| 10,000× | “10,000 X” | Friedberg: New tech cuts AI power cost per token by 10,000x | David Friedberg | Sep 12, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 9,000× | “9000 times” | Charles Koch: Koch Industries grew its value 9,000x since the early 1960s | Charles Koch | May 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 7,000× | “7000 X” | Friedberg: German research paper shows 70,000x energy reduction over NVIDIA H100 | David Friedberg | Sep 27, 2025 | — |
| 6,000× | “6000 times” | Chamath: His Winamp team secretly released Gnutella source code on AOL servers | Chamath Palihapitiya | Sep 25, 2021 | — |
| 2,600× | “2600 times” | Sacks: Reid Hoffman is mentioned 2,600 times in Epstein files | David Sacks | Feb 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 1,000× | “1000 times” | Silver: Silicon Valley grasps scale, whereas social media flattens all discourse | Nate Silver | May 30, 2022 | — |
| 400× | “400 X” | Chamath: Compounding AI investment, hardware, and model gains yield 400x annual improvement | Chamath Palihapitiya | Nov 3, 2023 | — |
| 300× | “300 X” | Friedberg: German research paper shows 70,000x energy reduction over NVIDIA H100 | David Friedberg | Sep 27, 2025 | — |
| 300× | “300 times” | Friedberg: YouTube's data repo is 300x larger than Common Crawl | David Friedberg | Feb 9, 2024 | — |
| 232× | “232 times” | China's naval shipbuilding capacity outpaces the United States by 232x | Jake Loosararian | Sep 30, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 200× | “200 times” | Sacks: Anthropic iterated prompts over 200 times in AI blackmail study | David Sacks | Jul 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 192× | “192 times” | Friedberg: GameStop stock is currently trading at an absurd 192 times EBITDA | David Friedberg | Jun 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 130× | “130 X” | Chamath: Minnesota Medicaid autism claims spiked 130x in five years | Chamath Palihapitiya | Dec 31, 2025 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Friedberg: SaaS will absorb the services economy within a couple of years | David Friedberg | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Friedberg: AI compute efficiency will improve 70x to 100x within years | David Friedberg | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Calacanis predicts humanoid robots will massively outperform purpose-built industrial robotics | Jason Calacanis | Oct 24, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Friedberg: German research paper shows 70,000x energy reduction over NVIDIA H100 | David Friedberg | Sep 27, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Hassabis says AI model serving efficiency improved 10x-100x over two years | Demis Hassabis | Sep 12, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Sankar: US will see 100x more blackouts by 2030 without intervention | Shyam Sankar | Jul 23, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Calacanis: Everyone should allocate a low single-digit percentage to Bitcoin | Jason Calacanis | Apr 3, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Chamath predicts AI inference market will be 100x larger than training | Chamath Palihapitiya | Apr 26, 2024 | Open |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Friedberg: Generative AI will give knowledge workers 10x to 100x leverage | David Friedberg | Apr 5, 2024 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Botez: Platform-native content performs 10 to 100 times better than repurposed content | Alexandra Botez | Oct 2, 2023 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Sacks: VCs' search for 100x outcomes makes them predictable targets | David Sacks | Dec 3, 2022 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Sacks: Tech valuations will not return to 2021 peak SaaS multiples | David Sacks | Feb 4, 2023 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Friedberg: OpenAI capped previous investor returns at 100x | David Friedberg | Jan 13, 2023 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Gerstner: Startups valued at 100x ARR will likely never reach those prices again | Brad Gerstner | May 23, 2022 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Sacks: 100x ARR valuations are over; recent deals are 60-80x | David Sacks | Mar 5, 2022 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Sacks: 100x ARR is the rule of thumb for early-stage SaaS | David Sacks | Oct 30, 2021 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | David Friedberg says mega-VCs push startups to risk failure for 100x returns. | David Friedberg | Dec 11, 2021 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Kalanick: Waymo takes 100x more energy to drive than a human | Travis Kalanick | Mar 17, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Huang: Reasoning and agentic AI drive compound 10,000x increase in compute | Jensen Huang | Mar 19, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Huang: Enterprise software will get 100x more usage from AI agents | Jensen Huang | Mar 19, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Calacanis: AI tools increased deployed code volume by 10x to 100x | Jason Calacanis | Apr 10, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Chamath: AI wave feels 100x bigger than mobile and social | Chamath Palihapitiya | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Gavin Baker: Nvidia trades at low to mid-teens multiple of real earnings | Gavin Baker | May 22, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Calacanis: Late-stage tech valuations at 50 to 100x revenue are unsustainable | Jason Calacanis | Sep 4, 2026 | — |
| 92× | “92 times” | Chamath predicts long Credit Default Swaps will be 2025's best asset | Chamath Palihapitiya | Jan 4, 2025 | — |
| 80× | “80 times” | Sacks: 100x ARR valuations are over; recent deals are 60-80x | David Sacks | Mar 5, 2022 | — |
| 75× | “75 times” | Hefets: US homeowners have 75 times the average net worth of renters | Adena Hefets | May 29, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 75× | “75 times” | Gerstner: Altimeter will not join startup deals at 75x ARR | Brad Gerstner | May 23, 2022 | — |
| 70× | “70 times” | Friedberg: Nvidia is currently trading at 70 times next twelve months EBITDA | David Friedberg | May 26, 2023 | Supported |
| 70× | “70 times” | A $7B fund returning 3x exceeds total annual venture exit values | Bill Maris | Jun 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 56× | “56 times” | Feldman: Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine is 56x larger than Nvidia B200 | Andrew Feldman | Jan 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Friedberg: OpenAI and Retro Biosciences created 50x more effective rejuvenation proteins | David Friedberg | Aug 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Calacanis: Crypto trader opened $200M 50x leveraged long on BTC and ETH | Jason Calacanis | Mar 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Friedberg: US rail construction is 50 times more expensive than China's | David Friedberg | Jun 20, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 50× | “50 times” | Sacks: COVID fatality rate for healthy under-50s is 50x lower than over-60s | David Sacks | Jun 20, 2020 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Gerstner: SpaceX IPO will trade at 40 to 50 times revenue | Brad Gerstner | May 8, 2026 | Didn’t hold up |
| 50× | “50 X” | Friedberg: Open-source AI drops the cost of AI by 50x | David Friedberg | Sep 12, 2026 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Musk: Tesla AI5 silicon will improve 40x over AI4 | Elon Musk | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Friedberg: Snap paid employees 40x its 2023 free cash flow in stock comp | David Friedberg | Feb 9, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Sacks: Jordan Neely had over 40 prior arrests, including attempted kidnapping | David Sacks | May 19, 2023 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | Sacks: Airbnb Series C investment generated roughly a 40x return | David Sacks | Dec 18, 2020 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Chamath: Companies should go public sooner to capture public market premiums | Chamath Palihapitiya | Sep 30, 2020 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Gurley: Tech progress since 1891 radically improved global living standards | Bill Gurley | May 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Fankhauser: Some ANYbotics customers run robot inspection missions 40 times daily | Dr. Peter Fankhauser | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| 35× | “35 times” | Calacanis: DeepSeek V3.2 EXP API pricing is 10x to 35x cheaper than Claude | Jason Calacanis | Oct 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 times” | Chamath: Companies should go public sooner to capture public market premiums | Chamath Palihapitiya | Sep 30, 2020 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Calacanis: Total AI query volume will grow 20 to 30 times | Jason Calacanis | Dec 6, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Friedberg: Moderna vaccine myocarditis risk up to 30x higher in young people | David Friedberg | Jan 27, 2023 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Sacks: Top-tier startups fundraising next year will get 20x-30x ARR multiples | David Sacks | Jun 24, 2022 | Didn’t hold up |
| 30× | “30 x” | Calacanis: Robinhood could eventually become a trillion-dollar company | Jason Calacanis | Jul 30, 2021 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Chamath: Companies should go public sooner to capture public market premiums | Chamath Palihapitiya | Sep 30, 2020 | — |
| 28× | “28 times” | Ackman: Pershing Square dollar grew 27 to 28 times over 22 years | Bill Ackman | Jun 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 26× | “26 X” | Botha: Sequoia's initial Scout program fund is 26x | Roelof Botha | Oct 9, 2025 | — |
| 26× | “26 times” | Chamath: Long-Term Capital Management leveraged $4.8B in capital into $125B debt | Chamath Palihapitiya | Jan 30, 2021 | Supported |
| 24× | “24 X” | Friedberg: Holding NASDAQ's top 10 companies yielded a 24x return over 24 years | David Friedberg | Aug 15, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 24× | “24 X” | Friedberg: Holding the top 10 NASDAQ stocks for 24 years yielded 24x | David Friedberg | Aug 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 21× | “21 times” | Glyman: Ramp customer AI token spend grew 21x over the past year | Eric Glyman | Jul 18, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 x” | Calacanis: AI agent managers yield 10x to 20x leverage at his firm | Jason Calacanis | Feb 13, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Dr. Oz: South Florida has 20x more DME providers than McDonald's | Dr. Mehmet Oz | Jan 24, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 20× | “20 X” | Calacanis: Robinhood has 20x upside remaining | Jason Calacanis | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Lafont: US internet companies spend 20x more on CapEx than Chinese peers | Thomas Laffont | Jan 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 20× | “20 X” | Friedberg: Broadcom grew 8x and Nvidia 20x while Intel dropped 70% | David Friedberg | Jan 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Henderson: Poorest Americans are 20 times more likely to suffer sexual assault | Rob Henderson | Oct 2, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 20× | “20 times” | Sacks claims his tweets get 10-20x more reach than the NYT | David Sacks | Dec 24, 2022 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Sacks: High-growth private SaaS startups are landing deals at 20x ARR | David Sacks | Jul 22, 2022 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Spencer Pratt states Mayor Karen Bass visited Cuba 20 times | Spencer Pratt | May 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Jason Calacanis: Heritage Foundation data shows voter fraud cannot flip elections | Jason Calacanis | Jun 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Friedberg: China has 20 times the US manufacturing square footage | David Friedberg | Aug 12, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 20× | “20 times” | Sacks: Starship launches will add over 20x more Starlink bandwidth | David Sacks | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 19× | “19 x” | Friedberg: China R&D Spending Grew 19x to $670B by 2021 | David Friedberg | Aug 24, 2026 | Supported |
| 18× | “18 times” | Nodelman: Aktis Oncology's IPO was 18x oversubscribed, backstopped by Eli Lilly | Oleg Noodleman | Jun 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 18× | “18 times” | Feldman: Cerebras is 15 to 18 times faster than a GPU for OpenAI | Andrew Feldman | Jun 6, 2026 | — |
| 17× | “17 times” | Friedberg: Alphabet trades at 17x 2025 earnings, cheaper than all tech peers | David Friedberg | Mar 1, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 16× | “16 times” | Allison: 12 of 16 historic rising-vs-ruling power rivalries ended in war | Graham Allison | Sep 20, 2023 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Sacks: US economy is 15x larger than Russia's, despite their 6000 nukes | David Sacks | Sep 1, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Sacks: Average public SaaS revenue multiple collapsed from 15x to 5.6x | David Sacks | May 13, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Sacks: US economy is 15x Russia's and equal to China's | David Sacks | Apr 9, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 14× | “14 x” | Friedberg: Capitalism increased per-capita human consumption nearly 10x over 500 years | David Friedberg | Dec 4, 2020 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 X” | Calacanis: Airtable's 78x revenue multiple far exceeded public peers | Jason Calacanis | Sep 22, 2023 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Sacks: A one-week pandemic delay explains New York's 12x higher infection rate | David Sacks | Apr 11, 2020 | — |
| 11× | “11 X” | Friar: OpenAI free users average seven questions daily while Pro users do 11x | Sarah Friar | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 10.4× | “10.4 times” | Sacks: Thoma Bravo bought Coupa for $8B at 10.4x trailing revenue | David Sacks | Dec 16, 2022 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Palihapitiya: AI developer tools will increase total software developers by 10x | Chamath Palihapitiya | May 31, 2025 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Friedberg: Software market cap will be 4x to 10x higher in 5 years | David Friedberg | Feb 7, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Taneja: Anthropic grew 10x to $880M in revenue when General Catalyst invested | Hemant Taneja | Jan 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gerstner: Nvidia captured nearly 100% of incremental AI data center revenues | Brad Gerstner | Oct 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Calacanis: DeepSeek V3.2 EXP API pricing is 10x to 35x cheaper than Claude | Jason Calacanis | Oct 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Chamath: Annual H-1B visa issuances reach 10 times official 85,000 limit | Chamath Palihapitiya | Sep 27, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | Friedberg: YouTube's audience is over 10X larger than Netflix's | David Friedberg | Sep 19, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Hassabis says AI model serving efficiency improved 10x-100x over two years | Demis Hassabis | Sep 12, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Calacanis: AI makes sales development reps 10 times more effective | Jason Calacanis | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Buchheit: AI will 10x total global intelligence and wealth | Paul Buchheit | Jul 23, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Calacanis: College degree costs outpaced entry-level wage growth 10x over 20 years | Jason Calacanis | Jun 30, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | Calacanis: College cost growth outpaced entry-level salary growth 10x over 20 years | Jason Calacanis | Jun 28, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lafont: One-third of U.S. physicians use Open Evidence daily for diagnoses | Thomas Laffont | Jun 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Jason Calacanis: LA wildfire damage is estimated at $135B to $150B | Jason Calacanis | Jan 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Coplan: Prediction markets offer a 10x improvement and will displace polling | Shayne Coplan | Nov 6, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Friedberg: SpaceX reduced orbit launch costs tenfold to ~$1,000/kg over a decade | David Friedberg | Oct 18, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Friedberg: SpaceX could reach $10/kg launch costs within a couple of years | David Friedberg | Oct 18, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Friedberg: Apple Vision Pro will boost greenhouse worker productivity by 10x | David Friedberg | Feb 9, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks: Solana increased roughly 10x in 2023 from $9 to $92 | David Sacks | Dec 29, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Chamath: Generative AI lacks any proven 10x productivity use case yet | Chamath Palihapitiya | Nov 3, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Sacks notes U.S. artillery shells cost ten times more than Russia's | David Sacks | Oct 13, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Musk: Old Twitter suppressed right-wing voices at 10x the rate of left-wing voices | Elon Musk | Sep 13, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Sacks: Physical world businesses are 10 times harder than software | David Sacks | Aug 20, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Calacanis: ChatGPT mobile app will 10x users and usage | Jason Calacanis | May 19, 2023 | Partly held up |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gerstner: Next 10x in consumer chat AI is moving from retrieval to action | Brad Gerstner | Jul 9, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Friedberg: AI phase could generate 10 times more value than internet | David Friedberg | Apr 21, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Calacanis argues Google has ten times more employees than needed | Jason Calacanis | Feb 11, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Sacks: Public markets value median SaaS companies at 5.5x revenue | David Sacks | Dec 16, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Sacks: European natural gas prices hit 10 times the ten-year average | David Sacks | Sep 10, 2022 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Calacanis: Hit pieces on female founders get ten times more clicks | Jason Calacanis | May 30, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Sacks: Concerns over Facebook should be ten times greater for TikTok | David Sacks | Apr 1, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Flexport CEO: Ocean shipping rates spiked from $550 to $20,000 | Ryan Petersen | Feb 5, 2022 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Friedberg: Chinese enzymatic CO2-to-starch process is 10x faster than corn | David Friedberg | Nov 6, 2021 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks asserts 10x difference between COVID infection and case fatality rates | David Sacks | Jan 8, 2021 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 x” | Friedberg: Capitalism increased per-capita human consumption nearly 10x over 500 years | David Friedberg | Dec 4, 2020 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | David Sacks claims official COVID fatality rate is overstated by 10x | David Sacks | May 21, 2020 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Friedberg: US COVID-19 fatality rate will likely be 0.15% to 1.8% | David Friedberg | Mar 19, 2020 | Held up |
| 10× | “10 X” | Friedberg: Pruning neural networks can cut AI inference costs 10x | David Friedberg | May 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Friedberg: Salesforce trades below 10 times free cash flow | David Friedberg | Apr 24, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks asserts Anthropic revenue is growing 10x compared to OpenAI's 3x | David Sacks | Apr 17, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Calacanis: AI tools increased deployed code volume by 10x to 100x | Jason Calacanis | Apr 10, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Friedberg: AI will enable complex businesses to achieve 10x productivity | David Friedberg | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Laffont: Centacorns have a 31% chance of 10x-ing to $1 Trillion | Thomas Laffont | Jun 4, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Arora: Enterprises must collect 10x more cybersecurity data against AI | Nikesh Arora | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Nikesh Arora: Enterprise data storage needs will grow 10x in three years | Nikesh Arora | Jun 8, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gurley: Tech progress since 1891 radically improved global living standards | Bill Gurley | May 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Calacanis: Employees running local AI models on advanced hardware are 10x more valuable | Jason Calacanis | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Jason Calacanis: Heritage Foundation data shows voter fraud cannot flip elections | Jason Calacanis | Jun 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Calacanis: AI chip inference efficiency will improve 5x-10x every 12-18 months | Jason Calacanis | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks: OpenAI revenue growth exceeds 20 percent month-over-month | David Sacks | Aug 13, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks: Anthropic is surpassing $70B in ARR this year | David Sacks | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks: AI market correction is driven by momentum, not deteriorating fundamentals | David Sacks | Jul 30, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sacks: Starship launches will add over 20x more Starlink bandwidth | David Sacks | Aug 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 9× | “nine X” | Nvidia reports $22.1B Q4 revenue and 9x net income growth | Jason Calacanis | Feb 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 8.7× | “8.7 X” | Gerstner: Top 10 NASDAQ stocks returned 8.7x over 10 years vs 5.2x for index | Brad Gerstner | Sep 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 8.4× | “8.4 times” | Sacks: Thoma Bravo bought Coupa for $8B at 10.4x trailing revenue | David Sacks | Dec 16, 2022 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | David Sacks notes DeepSeek V3 self-identified as ChatGPT-4 | David Sacks | Jan 31, 2025 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Friedberg: Broadcom grew 8x and Nvidia 20x while Intel dropped 70% | David Friedberg | Jan 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Calacanis: Airtable's 78x revenue multiple far exceeded public peers | Jason Calacanis | Sep 22, 2023 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Sacks: Public markets value median SaaS companies at 5.5x revenue | David Sacks | Dec 16, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Gracias: US workers are eight times more productive than Chinese workers | Antonio Gracias | Jun 7, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Sacks: High-growth SaaS companies trade at 8x NTM revenue | David Sacks | Jun 30, 2022 | Supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Dr. Oz: California hospice providers increased sevenfold in under seven years | Dr. Mehmet Oz | Jan 24, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 7× | “seven times” | Sacks: SharePoint ecosystem revenue was 7x Microsoft's direct software revenue | David Sacks | Jan 21, 2026 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Friedberg: David Sacks built a poker building and used it seven times | David Friedberg | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Calacanis: Realistic valuation for Trump Media is 5-7x revenue | Jason Calacanis | Mar 29, 2024 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Henderson: Poorest Americans are 20 times more likely to suffer sexual assault | Rob Henderson | Oct 2, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 7× | “seven times” | Litinsky: Electric vehicles require 7x the mineral content of gas cars | James Litinsky | May 31, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Chamath: Yahoo Finance P/E ratios are deceptive during market downturns | Chamath Palihapitiya | May 27, 2022 | — |
| 7× | “seven X” | Friedberg: US median home price to income ratio reached 7x vs 5x in 2008 | David Friedberg | May 13, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Shapiro: Pennsylvania has cut taxes seven times and has low income tax rate | Josh Shapiro | Apr 8, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Gelsinger: China blockaded the Taiwan Strait seven times in four years | Pat Gelsinger | Jul 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6.6× | “6.6 X” | Calacanis: Airtable's 78x revenue multiple far exceeded public peers | Jason Calacanis | Sep 22, 2023 | Supported |
| 6× | “six X” | Calacanis: First LAUNCH fund has achieved a 5x to 6x return | Jason Calacanis | Nov 22, 2025 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Manchin says Trump visited West Virginia six times and spent $25 million | Joe Manchin | Oct 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Filippenko: JWST has six times the light-collecting area of Hubble | Alex Filippenko | Sep 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Masa Son: Investors should scale fast-growing winners rather than fix mistakes | Nikesh Arora | Sep 23, 2024 | — |
| 6× | “six x” | Gurley: US COVID rapid tests cost six times more than UK tests | Bill Gurley | Sep 16, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Sacks: Median public SaaS valuations peaked at 15x ARR in 2021 | David Sacks | Aug 13, 2022 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Friedberg: Large empires have entered decline six times in 500 years | David Friedberg | Aug 13, 2022 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Past market crashes saw stock turnover reach 6x total shares outstanding | David Friedberg | May 13, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Calacanis: Running regular board meetings differentiates seed-stage startups | Jason Calacanis | Apr 9, 2022 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Chamath: Failed 5 or 6 times attempting to build Theranos competitors | Chamath Palihapitiya | Sep 18, 2021 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Calacanis: Enterprise software customization is 5x to 6x larger than platform markets | Jason Calacanis | Mar 19, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 6× | “six times” | Ray Dalio: US spends $7T against $5T revenue, running 40% deficit | Ray Dalio | Mar 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Dreyfus: Electric cars consume 5x to 6x more copper than gas vehicles | Dan Dreyfus | Jun 10, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 6× | “six times” | Mavrucas: US-built ships cost five to six times more than Chinese ships | Dino Mavrucas | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 6× | “six X” | Chamath: US electricity deficit will reach 1.7 TWh by 2050 | Chamath Palihapitiya | Jul 30, 2026 | Open |
| 5× | “five X” | Chamath states his $500 million venture fund returned over 5x | Chamath Palihapitiya | Nov 22, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Senator Schmitt: Russia has five times Ukraine's population and triple the munitions | Senator Eric Schmitt | Aug 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Sacks: Palantir stock went up 5x in 2024 from $16 to $76 | David Sacks | Dec 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Chamath Palihapitiya: Palo Alto Networks market cap grew 5x under Nikesh Arora | Chamath Palihapitiya | Sep 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 5× | “five x” | Friedberg: Glass bottles have five times the carbon footprint of plastic | David Friedberg | Jan 19, 2024 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Chamath: PE buyers pay 1x-5x ARR for software companies | Chamath Palihapitiya | Dec 8, 2023 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Sacks: Russia has roughly five times Ukraine's population and lower war casualties | David Sacks | Oct 27, 2023 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Friedberg: Earth will need 5x more energy by end of century | David Friedberg | Sep 22, 2023 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | RFK Jr.: Wind energy in three states could power 5x US grid | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | May 5, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Sacks: Leaked Pentagon papers show Ukrainian casualties 5x higher than admitted | David Sacks | Apr 28, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 5× | “five times” | Calacanis: LAUNCH trimmed secondary positions 80% of times offered for winning companies | Jason Calacanis | Jul 22, 2022 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Elon Musk estimates at least 20% of Twitter accounts are bots | Elon Musk | May 16, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Friedberg: US median home price to income ratio reached 7x vs 5x in 2008 | David Friedberg | May 13, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Calacanis: Twitter will re-IPO at five times its current valuation | Jason Calacanis | Apr 30, 2022 | Open |
| 5× | “five times” | Calacanis: San Francisco overdose deaths were 4-5x COVID-19 deaths | Jason Calacanis | Feb 3, 2021 | Contradicted |
| 5× | “five x” | Friedberg: Most California COVID-19 spread occurred in multi-generational homes, not businesses | David Friedberg | Jan 23, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Friedberg predicts feds will fund multiple Katrina-scale climate losses annually | David Friedberg | Sep 4, 2021 | — |
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