| 16T | “a 15 trillion” | Hodges: Private market assets will reach $25T in a couple of years | Eliot Hodges | May 17, 2023 | Partly held up |
| 13T | “13 trillion” | Lonsdale: Study shows regulatory buildup reduced U.S. GDP threefold | Joe Lonsdale | May 2, 2024 | Supported |
| 5T | “5 trillion” | Vought: Reconciliation bill's $1.5T mandatory cuts nearly double 1997 record | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3.2T | “3.2 trillion” | Abbott: Logistics represents $3.2 trillion or almost 10% of US economy | Harish Abbott | Sep 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 2.1T | “2.1 trillion” | Lonsdale: AI can already double productivity across $2.1T in US services | Joe Lonsdale | Nov 2, 2024 | — |
| 1.8T | “1.8 trillion” | Oyerinde: US student loan debt has reached $1.8 trillion | Tade Oyerinde | Nov 23, 2023 | Supported |
| 1.5T | “half a trillion” | Gil: Capturing 10% of services headcount recreates the entire enterprise software market | Elad Gil | Nov 2, 2024 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Sununu predicts a US fiscal car crash within eight to nine years | Chris Sununu | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Hoffman: Manas AI will not build massive trillion-parameter models | Reid Hoffman | Jul 28, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Abbott: Asynchronous communication causes a $300B waste problem in US logistics | Harish Abbott | Sep 5, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Scott: Mega-funds neglect hundreds of startups growing 50% to 150% annually | Eric Scott | May 22, 2026 | — |
| 700B | “seven hundred billion” | Hoffman: Manas AI will not build massive trillion-parameter models | Reid Hoffman | Jul 28, 2025 | — |
| 600B | “six hundred billion” | Uber would be worth $600 billion today without leadership disruption, says Michael | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | — |
| 500B | “a four hundred billion” | Langone: Home Depot Compounded at 27% Annually From $50M IPO | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 400B | “a three hundred billion” | Abbott: Asynchronous communication causes a $300B waste problem in US logistics | Harish Abbott | Sep 5, 2025 | — |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | Abbott: Shopify powers close to 12% of U.S. e-commerce | Harish Abbott | Sep 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Hillenmeyer: Lipitor originated from fungal compounds | Maureen Hillenmeyer | Sep 24, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Oyerinde: US community colleges serve 10M students annually in a $100B market | Tade Oyerinde | Nov 23, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Lonsdale: Earth could comfortably support 100 billion people | Joe Lonsdale | Jan 31, 2024 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Cinnamon: Building anything less than a $100B company is a failure | Ian Cinnamon | Aug 13, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Loeffler: SBA delivered a record $100B in capital last year | Kelly Loeffler | Mar 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Scriven: Saltbox partners deployed $180M with minimal balance sheet exposure | Tyler Scriven | Mar 15, 2024 | — |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Abbott: Logistics industry accounts for roughly $80B in payroll | Harish Abbott | Sep 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 71B | “a seventy billion” | Pompeo: Congress repeatedly rejected State Department budget cuts from $70B to $45B | Mike Pompeo | Feb 22, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Pompeo: Congress repeatedly rejected State Department budget cuts from $70B to $45B | Mike Pompeo | Feb 22, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 60B | “sixty billion” | Black: DFC capital authorization expanded from $60 billion to $205 billion | Ben Black | Apr 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 53B | “fifty-three billion” | Loeffler: SBA delivered a record $100B in capital last year | Kelly Loeffler | Mar 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 51B | “a fifty billion” | Barnard: US Roofing Is a $50B Market Versus $12B for Residential Solar | Hayes Barnard | Feb 23, 2022 | Supported |
| 48B | “forty-eight billion” | Chambers: Cisco grew from $70M to $48B and created 10,000 employee millionaires | John Chambers | Mar 1, 2023 | Supported |
| 45B | “Forty five billion” | Pompeo: Congress repeatedly rejected State Department budget cuts from $70B to $45B | Mike Pompeo | Feb 22, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 45B | “Forty-five billion” | Loeffler: SBA delivered a record $100B in capital last year | Kelly Loeffler | Mar 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 33B | “thirty three billion” | Stitt: New York spends $233B compared to Florida's $115B budget | Kevin Stitt | Nov 15, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Lonsdale: Pell Grants tripled to $30B with no outcome improvements | Joe Lonsdale | Jul 13, 2021 | Supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Koch Industries invested over $30 billion in tech in six years | Charles Koch | Jan 26, 2022 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Rauch: Vercel reached $50M+ revenue and 400 employees in two years | Guillermo Rauch | Jun 11, 2023 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Langone: Eli Lilly's Mounjaro will exceed $30B annually by 2030 | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Open |
| 25B | “twenty-five billion” | Lonsdale: Wish Rose from a $6M Valuation to $25B | Joe Lonsdale | Mar 22, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 25B | “a twenty four billion” | Schmitt: Missouri holds a $24B legal judgment against China | Senator Eric Schmitt | Aug 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 25B | “twenty five billion” | Abbott: Augment deploys AI across $25 billion in managed freight | Harish Abbott | Sep 5, 2025 | — |
| 21B | “a twenty billion” | Rubenstein notes the Yellow Pages was a $20 billion market in 2005 | Ben Rubinstein | Jun 15, 2023 | Supported |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | Stitt: New York spends $233B compared to Florida's $115B budget | Kevin Stitt | Nov 15, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | Emil Michael: Uber raised $15 billion between June 2014 and June 2016 | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 13B | “a twelve billion” | Barnard: US Roofing Is a $50B Market Versus $12B for Residential Solar | Hayes Barnard | Feb 23, 2022 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Lonsdale: US Subsidizes Higher Education Cartel With $110B in Title IV Funding | Joe Lonsdale | Jul 22, 2021 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Lonsdale: Pell Grants tripled to $30B with no outcome improvements | Joe Lonsdale | Jul 13, 2021 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | DeWitte: Thorium and Uranium Reserves Could Power Earth for 10B+ Years | Jake DeWitt | Apr 6, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Chambers: West Virginia has attracted ten billion-dollar projects | John Chambers | Mar 1, 2023 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Gerstner: 110 billion humans lived and died without witnessing a single invention | Brad Gerstner | Oct 25, 2023 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Lessin: VC factory line broke because public markets prefer mega-caps | Sam Lessin | May 17, 2025 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Black: DFC capital authorization expanded from $60 billion to $205 billion | Ben Black | Apr 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Lonsdale: AI startup with Blend's numbers would command $3B to $4B | Joe Lonsdale | Jun 18, 2026 | — |
| 3B | “Three billion” | Barnard: Three billion people worldwide lack access to electricity | Hayes Barnard | Feb 23, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 3B | “three billion” | Baker: Globalization suppressed inflation by offsetting Western consumption with cheap supply | Whitney Baker | Mar 21, 2024 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Churi: 2.5B People Globally Lack Access to Eye Exams | Sal Churi | Sep 3, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Raj Bhakta claims his acquired vintage spirits inventory is worth $500 million | Raj Bhakta | Nov 29, 2024 | — |
| 1.3B | “a quarter billion” | Sofman: US heavy machinery logs 1.25 billion operator hours annually | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.3B | “a quarter billion” | Helberg: Israel Outperforms Nigeria in GDP and Military Power Despite Population Gap | Jacob Helberg | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Balaji Srinivasan: India's internet adoption grew tenfold to over 50% in a decade | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 11, 2021 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Klausner: GRAIL required $1.5B+ in private capital over four years | Dr. Rick Klausner | Jun 29, 2021 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Gebbia: Airbnb faced $1.5 billion in refund requests over two weeks in 2020 | Joe Gebbia | Apr 12, 2023 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lowery: Only single-digit billions of DoD budget are flexibly reprogrammable | Andy Lowery | Aug 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Blank: Rathke and Vollmer Created OSC's Billion-Dollar Loan Authority | Steve Blank | Nov 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Raj Bhakta: M&A client bought Watkins-Johnson for $100M, IPO'd at $1B | Raj Bhakta | Nov 29, 2024 | Open |
| 1B | “a billion” | Urban: AI-enabled bioweapons pose a severe risk in the near future | Tim Urban | Feb 14, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Scott: Mega-funds face a narrowing universe able to absorb billion-dollar checks | Eric Scott | May 22, 2026 | — |
| 950M | “nine hundred fifty million” | Balaji Srinivasan: India's internet adoption grew tenfold to over 50% in a decade | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 11, 2021 | Supported |
| 900M | “an eight hundred million” | Ross: Trump Taj Mahal's $800M Mortgage Bond Never Paid a Single Coupon | Wilbur Ross | Aug 30, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Nolan: General Matter won a massive DOE contract for HALEU uranium enrichment | Scott Nolan | Jun 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Freshworks scaled from $18M to mid-$200M ARR in 4.5 years. | Sri Ganesan | Apr 11, 2024 | Supported |
| 600M | “Six hundred million” | Uber would be worth $600 billion today without leadership disruption, says Michael | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Balaji Srinivasan: India's internet adoption grew tenfold to over 50% in a decade | Balaji Srinivasan | Aug 11, 2021 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Levie: Scaling to $100M Revenue in Two Years Is Unprecedented in Software | Aaron Levie | Jul 30, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Slat: Only about 0.1% of annual plastic production reaches the oceans | Boyan Slat | Nov 8, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 350M | “three hundred fifty million” | Lonsdale: Blend trades under 3x revenue despite major AI deployment | Joe Lonsdale | Jun 18, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Kimbal Musk: Zip2 sold to Compaq for $300M in pure cash | Kimbal Musk | Jun 29, 2021 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Loeffler: SBA Cut Headcount by 53% and Canceled $3B in Contracts | Kelly Loeffler | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Rauch: Vercel tech hits 3M weekly and 200M total downloads | Guillermo Rauch | Jun 11, 2023 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Blank: DeepMind protein folding accelerated molecular biology by 30 years | Steve Blank | Nov 22, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Fenty: MaC Venture Capital closed oversubscribed inaugural fund at $110M | Adrian Fenty | Aug 24, 2021 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Slat: Ocean plastic cleanup requires a few hundred million dollars annually | Boyan Slat | Nov 8, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Scotti: Script Relief Mailed Over 100 Million Packages Annually | Kimmy Scotti | Jan 26, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Scotti: Script Relief Reached Over $100M Annual Profit With 28 Employees | Kimmy Scotti | Jan 26, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Attia: At least 100 million American adults are metabolically unhealthy | Dr. Peter Attia | Apr 19, 2023 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Rauch: MrBeast hosted his 100-million subscriber merchandise drop on Vercel | Guillermo Rauch | Jun 11, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Langone: A single Long Island Home Depot generates $100M in annual revenue | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Raj Bhakta: M&A client bought Watkins-Johnson for $100M, IPO'd at $1B | Raj Bhakta | Nov 29, 2024 | Open |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Sofman: Anki Reached Nearly $100M Revenue With 85% Concentrated in Q4 | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Cotton: China is home to between 70 million and 100 million Christians | Tom Cotton | Apr 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Ghamsari: Palantir prioritizes customer outcomes over software polish and APIs | Nima Ghamsari | Jun 18, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Levie: Scaling to $100M Revenue in Two Years Is Unprecedented in Software | Aaron Levie | Jul 30, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 84M | “eighty four million” | Davidson: Kojo has raised $84 million to date | Maria Davidson | May 4, 2023 | — |
| 75M | “seventy five million” | Gerstner: Ukraine Aid Could Fund Invest America for 20 Years | Brad Gerstner | Oct 25, 2023 | Supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Mintz: 60 to 70 million automotive radars ship annually | Nathan Mintz | Apr 27, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Chambers: Cisco grew from $70M to $48B and created 10,000 employee millionaires | John Chambers | Mar 1, 2023 | Supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Sofman: Waymo has driven 70M+ miles and is 5x safer than humans | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Frerichs: Anheuser-Busch Vetoed Black Rifle Coffee Deal as Too Controversial | Anson Frerichs | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Langone: Home Depot Compounded at 27% Annually From $50M IPO | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Hillenmeyer: Hexagon Bio Has Raised Over $50 Million | Maureen Hillenmeyer | Sep 24, 2021 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | DeWitte: Nuclear Fission Releases 50M Times More Energy Than Fossil Combustion | Jake DeWitt | Apr 6, 2022 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Slat: Great Pacific Garbage Patch holds roughly 250 million pounds of plastic | Boyan Slat | Nov 8, 2023 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Slat: The Ocean Cleanup's budget is around $50M per year | Boyan Slat | Nov 8, 2023 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Mavrucas: Saronic Has Raised $250M+ and Built 150,000 Sq Ft of Manufacturing | Dino Mavrucas | Sep 12, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Lowery: Only single-digit billions of DoD budget are flexibly reprogrammable | Andy Lowery | Aug 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Howard: US has 150 million words of binding federal law and regulation | Philip Howard | Dec 11, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Berlia: India's addressable market for value products caps at 40 million | Adi Berlia | May 24, 2023 | — |
| 33M | “thirty three million” | Fry: Baby boomers own roughly 2.1M of the 6M US employer businesses | Will Fry | Apr 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Wu: Global software engineers grew from under 1 million in 2000 to 30 million | Scott Wu | Jun 12, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Khanna: There Will Be 25 Million Digital Jobs by 2025 | Rep. Ro Khanna | Jan 14, 2022 | — |
| 24M | “twenty four million” | China would need one million troops to successfully occupy Taiwan | Dmitri Alperovitch | Aug 22, 2024 | — |
| 22M | “twenty two million” | Machado: Chavez Seized 22M Acres Totaling 30% of Venezuela's Productive Land | Maria Corina Machado | Aug 21, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 21M | “twenty-one million” | Lonsdale: Charles Koch's empire required his father's $21 million starting revenue | Joe Lonsdale | Feb 16, 2022 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Oyerinde: US higher ed is half as institutionally efficient as the UK | Tade Oyerinde | Nov 23, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Helberg: Israel Outperforms Nigeria in GDP and Military Power Despite Population Gap | Jacob Helberg | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Black: DFC partners with Chubb to provide maritime war risk reinsurance | Ben Black | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Hughes: Arab Slave Trade Captured 12 to 20 Million Africans | Coleman Hughes | May 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Kimbal Musk predicts Tesla Austin factory will produce cars by late 2021 | Kimbal Musk | Jun 29, 2021 | Partly held up |
| 11.8M | “11.8 million” | Hilton: Trump's 6.1M California votes exceed the threshold to win a midterm | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Oyerinde: US community colleges serve 10M students annually in a $100B market | Tade Oyerinde | Nov 23, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “Ten million” | Slat: Ocean Cleanup lost $10M when first 2018 system broke | Boyan Slat | Nov 8, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Aboyeji: Nigeria adds ten million children per year | Iyinoluwa Aboyeji | Jan 18, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 10M | “ten million” | Berlia: Every problem solved by Indian entrepreneurs is a problem at scale | Adi Berlia | May 24, 2023 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Lonsdale: Cicero Passed 87 State Laws on $10M Budget | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Hilton: Developing 1% more California land would house 10 million people | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Ghamsari: Blend generated $10M pipeline for Autopilot in one month | Nima Ghamsari | Jun 18, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Lonsdale: Qualia AI Product Reached $10M Revenue Run Rate in Four Months | Joe Lonsdale | Feb 17, 2026 | — |
| 9M | “nine million” | Yang: Only 900,000 people voted in the deciding NYC mayoral primary | Andrew Yang | Jan 11, 2023 | Supported |
| 9M | “nine million” | Aboyeji: Future Africa's first $1 million fund returned 22x | Iyinoluwa Aboyeji | Jan 18, 2023 | — |
| 7M | “7008 thousand” | Glock: California Cities Are Exceptionally Dense Yet Suffer Far Higher Housing Prices | Judge Glock | Mar 24, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 7M | “seven million” | Loeffler: US has over 7M open jobs including 600k in manufacturing | Kelly Loeffler | Mar 13, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6.1M | “6.1 million” | Hilton: Trump's 6.1M California votes exceed the threshold to win a midterm | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 6M | “six million” | Lonsdale: Wish Rose from a $6M Valuation to $25B | Joe Lonsdale | Mar 22, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 6M | “six million” | Fry: Baby boomers own roughly 2.1M of the 6M US employer businesses | Will Fry | Apr 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 5.9M | “5.9 million” | Hilton: Trump's 6.1M California votes exceed the threshold to win a midterm | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Hillenmeyer: Only 0.1% of estimated fungal species have been sequenced | Maureen Hillenmeyer | Sep 24, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Ghamsari: Blend processes roughly 20% of all US mortgages | Nima Ghamsari | Jun 18, 2026 | Open |
| 4M | “four million” | Pentagon deployed Google Gemini to four million personnel in two months | Emil Michael | Jan 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Yang: 2021 Child Tax Credit lifted about three million children from poverty | Andrew Yang | Jan 11, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Rauch: Vercel tech hits 3M weekly and 200M total downloads | Guillermo Rauch | Jun 11, 2023 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Andreessen: Knowledge-work economies concentrate urban wealth and squeeze out the middle class | Marc Andreessen | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Lonsdale: Non-AI startups with $2M to $3M ARR struggle to raise Series A | Joe Lonsdale | May 17, 2025 | — |
| 2.5M | “a half a million” | Holiday: Daily Stoic newsletter reaches over 500,000 subscribers every day | Ryan Holiday | Feb 2, 2023 | — |
| 2.5M | “a half a million” | Langone: Home Depot grew from $2M founding capital to 500k employees | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Berdichevsky: Autonomous vehicles will drive 1-2M miles per decade | Gene Berdachevsky | Apr 21, 2022 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Oyerinde: US higher ed is half as institutionally efficient as the UK | Tade Oyerinde | Nov 23, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Holiday: 'The Obstacle is the Way' approached two million copies sold | Ryan Holiday | Feb 2, 2023 | Supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Lonsdale: Retiring Baby Boomers Will Offload $10 Trillion in Small Businesses | Joe Lonsdale | Apr 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.9M | “1.9 million” | Stitt: Oklahoma removed 1.9 million pounds of debris from Tulsa encampments | Kevin Stitt | Oct 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Mackey: Whole Foods sold 34% of the company for $4.5M | John Mackey | Sep 15, 2021 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Kloberdanz: OneHope will sell over 2.5 million wine bottles this year | Jake Kloberdanz | Sep 9, 2021 | Didn’t hold up |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Sprowls: Florida School Choice Bill Added 1.5M Eligible Students | Chris Sprowls | Jan 20, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Michael: Uber lost 500,000 customers during #DeleteUber campaign | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Helberg: The PC revolution displaced 3.5M jobs but created 19M | Jacob Helberg | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | Cinnamon: SpaceX Holds Pricing Power and Has Raised Small Satellite Prices Annually | Ian Cinnamon | Aug 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Lomborg: $3B Annually Would Save 166,000 Mothers and 1.2M Newborns | Bjorn Lomborg | Feb 29, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Momand: US state regulations total hundreds of thousands, federal exceeds one million | Maleka Momand | Dec 22, 2021 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Berdichevsky: Autonomous vehicles will drive 1-2M miles per decade | Gene Berdachevsky | Apr 21, 2022 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Latta: 'Football Heroes' reached number one on App Store with 1M+ downloads | Zach Latta | Apr 27, 2022 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Traditional Education Outcomes Reflect Average Compromises Across Conflicting Stakeholders | Zach Latta | Apr 27, 2022 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Latta: Student school satisfaction plummets from 75% in elementary to 25% in secondary | Zach Latta | Apr 27, 2022 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Lonsdale: Elon Musk appeared exhausted and relied on memes to recharge | Joe Lonsdale | Jun 22, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Carter: Talent Picking Is Key in Both Music Management and Early-Stage Investing | Troy Carter | Mar 22, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Holiday: 'The Obstacle is the Way' approached two million copies sold | Ryan Holiday | Feb 2, 2023 | Supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Rauch: Vercel reached $50M+ revenue and 400 employees in two years | Guillermo Rauch | Jun 11, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Lomborg: Tuberculosis interventions yield $46 of good per dollar spent | Bjorn Lomborg | Feb 29, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | China would need one million troops to successfully occupy Taiwan | Dmitri Alperovitch | Aug 22, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Alperovitch: China is losing at least one million people annually | Dmitri Alperovitch | Aug 22, 2024 | Open |
| 1M | “a million” | Lonsdale: One Million Small Businesses Will Change Hands as Boomers Retire | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Israetel: Targeted spot reduction of fat through exercises does not work | Dr. Mike Israetel | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Abbott: There are 1 million trucking companies in the US | Harish Abbott | Sep 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Wu: Global software engineers grew from under 1 million in 2000 to 30 million | Scott Wu | Jun 12, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Cinnamon: SpaceX Holds Pricing Power and Has Raised Small Satellite Prices Annually | Ian Cinnamon | Aug 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Hilton: Over 1 million approved California housing units are blocked by lawsuits | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 1M | “one million” | Jake Paul: Betr hits 1M paying users and partners with Polymarket | Jake Paul | Mar 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Wu: AI agents enable software engineers to focus 10x more on architecture | Scott Wu | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 11K | “10 A thousand” | Greenblatt: ADL Fielded Over 10,000 Antisemitic Incidents Post-October 7 | Jonathan Greenblatt | Oct 18, 2024 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Pompeo: Not sure I left State Department materially better | Mike Pompeo | Feb 22, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Perry: Over 1,000 US Health Insurers Have Different Claim Rules | Nick Perry | Dec 7, 2023 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mack: Early Morgan Stanley had 400 to 500 people as a partnership | John Mack | Feb 15, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “A thousand” | Holiday: Modern society babies teenagers instead of teaching classical philosophy | Ryan Holiday | Feb 2, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sirota: Non-tech giants like Nike and CVS drive US engineering demand | Dylan Sirota | Dec 6, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lonsdale: Illumina acquiring Grail would have saved thousands of lives monthly | Joe Lonsdale | May 2, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | U.S. intelligence projects China will reach 1,500 nuclear warheads by mid-2030s | Dmitri Alperovitch | Aug 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Kupor: Tech Force aims to recruit at least 1,000 engineers into government | Scott Kupor | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Howard: Replacing Human Judgment with Rulebooks Paralyzed Government | Philip Howard | Dec 11, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Bevirt: Battery density reached 300 Wh/kg with 1,000 Wh/kg prototypes coming | JoeBen Bevirt | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sofman: Anki's $150 Product Once Resold for $1,000 on eBay | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lessin: Private sector career options drained academic departments of talent | Sam Lessin | May 17, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Liemandt: 1,000+ Ukrainian refugees learn as fast as $40k private school kids | Joe Liemandt | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Loeffler: SBA Launches First 8(a) Audit in 45 Years, Expels 1,000 Firms | Kelly Loeffler | Mar 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mandia: AI attackers will eliminate the 10-minute human incident-response window. | Kevin Mandia | Feb 4, 2026 | — |
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