The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 59 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

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FigureAs spokenThe claimWhoWhenChecked?
200× “200 X” Madra: Google's monthly AI token volume exploded 200x to 1 quadrillion Sunny Madra Jul 31, 2025 Partly supported
100× “hundred X” Gerstner: Letting ChatGPT launch first was Google's mortal sin Brad Gerstner Mar 2, 2025
100× “hundred X” Gerstner: Tesla FSD 12.5 delivered 100x improvement in MPCI Brad Gerstner Nov 21, 2024 Contradicted
100× “hundred X” Huang: Moore's Law Alone Would Have Delivered Only 100x Improvement Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024
100× “hundred X” Levie: Applying identical multiples to 5% and 90% margin businesses is crazy Aaron Levie Feb 8, 2024
57× “57 times” Gurley: Delaware Court Legal Fee Multipliers Far Exceed Federal Courts Bill Gurley May 22, 2025 Supported
50× “50 X” Patel: Reasoning models like OpenAI o1 increase compute costs by 50x Dylan Patel Dec 23, 2024
40× “40 X” Altman: Cost per unit of intelligence has dropped roughly 40x annually Sam Altman Oct 31, 2025 Supported
30× “30 times” Gerstner: Wiz Deal Valued at 30x Revenue vs. Public SaaS 6-7x Brad Gerstner Mar 21, 2025
30× “30 x” Gurley: OpenAI o1 model costs 20 to 30 times more per query Bill Gurley Oct 13, 2024
25× “25 times” Jain: AI will capture massive revenue from the 25x larger services market Arvind Jain Dec 23, 2025
23× “23 times” Gurley: Delaware Court Legal Fee Multipliers Far Exceed Federal Courts Bill Gurley May 22, 2025 Supported
21× “21 times” Gerstner: Google trades at the lowest P/E and growth rate among MANG peers Brad Gerstner Feb 22, 2024 Supported
20× “20 X” Gurley: Price difference between current and older AI models is 20x Bill Gurley Mar 2, 2025
20× “20 x” Gurley: OpenAI o1 model costs 20 to 30 times more per query Bill Gurley Oct 13, 2024
18× “18 times” Gerstner: Google trades at the lowest P/E and growth rate among MANG peers Brad Gerstner Feb 22, 2024 Supported
15× “15 times” Patel: NVIDIA is cutting Blackwell margins to compete with custom ASICs Dylan Patel Dec 23, 2024 Partly supported
14× “14 times” Gerstner: Wiz IPO would yield $14B valuation, defying Google's $23B offer Brad Gerstner Jul 25, 2024
10× “10 X” Huang: Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu plans to 10x data center power by 2030 Jensen Huang Sep 26, 2025 Supported
10× “10 X” Gurley: In the 1990s, Dell's ROIC was 10x the PC industry Bill Gurley Jul 10, 2025 Partly supported
10× “10 X” Altman: OpenAI scaled compute roughly 10x over the past year Sam Altman Oct 31, 2025
10× “10 X” Altman: 10x more compute would yield near 10x revenue for OpenAI Sam Altman Oct 31, 2025
10× “10 times” Gurley: Delaware Court Legal Fee Multipliers Far Exceed Federal Courts Bill Gurley May 22, 2025 Supported
10× “10 X” Gerstner: Letting ChatGPT launch first was Google's mortal sin Brad Gerstner Mar 2, 2025
10× “10 X” Gerstner: Tesla FSD 13 will deliver another 10x MPCI improvement Brad Gerstner Nov 21, 2024 Didn’t hold up
10× “10 X” Ball: Services markets are usually 10x larger than software markets Jamin Ball Oct 31, 2024
10× “10 X” Patel: Reasoning models like OpenAI o1 increase compute costs by 50x Dylan Patel Dec 23, 2024
10× “10 times” Huang: Parallel processing favors transistor volume over individual transistor speed Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024
10× “10 X” Gurley: Hyperscaler buyers are 10x better for nuclear startups than utilities Bill Gurley Sep 25, 2024
10× “10 X” Gerstner: Nvidia's earnings multiple remained flat despite 10x stock surge Brad Gerstner Jun 22, 2024 Supported
10× “10 times” Madra: Llama 3 70B is over 10x cheaper than GPT-4 Sundeep Madra Apr 29, 2024 Partly supported
10× “10 X” Gerstner: Tesla FSD 12 model improves 5x to 10x faster monthly than prior systems Brad Gerstner Mar 7, 2024
10× “10 times” Gurley: Silicon Valley has the "crudest, least intelligent" view of valuation Bill Gurley Feb 8, 2024
10× “10 X” Levie: Applying identical multiples to 5% and 90% margin businesses is crazy Aaron Levie Feb 8, 2024
10× “10 x” Gurley: Moving search from ads to transactions causes a 10x revenue reduction Bill Gurley Feb 8, 2024
10× “10 X” Gerstner: AI search query answers cost 10x more than 10 blue links Brad Gerstner Feb 22, 2024
“seven times” Gerstner: Public software multiples are at 5.2x forward revenue vs. 7x average Brad Gerstner Oct 31, 2025 Supported
“seven times” Gurley: Delaware Court Legal Fee Multipliers Far Exceed Federal Courts Bill Gurley May 22, 2025 Supported
“seven times” Gerstner: Wiz Deal Valued at 30x Revenue vs. Public SaaS 6-7x Brad Gerstner Mar 21, 2025
6.9× “6.9 times” Gerstner: Public Software Trades at 6.1x Revenue, Below 10-Year Average Brad Gerstner Apr 4, 2024 Partly supported
6.1× “6.1 times” Gerstner: Public Software Trades at 6.1x Revenue, Below 10-Year Average Brad Gerstner Apr 4, 2024 Partly supported
“six times” Gurley: SaaS at 6x revenue is not automatically cheap as industries mature Bill Gurley Aug 9, 2024
“six X” Gurley: AI venture investing is repeating the exact same overfunding mistakes as ZERP Bill Gurley Jun 22, 2024
5.2× “5.2 times” Gerstner: Public software multiples are at 5.2x forward revenue vs. 7x average Brad Gerstner Oct 31, 2025 Supported
“five times” Wu: GPT-5 enables single-generation code completions in the Codex CLI Sherwin Wu Sep 11, 2025
“five times” Gerstner: US nuclear fission reactors cost 4x to 5x more to build Brad Gerstner Aug 28, 2025
“five X” Gerstner: $5B–$10B Mega-Funds Cannot Generate 4x–5x Returns by Diversifying Across 100 Companies Brad Gerstner Oct 31, 2024
“five X” Patel: Reasoning models like OpenAI o1 increase compute costs by 50x Dylan Patel Dec 23, 2024
“five X” Gurley: AI venture investing is repeating the exact same overfunding mistakes as ZERP Bill Gurley Jun 22, 2024
“four X” Gurley: South Korea, China build nuclear power at one-fourth US cost Bill Gurley Apr 24, 2025 Supported
“four times” Huang: Software updates make Hopper GPUs 2x to 4x better over time Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 Supported
“four X” Huang: The AI industry will with certainty require millions of GPUs Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024 Held up
“three X” Gerstner: Export controls will prevent DeepSeek from keeping pace with OpenAI Brad Gerstner Feb 5, 2025
“three times” Gurley: Negative-Margin Startups Subsidize Compute and Triple-Count AI Industry Revenue Bill Gurley Mar 21, 2025
“three X” Gerstner: Jensen Huang plans to triple Nvidia's size using AI agents Brad Gerstner Jun 20, 2025
“three X” Gerstner: Huang believes NVIDIA can triple revenue with 25% headcount growth Brad Gerstner Oct 13, 2024
“three times” Huang: NVIDIA delivers 2x-3x performance and cost improvements every single year Jensen Huang Oct 13, 2024
“three times” Gerstner: Public markets value revenue growth at 3x free cash flow margin Brad Gerstner Feb 8, 2024 Supported
“two X” Patel: Nvidia Blackwell costs over twice as much to manufacture as Hopper Dylan Patel Dec 23, 2024 Supported
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