The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 17 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

All Dollars Multiples Percentages Big numbers

Figure	As spoken	The claim	Who	When	Checked?
100×	“hundred times”	Pope: Instruction control dominates CPU cost, unlike GPUs with large payloads	Reiner Pope	Feb 26, 2026	—
100×	“hundred times”	Stablecoins will grow 100x from their current scale, predicts John Collison	John Collison	Nov 4, 2025	—
100×	“hundred times”	Synthetic fuel production is 100 times more land-efficient than biological photosynthesis	Casey Handmer	Oct 28, 2025	Supported
15×	“15 times”	Lütke predicts Shopify's internal workflow system becomes a standard software category	Tobi Lütke	Oct 6, 2025	—
15×	“15 X”	Wu: Enterprises measure 8x to 15x productivity gains using Devin for migrations	Scott Wu	Aug 27, 2025	—
11×	“11 X”	Mansour: Kalshi's volume is up 11x over six months	Tarek Mansour	Mar 17, 2026	Supported
10×	“10 X”	Gil: AI Coding Supply Could Expand the Software Market 10x	Elad Gil	Apr 7, 2026	—
10×	“10 X”	Dolgov: Each additional nine of AV reliability requires 10x more effort	Dmitri Dolgov	Mar 24, 2026	—
10×	“10 times”	Langley: Flock lost a Mexican deal to Hikvision after pricing 10x higher	Garrett Langley	Mar 5, 2026	—
10×	“10 times”	The laws of physics allow solar panels to become 10 times cheaper	Casey Handmer	Oct 28, 2025	—
10×	“10 times”	Vogt: Each nine of reliability takes 10x more engineering work	Kyle Vogt	Jun 25, 2025	—
7×	“seven times”	Stripe-processed revenue is growing seven times faster than S&P 500	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
5×	“five times”	Lopes Lara: Kalshi fined two insider traders 5x their total profits	Luana Lopes Lara	Mar 17, 2026	Partly supported
5×	“five times”	Handmer: Taxing aviation fuel is regressive and hurts marginal travelers	Casey Handmer	Oct 28, 2025	—
4×	“four times”	Scaringe: China has 3.5 to 4 times higher EV adoption than the US	RJ Scaringe	Oct 14, 2025	Supported
3×	“three times”	Iqbal: US celebrates failed founders while UK press brings doom and gloom	Merva Iqbal	Nov 28, 2025	—
2×	“two x”	Sundheim: GE Vernova trades at 2x Siemens Energy's enterprise value	Dan Sundheim	Oct 22, 2025	Supported

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