| 80% | “80%” | Dell: 80% of Texas electricity market is deregulated, 20% regulated | Zach Dell | Sep 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Dell: 80% of Texas electricity market is deregulated, 20% regulated | Zach Dell | Sep 6, 2026 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Dell: US electricity demand CAGR will jump 5x to 10% | Zach Dell | Sep 6, 2026 | Open |
| 10% | “10%” | Dell: US electricity demand CAGR will jump 5x to 10% | Zach Dell | Sep 6, 2026 | Open |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Leone saw a startup with no product try to raise at $10B | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | — |
| 21B | “a twenty billion” | Sequoia's investment in SpaceX has a shot at a $20B gain | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Sequoia historically owned 20% of Nvidia and 10% of Google | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Sequoia historically owned 20% of Nvidia and 10% of Google | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Leone: Startups are in trouble if founders rely on VCs for product | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Leone: 70% of Sequoia Capital comes from nonprofits and charities | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | — |
| 90M | “ninety million” | Sequoia sold its 25% stake in Cisco for only a $90M gain | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Leone estimates that only 20% to 30% of VCs are competent | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Leone estimates that only 20% to 30% of VCs are competent | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Leone estimates that only 20% to 30% of VCs are competent | Doug Leone | Aug 30, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Reil: Daniel Ek invested €100M of personal money into Helsing | Torsten Reil | Aug 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Reil: 95% of company success comes from aggression and ambition | Torsten Reil | Aug 26, 2026 | — |
| 52B | “fifty two billion” | Reil: Germany's defense budget is growing to over †150B by 2029 | Torsten Reil | Aug 26, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 53B | “fifty three billion” | Reil: Germany's defense budget is growing to over †150B by 2029 | Torsten Reil | Aug 26, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Reil: Germany's defense budget is growing to over †150B by 2029 | Torsten Reil | Aug 26, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 2B | “a one billion” | Reil: Helsing closed a 1 billion framework contract in Germany | Torsten Reil | Aug 26, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “A billion” | Altman: ChatGPT has reached one billion users in under four years | Sam Altman | Aug 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Kalanick: Uber gave Baidu 7% equity to survive Chinese regulatory heat | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Kalanick: Uber gave Baidu 7% equity to survive Chinese regulatory heat | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Kalanick: Only 10% of VCs "do no harm," just 1% are helpful | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Kalanick: Only 10% of VCs "do no harm," just 1% are helpful | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Kalanick: Uber's peak fundraising involved five simultaneous rooms tiered by check size | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Kalanick: Uber's peak fundraising involved five simultaneous rooms tiered by check size | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Kalanick: Uber's peak fundraising involved five simultaneous rooms tiered by check size | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| 26M | “a twenty five million” | Kalanick: Uber's peak fundraising involved five simultaneous rooms tiered by check size | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Kalanick: Uber's peak fundraising involved five simultaneous rooms tiered by check size | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Kalanick: Automating a gold mine increases annual output by 20% | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Kalanick: US food supplier spends $3B yearly on forklift labor | Travis Kalanick | Aug 16, 2026 | — |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Ovitz: Matsushita Electric held an unheard-of $20 billion in 1980s liquidity | Michael Ovitz | Aug 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Malka: Lemon Bank scaled to 7,000 Brazil locations serving 15 million customers | Micky Malka | Aug 2, 2026 | Supported |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Zalaznick: Only expand into cities with multiple restaurants generating $20M+ annually | Jeff Zalaznick | Jul 19, 2026 | — |
| $7M | “seven million dollars” | Zalaznick: Carbone Miami generates $30M annually, quadrupling the prior tenant's revenue | Jeff Zalaznick | Jul 19, 2026 | — |
| $30M | “thirty million dollars” | Zalaznick: Carbone Miami generates $30M annually, quadrupling the prior tenant's revenue | Jeff Zalaznick | Jul 19, 2026 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Glyman: Ramp powers over 3% of US corporate card transactions | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Glyman: Ramp powers over 3% of US corporate card transactions | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Glyman: Typical business cuts expenses by over 5% with Ramp | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | — |
| 16% | “16%” | Glyman: Ramp customers grow revenue at 16% median annual rate | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | — |
| 4% | “four percent” | Glyman: Ramp customers grow revenue at 16% median annual rate | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Glyman: Top performers can now be 1,000x more effective with AI | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Glyman: Top performers can now be 1,000x more effective with AI | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Glyman: Top performers can now be 1,000x more effective with AI | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | — |
| $300B | “three hundred billion dollars” | Glyman: OpenAI and Anthropic will pass $300B combined revenue in a year | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | Open |
| 1% | “one percent” | Glyman: OpenAI and Anthropic will pass $300B combined revenue in a year | Eric Glyman | Jul 12, 2026 | Open |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Ross: Groq gave every employee a challenge coin targeting 25M tokens/sec | Jonathan Ross | Jul 5, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Ross: 80% of Groq employees took salary cuts to statutory minimums | Jonathan Ross | Jul 5, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Engineering teams using Devin ship software ten times faster | Scott Wu | Jun 28, 2026 | — |
| 4% | “four percent” | Devin scored 13 percent on SWE-bench against a 3 percent baseline | Scott Wu | Jun 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 13% | “13%” | Devin scored 13 percent on SWE-bench against a 3 percent baseline | Scott Wu | Jun 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 87% | “87%” | Devin scored 13 percent on SWE-bench against a 3 percent baseline | Scott Wu | Jun 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Cognition generates 75 to 80 percent of revenue from enterprise customers | Scott Wu | Jun 28, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Stoute: Left a multimillion-dollar salary at 29 for $150K agency role | Steve Stoute | Jun 21, 2026 | — |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | LeBron James rejected a $10M Reebok signing bonus in high school | Steve Stoute | Jun 21, 2026 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | LeBron James rejected a $10M Reebok signing bonus in high school | Steve Stoute | Jun 21, 2026 | Supported |
| 11M | “a ten million” | LeBron James rejected a $10M Reebok signing bonus in high school | Steve Stoute | Jun 21, 2026 | Supported |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Stoute: BigXthaPlug Made Over $20 Million on UnitedMasters This Year | Steve Stoute | Jun 21, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Senra: Russ is first person to solo-create a billion-stream album | David Senra | Jun 21, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Catmull: Subgroups felt treated as second class three times at Pixar | Ed Catmull | Jun 14, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Söderström: Spotify optimized for a single app experience despite backend complexity | Gustav Söderström | Jun 7, 2026 | — |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Söderström: Apple Podcasts held 98.5% market share before Spotify's entry | Gustav Söderström | Jun 7, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 90% | “90%” | Söderström: Gen Z users value nearly 90% of time spent on Spotify | Gustav Söderström | Jun 7, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Söderström: Internal surveys show users regret 60% of time on rival platforms | Gustav Söderström | Jun 7, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Söderström: Almost 70% of Spotify users work out with the app | Gustav Söderström | Jun 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Söderström: Almost 90% of Spotify revenue comes from subscriptions | Gustav Söderström | Jun 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Söderström: High third-party AI voice costs drove Spotify to acquire Sonantic | Gustav Söderström | Jun 7, 2026 | — |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Ivanka Trump says her former fashion brand topped $800M in annual sales | Ivanka Trump | May 31, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 40M | “Forty million” | Ivanka Trump says her Child Tax Credit push benefited 40 million families | Ivanka Trump | May 31, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Ivanka Trump: 40% of US produce is plowed under for cosmetic reasons | Ivanka Trump | May 31, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Chobani sources all yogurt fruit from Ivanka Trump's Planet Harvest venture | Ivanka Trump | May 31, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Ivanka Trump and Elad Gil's Project Alexandria will AI-translate 1,000 classics | Ivanka Trump | May 31, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Rubin: True editing requires drastically cutting past your target and adding back | Rick Rubin | May 24, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Rubin: True editing requires drastically cutting past your target and adding back | Rick Rubin | May 24, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Rubin: True editing requires drastically cutting past your target and adding back | Rick Rubin | May 24, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Rubin: True editing requires drastically cutting past your target and adding back | Rick Rubin | May 24, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Rubin: Fanatical Obsession Drives His Search for the Best Version of Anything | Rick Rubin | May 24, 2026 | — |
| $400M | “four hundred million dollars” | Warner Communications Took a $400M Write-Down on Atari in 1982 | Strauss Zelnick | May 17, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Zelnick Left 20th Century Fox for a 95% Pay Cut | Strauss Zelnick | May 17, 2026 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | BMG Invested Roughly $40M to Build its Video Game Division | Strauss Zelnick | May 17, 2026 | — |
| $40M | “forty million dollars” | BMG Invested Roughly $40M to Build its Video Game Division | Strauss Zelnick | May 17, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Take-Two Acquired BMG Interactive for 20% Equity Worth $20M | Strauss Zelnick | May 17, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Take-Two Acquired BMG Interactive for 20% Equity Worth $20M | Strauss Zelnick | May 17, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 20% | “20%” | Take-Two Acquired BMG Interactive for 20% Equity Worth $20M | Strauss Zelnick | May 17, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 88% | “88%” | Zelnick Won an 88% Shareholder Vote to Take Over Take-Two | Strauss Zelnick | May 17, 2026 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Borderlands Survived Only Because of a $50M Last-Minute Art Overhaul | Strauss Zelnick | May 17, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | White: UFC Owned Almost Nothing But the Brand at 2001 Acquisition | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3M | “three million” | White: UFC Reacquired Its Video and Merch Rights for $3M From Lionsgate | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 8M | “eight million” | White: We Initially Hoped to Sell the Struggling UFC for $6M | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | White: The Ultimate Fighter Reality Show Was Our Final $10M Bet | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | White: UFC Would Have Lost IP Ownership If Spike TV Funded TUF | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | White: The Power Slap Reality Show Has 50M YouTube Views | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 3M | “three million” | White: We Launched Power Slap With $3M in Initial Capital | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | White: Michael Rubin Offered $10M Blind for My Next Business Venture | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | White: UFC Live Event Production Is a "100% Dictatorship" Under Me | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | White: Managing 1,000 Fighters Means Constant Chaos and Fixing Problems | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | — |
| 7B | “two five billion” | White: We Sold the UFC for $4B in 2016 Without a TV Deal | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 35M | “thirty-five million” | White: UFC Media Rights Scaled From $35M to a $7.7B Mega-Deal | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “hundred million” | White: UFC Media Rights Scaled From $35M to a $7.7B Mega-Deal | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | White: UFC Media Rights Scaled From $35M to a $7.7B Mega-Deal | Dana White | May 10, 2026 | Supported |
| $700M | “seven hundred million dollars” | Foroughi: AppLovin grew EBITDA from $700M in 2021 to over $1B in 2022 | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Foroughi: AppLovin grew EBITDA from $700M in 2021 to over $1B in 2022 | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $6B | “six billion dollars” | Foroughi: AppLovin's $6B buyback generated $50B to $60B in value | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $60B | “sixty billion dollars” | Foroughi: AppLovin's $6B buyback generated $50B to $60B in value | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Foroughi: Top VCs rejected AppLovin's $1M seed pitch at $4M valuation | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Foroughi: Top VCs rejected AppLovin's $1M seed pitch at $4M valuation | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| $25M | “twenty five million dollars” | Foroughi: AppLovin hit a $1M monthly run rate within eight months | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Foroughi: AppLovin hit a $1M monthly run rate within eight months | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| $600M | “six hundred million dollars” | Foroughi: AppLovin received a $600 million all-cash buyout offer around 2015 | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Foroughi: AppLovin generated over $100M EBITDA in 2017 | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1B | “a billion” | AppLovin restructured a $1B Chinese buyout into debt to pass CFIUS | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | AppLovin restructured a $1B Chinese buyout into debt to pass CFIUS | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 70% | “70%” | AppLovin restructured a $1B Chinese buyout into debt to pass CFIUS | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | AppLovin restructured a $1B Chinese buyout into debt to pass CFIUS | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Foroughi: Pushing IPO valuations with low float repels long-term blue-chip investors | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Foroughi: AppLovin tied executive compensation plan triggers to a $1 trillion valuation | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Foroughi: AppLovin tied executive compensation plan triggers to a $1 trillion valuation | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Foroughi: AppLovin may capture over 50% of mobile gaming ad spend | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| 1.3B | “1.3 billion” | Foroughi: AppLovin generated $1.3B cash in a single quarter | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Foroughi: AppLovin cut 40% of headcount while doubling revenue | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Foroughi: AppLovin cut 40% of headcount while doubling revenue | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Foroughi: AppLovin valuation rose from under $4B to peak of $250B | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Foroughi: AppLovin valuation rose from under $4B to peak of $250B | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Foroughi: Well over 80% of AppLovin's code is written by LLMs | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Foroughi: AppLovin reaches over 1B daily gamers globally and 150M US adults | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Foroughi: A 10-person Turkish gaming studio sold for $1B built entirely on AppLovin | Adam Foroughi | May 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Baszucki: Roblox has roughly one to two million game creators | David Baszucki | Apr 26, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 2M | “two million” | Baszucki: Roblox has roughly one to two million game creators | David Baszucki | Apr 26, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Bruno Mars's Roblox event drew 20 million users across sharded instances | David Baszucki | Apr 26, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 10M | “ten million” | Roblox never burned through more than its initial $10 million in capital | David Baszucki | Apr 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Baszucki: Roblox built proprietary game engine because it was core infrastructure | David Baszucki | Apr 26, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Roblox creators earn over $1 billion annually through platform payouts | David Baszucki | Apr 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Roblox's 1,000th-ranked creator is growing bookings faster than its top creator | David Baszucki | Apr 26, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Roblox aims to capture 10 percent of the entire global gaming market | David Baszucki | Apr 26, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Spiegel: Vertical Video Completion Rates Were 9x Higher Than Horizontal | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Spiegel: Snap grew from 100 to over 1,000 employees in 18 months | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Spiegel: Snapchat reaches nearly 1B users and 500M daily active users | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Spiegel: Snapchat reaches nearly 1B users and 500M daily active users | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Spiegel: Snapchat subscription business reaches $1B revenue run rate | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Spiegel: Snapchat subscription business reaches $1B revenue run rate | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Spiegel: Snap plans to incubate standalone apps using Snapchat's billion-user distribution | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Spiegel: Early Snap investors allowed the founders to sell $10M in stock | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | — |
| 8B | “a seven billion” | Spiegel: Snap generates nearly $7B in annual revenue | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Spiegel: Snap funded 12 years of smart glasses R&D without VC patience | Evan Spiegel | Apr 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Xu: Only 20k-25k of US restaurants delivered food in 2013 | Tony Xu | Mar 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Xu: A 5% Success Rate Across Thousands of Experiments Yields Compounding Advantage | Tony Xu | Mar 29, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Xu: DoorDash spent 40% of its cash refunding customers in 2013 | Tony Xu | Mar 29, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Xu: 90% of DoorDash drivers work fewer than 10 hours weekly | Tony Xu | Mar 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 98% | “98%” | Musk realized raw materials accounted for only 2 percent of rocket costs | David Senra | Mar 24, 2026 | Supported |
| 100% | “100%” | Andreessen: Bob Noyce Was the Steve Jobs of His Era | Marc Andreessen | Mar 15, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Andreessen: Traditional $10M to $50M VC checks are obsolete in AI | Marc Andreessen | Mar 15, 2026 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Andreessen: Traditional $10M to $50M VC checks are obsolete in AI | Marc Andreessen | Mar 15, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Andreessen: Traditional $10M to $50M VC checks are obsolete in AI | Marc Andreessen | Mar 15, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Andreessen: IBM held 80% of total tech industry market cap in mid-1980s | Marc Andreessen | Mar 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 times” | Armstrong: Coinbase met with the SEC approximately 30 times after going public | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Armstrong: Coinbase spent $50M–$100M fighting the SEC | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Armstrong: Five percent of Coinbase staff took exit package after blog post | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Armstrong: Coinbase reached $1B valuation within seven years of Silicon Valley pivot | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 12% | “12%” | Armstrong: Legacy Latin American payout services charged Airbnb hosts 7% to 12% fees | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 3M | “a 1002 1005 1010 thousand” | Armstrong: Early Coinbase faced a 10,000 support ticket backlog | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Armstrong voted against building USDC before it generated ~$800M in revenue | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Armstrong: 99% of people consume company news via social clips, not shareholder letters | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Armstrong committed $100M of personal capital to launch NewLimit | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Armstrong: Over 50% of Coinbase's code is written by AI agents | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Armstrong: About 60% of Coinbase support inquiries are answered by AI | Brian Armstrong | Mar 1, 2026 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Fried: 37signals Caps All Project Planning Horizons at Just Six Weeks | Jason Fried | Feb 15, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Fried: Moving 37signals Off the Cloud Will Save Roughly $10 Million | Jason Fried | Feb 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Fried: 37signals Distributes 10% of Profits Based on Employee Longevity, Not Title | Jason Fried | Feb 15, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Iovine: Vivendi rejected my request for $100M to build artist-led businesses | Jimmy Iovine | Feb 1, 2026 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Iovine: Spotify is worth $150B, double the entire record industry combined | Jimmy Iovine | Feb 1, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Iovine: David Geffen sold Geffen Records for $500 million | Jimmy Iovine | Feb 1, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Iovine: Interscope was the sole survivor of 14 labels funded in 1989 | Jimmy Iovine | Feb 1, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Iovine: 'A Very Special Christmas' raised over $100M for Special Olympics | Jimmy Iovine | Feb 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Lütke: Shopify Canceled 60% of Projects and Replaced Entire Executive Suite | Tobi Lütke | Jan 18, 2026 | — |
| 1.5K | “a half thousand” | Lütke: Shopify had 5,500 job titles across 8,000 employees | Tobi Lütke | Jan 18, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Lütke: Top engineers at Shopify can earn more than VPs | Tobi Lütke | Jan 18, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 x” | Lütke: Shopify traded above 50x revenue at its peak | Tobi Lütke | Jan 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 74% | “74%” | Mackey: 74% of Americans Are Overweight and 43% Are Obese | John Mackey | Jan 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 43% | “43%” | Mackey: 74% of Americans Are Overweight and 43% Are Obese | John Mackey | Jan 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 34% | “34%” | Mackey: VCs owned 34% of Whole Foods before IPO and another round would forfeit control | John Mackey | Jan 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 94% | “94%” | Mackey: 250 years ago 94% of humanity lived on under $2/day | John Mackey | Jan 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 88% | “88%” | Mackey: 250 years ago 94% of humanity lived on under $2/day | John Mackey | Jan 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | O'Shaughnessy: Hire talent by searching publicly for the absolute best work sample | Patrick O'Shaughnessy | Dec 21, 2025 | — |
| 5,127× | “5127 times” | Dyson built 5,127 failed prototypes before perfecting his vacuum cleaner | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | — |
| 22% | “22%” | Dyson faced 22% bank interest rates while running his Ballbarrow business | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Low-volume automakers face 30% higher component costs from suppliers | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “A million” | Dyson spent £500 million on its cancelled electric car project | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “Half a million” | Dyson spent £500 million on its cancelled electric car project | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “Half a billion” | Dyson spent £500 million on its cancelled electric car project | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Dyson produces approximately 30 million digital motors annually | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Dyson produces approximately 30 million digital motors annually | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 49% | “49%” | Dyson bought out Jeremy Fry's 49% stake for £45,000 | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | James Dyson owns 100% of his multi-billion dollar company | James Dyson | Dec 7, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Ovitz: Roughly 90% of co-founded businesses push out one founder | Michael Ovitz | Nov 23, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Ovitz: CAA represented 46 of top 50 grossing filmmakers | Michael Ovitz | Nov 23, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Ovitz: Mike Nichols's fee increased $2 million after joining CAA | Michael Ovitz | Nov 23, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Graves: Incremental Cost Cuts Destroy Fast-Food Craveability | Todd Graves | Nov 9, 2025 | — |
| $4B | “a three billion dollars” | Graves: Raising Cane's carries approximately $3 billion in debt | Todd Graves | Nov 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Graves: Raising Cane's Ranks #2 in Quick Service Average Unit Volumes | Todd Graves | Nov 9, 2025 | Supported |
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