| 700M | “a six hundred million” | Lawrence: Taekwang Industrial depreciated a $600M facility in three years | Richard Lawrence | Jun 25, 2020 | Supported |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Florida SBA Must Fund $700 Million in Negative Monthly Cash Flow | Ash Williams | Jul 8, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 700M | “Seven hundred million” | Kuhn: Immigration proposal raises $70B annually, funding asylum courts with 1% | Steve Kuhn | Feb 4, 2019 | — |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Billion-dollar allocator mandates structurally exclude hiring sub-billion AUM asset managers | Wayne Wicker | Mar 19, 2018 | — |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Mega-Endowments Simply Cannot Deploy Massive Checks Into the Vietnamese Market | Bruce MacDonald | Apr 6, 2026 | — |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Sullivan: A $5B fund at 15% pays far more carry than $500M at 30% | Tim Sullivan | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Venture capital capacity limits restrict large public pension allocations | Jace Auby | Sep 9, 2024 | — |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Southeast Asia had only $200M in annual VC when Zalora launched | Magnus Grimeland | Feb 15, 2024 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Rees: Dyal has completed 19 of 22 GP stake deals over $600M | Michael Rees | Oct 31, 2022 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Xu: Capital Today's portfolio generated $2.3B by holding past early exits | Kathy Xu | Mar 28, 2022 | — |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Xu: China will reach 600 million middle-class consumers in 5-10 years | Kathy Xu | Mar 28, 2022 | Open |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Blackstone sold a 20% stake to Nikko in 1988 for $500M | Wylie Fernyhough | Aug 13, 2021 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Morgon: Eurazeo balance sheet grew to 8B and manages $30B total | Virginie Morgon | Jul 19, 2021 | Supported |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Ginns: Crypto projects can reach $500M-$1B liquid value within six months | Seth Ginns | Mar 15, 2021 | — |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Martin: Wesleyan's $200M debt prevented endowment from matching Yale's illiquidity | Anne Martin | Dec 2, 2019 | — |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Sityodtong's $100M focus fund at Azara returned 90% in one year | Chatri Sityodtong | Aug 21, 2017 | — |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Sityodtong predicted ONE Championship would hit one billion views in 2017 | Chatri Sityodtong | Aug 21, 2017 | Held up |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Forman: Polymarket Drives $500M to $1B Monthly Volume Across 75K Wallets | Ben Forman | Apr 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 500M | “a four hundred million” | Unitranche deal sizes grew from $300M in 2016 to multi-billion today | Tim Lyne | Oct 26, 2023 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Jackson: Mercer includes 80 sub-$2B and over 24 sub-$500M hedge funds | John Jackson | Oct 23, 2023 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Lasry: Cowen distressed group posted 70% and 60% consecutive annual returns | Marc Lasry | May 15, 2023 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Full-Fee LPs Subsidize Large Institutional Investors Taking Free Co-Investments | Charles Van Vleet | Nov 28, 2022 | — |
| 500M | “Five hundred million” | Van Vleet: Large co-invest capacity drags mid-market GPs into unnatural deals | Charles Van Vleet | Nov 28, 2022 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Van Vleet: $8B to $10B is the optimal pension fund size | Charles Van Vleet | Nov 28, 2022 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Lippmann: Running structured credit properly is impossible under $500M AUM | Greg Lippmann | Sep 12, 2022 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Kayden: Fund size outgrowing opportunity is top reason Accolade passes on re-ups | Joelle Kayden | Feb 14, 2022 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Brolin: Edenbrook caps raised institutional capital at $500M | John Brolin | Oct 7, 2021 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Thoma Bravo Targets Market-Leading Software Companies With $500M to $1B ARR | Orlando Bravo | Aug 2, 2021 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Few Direct Lenders Could Hold $500M Loans When Owl Rock Launched | Doug Ostrover | Jul 26, 2021 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Morgon: Eurazeo balance sheet grew to 8B and manages $30B total | Virginie Morgon | Jul 19, 2021 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Eurazeo check sizes range from $10M–$15M in VC to $400M–$500M in buyouts | Virginie Morgon | Jul 19, 2021 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | A $2.6B endowment size uniquely enables optimal $20M to $50M manager allocations | Doug Phillips | Feb 24, 2020 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Tobacco Divestiture Cost Florida $500 Million and California Billions | Ash Williams | Jul 8, 2019 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Sicilia: Asset management fees should plateau rather than increase linearly | Sam Sicilia | Jul 1, 2019 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Kuhn predicts Kindred Biosciences will be acquired for over $500M | Steve Kuhn | Feb 4, 2019 | Partly held up |
| 450M | “four hundred fifty million” | Tepper: Prevatt manages nearly $450M with five people and won't add staff | Jonathan Tepper | Mar 18, 2024 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Multi-managers are raising day-one external SMA tickets to $400 million | Derek Drummond | May 11, 2026 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Arndt: Future Fund's 7-8 person PE team writes $300M-$400M checks | Raphael Arndt | Sep 1, 2025 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Dietrich Foundation received $1.4B in private distributions over ten years | Ed Grefenstette | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Zandiyeh: Bangladesh and Pakistan have a higher GDP per capita than India | Kiyan Zandiyeh | May 25, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Xu: Capital Today turned a $30M Yifeng Pharmacy investment into $400M | Kathy Xu | Mar 28, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Garfinkel: Many Healthcare Startup Exits Occur Between $200M and $400M | Jan Garfinkel | Sep 2, 2021 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Robertson: Oxford's central endowment was only £400M before OUEM was established | Sandra Robertson | Apr 13, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 400M | “400 Million” | Whineray: Excess returns in mid-market private equity have compressed | Matt Whineray | Sep 9, 2019 | — |
| 300M | “a two hundred million” | Sullivan: Yale's VC managers rapidly grew from $200M to $1B funds | Tim Sullivan | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “Three hundred million” | Tannenbaum: 300M Indians are entering the lower middle class | Dan Tannenbaum | May 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Thomas H. Lee invested in BAM when it had $300M AUM | Dmitry Balyasny | Oct 2, 2023 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | McKeon: 300 million people have crypto exchange accounts globally | Stephen McKeon | Jun 16, 2022 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | McKeon: Web3 mainstream adoption will be driven by utility over trading | Stephen McKeon | Jun 16, 2022 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Grinda: Schibsted spent $300M in Brazil on TV ads against OLX | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Grinda: Compounding 1% multivariate testing gains creates game-changing scale | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Whineray: NZ Super Fund is managing a new 300M venture mandate | Matt Whineray | Sep 9, 2019 | Supported |
| 230M | “two hundred thirty million” | Vista directly funded Rocket Lawyer with $230 million in senior debt | Robert F. Smith | Jul 5, 2021 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Sub-$200M Venture Funds Offer Asymmetric Outcomes That Established Mega-Funds Cannot Match | Bruce MacDonald | Apr 6, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Kleinman: Private equity cannot scale like credit due to concentrated dealmaking | Scott Kleinman | Jan 19, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Sub-$200M Businesses Reliant on Cheap Bank Debt Risk Rapid Insolvency | Josh Kopowitz | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Venture capital capacity limits restrict large public pension allocations | Jace Auby | Sep 9, 2024 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Grinda: Zingy scaled revenue from $1M to $200M in three years | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Kaluzny: Staples generated up to 80% of its profits from B2B logistics | Stefan Kaluzny | Oct 21, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Kaluzny: Staples' US retail stores matched their 2017 profitability in 2021 | Stefan Kaluzny | Oct 21, 2021 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Marshall Wace seeded its TOPS strategy with $200M from the Eureka fund | Sir Paul Marshall | Sep 21, 2020 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Lawrence: China Yangtze Power made $5B cash flow with under $200M capex | Richard Lawrence | Jun 25, 2020 | Supported |
| 165M | “hundred sixty-five million” | Xu: Capital Today deployed $165M across five rounds in Xingsheng | Kathy Xu | Mar 28, 2022 | — |
| 150M | “one hundred fifty million” | University of Illinois Foundation retains its $150M portfolio of gifted farms | Ellen Ellison | Oct 2, 2017 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Kleinman: Private equity cannot scale like credit due to concentrated dealmaking | Scott Kleinman | Jan 19, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Monk: Large funds need technologists and data infrastructure experts on boards | Ashby Monk | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Ripley: 1-to-1 co-invest offers to emerging managers merely seek 50% fee cuts | Jay Ripley | Nov 10, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Housel: Net worth above $100M does not meaningfully change lifestyle | Morgan Housel | Oct 20, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Sullivan: Parachuting former Fortune 500 CEOs into small buyout boards fails | Tim Sullivan | Jul 14, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | DeFi Technologies stock surged from $0.51 to over $3.30 after Reflexivity acquisition | Anthony Pompliano | Feb 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Morehead: Baylor allocates between $250k and $100M across individual managers | David Morehead | Apr 22, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Biscardi: Funds should only meet allocators managing at least $100M AUM | Ron Biscardi | Feb 8, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | $100M EBITDA deals are now likely financed through private credit, not syndicated | Tim Lyne | Oct 26, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Zandiyeh: ZoodPay founder previously built an $800M business and sold one for $100M | Kiyan Zandiyeh | May 25, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Monk: Major pension funds spend $30M to $100M annually on tech | Ashby Monk | May 1, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Steyer: Only 10% of DRC's 100 million people have access to electricity | Tom Steyer | Mar 6, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Thomas: There are about 95,000 US companies with $5M–$100M in revenue | Shundrawn Thomas | Jan 23, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Scaramucci passed on Uber at a $50M to $100M valuation | Anthony Scaramucci | Jan 16, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Magic Eden had a $100M revenue run rate when Electric Capital invested | Avichal Garg | Aug 4, 2022 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Veremis: Scaling past $1B fundamentally changes crypto venture fund dynamics | Marcos Veremis | Jun 13, 2022 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Sethi: Early Facebook apps reached 100M monthly active uniques in one year | Arjun Sethi | Mar 14, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Sethi: Tribe's First Look program drove over $100M in portfolio revenue | Arjun Sethi | Mar 14, 2022 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Sethi: Tribe Capital concentrates funds into 7 to 12 portfolio companies | Arjun Sethi | Mar 14, 2022 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Oak HC/FT companies accounted for 30% of $100M+ sector rounds in 2021 | Annie Lamont | Mar 7, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Screen Door targets 10% fund stakes with a $55M initial vehicle | Satya Patel | Nov 4, 2021 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Tian: Reaching 100 million users is far easier in China, accelerating disruption. | Mike Tian | Sep 6, 2021 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Ginns: NBA Top Shot generated $100M revenue in first 4-5 months | Seth Ginns | Mar 15, 2021 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | WashU requires a $100M minimum position size to reflect genuine conviction | Scott Wilson | Oct 5, 2020 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Chamath: Social Capital targets acquiring or building 1-2 companies annually | Chamath Palihapitiya | Dec 7, 2020 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Mega private equity funds cannot write $10M checks, requiring $200M minimums | Reuben Munger | Jul 6, 2020 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Institutional asset managers never win mandates from SEO search queries | Kip McDaniel | Dec 9, 2019 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Multi-manager platforms like Millennium have massive advantage in recruiting talent | Steve Kuhn | Feb 4, 2019 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | VC investors blocked a multi-hundred-million-dollar buyout offer for Urban Fetch | Andrew Tsai | Oct 22, 2018 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Williamson: Managers fear portfolio transparency when allocators invest directly | Sarah Williamson | Sep 3, 2018 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lux Capital passed on Cruise at $80M pre before GM's $1B acquisition | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Sityodtong's $100M focus fund at Azara returned 90% in one year | Chatri Sityodtong | Aug 21, 2017 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | ONE Championship raised $100M from Sequoia and Temasek's Heliconia | Chatri Sityodtong | Aug 21, 2017 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Asset manager threatened a $100M defamation lawsuit over an investigative story | Kip McDaniel | Aug 7, 2017 | — |
| 90M | “ninety million” | Sacerdote: Amazon had 2M users when 90M people were online | Alex Sacerdote | Dec 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Xu: Five of seven NetEase board members voted to sell for $80M | Kathy Xu | Mar 28, 2022 | — |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Lux Capital passed on Cruise at $80M pre before GM's $1B acquisition | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | — |
| 75M | “seventy-five million” | Tannenbaum: Domestic Capital and 75M Mutual Fund Accounts Fuel Indian Market | Dan Tannenbaum | May 23, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 75M | “seventy five million” | Trivedi: Footwork closed debut venture fund at $175M in April 2021 | Nikhil Basu Trivedi | Sep 23, 2021 | Supported |
| 75M | “seventy-five million” | Bill Belichick is worth at least 10% of an NFL salary cap | Michael Lombardi | Nov 12, 2018 | — |
| 72M | “seventy two million” | Tremblant Capital Managed $72 Million in AUM by August 2001 | Brett Barakett | May 20, 2024 | — |
| 71M | “a seventy million” | Galbraith: Buffett turned a $5M TV station investment into a 10-bagger at Grinnell | Steve Galbraith | Apr 16, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Bill Dietrich funded The Dietrich Foundation with $170M in 1997 | Ed Grefenstette | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Zandiyeh: Bangladesh has 170M people, 8th largest smartphone base, only 2 VCs | Kiyan Zandiyeh | May 25, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Xu: Five of seven NetEase board members voted to sell for $80M | Kathy Xu | Mar 28, 2022 | — |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Overlook bought Kingboard at 2.5x and Café de Coral at 6x P/E | Richard Lawrence | Aug 14, 2017 | — |
| 61M | “a sixty million” | Amazon's final private round valuation was just $60 million | Michael Carmen | Aug 10, 2023 | Supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Perelman: Deborah Derby grew portfolio earnings from $60M to $150M before exit | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Dietrich Foundation's China portfolio generated $160M in excess liquidity | Ed Grefenstette | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Forman: Yale acquired full ownership of 717 Fifth Avenue for $60M total basis | Alan Forman | Sep 25, 2023 | Supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Warren Buffett structured Rodriguez's $30M Yankees milestone home run bonus deal | Alex Rodriguez | Jun 7, 2021 | Supported |
| 55M | “fifty five million” | Screen Door targets 10% fund stakes with a $55M initial vehicle | Satya Patel | Nov 4, 2021 | — |
| 52M | “fifty two million” | Big League Advance raised a $130M Fund II at 3-and-30 fees | Michael Schwimer | Sep 16, 2019 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Green: Lead Edge Fund I allocated 25% to Alibaba at $12B valuation | Mitchell Green | Jan 27, 2025 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Lenders See No Pricing Delta Between $50M and $250M EBITDA Borrowers | Kipp deVeer | Jul 24, 2023 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Flexible external mandates require around $200 million check sizes | Matt Whineray | Sep 9, 2019 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Perelman: Deborah Derby grew portfolio earnings from $60M to $150M before exit | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Comegys: Vanguard Owns Average of 8% of Free-Floated U.S. Companies | Rodney Comegys | Apr 20, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Top 20% of Private Credit Firms Dominate 80% of the Market | Josh Kopowitz | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Yale's Initial Prospect Fellowship Cohort Comprises 30 to 60 Basis Points | Ted Seides | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | $50M Commitment Is Subscale for New PE, Real Estate, and Hedge Funds | Ted Seides | Oct 25, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Maples: A $150M fund only needs one top-20 startup every couple years | Mike Maples, Jr. | Sep 16, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Schwartz: 3G paid $4B for Burger King at $450M EBITDA | Daniel Schwartz | May 6, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “Fifty million” | Dixon: 50 million Americans own crypto | Chris Dixon | Apr 15, 2024 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Ares Managed $3B in CLOs With Just 65 Employees in 2004 | Kipp deVeer | Jul 24, 2023 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Lenders See No Pricing Delta Between $50M and $250M EBITDA Borrowers | Kipp deVeer | Jul 24, 2023 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | NewView primarily targets software companies with $10M to $50M in ARR | Ravi Viswanathan | Jul 13, 2023 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Sacca: Speedera rejected $950M buyout before raising at $30M valuation | Chris Sacca | Jun 12, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Lasry: Cowen distressed group posted 70% and 60% consecutive annual returns | Marc Lasry | May 15, 2023 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Stavros: KKR wrote a $250M equity check for C.H.I. Overhead Doors | Pete Stavros | Sep 15, 2022 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Zell's most successful deal was one where he lost $50 million | Sam Zell | Jun 6, 2022 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Wolfe: Lux Plans $20M–$25M Target for African Startup Investments in 2022 | Josh Wolfe | Feb 21, 2022 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Pension board governance forces allocators to write bigger checks to mega-funds | Christopher Zook | Dec 13, 2021 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Grinda: Zingy scaled revenue from $1M to $200M in three years | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | Contradicted |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Grinda: Schibsted spent $300M in Brazil on TV ads against OLX | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 50M | “50 million” | Nubank Has 50M Customers and a $45B Valuation | Florian Bartunek | Jan 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Volent prefers investing in venture capital firms raising $250M to $350M | Paula Volent | Oct 25, 2021 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Sycamore Partners achieved a 16x return on its $250M Hot Topic buyout | Stefan Kaluzny | Oct 21, 2021 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Morgon: Eurazeo Grew Small-Cap Strategy 10x with 100% Retention | Virginie Morgon | Jul 19, 2021 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Social Capital emerging managers receive 30% carry with no hurdle under $50M | Chamath Palihapitiya | Dec 7, 2020 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | A $2.6B endowment size uniquely enables optimal $20M to $50M manager allocations | Doug Phillips | Feb 24, 2020 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Grade Inflation Shifted Historic Series A Rounds Into Seed Rounds | Scott Kupor | Sep 2, 2019 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Bushey: Fund business risk stems from misaligned capital, not AUM size | Tom Bushey | Dec 3, 2018 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Schorr: Early-stage Vice Cream is managed like a $50M business | Dan Schorr | Jul 31, 2017 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Winning Championship promotion playoff was worth around £150M to Derby County | Steve Galbraith | Apr 13, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 48M | “forty eight million” | US middle market represents 75% of bankruptcies and restructurings | Andrew Milgram | Apr 21, 2022 | Supported |
| 47M | “forty-seven million” | Forman: Yale acquired full ownership of 717 Fifth Avenue for $60M total basis | Alan Forman | Sep 25, 2023 | Supported |
| 46M | “a forty-five million” | Xu: Wahaha sought $45M in 1995 for three concurrent production lines | Kathy Xu | Mar 28, 2022 | Supported |
| 45M | “forty-five million” | Sam Bankman-Fried paid $45M for 30% of SkyBridge with an 85% option | Anthony Scaramucci | Jan 16, 2023 | — |
| 41M | “forty one million” | Felicis Ventures grew from a $41M fund to a $900M fund family | Aydin Senkut | Feb 7, 2022 | — |
| 41M | “a forty million” | Lux Capital passed on Cruise at $80M pre before GM's $1B acquisition | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Veremis: Crypto Regulatory Risk Is No Longer Systemic | Marcos Veremis | Jun 13, 2022 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Libby: Upper90 Scaled Crusoe Energy Credit Facility to $40 Million | Billy Libby | May 23, 2022 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Lux-backed Kurion handled Fukushima cleanup and sold to Veolia for $400M | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | Supported |
| 40M | “40 million” | Overlook's portfolio dropped from $120M to $40M during the Asian Financial Crisis | Richard Lawrence | Aug 14, 2017 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Overlook bought Kingboard at 2.5x and Café de Coral at 6x P/E | Richard Lawrence | Aug 14, 2017 | — |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Sacca: Speedera rejected $950M buyout before raising at $30M valuation | Chris Sacca | Jun 12, 2023 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Grinda: QXL Ricardo market cap crashed from $10B to $30M after Aucland sale | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | A massive growth fund outbid 8VC by 60% on a Series B | Joe Lonsdale | Sep 30, 2019 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Philpot: 30 million timberland acres changed hands in southeast US across 1990s-2000s | Brian Philpot | Feb 9, 2023 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | DeMeireles: Scaling mega-funds vacated the $10M to $30M growth check market | Marco De Morales | Sep 1, 2022 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Xu: Capital Today turned a $30M Yifeng Pharmacy investment into $400M | Kathy Xu | Mar 28, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Vanguard secures sovereign-scale private equity terms for small investors | Fran Kinniry | Jan 18, 2021 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Big League Advance raised a $130M Fund II at 3-and-30 fees | Michael Schwimer | Sep 16, 2019 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Biscardi: Context Capital averages $20M to $30M per hedge fund seed deal | Ron Biscardi | Jan 21, 2019 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Scaramucci: SkyBridge lost seeding investments in seven of eight managers in 2008 | Anthony Scaramucci | Jul 9, 2018 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Overlook bought Kingboard at 2.5x and Café de Coral at 6x P/E | Richard Lawrence | Aug 14, 2017 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | McDaniel: Harvard endowment paid bond managers $30M each in 2004 | Kip McDaniel | Aug 7, 2017 | Supported |
| 27M | “two twenty-five million” | O'Sullivan: SOSV secured two $25M state sponsorships in NY and NJ | Sean O'Sullivan | Jan 17, 2022 | — |
| 26M | “a twenty-five million” | Douvos: University deep tech works with small exits if ownership math is right | Chris Douvos | Feb 27, 2023 | — |
| 26M | “a twenty five million” | Libby: Founders can multiply QSBS tax exemptions to $25M using trusts | Billy Libby | May 23, 2022 | — |
| 26M | “a twenty-five million” | Hamed: Crossbeam's $25M Fund I deployed capital too quickly | Ali Hamed | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 26M | “a twenty-five million” | O'Sullivan: SOSV secured two $25M state sponsorships in NY and NJ | Sean O'Sullivan | Jan 17, 2022 | — |
| 26M | “twenty six million” | Big League Advance raised a $130M Fund II at 3-and-30 fees | Michael Schwimer | Sep 16, 2019 | — |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Sloane: GSP auto services platform grew from under $5M to $25M EBITDA | Alex Sloane | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 25M | “twenty five million” | Fink: SWIB offered $25M top-ups to close PE funds for better terms | Anne-Marie Fink | Jun 3, 2024 | — |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Milken: Annual births in China fell 60% to under 10 million | Michael Milken | Feb 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Stavros: KKR raised preemptive C.H.I. bid four times to $680M | Pete Stavros | Sep 15, 2022 | — |
| 25M | “twenty five million” | Kwatra rejected half of a $50M anchor offer due to market volatility | Rashmi Kwatra | Oct 28, 2021 | — |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Mauzé: VMG's $325M debut fund was the largest first-time consumer fund | Mike Mauze | Mar 2, 2020 | Supported |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Clarkson: Sapphire commits $100M-$125M annually to VC funds via $10M-$15M checks | Beezer Clarkson | Jan 20, 2020 | — |
| 25M | “twenty five million” | Big League Advance Videotapes Contract Signings With 20-Question Comprehension Checks | Michael Schwimer | Oct 15, 2018 | — |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Lux Capital targets 25 to 30 core positions of $15M-$25M per fund | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | — |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Perelman: Authentic Restaurant Brands Grew From $20M Equity to Multi-Billion Valuation | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Chabran: Tikehau's First Deal Was a €20M Paris Flea Market Acquisition | Mathieu Chabran | Oct 12, 2020 | — |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Lux Capital passed on Cruise at $80M pre before GM's $1B acquisition | Josh Wolfe | Aug 20, 2018 | — |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Carnegie's $10M Peruvian fund commitment highlights scale advantage over Yale | Kim Lew | May 14, 2018 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Perelman: Debt markets are far friendlier to $15M-$20M EBITDA consolidations | Matt Perelman | Apr 27, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Ou: Klaviyo consumed less than $20M in venture capital over its lifespan | Bruce Ou | Oct 30, 2023 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Sacca: Lowercarbon Portfolio Company Reached $120M Run Rate with 60% Margins | Chris Sacca | Jun 12, 2023 | — |
| 20M | “Twenty million” | Full-Fee LPs Subsidize Large Institutional Investors Taking Free Co-Investments | Charles Van Vleet | Nov 28, 2022 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Forman: Nexus Mutual holds $400M capital pool with $20M annual premiums | Ben Forman | Jun 20, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Sethi: MessageMe peaked at 15 to 20 million monthly active users | Arjun Sethi | Mar 14, 2022 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Hamed: $10M to $20M EBITDA is the worst zone for Amazon sellers | Ali Hamed | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Grinda: Compounding 1% multivariate testing gains creates game-changing scale | Fabrice Grinda | Jan 24, 2022 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Mauzé: KIND Snacks Was a Sub-$20M Brand When VMG Invested | Mike Mauze | Mar 2, 2020 | Supported |
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