| 10,000× | “10,000 times” | Mauboussin: Investors are overconfident on small samples and underconfident on large samples | Michael Mauboussin | May 13, 2019 | — |
| 5,100× | “5100 times” | Mauboussin: Investors are overconfident on small samples and underconfident on large samples | Michael Mauboussin | May 13, 2019 | — |
| 500× | “500 times” | Sethi: Tribe generates 500 to 800 quantitative diligence reports annually | Arjun Sethi | Mar 14, 2022 | — |
| 400× | “400 X” | Grinda: FJ Labs generated a 300x to 400x return on Brazilian startup Méliuz | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | — |
| 300× | “300 X” | Housenbold: SoftBank made roughly $12 billion in profit on DoorDash | Jeff Hausenbold | Mar 29, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 300× | “300 times” | Greenwich Associates bought Berkshire Hathaway in the 1970s and gained 300x | Charlie Ellis | Jul 30, 2018 | — |
| 150× | “150 times” | Amazon Historically Generated Massive Cash Flows But Reinvested Every Dollar | Brett Barakett | May 20, 2024 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Forman: Stablecoin Market Will Grow 10x to 100x Within Ten Years | Ben Forman | Apr 21, 2025 | Open |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Lasry: We paid 100 times cash flow to buy the Milwaukee Bucks | Marc Lasry | May 15, 2023 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Coupling offline collateral with DeFi will unlock a 100x market expansion | Olaf Carlson-Wee | Jun 23, 2022 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Forman: Crypto index demand is low because investors seek 100x upside | Ben Forman | Jun 20, 2022 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Drogen: Crypto investors must avoid cynical 'midwit' overanalysis to succeed | Leigh Drogen | Jun 2, 2022 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Wolfe: Sub-$10M ARR Startups Routinely Received Billion-Dollar Valuations | Josh Wolfe | Feb 21, 2022 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Grinda: Compounding 1% multivariate testing gains creates game-changing scale | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | — |
| 100× | “100 times” | Mercado Livre Trades at 100x Earnings with 40% to 50% Growth | Florian Bartunek | Jan 20, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Sternlicht: Investors Underprice Political and Legal Risk in Emerging Markets | Barry Sternlicht | Oct 4, 2021 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Paul: The NFT Space Will Probably Grow 100x By 2024 | Ari Paul | Mar 18, 2021 | Didn’t hold up |
| 90× | “90 times” | A 90x P/E stock compounding at 45% remains an attractive investment | Brian Christensen | Jan 11, 2024 | — |
| 90× | “90 times” | Mercado Livre Trades at 100x Earnings with 40% to 50% Growth | Florian Bartunek | Jan 20, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 80× | “80 X” | Sub-$200M Venture Funds Offer Asymmetric Outcomes That Established Mega-Funds Cannot Match | Bruce MacDonald | Apr 6, 2026 | — |
| 79× | “79 X” | McLean: CrownRock returned 79x while the public XOP index returned 0.9x | Jay McLean | Jan 20, 2025 | — |
| 70× | “70 times” | Milken: US human capital is worth roughly $1,500 trillion | Michael Milken | Feb 26, 2024 | — |
| 65× | “65 times” | Grantham: Timing bubble peaks requires tracking speculative behavior, not valuation | Jeremy Grantham | Jul 8, 2021 | — |
| 60× | “60 times” | Meli: SaaS multiples collapsed from 40-60x revenue five years ago | Adrian Meli | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Jain: Paying high multiples on peak margins for cyclicals causes massive losses | Rajiv Jain | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Sub-$200M Venture Funds Offer Asymmetric Outcomes That Established Mega-Funds Cannot Match | Bruce MacDonald | Apr 6, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “fifty-x” | Mahr: LTCM Would Not Have Failed Without 50x Leverage | Daniel Mahr | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Distressed Russian Assets Will Return 50x Rapidly Upon Any Regime Change | Rob Citrone | Jul 11, 2022 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Hamed: Seed deals need 30x to 50x returns, Series A needs 10x | Ali Hamed | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Samani: Multicoin Capital has guided founders through 30 to 50 token launches | Kyle Samani | Nov 18, 2021 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Aitken: Fixed Income Funds Routinely Run 40 to 50x Leverage | James Aitken | Mar 18, 2020 | Supported |
| 49× | “49 times” | Jain: O'Connor hired him after two rapid math and probability questions | Bobby Jain | Feb 16, 2026 | — |
| 44× | “44 times” | HDPE piping is 44 times less carbon intensive than concrete | Lauren Taylor Wolfe | Jul 2, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 40× | “40 times” | Traditional PE fee structures incentivize managers to scale funds for themselves | André Bourbonnais | Jul 22, 2019 | — |
| 35× | “35 times” | Grantham: Timing bubble peaks requires tracking speculative behavior, not valuation | Jeremy Grantham | Jul 8, 2021 | — |
| 35× | “35 times” | Simple Contrarian Valuation Multiple-Hunting Is First-Level Thinking and Typically Fails | Drew Dickson | Nov 25, 2019 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Cook: In investing, good ideas become bad when taken to valuation extremes | Will Cook | Dec 2, 2021 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Overlook liquidated all Southeast Asian consumer stocks upon reaching 30x PE | Richard Lawrence | Aug 14, 2017 | — |
| 28× | “28 times” | Behring: 3G Capital Generated 28x Return and 30% IRR on RBI | Alex Behring | May 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Sacerdote: Amazon Trades at 25x Forward GAAP EPS, Cheaper Than Walmart and Costco | Alex Sacerdote | Dec 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Connaughton: Bain Capital Made 25x on Accuride Investment | John Connaughton | Jul 8, 2024 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Connaughton: Bain Capital targets 15-20 investments per fund seeking 3x-5x returns | John Connaughton | Jul 8, 2024 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | The best fund in any vintage is usually a new boutique | David Rubenstein | Jul 12, 2021 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Grantham: Timing bubble peaks requires tracking speculative behavior, not valuation | Jeremy Grantham | Jul 8, 2021 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | No fund manager successfully boosts returns by trading around long-term compounding stocks | Brian Bares | Apr 26, 2021 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Russo: Berkshire subsidiary MiTek has probably grown 25x since acquisition | Tom Russo | Mar 4, 2019 | — |
| 25× | “25 times” | Ellis: Yale Endowment grew 25x from $1B under David Swensen | Charlie Ellis | May 22, 2017 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | O'Shaughnessy: 10-year real equity returns strongly inversely correlate with Shiller P/E | Patrick O'Shaughnessy | May 2, 2017 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Sloane: GSP has built platforms from $1M EBITDA 20 times | Alex Sloane | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Sullivan: One peak dot-com VC fund exited its losing investments at 3x | Tim Sullivan | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Moodgal: Fundraisers Must Hold Back and Let Allocators Decide Timing | Rahul Moodgal | Sep 26, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Duhigg: Supercommunicators ask 10 to 20 times more questions than average | Charles Duhigg | Jul 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Thacker: Enterprise software valuation multiples have returned to 5x–7x revenue | Allison Thacker | Nov 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 X” | Bozman: Crypto venture fund returns will drop 5x to 20x this cycle | Regan Bozman | Jul 7, 2022 | Open |
| 20× | “20 X” | Veremis: Institutional crypto adoption is up 5x in clients, 20x in capital | Marcos Veremis | Jun 13, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Venture capital differs from traditional finance by only targeting tail events | Sebastian Mallaby | Apr 11, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Hamed: Seed deals need 30x to 50x returns, Series A needs 10x | Ali Hamed | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | XP Trades at 20x Earnings While Growing Earnings 30% to 35% | Florian Bartunek | Jan 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Connaughton: Bain bought Baxter carve-out at 3x versus modern 15-20x multiples | John Connaughton | Jun 28, 2021 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | WashU drove strong returns buying Russian tech at 5x earnings multiples | Scott Wilson | Oct 5, 2020 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Children's Health met a private fund manager 20 times before committing | Christy Hamilton | Mar 9, 2020 | — |
| 18× | “18 times” | Sandler: Stock multiples expand due to shifting marginal buyers, not personal valuations | Ricky Sandler | Oct 28, 2024 | — |
| 18× | “18 times” | Schwartz: Popeyes 18x EBITDA multiple bought down to ~12x via synergies | Daniel Schwartz | May 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 18× | “18 X” | Housenbold: SoftBank made roughly $12 billion in profit on DoorDash | Jeff Hausenbold | Mar 29, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 17× | “17 times” | Breach: Public software multiples peaked above 17x forward revenue in 2021 | David Breach | Jun 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 17× | “17 times” | Private credit secondaries market has grown 17x to $30B | Michael Sidgmore | May 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 16× | “16 times” | Moyo: SpaceX venture valuation is completely delinked from historical PE averages. | Baroness Dambisa Moyo | Jul 13, 2026 | — |
| 16× | “16 times” | O'Leary: Direct LP feedback to founders relieves internal IR teams | Shannon O'Leary | Mar 10, 2025 | — |
| 16× | “16 X” | Tannenbaum: India's stock index matched 8x GDP growth since 1999, beating China | Dan Tannenbaum | May 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 16× | “16 times” | Buyout multiples doubled over 20 years, turning LBOs into equity-heavy buyouts | Ted Seides | Nov 23, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 16× | “16 times” | Sycamore Partners achieved a 16x return on its $250M Hot Topic buyout | Stefan Kaluzny | Oct 21, 2021 | — |
| 16× | “16 times” | US private equity multiples are distorted and significantly overpriced | Dan Rasmussen | Feb 17, 2020 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Perelman: GSP avoids roll-up categories with bolt-on multiples above 8x cash flow | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Ripley: Raising VC fund size without securing more ownership breaks fund math | Jay Ripley | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Goldman's Special Situations Group Levered Its Balance Sheet 8 to 15 Times | Josh Kopowitz | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Alpine aims to reduce add-on multiples to 5x EBITDA within 12 months | Graham Weaver | Jun 10, 2024 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | TDM Growth Partners targets 10 to 15x returns over 10-year holding periods | Hamish Corlett | Oct 14, 2021 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Bitar: Latin American regional platforms command 10x to 14x EBITDA | Rodrigo Bitar | Apr 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Morehead: Midstream MLPs Offered 3-4x to 12-14x EBITDA Arbitrage | David Morehead | Apr 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Stavros: KKR Bought C.H.I. at 13x and Exited at 14x EBITDA | Pete Stavros | Sep 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 13× | “13 times” | Stavros: KKR Bought C.H.I. at 13x and Exited at 14x EBITDA | Pete Stavros | Sep 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 13× | “13 times” | US private equity multiples are distorted and significantly overpriced | Dan Rasmussen | Feb 17, 2020 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Dorsey: Fund Managers Privilege Obscure, Complex Ideas Over Cheap Mega-Cap Stocks | Pat Dorsey | Jul 6, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Jain: Established software at 10-12x earnings shows strong growth and lock-in | Rajiv Jain | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Khoury: Cold Storage REITs Trade at 50 Cents on the Dollar | John Khoury | Dec 1, 2025 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Sandler: Stock multiples expand due to shifting marginal buyers, not personal valuations | Ricky Sandler | Oct 28, 2024 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Schwartz: Popeyes 18x EBITDA multiple bought down to ~12x via synergies | Daniel Schwartz | May 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | KKR has 25 active broad-based employee ownership programs across US portfolio | Pete Stavros | Sep 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 12× | “12 times” | Constellation Returned 6x to 12x in Top Brazilian Market Leaders | Florian Bartunek | Jan 20, 2022 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Private equity managers entering at 12x EBITDA underwrite exits at 10x | John Toomey | Jun 21, 2021 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | No fund manager successfully boosts returns by trading around long-term compounding stocks | Brian Bares | Apr 26, 2021 | — |
| 11× | “11 times” | Perelman: GSP avoids roll-up categories with bolt-on multiples above 8x cash flow | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 11× | “11 times” | Higgins: King Street held investment committee meetings 11 times weekly in 2020 | Brian Higgins | Nov 24, 2021 | — |
| 11× | “11 X” | Lux Capital passed on Cruise at $80M pre before GM's $1B acquisition | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Major AI process changes are premature given rapid tooling evolution, says Wattley | Abigail Wattley | Jun 22, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Kim: Pitching pension plans requires respecting bureaucratic processes and administrative needs | John Kim (Kimmer) | May 25, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Founders Never Regret Firing Someone, Only That They Waited Too Long | Katelin Holloway | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sullivan: A $5B fund at 15% pays far more carry than $500M at 30% | Tim Sullivan | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Ovitz relentlessly calls people up to ten times until they answer | Michael Ovitz | Jul 7, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Connaughton: Bain Capital targets 15-20 investments per fund seeking 3x-5x returns | John Connaughton | Jul 8, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Buyout multiples doubled over 20 years, turning LBOs into equity-heavy buyouts | Ted Seides | Nov 23, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Ballou: PE-Owned Companies Are 10x More Likely to Go Bankrupt | Brendan Ballou | Aug 7, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | VC generated 5x to 10x returns in two years during 1999 | Ravi Viswanathan | Jul 13, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Vulcan sold Apple at a split-adjusted $33, missing a massive run | Jim Falbe | Jun 8, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Steyer: Diesel generator power costs 10 times more per kWh than solar | Tom Steyer | Mar 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Clearlake generated a 10x return on Sage Automotive Interiors | Jose Feliciano | Feb 13, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Large-cap Japanese valuations still fail to reflect massive improvements in corporate governance | Howard Smith | Aug 18, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Coupling offline collateral with DeFi will unlock a 100x market expansion | Olaf Carlson-Wee | Jun 23, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Veremis: Institutional crypto adoption is up 5x in clients, 20x in capital | Marcos Veremis | Jun 13, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Wolfe: Sub-$10M ARR Startups Routinely Received Billion-Dollar Valuations | Josh Wolfe | Feb 21, 2022 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Venture capital differs from traditional finance by only targeting tail events | Sebastian Mallaby | Apr 11, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Quintini: AWS and distribution made starting startups 10x cheaper | Renata Quintini | Mar 21, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Hamed: Seed deals need 30x to 50x returns, Series A needs 10x | Ali Hamed | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Trigg: Employees usually signal when a colleague must be fired | Mike Trigg | Dec 20, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Grinda: FJ Labs is too diversified to ever be a 10x fund | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Recker: Irvine defines great venture funds as 10x or better | Tim Recker | Nov 4, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Garfinkel: Half of Arboretum's 15 Major Exits Were Within One Mile | Jan Garfinkel | Sep 2, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Martin: High-yield bond analysis is a black belt for credit investing | Bruce Martin | Aug 19, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Martin: Still Lake Capital targets regular businesses at 10x EBIT minus CapEx | Bruce Martin | Aug 19, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | High Software Valuations Act as a Barrier to Entry for Generalist Buyouts | Orlando Bravo | Aug 2, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Morgon: Eurazeo Grew Small-Cap Strategy 10x with 100% Retention | Virginie Morgon | Jul 19, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Casdin: 90% of life science stock volatility is macro-driven | Eli Casdin | Jul 15, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Connaughton: Early Bain Capital targeted a 10x 5-year return (55.8% IRR) | John Connaughton | Jun 28, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Connaughton: Hitting 3x to 10x on one-third of investments drives outperformance | John Connaughton | Jun 28, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Paul: Wealth created by Bitcoin flows down the risk curve to newer assets | Ari Paul | Mar 18, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Peters: A 2% Digital Asset Allocation Offers a 10x Macro Hedge | Eric Peters | Mar 8, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Baran: Symphony has held Nagao for roughly a decade, returning 10x | David Baran | Feb 8, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | James Clear: Grew subscriber base from 2,000 to 200,000 in two years | James Clear | Jan 4, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Sports betting demand is ten times larger than what sportsbooks accept | Michael Schwimer | Sep 16, 2019 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Deal Experience Asymmetry Breeds Distrust Between Founders and VCs | Scott Kupor | Sep 2, 2019 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | The Golden State Warriors' valuation represents a 10x gain | Jon Wertheim | Jun 17, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Mauboussin: Investors are overconfident on small samples and underconfident on large samples | Michael Mauboussin | May 13, 2019 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Russo: Berkshire Bought PacifiCorp at 10x Pre-Tax, Reinvesting at 10%+ | Tom Russo | Mar 4, 2019 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lux-backed Kurion handled Fukushima cleanup and sold to Veolia for $400M | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Friedman: Fannie and Freddie represented two-thirds of US GDP during 2008 crisis | Manny Friedman | Jul 23, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Monk: Financial intermediation unit costs are higher than a century ago | Ashby Monk | Oct 23, 2017 | Supported |
| 9× | “nine times” | Dorsey: Meta Became Wildly Undervalued Trading at Nine Times EBIT in 2022 | Pat Dorsey | Jul 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 9× | “nine times” | Jain: Paying high multiples on peak margins for cyclicals causes massive losses | Rajiv Jain | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Breach: Public software multiples peaked above 17x forward revenue in 2021 | David Breach | Jun 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 9× | “9 X” | McLean: CrownRock returned 79x while the public XOP index returned 0.9x | Jay McLean | Jan 20, 2025 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Samuels: Nine in ten next-gen investment leaders don't know succession plans | Sarah Samuels | Aug 12, 2024 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Kaname's Top Holdings Trade at 3.5x EBITDA and 9x Earnings | Toby Rodes | Sep 23, 2024 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Miah: All Africa Partners' portfolio generates a 33% ROE at an 8x P/E | Farouk Miah | Nov 7, 2022 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Venture capital requires acting as a promoter despite a 90% failure rate | Tom Lenehan | Apr 18, 2022 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Russo: FedEx stock halved while simultaneously serving and competing with Amazon | Tom Russo | Mar 11, 2019 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Perelman: GSP avoids roll-up categories with bolt-on multiples above 8x cash flow | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Lyon: Early PE Required Less Investment Depth Due to Favorable LBO Math | David Lyon | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Lyon: Performing Companies Quickly Refinance Expensive 16% Preferred Equity Bridges | David Lyon | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Morfit: Microsoft traded at eight times earnings in 2013 | Mason Morfit | Sep 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Bitar: Latin American regional platforms command 10x to 14x EBITDA | Rodrigo Bitar | Apr 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Micro-market private equity returns mirror venture capital distributions | Ed Grefenstette | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Bank: Carve-outs favor buyers because corporate sellers prioritize divestment speed over price | Matt Bank | Nov 25, 2024 | — |
| 8× | “eight X” | Tannenbaum: Indian private markets returned 35 cents per dollar since 2000 | Dan Tannenbaum | May 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Tannenbaum: India's stock index matched 8x GDP growth since 1999, beating China | Dan Tannenbaum | May 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Tannenbaum: Highest ROE Indian power company trades at 8x earnings | Dan Tannenbaum | May 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 8× | “eight times” | Sacca: GPT-5 will train in 2023 and be 6-8x better than GPT-4 | Chris Sacca | Jun 12, 2023 | Didn’t hold up |
| 8× | “eight times” | Miah: African public equities trade at 8x earnings while privates cost 8x sales | Farouk Miah | Nov 7, 2022 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Black: WCM built around weak performers multiple times over twenty years | Paul Black | Dec 20, 2021 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Constellation Returned 6x to 12x in Top Brazilian Market Leaders | Florian Bartunek | Jan 20, 2022 | — |
| 8× | “eight X” | Baran: Nagao's inventory resale value was 8x its market cap | David Baran | Feb 8, 2021 | — |
| 8× | “eight X” | Heavy LBO debt prevents compounding businesses from reinvesting for growth | Dan Rasmussen | Feb 17, 2020 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Private credit funds offer 8x leverage covenant-lite loans to hide defaults | Dan Rasmussen | Feb 17, 2020 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Simple quantitative models have 8x the statistical power during recessions | Dan Rasmussen | Feb 17, 2020 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Zorub: Russell 2000 index swung 8% to 10% six times last year | David Zorub | Mar 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Kinderhook acquired Mobile Mini Tank for less than 7x EBITDA | Rob Michalik | Nov 11, 2024 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Behring: 3G reduced Burger King's leverage from ~6.5x to under 3x | Alex Behring | May 6, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Thacker: Enterprise software valuation multiples have returned to 5x–7x revenue | Allison Thacker | Nov 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Cocke: Valuing MoneyGram's digital unit at 7x revenue would double its stock | Chas Cocke | Nov 29, 2021 | Supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Boehly: Freescale buyout introduced covenant-lite debt at seven times leverage | Todd Boehly | Nov 22, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Private equity historically made most of its profits below 7x EBITDA | Dan Rasmussen | Feb 17, 2020 | Supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Peters: Peloton ABS fund ran 7x levered subprime relative-value trade | Eric Peters | Apr 6, 2020 | Partly supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Jain: GQG bought Petrobras at a 35% dividend yield | Rajiv Jain | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Perelman: Tech tools boost portfolio organic growth by 200-300 bps | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Kleinman: Apollo Bought Compass Minerals Under 6x EBITDA, Made 5x Return | Scott Kleinman | Jan 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Lyon: The real downside of a 6x levered buyout is negative 100% | David Lyon | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | MacArthur: Buyout multiples rising from 5x to 12x eliminated PE's error margin | Hugh MacArthur | Jun 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 6× | “six X” | Thayer Street Payments Portfolio Company Grew GPV 5x in Four Years | Josh Kopowitz | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 6× | “six X” | Marks: Private credit grew over 6x to $1.5T since 2007 | Howard Marks | Apr 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Miller: Good carbon capture projects yield 20–30% unlevered IRR and 3–6x returns | Matt Miller | Oct 14, 2024 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Agencies routinely rating 6x leveraged companies as CCC creates artificial yield premiums | Dave Brizano | Sep 12, 2024 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Fixed cohorts outperform rolling admissions due to peer pressure dynamics | Magnus Grimeland | Feb 15, 2024 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Average software valuations retraced to six times sales by mid-2023 | Michael Carmen | Aug 10, 2023 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | SkyBridge's FTX deal was priced at five times revenues | Anthony Scaramucci | Jan 16, 2023 | — |
| 6× | “six X” | DeMeireles: Scaling mega-funds vacated the $10M to $30M growth check market | Marco De Morales | Sep 1, 2022 | — |
| 6× | “six X” | Veremis: Crypto VCs up 20x should distribute at least 5x to LPs | Marcos Veremis | Jun 13, 2022 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Constellation Returned 6x to 12x in Top Brazilian Market Leaders | Florian Bartunek | Jan 20, 2022 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Jensen: Household wealth relative to income has reached record levels | Greg Jensen | Aug 12, 2021 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Dunn: In 1955, 90% of US car buyers rejected a $27 seatbelt | Jim Dunn | Jul 29, 2021 | Supported |
| 6× | “six X” | Chamath: Social Capital delivered 5x-6x fund returns and 40% IRRs | Chamath Palihapitiya | Dec 7, 2020 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | OCIO models can be four to six times costlier than consultants | Chris Brockmeyer | Apr 9, 2018 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Overlook bought Kingboard at 2.5x and Café de Coral at 6x P/E | Richard Lawrence | Aug 14, 2017 | — |
| 5.6× | “5.6 X” | A European GP waterfall requires 5.6x gross to deliver 3x net | Ed Grefenstette | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 5.6× | “5.6 X” | Jacobs: United Waste outperformed S&P 500 by 5.6x with 55% CAGR | Brad Jacobs | Feb 12, 2024 | Supported |
| 5.3× | “5.3 X” | Antler's portfolio achieves a 5.3x MOIC after four years | Magnus Grimeland | Feb 15, 2024 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Dorsey: Competent U.S. Executives Earn Five Times More Than European Company Leaders | Pat Dorsey | Jul 6, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Jain: Vontobel bet heavily on South Korea in 2002 at 5x earnings | Rajiv Jain | Jun 8, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Perelman: Investment Discussions with Universal Consensus Are the Most Dangerous | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Kleinman: Apollo Bought Compass Minerals Under 6x EBITDA, Made 5x Return | Scott Kleinman | Jan 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Sullivan: Five-deal track records suffer from small sample sizes and survivorship bias | Tim Sullivan | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Multi-billion VC funds need 50% concentration in few winners to 4x | Ed Grefenstette | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
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