| 12B | “twelve billion” | Owl Rock Launched With $12 Billion of Total Investing Firepower | Doug Ostrover | Jul 26, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Notre Dame's endowment grew from $400 million to over $12 billion | Scott Malpass | Sep 18, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 11.7B | “a 10.7 billion” | MLB is a $10.7B industry diversifying into cable and real estate | Ben Reiter | Nov 30, 2020 | Supported |
| 11B | “eleven billion” | UTIMCO's zero-beta hedge fund portfolio is roughly $11 billion | Tony Caruso | May 11, 2026 | Supported |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Private credit funds under $10B in AUM will struggle to succeed today | Tim Lyne | Oct 26, 2023 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Drogen: Crypto liquidity caps funds at $1B; cannot support $10B funds | Leigh Drogen | Jun 2, 2022 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Grinda: QXL Ricardo market cap crashed from $10B to $30M after Aucland sale | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Cocke: A $10 billion endowment likely paid $500M in fees in 2021 | Chas Cocke | Nov 29, 2021 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Helmsley passed on Abraaj after its founder announced an absurd $10B fund | Roz Hewsenian | Aug 6, 2018 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Arndt: Future Fund launched with A$60B, including A$50B cash | Raphael Arndt | Sep 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Asset manager consolidation forces firms to be mega-scale or niche | Michael Sidgmore | May 5, 2025 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Forman: Aave Has Almost $30 Billion Deposited and $10 Billion Borrowed | Ben Forman | Apr 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Seides: Big banks allocated $65B to alts vs $5B-$10B from SWFs | Ted Seides | Dec 30, 2024 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Moodgal: Parvus manages $10B with only 65 clients | Rahul Moodgal | Sep 26, 2024 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Vulcan Value Partners capped inflows while raising $100M weekly at $10B AUM | Jim Falbe | Jun 8, 2023 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | BDT Partners is raising a private equity fund exceeding $10 billion | Gregg Lemkau | Jan 9, 2023 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Van Vleet: $8B to $10B is the optimal pension fund size | Charles Van Vleet | Nov 28, 2022 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Forman: Total crypto market cap was around $10 billion in 2016 | Ben Forman | Jun 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Veremis: Crypto venture funds raised $10B in Q1 2022 after $25B in 2021 | Marcos Veremis | Jun 13, 2022 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Future Fund started with A$60B including A$10B in escrowed Telstra shares | Raphael Arndt | Sep 24, 2018 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Bushey: Fund business risk stems from misaligned capital, not AUM size | Tom Bushey | Dec 3, 2018 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Baumgartner: Ford Foundation shifted $8B of $10B into new strategies post-2008 | Mark Baumgartner | Nov 26, 2018 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Early hedge fund allocators are price makers, late investors are price takers | Ted Seides | Dec 18, 2017 | — |
| 9B | “an eight billion” | Trigg: WCM's First Private Investment Was Anduril at an $8B Valuation | Mike Trigg | Oct 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 8.6B | “8.6 billion” | Dixon: Global NFT sales reached $8.6 billion in 2023 | Chris Dixon | Apr 15, 2024 | Supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Assaf: ICG Advisors manages $7B to $8B across 80 clients | Jeff Assaf | Jul 29, 2024 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Griffith: Citadel Grew from Under $1B to $8B During His Tenure | Reade Griffith | Oct 17, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | NEPC expects to expand private markets deployment to $8B in two years | Sarah Samuels | Aug 1, 2022 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | NZ Super Fund beat benchmark in 11 of 15 years | Matt Whineray | Sep 9, 2019 | Supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | UTIMCO has roughly $7 billion allocated through the Dockside platform | Tony Caruso | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Delta's Pension Was America's Worst-Funded in 2011 With $14B Shortfall | Jon Glidden | Nov 18, 2024 | Supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | CPPIB assets grew from $7B to $285B between 2001 and 2015 | Yann Robard | Jun 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Zell sold 142 of 146 Commonwealth REIT properties in five years | Sam Zell | Jun 6, 2022 | Supported |
| 7B | “a six billion” | Hamed: Asset managers cannot scale back AUM without destroying firm morale | Ali Hamed | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Grinda: Uniswap handles $7B daily trading volume with only 30 employees | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Baran: InfoMart is probably worth $5B to $7B | David Baran | Feb 8, 2021 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Renaissance Has Generated Over $100 Billion in Lifetime Trading Profits | Gregory Zuckerman | Jan 6, 2020 | Supported |
| 7B | “a six billion” | Russo: Berkshire's IBM Failure Paved the Way for $40B Apple Position | Tom Russo | Mar 4, 2019 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Notre Dame's endowment rebounded from under $6 billion post-crisis to $12 billion | Scott Malpass | Sep 18, 2017 | Supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | Kim: PE megafunds scaled by capitalizing on the 2009 financial crisis | John Kim (Kimmer) | May 25, 2026 | — |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Sullivan: A $5B fund at 15% pays far more carry than $500M at 30% | Tim Sullivan | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | Glidden: Emory Endowment Sold $3B in Coca-Cola Stock to Diversify | Jon Glidden | Nov 18, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | CLO AUM grew from $6 billion in 1998 to $1 trillion today | Shiloh Bates | Apr 11, 2024 | Supported |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Private credit funds under $10B in AUM will struggle to succeed today | Tim Lyne | Oct 26, 2023 | — |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Vista Equity Took $1B NAV Loan for Finastra Refinancing | Ted Seides | Oct 14, 2023 | Supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | Thome: WARF ran a $6B notional portfolio via 2x leverage | Carrie Thome | Oct 19, 2020 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | Girotto: Institutional Farmland Ownership Is a Rounding Error in $2T Market | Jay Girotto | Oct 14, 2019 | Supported |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Recker: GE Capital's $5B insurance portfolio used fewer than 15 managers | Tim Recker | May 20, 2019 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | CalSTRS Commits Approximately $6 Billion Annually to Private Equity | Chris Ailman | Feb 11, 2019 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | US remittances to Honduras outpace official foreign aid by over 10x | Steve Kuhn | Feb 4, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | Getty Trust endowment generated $1 billion in alpha over 15 years | Jim Williams | Apr 30, 2018 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 6B | “six billion” | Cembalest liquidated $5 billion from J.P. Morgan's emerging markets portfolio in 1998 | Michael Cembalest | Apr 23, 2018 | — |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Mestel: Primary Wave's $5B hedge fund backer collapsed overnight in 2008 | Larry Mestel | Oct 30, 2017 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Jain: SpaceX generates $18B in revenue but loses $5B | Rajiv Jain | Jun 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | MacDonald Was Fired After UVIMCO's Endowment Dropped 20% During the GFC | Bruce MacDonald | Apr 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Five-billion-dollar unitranche private debt deals are now routinely getting done | Ron Cantowitz | Jul 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Bank: $5B VC funds must capture rare generational companies | Matt Bank | Nov 25, 2024 | — |
| 5B | “a four billion” | Behring: Burger King was largest post-crisis LBO at $4B | Alex Behring | May 6, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 5B | “five billion” | Ou: Top-quartile sub-$1B buyout funds outperform top-quartile mega-funds | Bruce Ou | Oct 30, 2023 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Griffith: In 1995 Only Two to Four Corporate Hedge Funds Reached $1B | Reade Griffith | Oct 17, 2022 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Griffith: Growing AUM from $1B to $5B turns alpha into beta | Reade Griffith | Oct 17, 2022 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | NEPC deploys $5B in private strategies and $26B in public searches | Sarah Samuels | Aug 1, 2022 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | McKeon: 300 million people have crypto exchange accounts globally | Stephen McKeon | Jun 16, 2022 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | McKeon: Web3 mainstream adoption will be driven by utility over trading | Stephen McKeon | Jun 16, 2022 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Cook: Sunriver shifted portfolio median market cap from $20B to $5B | Will Cook | Dec 2, 2021 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Sternlicht: Amazon subsidizes $4B-$5B retail losses with AWS to destroy small retailers | Barry Sternlicht | Oct 4, 2021 | Contradicted |
| 5B | “a four billion” | Caesars sold interactive gaming unit for $4B to fund bankruptcy settlement | Max Frumes | Aug 16, 2021 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Bushey: Fund business risk stems from misaligned capital, not AUM size | Tom Bushey | Dec 3, 2018 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | NYSE daily trading volume rose from 3 million shares to over 4 billion | Charlie Ellis | Jul 30, 2018 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Quickly Reached $5B AUM by 2018 | Tom Lydon | Jun 11, 2018 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Dunn: Duke endowment had $5B and 28 staff vs Wake's $700M and 6 | Jim Dunn | Sep 4, 2017 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Kochard: Endowment sweet spot is $4B-$5B to $15B-$20B in assets | Larry Kochard | Jun 12, 2017 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Perelman: Garnett Station Partners manages $4 billion in AUM | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | MacDonald Was Fired After UVIMCO's Endowment Dropped 20% During the GFC | Bruce MacDonald | Apr 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Multi-billion VC funds need 50% concentration in few winners to 4x | Ed Grefenstette | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Schwartz: 3G paid $4B for Burger King at $450M EBITDA | Daniel Schwartz | May 6, 2024 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Visser: Weiss AUM reached $4B with most growth during COVID | Jordi Visser | Nov 8, 2021 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Trigg: WCM's AUM dropped from $4B to under $1B by 2010 | Mike Trigg | Nov 2, 2020 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Kresge Foundation sets minimum 1% portfolio sizing for manager commitments | Donna Snider | Jan 28, 2019 | — |
| 4B | “a three billion” | Bushey: Hedge fund AUM lacks the stability of private equity commitments | Tom Bushey | Dec 3, 2018 | — |
| 4B | “a three billion” | Hedge funds work for $3B foundations but fail for $300B public pensions | Roz Hewsenian | Aug 6, 2018 | — |
| 3.6B | “3.6 billion” | Rodriguez and Marc Lore took Archer Aviation from $100M to $3.6B IPO | Alex Rodriguez | Jun 7, 2021 | Supported |
| 3.4B | “a 2.4 billion” | Jefferson returned $1B to investors, deliberately shrinking Hildene's AUM by 40% | Brett Jefferson | May 25, 2020 | — |
| 3.3B | “three quarter billion” | Sullivan: Yale endowment grew from $1.75B to $40B during his tenure | Tim Sullivan | Jul 14, 2025 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Delta Pension Faced $3B in Margin Calls During March 2020 | Jon Glidden | Nov 18, 2024 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Puffer: Asset-liability management principles remain identical across all fund sizes | Marlene Puffer | Sep 11, 2023 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Partners Capital capped growth at $1.5B annually before the financial crisis | Stan Miranda | Aug 21, 2023 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Ares Managed $3B in CLOs With Just 65 Employees in 2004 | Kipp deVeer | Jul 24, 2023 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Griffith: Tetragon manages $35B in client capital and $2.5B–$3B proprietary capital | Reade Griffith | Oct 17, 2022 | Supported |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Acker: Janus Henderson invested in BioNTech in 2017 at $2B valuation | Andy Acker | Oct 6, 2022 | — |
| 3B | “a two billion” | A $3B check creates local friction despite negligible total fund impact | Geoffrey Rubin | Nov 14, 2022 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Veremis: Crypto venture funds raised $10B in Q1 2022 after $25B in 2021 | Marcos Veremis | Jun 13, 2022 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Morgon: Eurazeo balance sheet grew to 8B and manages $30B total | Virginie Morgon | Jul 19, 2021 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Williams College endowment grew from $1.5 billion to $3 billion | Colette Chilton | Jan 25, 2021 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Thome: WARF's $15M Kellogg's licensing grew into a $2B–$3B portfolio | Carrie Thome | Oct 19, 2020 | Partly supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Adamson: GPs with $3B AUM still seek catalytic sovereign wealth backing | Daniel Adamson | May 4, 2020 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Sicilia: Asset management fees should plateau rather than increase linearly | Sam Sicilia | Jul 1, 2019 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Lydon: ROBO Global ETF grew from under $100M to $3B in one year | Tom Lydon | Jun 11, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 2.6B | “a 1.6 billion” | Reynolds: Altimeter's late 2021 fund was $1.6B, 3x previous size | Megan Reynolds | Mar 31, 2025 | Supported |
| 2.6B | “2.6 billion” | A $2.6B endowment size uniquely enables optimal $20M to $50M manager allocations | Doug Phillips | Feb 24, 2020 | — |
| 2.5B | “a half a billion” | Wong: Biotechs launching sub-billion-dollar drugs face severe commercial funding challenges | Rod Wong | Apr 24, 2023 | — |
| 2.4B | “a 1.4 billion” | Jefferson returned $1B to investors, deliberately shrinking Hildene's AUM by 40% | Brett Jefferson | May 25, 2020 | — |
| 2.3B | “2.3 billion” | Xu: Capital Today's portfolio generated $2.3B by holding past early exits | Kathy Xu | Mar 28, 2022 | — |
| 2.3B | “2.25 billion” | Delta's Portable Alpha Strategy Generated $2.25B in Net Value Over Decade | Jon Glidden | Nov 18, 2024 | — |
| 2.2B | “2.2 billion” | Morehead: Baylor University's endowment is roughly $2.2 billion | David Morehead | Apr 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Tangen: Norway's oil fund grew from 2 billion to 15 trillion kroner | Nicolai Tangen | Dec 4, 2023 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Ou: Fund size overexpansion degrades a manager's risk-return profile | Bruce Ou | Oct 30, 2023 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Jackson: Mercer includes 80 sub-$2B and over 24 sub-$500M hedge funds | John Jackson | Oct 23, 2023 | — |
| 2B | “a one billion” | Vista Equity Took $1B NAV Loan for Finastra Refinancing | Ted Seides | Oct 14, 2023 | Supported |
| 2B | “a one billion” | Vulcan Value Partners scaled from $1B to $20B during Falbe's tenure | Jim Falbe | Jun 8, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Oak HC/FT invested in Paxos at $2B and quickly saw 2x offers | Annie Lamont | Mar 7, 2022 | — |
| 2B | “a one billion” | Hamed: Asset managers cannot scale back AUM without destroying firm morale | Ali Hamed | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Smith: Stitch Fix scaled to 10,000 employees and $2B in revenue | Mike Smith | Sep 23, 2021 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Marshall Wace closed its Eureka fund at $2B in 2001, returning capital | Sir Paul Marshall | Sep 21, 2020 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Futch: Shingles vaccine generated nearly $1B in year one and $2B in year two | Clark Futch | Jun 1, 2020 | Supported |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | GSO and BlackRock received roughly $220 million for Caesars B-7 loan | Max Frumes | Aug 16, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | Trinity Wall Street netted $1.7B selling real estate stake to Norges | Meredith Jenkins | Nov 13, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.6B | “1.6 billion” | Grefenstette: Dietrich Foundation allocates an outlier 52% of total NAV to venture | Ed Grefenstette | Feb 23, 2026 | Open |
| 1.6B | “1.6 billion” | A-Rod Corp invested in Hims & Hers at $300M, reached $3B+ valuation | Alex Rodriguez | Jun 7, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Williams College avoids co-investments and direct investments at its $4.5B scale | Abigail Wattley | Jun 22, 2026 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Kokko: AlphaSense's Searchable Repository Indexes Half a Billion Documents | Jack Kokko | Sep 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Bessent: Soros bought Jon Corzine's $3.5B Italian bond liquidation in 2011 | Scott Bessent | Nov 4, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Partners Capital capped growth at $1.5B annually before the financial crisis | Stan Miranda | Aug 21, 2023 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Wong: Biotechs launching sub-billion-dollar drugs face severe commercial funding challenges | Rod Wong | Apr 24, 2023 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Miah: Africa is a $3T economy, equivalent to the world's eighth largest | Farouk Miah | Nov 7, 2022 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “1.5 billion” | Bozman: Compound's long-term market capitalization will significantly exceed $1.5 billion | Regan Bozman | Jul 7, 2022 | Open |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Dixon: a16z Crypto just raised a $4.5 billion fund | Chris Dixon | Jun 27, 2022 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Rosenthal: Braintrust reached an $11.5 billion market cap on $30 million raised | David Rosenthal | Jan 3, 2022 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Cook: Sunriver faces short-side liquidity constraints above $1.5 billion in AUM | Will Cook | Dec 2, 2021 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Casdin: Casdin Capital manages $3.5B across public and private markets | Eli Casdin | Jul 15, 2021 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Moseley: APFC holds $75B, with $20B in actively managed private markets | Steve Moseley | May 3, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | APFC holds about $2.5 billion in internally managed credit and infrastructure | Steve Moseley | May 3, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Ginns: DEX trading volume jumped from $4.5B to $60B in six months | Seth Ginns | Mar 15, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “1.5 billion” | Williams College endowment grew from $1.5 billion to $3 billion | Colette Chilton | Jan 25, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Marshall Wace seeded its TOPS strategy with $200M from the Eureka fund | Sir Paul Marshall | Sep 21, 2020 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Houston Astros' valuation rose from $600M to over $2B under Jim Crane | Ben Reiter | Nov 30, 2020 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Robertson: Wellcome Trust had £2.5B in cash when launching investment team | Sandra Robertson | Apr 13, 2020 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Jon Harris forced a $3.5B fund manager to stop expensing travel | Jon Harris | Jul 29, 2019 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Scaramucci: SkyBridge grew Citi fund of funds from $1.4B to $14B | Anthony Scaramucci | Jul 9, 2018 | Supported |
| 1.3B | “1.3 billion” | Morehead: Baylor Held $100M in Cash and $80M in Long Volatility in 2019 | David Morehead | Apr 22, 2024 | — |
| 1.1B | “1.1 billion” | Moodgal: Algebris Was the Largest Sector Fund Launch in History | Rahul Moodgal | Feb 18, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Jain: Building a Multi-Strategy Fund Sequentially Creates Severe Infrastructure Problems | Bobby Jain | Feb 16, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Hale: Japan ranks second globally for high-margin billion-dollar public companies | Rob Hale | Sep 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Sullivan: Yale's VC managers rapidly grew from $200M to $1B funds | Tim Sullivan | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Dietrich Foundation received $1.4B in private distributions over ten years | Ed Grefenstette | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Facebook ran a 90-day project to grow Zuckerberg and Sandberg's followings | Anthony Pompliano | Feb 3, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Reynolds: In May 1997, Santa Fe's $1B IPO overshadowed Amazon's debut | John Reynolds | Jan 20, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Miller: Too much energy transition capital is concentrated in mega-funds | Matt Miller | Oct 14, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Delta's Portable Alpha Strategy Generated $2.25B in Net Value Over Decade | Jon Glidden | Nov 18, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Justin Kan Started Atrium for Founder Status Rather Than Legal Passion | Mike Maples, Jr. | Sep 16, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Few secondary market players can quickly write billion-dollar liquidity checks | Yann Robard | Jun 17, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Ou: Top-quartile sub-$1B buyout funds outperform top-quartile mega-funds | Bruce Ou | Oct 30, 2023 | Supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Ou: Fund size overexpansion degrades a manager's risk-return profile | Bruce Ou | Oct 30, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Private credit funds under $10B in AUM will struggle to succeed today | Tim Lyne | Oct 26, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Wong: Biotechs launching sub-billion-dollar drugs face severe commercial funding challenges | Rod Wong | Apr 24, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | TRA issuers average $400M+ in EBITDA with under 2x leverage | Andy Lee | Mar 30, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1B | “a billion” | Griffith: Citadel had under $1B and was smaller than Baker Nye in 1999 | Reade Griffith | Oct 17, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Griffith: Citadel Grew from Under $1B to $8B During His Tenure | Reade Griffith | Oct 17, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Griffith: Growing AUM from $1B to $5B turns alpha into beta | Reade Griffith | Oct 17, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Van Vleet: $8B to $10B is the optimal pension fund size | Charles Van Vleet | Nov 28, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Veremis: Scaling past $1B fundamentally changes crypto venture fund dynamics | Marcos Veremis | Jun 13, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Sethi: Stealth energy company Invenia generates nearly $1B revenue with 60 employees | Arjun Sethi | Mar 14, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Oak HC/FT companies accounted for 30% of $100M+ sector rounds in 2021 | Annie Lamont | Mar 7, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Wolfe: Sub-$10M ARR Startups Routinely Received Billion-Dollar Valuations | Josh Wolfe | Feb 21, 2022 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Wincek: Billion-dollar venture funds face strict minimum check sizes | Roseanne Wincek | Mar 21, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Kayden: Fund size outgrowing opportunity is top reason Accolade passes on re-ups | Joelle Kayden | Feb 14, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | CAZ Investments deployed over $1.5 billion into GP stakes over five years | Christopher Zook | Dec 13, 2021 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | TDM Growth Partners manages $1.5B for just 20 individual investors | Ted Seides | Oct 14, 2021 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Thoma Bravo Targets Market-Leading Software Companies With $500M to $1B ARR | Orlando Bravo | Aug 2, 2021 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Thoma Bravo's 2008 Fund Raised $822.5 Million and Returned 4x Net | Orlando Bravo | Aug 2, 2021 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Morgon: Eurazeo Grew Small-Cap Strategy 10x with 100% Retention | Virginie Morgon | Jul 19, 2021 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Eurazeo operates one of only two billion-euro EU growth equity funds | Virginie Morgon | Jul 19, 2021 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Johnson: Astra prefers utilizing co-investments over raising larger funds for $100M deals | Mark Johnson | May 6, 2021 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Housenbold: Billion-dollar VC funds average a 1.44x net MOIC | Jeff Hausenbold | Mar 29, 2021 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Seides: Arctos Sports Partners Will Close at $1.5B in Few Months | Ted Seides | Mar 25, 2021 | Partly held up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Thome: Wisconsin universities generate $1B in annual research with minimal VC funding | Carrie Thome | Oct 19, 2020 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Chamath Palihapitiya generated over $1B in personal compensation from carry | Chamath Palihapitiya | Dec 7, 2020 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Unprofitable billion-dollar companies from 2019 surged 75% in 2020 | Joel Greenblatt | Nov 23, 2020 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Martin: Wesleyan raised its illiquidity ceiling from 35% to 42% | Anne Martin | Dec 2, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Girotto: Institutional Farmland Ownership Is a Rounding Error in $2T Market | Jay Girotto | Oct 14, 2019 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Whineray: Agriculture remains early in lifecycle due to lack of scale | Matt Whineray | Sep 9, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | BlackRock LTPC targets $500M to $1.5B equity checks in 10-15 companies | André Bourbonnais | Jul 22, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Sicilia: Asset management fees should plateau rather than increase linearly | Sam Sicilia | Jul 1, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Russo: Philip Morris CEO expects $1 billion in savings from big data | Tom Russo | Mar 11, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Wolfe: Carlyle Co-Founder Bill Conway Seeded Lux Capital and Its Management Company | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Wolfe: Lux Capital manages under $1.5B and raises $400M every two years | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | No billion-dollar pan-Asian sports properties existed before ONE Championship | Chatri Sityodtong | Aug 21, 2017 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | ONE Championship broadcasts in 128 countries to one billion potential viewers | Chatri Sityodtong | Aug 21, 2017 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Sityodtong predicted ONE Championship would hit one billion views in 2017 | Chatri Sityodtong | Aug 21, 2017 | Held up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Ultra-wealthy individuals are infuriated when they cannot control the media | Kip McDaniel | Aug 7, 2017 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Returning a $500M VC Fund Requires Generating $15B in Enterprise Value | Chris Douvos | Jul 3, 2017 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Narragansett Beer's revenue grew from $87,000 to $15 million under new ownership | Steve Galbraith | Apr 13, 2017 | Supported |
| 900M | “an eight hundred million” | Zandiyeh: ZoodPay founder previously built an $800M business and sold one for $100M | Kiyan Zandiyeh | May 25, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Felicis Ventures grew from a $41M fund to a $900M fund family | Aydin Senkut | Feb 7, 2022 | — |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Renewable Resources Group raised $900M for Sustainable Water Impact Fund | Manny Citron | Jun 18, 2020 | Partly supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Sub-scale hedge funds cannot compete with large platforms on alternative data | Matthew Granade | Aug 3, 2020 | — |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Moodgal: Raised $800M Over a Single Weekend for TCI's Visa Bet | Rahul Moodgal | Feb 18, 2019 | — |
| 700M | “a six hundred million” | Amy Falls: Firing one-third of Andover's fund managers boosted endowment performance | Amy Falls | May 22, 2023 | — |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Some leagues require funds to dedicate $500M to $700M for ownership | Ian Charles | Dec 6, 2021 | Supported |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Ginns: Total Collateral Locked in DeFi Grew from Under $700M to ~$40B | Seth Ginns | Mar 15, 2021 | Supported |
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