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Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 68 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

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Figure	As spoken	The claim	Who	When	Checked?
1.9T	“1.9 trillion”	Collison: Stripe reached $1.9T in volume in 2025, up 34%	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
1.4T	“1.4 trillion”	Stripe processes $1.4 trillion in 2024 payment volume, up 38%	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
1T	“a trillion”	Over one trillion selfies are captured on Snapchat annually	Evan Spiegel	Apr 27, 2026	Supported
1T	“a trillion”	Depledge: UK Has 44,000 Scale-Ups Generating Over £1 Trillion Output	Alex Depledge	Nov 28, 2025	Supported
100B	“hundred billion”	Vogt: Next $100B company founded in 2025-2026 will have under 100 people	Kyle Vogt	Jun 25, 2025	Open
80B	“eighty billion”	Pichai: Google scaled capital expenditures from $30 billion to $180 billion	Sundar Pichai	Apr 7, 2026	Supported
61B	“a sixty billion”	Lütke: The warehouse wooden pallet industry generates $60 billion annually	Tobi Lütke	Oct 6, 2025	Supported
30B	“thirty billion”	Pichai: Google scaled capital expenditures from $30 billion to $180 billion	Sundar Pichai	Apr 7, 2026	Supported
25B	“twenty-five billion”	Narayan: US leaders praised UK's £25B AI package while UK founders stayed quiet	Kanishka Narayan	Nov 28, 2025	—
25B	“twenty-five billion”	Narayan: UK secured £25 billion in Welsh infrastructure deals	Kanishka Narayan	Nov 28, 2025	Partly supported
15B	“fifteen billion”	Langley: Flock Safety has a $5B-$15B domestic US revenue opportunity	Garrett Langley	Mar 5, 2026	—
11B	“eleven billion”	Staniszewski: ElevenLabs raised $500M at an $11B valuation	Mati Staniszewski	Apr 14, 2026	—
11B	“a ten billion”	Taylor: Overly lean startups risk losing to slightly larger, well-staffed competitors	Bret Taylor	Mar 10, 2026	—
10.4B	“10.4 billion”	Mansour: Kalshi logged $10.4B in trading volume in February	Tarek Mansour	Mar 17, 2026	Supported
5B	“five billion”	Sundheim: A $30B fund cannot practically short $5B companies	Dan Sundheim	Oct 22, 2025	—
4B	“four billion”	Ricks: Developing a drug costs $4B, with over 60% spent in Phase 3	Dave Ricks	Nov 11, 2025	—
2.5B	“a half a billion”	Staniszewski: ElevenLabs raised $500M at an $11B valuation	Mati Staniszewski	Apr 14, 2026	—
2.5B	“a half a billion”	Collison: India's largest generic manufacturer paid a $500M fraud fine	Patrick Collison	Nov 11, 2025	Supported
2.5B	“a half a billion”	Narayan: UK Launched £500M Venture Unit and Novel Chip Market Commitment	Kanishka Narayan	Nov 28, 2025	Supported
2B	“two billion”	Scaringe: Amazon invested approximately $2B in Rivian prior to its IPO	RJ Scaringe	Oct 14, 2025	—
1B	“a billion”	Snap is about to reach one billion monthly active users	Evan Spiegel	Apr 27, 2026	Open
1B	“a billion”	Snapchat+ has reached 25 million subscribers and a $1 billion run rate	Evan Spiegel	Apr 27, 2026	Supported
1B	“a billion”	Glyman: Ramp surpassed $1 billion in annual revenue in six years	Eric Glyman	Feb 17, 2026	—
1B	“a billion”	Nadella: AI infrastructure has immediate demand unlike dot-com dark fiber	Satya Nadella	Nov 18, 2025	—
1B	“a billion”	Collison: Agents will likely drive most internet transactions soon	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
1B	“a billion”	Depledge: UK healthtech moves to US due to NHS procurement friction	Alex Depledge	Nov 28, 2025	—
600M	“a five hundred million”	Pope: MatX raised a $500M Series B co-led by Jane Street	Reiner Pope	Feb 26, 2026	—
600M	“a five hundred million”	Stripe's revenue and finance automation suite reaches $500M run rate	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
500M	“five hundred million”	Langley: Flock Safety reached $500M in ARR in seven years	Garrett Langley	Mar 5, 2026	—
200M	“two hundred million”	Collison: Stripe Link is used by over 200M people	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
200M	“two hundred million”	Stripe Billing manages nearly 200 million active subscriptions across 300K companies	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
100M	“a hundred million”	Staniszewski: ElevenLabs added $100M net new ARR in one quarter	Mati Staniszewski	Apr 14, 2026	—
100M	“a hundred million”	Xu: DoorDash has over 100M annual and tens of millions of monthly customers	Tony Xu	Apr 21, 2026	Supported
100M	“a hundred million”	Glyman: Ramp software business reached $100M ARR in two years	Eric Glyman	Feb 17, 2026	—
100M	“a hundred million”	Rampell: Legal SaaS Vlex scaled from $20M to $100M in one year	Alex Rampell	Feb 17, 2026	Contradicted
100M	“a hundred million”	Narayan: UK structuring £100M AMC program aligned with staged VC financing	Kanishka Narayan	Nov 28, 2025	—
70M	“seventy million”	Collison: Gamma's Indian revenue jumped 22% after adding UPI payments	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
50M	“fifty million”	Andreessen: The 1999 Total Internet Market Was at Most 50 Million People	Marc Andreessen	Oct 1, 2025	Contradicted
40M	“forty million”	Pichai: 40 million Americans will soon have Wing drone delivery access	Sundar Pichai	Apr 7, 2026	Open
40M	“forty million”	Langley: Flock Scaled First $20M–$40M ARR Solely Through Local TV News	Garrett Langley	Mar 5, 2026	—
40M	“forty million”	Collison: Stablecoin volumes doubled year-over-year as active wallets hit 40M	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	Supported
25M	“twenty-five million”	Snapchat+ has reached 25 million subscribers and a $1 billion run rate	Evan Spiegel	Apr 27, 2026	Supported
21M	“a twenty million”	Rampell: Legal SaaS Vlex scaled from $20M to $100M in one year	Alex Rampell	Feb 17, 2026	Contradicted
20M	“20 million”	Lütke: Shopify has 20M lines of Ruby and 8-10M lines of TypeScript	Tobi Lütke	Oct 6, 2025	—
20M	“twenty million”	Collison: Lovable hit $17M ARR in 3 months, Bolt $20M ARR in 2 months	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	Supported
15M	“fifteen million”	Handmer: California needs 14-15M additional acre-feet of water to meet demand	Casey Handmer	Oct 28, 2025	—
10M	“ten million”	Collison: Stripe acquired Privy and Metronome	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
10M	“ten million”	Collison: Startups reaching $10M ARR in 3 months doubled in Stripe's 2025 cohort	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
7M	“seven million”	Xu: China has over 7M restaurants versus 1M in the US	Tony Xu	Apr 21, 2026	Supported
5M	“five million”	Collison: Stripe powers over 5M businesses, 90% of Dow Jones	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
5M	“Five million”	Spending $20 billion on desalination could double the Colorado River flow	Casey Handmer	Oct 28, 2025	—
4M	“four million”	Waymo runs 3,000 cars delivering 500k rides and 4M miles weekly	Dmitri Dolgov	Mar 24, 2026	Supported
2M	“two million”	AI software generation overcomes the Apple App Store lock-in moat	Evan Spiegel	Apr 27, 2026	—
1.5M	“half a million”	Waymo runs 3,000 cars delivering 500k rides and 4M miles weekly	Dmitri Dolgov	Mar 24, 2026	Supported
1M	“a million”	Xu: Dozens of Chinese cities match or exceed Manhattan's population density	Tony Xu	Apr 21, 2026	Partly supported
1M	“a million”	Xu: China has over 7M restaurants versus 1M in the US	Tony Xu	Apr 21, 2026	Supported
1M	“one million”	AI software generation overcomes the Apple App Store lock-in moat	Evan Spiegel	Apr 27, 2026	—
1M	“a million”	DeWahl: Uranium is a million times as energy dense as coal	Julia DeWahl	Nov 25, 2025	Supported
1M	“a million”	Collison: Agents will likely drive most internet transactions soon	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	—
1M	“one million”	Collison: Stripe Press has surpassed one million books sold	John Collison	Feb 24, 2026	Supported
1M	“a million”	Langley: Flock Safety cleared over one million US crimes last year	Garrett Langley	Mar 5, 2026	—
1M	“a million”	Andreessen: AI is computing's first fundamental architecture change in 80 years	Marc Andreessen	Oct 1, 2025	—
1K	“a thousand”	Taylor: Generalist product engineers using AI are worth 1,000x other engineers	Bret Taylor	Mar 10, 2026	—
1K	“a thousand”	Pope: Chip tape-outs cost $30M and fail 50% of the time	Reiner Pope	Feb 26, 2026	Partly supported
1K	“a thousand”	Ben Thompson: Stratechery hit a $100k run rate in six months	Ben Thompson	Feb 12, 2026	—
1K	“a thousand”	Langley: Flock Safety helped clear over 1,000 Amber and Silver Alerts	Garrett Langley	Mar 5, 2026	Not publicly verifiable
1K	“a thousand”	Abrams: There will not be separate company blockchains for Stripe or JPMorgan	Zach Abrams	Nov 4, 2025	—
1K	“a thousand”	Andreessen: AI is computing's first fundamental architecture change in 80 years	Marc Andreessen	Oct 1, 2025	—

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