| $1M | “a million dollars” | Cinnamon: SBIR grants are easily awarded and create false market validation | Ian Cinnamon | Aug 13, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Cinnamon: Building anything less than a $100B company is a failure | Ian Cinnamon | Aug 13, 2025 | — |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Cinnamon: SpaceX Holds Pricing Power and Has Raised Small Satellite Prices Annually | Ian Cinnamon | Aug 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Cinnamon: SpaceX Holds Pricing Power and Has Raised Small Satellite Prices Annually | Ian Cinnamon | Aug 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | Cinnamon: SpaceX Holds Pricing Power and Has Raised Small Satellite Prices Annually | Ian Cinnamon | Aug 13, 2025 | Supported |
| $34B | “thirty four billion dollars” | Cinnamon: Annualized spend on satellite buses is roughly $34 billion | Ian Cinnamon | Aug 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 700B | “seven hundred billion” | Hoffman: Manas AI will not build massive trillion-parameter models | Reid Hoffman | Jul 28, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Hoffman: Manas AI will not build massive trillion-parameter models | Reid Hoffman | Jul 28, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Vought classifies 90% of OMB staff as at-will employees to enact reforms | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | — |
| 5T | “5 trillion” | Vought: Reconciliation bill's $1.5T mandatory cuts nearly double 1997 record | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $800B | “eight hundred billion dollars” | Vought: Reconciliation bill's $1.5T mandatory cuts nearly double 1997 record | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $1.5T | “1.5 trillion dollars” | Vought: Reconciliation bill's $1.5T mandatory cuts nearly double 1997 record | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $4T | “four trillion dollars” | Vought: The budget bill will drive 3% GDP growth and $4T output | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | Open |
| 3% | “three percent” | Vought: The budget bill will drive 3% GDP growth and $4T output | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | Open |
| 1.8% | “1.8%” | Vought: The budget bill will drive 3% GDP growth and $4T output | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | Open |
| $1.5T | “a half trillion dollars” | Vought: Trump Budget Cuts and Tariffs Cover One-Third of Deficit Gap | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Vought: Rescissions bill cuts $1B from CPB and $8B in foreign aid | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | Supported |
| $8B | “eight billion dollars” | Vought: Rescissions bill cuts $1B from CPB and $8B in foreign aid | Russ Vaught | Jul 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Sofman: Anki Reached Nearly $100M Revenue With 85% Concentrated in Q4 | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 85% | “85%” | Sofman: Anki Reached Nearly $100M Revenue With 85% Concentrated in Q4 | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sofman: Anki's $150 Product Once Resold for $1,000 on eBay | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Sofman: Waymo has driven 70M+ miles and is 5x safer than humans | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Sofman: Waymo has driven 70M+ miles and is 5x safer than humans | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Sofman: Up to 40% of construction workers will retire within 10 years | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1.3B | “a quarter billion” | Sofman: US heavy machinery logs 1.25 billion operator hours annually | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Sofman: US excavation contracts total around $120 billion annually | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Sofman: Earthwork execution makes or breaks profits on 1% margin DOT bids | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Sofman: Physical industries represent 80% to 85% of GDP | Boris Sofman | Jul 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Andreessen: Knowledge-work economies concentrate urban wealth and squeeze out the middle class | Marc Andreessen | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Andreessen purchased four times Manhattan's acreage for a new Solano County city | Marc Andreessen | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Andreessen: US healthcare is on track to reach 50% of GDP | Marc Andreessen | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Andreessen: US healthcare is on track to reach 50% of GDP | Marc Andreessen | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Hilton: 70% of UK policy came from EU directives and internal bureaucracy | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Hilton: 70% of UK policy came from EU directives and internal bureaucracy | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Hilton: Many California restaurants budget $1M annually for PAGA workplace lawsuits | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Hilton: California government unions spend $1 billion annually on political contributions | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 70% | “70%” | Hilton: Prop 36 passed with 70% statewide and majorities in every county | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Hilton: San Francisco Homeless Housing Costs Up to $1M Per Unit | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Hilton: Developing 1% more California land would house 10 million people | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Hilton: Developing 1% more California land would house 10 million people | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 6% | “six percent” | Hilton: Developing 1% more California land would house 10 million people | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Hilton: Over 1 million approved California housing units are blocked by lawsuits | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 70% | “70%” | Hilton: 70% of CEQA Lawsuits Are Filed to Block Housing | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 41.7% | “41.7%” | Hilton: California Republican statewide vote share has averaged 41.7% over 20 years | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 40% | “40%” | Hilton: Latinos Make Up 40% of California but Only 24% of Electorate | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 24% | “24%” | Hilton: Latinos Make Up 40% of California but Only 24% of Electorate | Steve Hilton | Jun 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 6× | “six X” | Wu: Devin routinely delivers 6x to 20x efficiency gains for enterprise customers | Scott Wu | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Wu: Devin routinely delivers 6x to 20x efficiency gains for enterprise customers | Scott Wu | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Wu: Global software engineers grew from under 1 million in 2000 to 30 million | Scott Wu | Jun 12, 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 |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Bevirt: Battery density reached 300 Wh/kg with 1,000 Wh/kg prototypes coming | JoeBen Bevirt | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Bevirt: Doubling battery density roughly triples eVTOL flight range | JoeBen Bevirt | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Bevirt: Hydrogen has 100 times higher specific energy than modern batteries | JoeBen Bevirt | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Bevirt: Hydrogen has 100 times higher specific energy than modern batteries | JoeBen Bevirt | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Bevirt: Joby secured an initial $1B tranche for Saudi Arabian commercialization | JoeBen Bevirt | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Lonsdale: Competitors are weaponizing Reid Hoffman's politics against Joby | Joe Lonsdale | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Bevirt: Joby aircraft hover about 100 times quieter than conventional helicopters | JoeBen Bevirt | Jun 4, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 2,000× | “2000 X” | Lessin: Slow Ventures' seed bet on Solana returned almost 2,000x | Sam Lessin | May 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Lessin: VC factory line broke because public markets prefer mega-caps | Sam Lessin | May 17, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Lonsdale: Non-AI startups with $2M to $3M ARR struggle to raise Series A | Joe Lonsdale | May 17, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lonsdale: Harvard's Jewish population fell from 20% to under 5% | Joe Lonsdale | May 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Lonsdale: Harvard's Jewish population fell from 20% to under 5% | Joe Lonsdale | May 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lessin: Private sector career options drained academic departments of talent | Sam Lessin | May 17, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Lessin: 95% of jobs are not that hard, commitment wins | Sam Lessin | May 17, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Thiel: Building a Manhattan subway costs roughly $1 billion per mile | Peter Thiel | Apr 17, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Cotton: China is home to between 70 million and 100 million Christians | Tom Cotton | Apr 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 1,000% | “1000%” | Cotton: China has increased military spending by over 1,000% since 2000 | Tom Cotton | Apr 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Israetel: Targeted spot reduction of fat through exercises does not work | Dr. Mike Israetel | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Israetel: Calorie-Controlled High-Protein Diet and Resistance Training Drive 80% of Fitness | Dr. Mike Israetel | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| $80B | “eighty billion dollars” | Frerichs: California's $280B Pension Fund Funded at 80 Cents per Dollar | Anson Frerichs | Feb 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Frerichs: Anheuser-Busch Vetoed Black Rifle Coffee Deal as Too Controversial | Anson Frerichs | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Frerichs: Bud Light Backlash Erased $40 Billion in Market Cap | Anson Frerichs | Feb 21, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $20T | “20 trillion dollars” | Frerichs: Big Three Asset Managers Lead 95% of S&P 500 Companies | Anson Frerichs | Feb 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Frerichs: Big Three Asset Managers Lead 95% of S&P 500 Companies | Anson Frerichs | Feb 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Frerichs: Big Three Asset Managers Lead 95% of S&P 500 Companies | Anson Frerichs | Feb 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Urban: AI-enabled bioweapons pose a severe risk in the near future | Tim Urban | Feb 14, 2025 | — |
| 62% | “62%” | Urban: 62% of Americans supported Tom Cotton's military deployment op-ed | Tim Urban | Feb 14, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $1.8B | “1.8 billion dollars” | Lonsdale: Cox Enterprises acquired OpenGov for $1.8B | Joe Lonsdale | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Bookman: 1% of Oracle public sector clients sue and over half dissatisfied | Zach Bookman | Jan 23, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 50% | “50%” | Lonsdale: Govtech companies struggle to grow organically above 20-30% | Joe Lonsdale | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Lonsdale: Govtech companies struggle to grow organically above 20-30% | Joe Lonsdale | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | McCord: AI infrastructure spending will reach $1T by early 2030s | Brendan McCord | Dec 13, 2024 | Held up |
| 20% | “20%” | Lonsdale: Computers dictate 20% to 50% of work in many industries | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 13, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Lonsdale: Computers dictate 20% to 50% of work in many industries | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 13, 2024 | — |
| 65% | “65%” | McCord: Apple paper shows minor perturbations drop AI reasoning scores by 65% | Brendan McCord | Dec 13, 2024 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sirota: Non-tech giants like Nike and CVS drive US engineering demand | Dylan Sirota | Dec 6, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 140% | “140%” | Joe Lonsdale: US Computer Science Graduates Increased 140% Over a Decade | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Sirota: Tech companies see 95% fake applications among 5,000 applicants | Dylan Sirota | Dec 6, 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 |
| 1B | “a billion” | Raj Bhakta: M&A client bought Watkins-Johnson for $100M, IPO'd at $1B | Raj Bhakta | Nov 29, 2024 | Open |
| 85% | “85%” | Raj Bhakta bought 85 percent of the world's remaining 19th-century spirit stocks | Raj Bhakta | Nov 29, 2024 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Raj Bhakta bought 85 percent of the world's remaining 19th-century spirit stocks | Raj Bhakta | Nov 29, 2024 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Raj Bhakta claims his acquired vintage spirits inventory is worth $500 million | Raj Bhakta | Nov 29, 2024 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Raj Bhakta: Blending just two percent completely transforms a spirit's flavor | Raj Bhakta | Nov 29, 2024 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Lonsdale: Government spends 100 times more for legacy defense results | Joe Lonsdale | Nov 22, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Blank: Rathke and Vollmer Created OSC's Billion-Dollar Loan Authority | Steve Blank | Nov 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Blank: New Entrants Must Capture 10% of Major Defense Programs in 3 Years | Steve Blank | Nov 22, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lonsdale: Six to eight new primes will drive defense innovation | Joe Lonsdale | Nov 22, 2024 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Blank: DeepMind protein folding accelerated molecular biology by 30 years | Steve Blank | Nov 22, 2024 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Lonsdale: US NGOs receive over $100B in government funding | Joe Lonsdale | Nov 15, 2024 | Supported |
| 33B | “thirty three billion” | Stitt: New York spends $233B compared to Florida's $115B budget | Kevin Stitt | Nov 15, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | Stitt: New York spends $233B compared to Florida's $115B budget | Kevin Stitt | Nov 15, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Lonsdale: Damon Runyon foundation is 100x more effective per dollar than NIH | Joe Lonsdale | Nov 2, 2024 | — |
| $1.5M | “half a million dollars” | Lonsdale: A $500k tech job at 21 would have prevented him founding Palantir | Joe Lonsdale | Nov 2, 2024 | — |
| 1.5T | “half a trillion” | Gil: Capturing 10% of services headcount recreates the entire enterprise software market | Elad Gil | Nov 2, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Gil: Capturing 10% of services headcount recreates the entire enterprise software market | Elad Gil | Nov 2, 2024 | — |
| 2.1T | “2.1 trillion” | Lonsdale: AI can already double productivity across $2.1T in US services | Joe Lonsdale | Nov 2, 2024 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Lonsdale: AI can already double productivity across $2.1T in US services | Joe Lonsdale | Nov 2, 2024 | — |
| 88% | “88%” | Gramm: 88% of Government Benefits to the Poor Are Not Counted as Income | Phil Gramm | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Bottom Quintile Real Government Transfers Grew From $9.7k in 1967 to Nearly $50k in 2017 | Phil Gramm | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Gramm: Comprehensive Accounting of Taxes and Transfers Puts US Poverty at 2% | Phil Gramm | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| $1.5M | “a half million dollars” | Gramm: US tax code is progressive up to $7.5 million | Phil Gramm | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 68% | “68%” | Gramm: Prime-age poor employment fell from 68% to 36% | Phil Gramm | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 36% | “36%” | Gramm: Prime-age poor employment fell from 68% to 36% | Phil Gramm | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 66.3% | “66.3%” | Gramm: Two-thirds of US households match 1967 top quintile standard | Phil Gramm | Oct 25, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Joe Lonsdale Claims Massive Racial Disparities in Top-Level Math Achievement | Joe Lonsdale | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Joe Lonsdale Claims Massive Racial Disparities in Top-Level Math Achievement | Joe Lonsdale | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Joe Lonsdale Claims Massive Racial Disparities in Top-Level Math Achievement | Joe Lonsdale | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 11K | “10 A thousand” | Greenblatt: ADL Fielded Over 10,000 Antisemitic Incidents Post-October 7 | Jonathan Greenblatt | Oct 18, 2024 | Supported |
| 35% | “35%” | Lonsdale: 80% of Republicans sympathize with Israel, versus 35% of Democrats | Joe Lonsdale | Oct 18, 2024 | Supported |
| 43% | “43%” | Lonsdale: 80% of Republicans sympathize with Israel, versus 35% of Democrats | Joe Lonsdale | Oct 18, 2024 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Lonsdale: 80% of Republicans sympathize with Israel, versus 35% of Democrats | Joe Lonsdale | Oct 18, 2024 | Supported |
| 33% | “33%” | Liautaud Sold His Remaining Jimmy John's Stake to Inspire Brands in 2019 | Jimmy John Liautaud | Oct 3, 2024 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Liautaud: Jimmy John's managers made $80K-$120K with 25% profit share | Jimmy John Liautaud | Oct 3, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Liautaud: 100% of Political Attacks Originated From Democratic-Aligned Groups | Jimmy John Liautaud | Oct 3, 2024 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Liautaud: Opening a Sandwich Shop Today Requires Hundreds of Thousands | Jimmy John Liautaud | Oct 3, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Fryer: Five practices explain 50% of charter school performance variance | Roland Fryer | Sep 20, 2024 | Supported |
| 33% | “33%” | Fryer: Pre-market skills account for most Black-white wage disparity | Roland Fryer | Sep 20, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Fryer: Pre-market skills account for most Black-white wage disparity | Roland Fryer | Sep 20, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Fryer: K-12 education matters more than workplace regulation for racial equality | Roland Fryer | Sep 20, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Mavrucas: Saronic Has Raised $250M+ and Built 150,000 Sq Ft of Manufacturing | Dino Mavrucas | Sep 12, 2024 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Modern Aircraft Carriers Cost Ten Billion Dollars and Take Ten Years | Dino Mavrucas | Sep 12, 2024 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | China Has 250 Times the Shipbuilding Capacity of the United States | Dino Mavrucas | Sep 12, 2024 | Supported |
| 250× | “250 times” | China Has 250 Times the Shipbuilding Capacity of the United States | Dino Mavrucas | Sep 12, 2024 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Ross: Drexel's Market Share Fell from 70% to 40% Before Bankruptcy | Wilbur Ross | Aug 30, 2024 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Ross: Drexel's Market Share Fell from 70% to 40% Before Bankruptcy | Wilbur Ross | Aug 30, 2024 | 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 |
| 80× | “80 times” | Ross: Owned 18 factories and visited China 80 times before Trump campaign | Wilbur Ross | Aug 30, 2024 | — |
| $400M | “four hundred million dollars” | Ross: Rio Tinto spent $400M over 10 years seeking Arizona copper mine permits | Wilbur Ross | Aug 30, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | U.S. intelligence projects China will reach 1,500 nuclear warheads by mid-2030s | Dmitri Alperovitch | Aug 22, 2024 | Supported |
| $10T | “10 trillion dollars” | Taiwan conflict would cost global economy $10 trillion and cause depression | Dmitri Alperovitch | Aug 22, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | China would need one million troops to successfully occupy Taiwan | Dmitri Alperovitch | Aug 22, 2024 | — |
| 24M | “twenty four 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 |
| 100% | “100%” | Lowery: Epirus system achieved 100 percent defeat rate in April Army trials | Andy Lowery | Aug 16, 2024 | Open |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Lowery: Only single-digit billions of DoD budget are flexibly reprogrammable | Andy Lowery | Aug 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lowery: Only single-digit billions of DoD budget are flexibly reprogrammable | Andy Lowery | Aug 16, 2024 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Lowery: Only single-digit billions of DoD budget are flexibly reprogrammable | Andy Lowery | Aug 16, 2024 | Supported |
| $30B | “thirty billion dollars” | Langone: Eli Lilly's Mounjaro will exceed $30B annually by 2030 | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Open |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Langone: Eli Lilly's Mounjaro will exceed $30B annually by 2030 | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Open |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Langone: Home Depot Compounded at 27% Annually From $50M IPO | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 500B | “a four hundred billion” | Langone: Home Depot Compounded at 27% Annually From $50M IPO | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 27% | “27%” | Langone: Home Depot Compounded at 27% Annually From $50M IPO | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Langone: Home Depot grew from $2M founding capital to 500k employees | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 2.5M | “a half a million” | Langone: Home Depot grew from $2M founding capital to 500k employees | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Langone: A single Long Island Home Depot generates $100M in annual revenue | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | — |
| $23M | “twenty-three million dollars” | Langone: NYSE Board's Spitzer Defense Totaled $90 Million Covered by Insurance | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $90M | “ninety million dollars” | Langone: NYSE Board's Spitzer Defense Totaled $90 Million Covered by Insurance | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Langone: US spends more on national debt interest than military defense | Ken Langone | Jul 3, 2024 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Jones: Jewish contributions to the Black civil rights movement are often forgotten | Dr. Clarence Jones | May 10, 2024 | — |
| $1.8B | “1.8 billion dollars” | Lonsdale sold an undisclosed co-founded company for $1.8B in April 2024 | Joe Lonsdale | May 2, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lonsdale: Illumina acquiring Grail would have saved thousands of lives monthly | Joe Lonsdale | May 2, 2024 | — |
| 13T | “13 trillion” | Lonsdale: Study shows regulatory buildup reduced U.S. GDP threefold | Joe Lonsdale | May 2, 2024 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Lonsdale: Study shows regulatory buildup reduced U.S. GDP threefold | Joe Lonsdale | May 2, 2024 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Pahlavi: US should repurpose frozen regime funds rather than release them | Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi | Apr 18, 2024 | — |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Freshworks scaled from $18M to mid-$200M ARR in 4.5 years. | Sri Ganesan | Apr 11, 2024 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Half of projects on Asana, Smartsheet, and Monday.com are customer-facing. | Sri Ganesan | Apr 11, 2024 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Conventional bone marrow transplants kill 20 to 30 percent of patients | Ivan Dimov | Apr 5, 2024 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Baker: Globalization suppressed inflation by offsetting Western consumption with cheap supply | Whitney Baker | Mar 21, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Tyler Scriven predicts US e-commerce will triple over the next decade | Tyler Scriven | Mar 15, 2024 | Open |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Scriven: Saltbox partners deployed $180M with minimal balance sheet exposure | Tyler Scriven | Mar 15, 2024 | — |
| $80M | “eighty million dollars” | Scriven: Saltbox partners deployed $180M with minimal balance sheet exposure | Tyler Scriven | Mar 15, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lomborg: 80% of 10-Year-Olds in Poor Countries Lack Basic Reading Comprehension | Bjorn Lomborg | Feb 29, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Lomborg: Tuberculosis interventions yield $46 of good per dollar spent | Bjorn Lomborg | Feb 29, 2024 | — |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Lonsdale: Boring Company built a station for $30M vs $300M contractor quotes | Joe Lonsdale | Feb 29, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $25M | “twenty-five million dollars” | Lonsdale: Boring Company built a station for $30M vs $300M contractor quotes | Joe Lonsdale | Feb 29, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $30M | “thirty million dollars” | Lonsdale: Boring Company built a station for $30M vs $300M contractor quotes | Joe Lonsdale | Feb 29, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Lomborg: $3B Annually Would Save 166,000 Mothers and 1.2M Newborns | Bjorn Lomborg | Feb 29, 2024 | — |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Lomborg: $3B Annually Would Save 166,000 Mothers and 1.2M Newborns | Bjorn Lomborg | Feb 29, 2024 | — |
| 4% | “four percent” | Lomborg: Inaction on climate change will cost about 3-4% of GDP | Bjorn Lomborg | Feb 29, 2024 | Open |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lomborg: Indoor Air in Developing World Huts Is 10x More Polluted Than Beijing | Bjorn Lomborg | Feb 29, 2024 | Supported |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | Emil Michael: Uber raised $15 billion between June 2014 and June 2016 | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Michael: Uber lost 500,000 customers during #DeleteUber campaign | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Michael: 99% of Uber Alumni Call It Their Best Career Experience | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Michael: 99% of Uber Alumni Call It Their Best Career Experience | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | — |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Emil Michael: Uber has paid roughly $100B to drivers over time | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 600M | “Six hundred million” | Uber would be worth $600 billion today without leadership disruption, says Michael | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | — |
| 600B | “six hundred billion” | Uber would be worth $600 billion today without leadership disruption, says Michael | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | — |
| $6B | “six billion dollars” | Michael: Uber beat Lyft by 20x despite Lyft launching ridesharing first | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 x” | Michael: Uber beat Lyft by 20x despite Lyft launching ridesharing first | Emil Michael | Feb 14, 2024 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Lonsdale: Earth could comfortably support 100 billion people | Joe Lonsdale | Jan 31, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Lonsdale: Regulations make US healthcare three times as expensive | Joe Lonsdale | Jan 31, 2024 | — |
| $75M | “seventy-five million dollars” | Lonsdale: Marc Andreessen is spending $75M on D.C. tech policy lobbying | Joe Lonsdale | Jan 31, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Ferguson: Surveys show 60% of students fear speaking freely | Niall Ferguson | Dec 13, 2023 | Supported |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Lonsdale: The University of Austin has raised over $200 million | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 13, 2023 | — |
| $280B | “two hundred eighty billion dollars” | Lonsdale: US Medical Insurance Billing Is a $280 Billion Annual Market | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 7, 2023 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Perry: Over 1,000 US Health Insurers Have Different Claim Rules | Nick Perry | Dec 7, 2023 | Supported |
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