B | “a quarter billion dollars” | In 1984, Disney parks earned $250M while film and TV earned $2M | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2M | “two million” | In 1984, Disney parks earned $250M while film and TV earned $2M | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Gilbert: Beauty and the Beast grossed $330M on a $25M budget | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 26M | “a twenty-five million” | Gilbert: Beauty and the Beast grossed $330M on a $25M budget | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 500M | “Five hundred million” | Gilbert: Aladdin grossed $500M on a $28M production budget | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Open |
| 1.5B | “Half a billion” | Gilbert: Aladdin grossed $500M on a $28M production budget | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Open |
| 29M | “a twenty-eight million” | Gilbert: Aladdin grossed $500M on a $28M production budget | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Open |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Gilbert: The Lion King brought in $750M at the box office | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Rosenthal: Home video became Disney's second-largest profit center after parks | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 32M | “thirty-two million” | The Lion King is the best-selling VHS tape in history | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $11B | “eleven billion dollars” | The Lion King musical is history's highest-grossing single entertainment product | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Rosenthal: Disney Parks generated $10B in operating profit last year | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Rosenthal: Euro Disney cost $4B to develop and lost money for years | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Rosenthal: Disney operating profit increased nearly 8x between 1984 and 1994 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Rosenthal: Disney operating profit increased nearly 8x between 1984 and 1994 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Rosenthal: Disney operating profit increased nearly 8x between 1984 and 1994 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $22B | “twenty two billion dollars” | By 1994, Disney's market cap topped all other traditional media companies | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | By 1994, Disney's market cap topped all other traditional media companies | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $80M | “eighty million dollars” | Disney settled Jeffrey Katzenberg's bonus lawsuit for a reported $280 million | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | ESPN and cable networks drove 60% of Disney's operating income from 2008-2011 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Michael Ovitz lasted one year as Disney president, exiting with $140M severance | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Open |
| 25% | “25%” | Rosenthal: Disney stock fell nearly 25% following 9/11 attacks | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Rosenthal: Bass family was forced to liquidate $2B in Disney shares | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Rosenthal: Bass family was forced to liquidate $2B in Disney shares | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $54B | “fifty four billion dollars” | Comcast launched a $54B hostile stock bid for Disney in 2004 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 43% | “43%” | Rosenthal: 43% of Disney shareholders withheld support for Eisner in 2004 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 31B | “thirty-one billion” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 97M | “ninety-seven million” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.5B | “2.5 billion” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 X” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “twenty-X” | Gilbert: Michael Eisner Grew Disney Revenue From $1.7B to $31B | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “1986 a five million” | Gilbert: Jobs Paid $5M to Lucas and Invested $5M for 70% of Pixar in 1986 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Gilbert: Jobs Paid $5M to Lucas and Invested $5M for 70% of Pixar in 1986 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Gilbert: Jobs Paid $5M to Lucas and Invested $5M for 70% of Pixar in 1986 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Gilbert: Jobs Paid $5M to Lucas and Invested $5M for 70% of Pixar in 1986 | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 29M | “twenty-nine million” | Gilbert: Toy Story was the first non-Disney animated blockbuster | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Pixar's IPO made Steve Jobs a billionaire, creating more wealth than Apple | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Pixar's 1995 IPO was larger than Netscape's | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Gilbert: Jobs invested $54M over 9 years and owned 78% of Pixar at IPO | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $54M | “fifty four million dollars” | Gilbert: Jobs invested $54M over 9 years and owned 78% of Pixar at IPO | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 78% | “78%” | Gilbert: Jobs invested $54M over 9 years and owned 78% of Pixar at IPO | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 65M | “65 million” | Rosenthal: Disney and Pixar sold 65 million copies of Finding Nemo DVD | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Steve Jobs demanded 100% of Pixar film profits in renegotiation with Disney | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Steve Jobs demanded 100% of Pixar film profits in renegotiation with Disney | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Steve Jobs demanded 100% of Pixar film profits in renegotiation with Disney | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Gilbert: Toy Story franchise generated at least $3.5B in direct revenue for Disney | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Gilbert: Toy Story franchise generated at least $3.5B in direct revenue for Disney | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 30B | “Thirty billion” | Gilbert: Toy Story franchise generated at least $3.5B in direct revenue for Disney | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.5B | “a half billion dollars” | Gilbert: Toy Story franchise generated at least $3.5B in direct revenue for Disney | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Gilbert: Toy Story franchise generated at least $3.5B in direct revenue for Disney | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $32B | “thirty-two billion dollars” | Gilbert: MCU became highest-grossing film franchise at nearly $32B box office | Ben Gilbert | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Rosenthal: Disney sold 3M Frozen dresses in the movie's first year | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | By 2015, Disney generated over $50B annually in gross retail merchandise sales | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2× | “two X” | By 2015, Disney generated over $50B annually in gross retail merchandise sales | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Rosenthal: Frozen soundtrack was 2014's top album, outselling Taylor Swift's 1989 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Rosenthal: Disney grew market cap from $50B to $200B from 2005-2015 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Rosenthal: Disney grew market cap from $50B to $200B from 2005-2015 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 32B | “thirty two billion” | Rosenthal: Disney grew market cap from $50B to $200B from 2005-2015 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 52B | “fifty two billion” | Rosenthal: Disney grew market cap from $50B to $200B from 2005-2015 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 14.7B | “14.7 billion” | Rosenthal: Disney grew market cap from $50B to $200B from 2005-2015 | David Rosenthal | ACQUIRED | Aug 10, 2026 | Supported |
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