| 80% | “80%” | Lieberman: Companies Should Aim to Complete 80% of Quarterly Rocks | Alex Lieberman | Jun 16, 2025 | — |
| 11M | “a ten million” | Lieberman: StoryArb's One-Year Plan Targets $10M ARR and 120 Clients | Alex Lieberman | Jun 16, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Lieberman: 100% of StoryArb leads currently come through his social media | Alex Lieberman | Jun 16, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lieberman: 100% of StoryArb leads currently come through his social media | Alex Lieberman | Jun 16, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Reeves: About 40% of US companies were penalized yearly for manual payroll | Josh Reeves | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Alex Lieberman details his personal startup studio of four active companies | Alex Lieberman | Jun 2, 2025 | — |
| $1.1M | “1.1 million dollars” | Alex Lieberman is raising a $1.1 million funding round for Distro | Alex Lieberman | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lieberman says VCs prefer startup failure over moderate $200 million exits | Alex Lieberman | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “a two hundred million” | Lieberman says VCs prefer startup failure over moderate $200 million exits | Alex Lieberman | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lieberman: Distro reached 2,000 signups and $660 MRR in six weeks | Alex Lieberman | May 14, 2025 | — |
| 400M | “a three hundred million” | Lieberman: Cursor Raised $300M at a $9B Valuation (45x Revenue) | Alex Lieberman | May 12, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10B | “a nine billion” | Lieberman: Cursor Raised $300M at a $9B Valuation (45x Revenue) | Alex Lieberman | May 12, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 45× | “45 times” | Lieberman: Cursor Raised $300M at a $9B Valuation (45x Revenue) | Alex Lieberman | May 12, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lieberman: AI consultancy Tenex can reach $100M in annual agency revenue | Alex Lieberman | May 12, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Lieberman: Only 10% of Morning Brew CEO motivation was intrinsic | Alex Lieberman | May 5, 2025 | — |
| $70M | “seventy million dollars” | Lieberman: Morning Brew reached 300 employees and $70M in revenue | Alex Lieberman | May 5, 2025 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Lieberman: StoryArb offers $5,000 top prize for internal LinkedIn competition | Alex Lieberman | Apr 30, 2025 | — |
| 52% | “52%” | StoryArb's internal LinkedIn campaign drove 650K impressions and 52% traffic growth | Alex Lieberman | Apr 30, 2025 | — |
| 6M | “a five million” | Morning Brew raised $750K on a $5M valuation cap via convertible note | Alex Lieberman | Apr 28, 2025 | — |
| $1.3M | “1.3 million dollars” | Zapier reached a multi-billion valuation on only $1.3M raised | Alex Lieberman | Apr 28, 2025 | Supported |
| $80M | “eighty million dollars” | StackCommerce generated $80M in revenue the year TPG acquired it | Alex Lieberman | Apr 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 34.8M | “34.8 million” | Only 30,000 out of 34.8 million US businesses reach $100M revenue | Alex Lieberman | Apr 28, 2025 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Only 30,000 out of 34.8 million US businesses reach $100M revenue | Alex Lieberman | Apr 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Annual job requalification filters out candidates unfit for high growth | Alex Lieberman | Apr 9, 2025 | — |
| 3.8M | “3.75 million” | Lieberman reveals Distro generated 1,014 signups and 5 paid users post-launch | Alex Lieberman | Apr 2, 2025 | — |
| 2% | “Two percent” | Lieberman reveals Distro generated 1,014 signups and 5 paid users post-launch | Alex Lieberman | Apr 2, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Lieberman reveals Distro generated 1,014 signups and 5 paid users post-launch | Alex Lieberman | Apr 2, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Lieberman targets 5,000 free and 150 paid Distro accounts in 30 days | Alex Lieberman | Apr 2, 2025 | — |
| 17% | “17%” | StoryArb hit $234K monthly revenue and $40K profit in March 2025 | Alex Lieberman | Mar 31, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Deel reached $800M ARR and profitability at a $12B valuation | Alex Lieberman | Mar 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Deel reached $800M ARR and profitability at a $12B valuation | Alex Lieberman | Mar 19, 2025 | Supported |
| $12B | “twelve billion dollars” | Deel reached $800M ARR and profitability at a $12B valuation | Alex Lieberman | Mar 19, 2025 | Supported |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Morning Brew scaled to $70M in revenue as Lieberman lost motivation | Alex Lieberman | Mar 17, 2025 | Supported |
| $70M | “seventy million dollars” | Morning Brew scaled to $70M in revenue as Lieberman lost motivation | Alex Lieberman | Mar 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 4M | “a three million” | Lieberman: StoryArb has 18 staff, $3M run rate, high profitability | Alex Lieberman | Mar 17, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Cursor reached $100M ARR in under a year at a $10B valuation | Alex Lieberman | Mar 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Cursor reached $100M ARR in under a year at a $10B valuation | Alex Lieberman | Mar 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 74M | “seventy-four million” | Pieter Levels generated 74 million impressions on X in three weeks | Alex Lieberman | Mar 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 104× | “104 times” | Pieter Levels generated 74 million impressions on X in three weeks | Alex Lieberman | Mar 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 9M | “nine million” | Elon Musk's retweet drove 9 million impressions for Pieter Levels' game | Alex Lieberman | Mar 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 38% | “38%” | Elon Musk's retweet drove 9 million impressions for Pieter Levels' game | Alex Lieberman | Mar 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Morning Brew lost 50% of revenue overnight during the COVID pandemic | Alex Lieberman | Mar 5, 2025 | — |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | ButcherBox generates $600 million in annual revenue, says CEO Mike Seguero | Alex Lieberman | Mar 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | FanDuel founder Nigel Eccles spent 80% of his time on wrong tasks | Alex Lieberman | Mar 5, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | FanDuel founder Nigel Eccles spent 80% of his time on wrong tasks | Alex Lieberman | Mar 5, 2025 | — |
| 6M | “a five million” | Lieberman targets $5M revenue run rate for StoryArb by Q3 end | Alex Lieberman | Jun 4, 2024 | — |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Sadeghi: 23andMe Used Microarrays Because Genome Sequencing Cost $20M in 2006 | Kian Sadeghi | May 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | Sadeghi: 23andMe Used Microarrays Because Genome Sequencing Cost $20M in 2006 | Kian Sadeghi | May 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Rabois: Successful founders share only one trait: a top 1% spike | Keith Raboi | May 21, 2024 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Rabois: If a founder's mother lacks early examples, they aren't top 1% | Keith Raboi | May 21, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Rabois: Companies should target at least an 80% hiring success rate | Keith Raboi | May 21, 2024 | — |
| 5% | “Five percent” | Rabois: Companies should target at least an 80% hiring success rate | Keith Raboi | May 21, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Rabois: Companies should target at least an 80% hiring success rate | Keith Raboi | May 21, 2024 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Pujji: Applying clear workplace agreements cut his marriage arguments by 60% | Jesse Pujji | May 14, 2024 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Lieberman works in his Zone of Genius just 30% of the time | Alex Lieberman | May 14, 2024 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Lieberman works in his Zone of Genius just 30% of the time | Alex Lieberman | May 14, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Parr validates business models using audience size and advertising rate arithmetic | Sam Parr | May 7, 2024 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Parr validates business models using audience size and advertising rate arithmetic | Sam Parr | May 7, 2024 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Parr validates business models using audience size and advertising rate arithmetic | Sam Parr | May 7, 2024 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | The Hustle's Trends product reached roughly $5M ARR in its first year | Sam Parr | May 7, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Parr: Financials of £10M UK private companies are available for free | Sam Parr | May 7, 2024 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Hampton generated $1M in the bank before launching a website or posting | Sam Parr | May 7, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Lieberman: Cold LinkedIn DMs to event attendees yield a 50% response rate | Alex Lieberman | May 7, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Founders can reach $1M revenue with six months of full-time manual sales | Sam Parr | May 7, 2024 | — |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Spirit Halloween generates $200 million in revenue in just three weeks | Alex Lieberman | Apr 30, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 4.5M | “4.5 million” | Morning Brew leverages its 4.5 million daily subscribers for podcast promotion | Alex Lieberman | Apr 30, 2024 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Lieberman: StoryArb reached $1.2M-$1.3M run rate in first three months | Alex Lieberman | Apr 23, 2024 | — |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | Lieberman: StoryArb reached $1.2M-$1.3M run rate in first three months | Alex Lieberman | Apr 23, 2024 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Lieberman: 98% of writers on the internet are mediocre | Alex Lieberman | Apr 23, 2024 | — |
| 1.5M | “1.5 million” | Morning Brew reached 1.5M subscribers and eight-figure revenue by late 2019 | Alex Lieberman | Apr 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Morning Brew grew newsletter subscribers tenfold to 1M between 2017 and 2018 | Alex Lieberman | Apr 9, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Morning Brew grew newsletter subscribers tenfold to 1M between 2017 and 2018 | Alex Lieberman | Apr 9, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | M&A and fundraising consume 50 to 100 percent of a founder's time | Alex Lieberman | Apr 9, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | M&A and fundraising consume 50 to 100 percent of a founder's time | Alex Lieberman | Apr 9, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Morning Brew had 1.5M subscribers when sold to Axel Springer | Alex Lieberman | Apr 9, 2024 | — |
| 1.5M | “1.5 million” | Morning Brew had 1.5M subscribers when sold to Axel Springer | Alex Lieberman | Apr 9, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Lieberman: Passing Physical Sign-Up Sheets in Classrooms Converted 90% of Students | Alex Lieberman | Apr 2, 2024 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Lieberman: 400,000 of Morning Brew's 4.5 Million Subscribers Have Referred Someone | Alex Lieberman | Apr 2, 2024 | — |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Lieberman: beehiiv is nearing $10M in ARR after 26 months | Alex Lieberman | Mar 22, 2024 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Wilkinson Grew MetaLab To $40M-$50M Revenue And $20M Profit | Alex Lieberman | Mar 15, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Wilkinson Grew MetaLab To $40M-$50M Revenue And $20M Profit | Alex Lieberman | Mar 15, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Flow Reached $20K MRR In First Month And Grew 10% Monthly | Alex Lieberman | Mar 15, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Wilkinson Spent 2-3x Flow's Monthly Revenue From Personal Funds | Alex Lieberman | Mar 15, 2024 | — |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Wilkinson Burned Over $10M And 12 Years Competing With Asana | Alex Lieberman | Mar 15, 2024 | — |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Flow Reached A Peak Of Approximately $3 Million In ARR | Alex Lieberman | Mar 15, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | LTV Math Justifies Spending Up to 50% of Revenue on Customer Acquisition | Alex Lieberman | Mar 13, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | LTV Math Justifies Spending Up to 50% of Revenue on Customer Acquisition | Alex Lieberman | Mar 13, 2024 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Lieberman predicts StoryArb will reach a $5M revenue run rate by July | Alex Lieberman | Mar 11, 2024 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Ali Abdaal built his 5M+ subscriber audience starting with ultra-niche medical content | Alex Lieberman | Mar 11, 2024 | Supported |
| $65M | “sixty-five million dollars” | AppSumo generates $65M annually, with over 50% of revenue from email marketing | Alex Lieberman | Mar 11, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | AppSumo generates $65M annually, with over 50% of revenue from email marketing | Alex Lieberman | Mar 11, 2024 | — |
| $35B | “thirty five billion dollars” | Lieberman: Andreessen Horowitz Grew to World's Largest VC With $35B AUM | Alex Lieberman | Mar 8, 2024 | Supported |
| $800M | “eight hundred million dollars” | Lieberman: Webvan lost $800M and went bankrupt in 2001 | Alex Lieberman | Mar 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Lieberman: Global smartphone ownership is approximately seven billion people | Alex Lieberman | Mar 8, 2024 | Contradicted |
| $17.5B | “17.5 billion dollars” | Lieberman: Digital music streaming represents 84% of industry revenue at $17.5B | Alex Lieberman | Mar 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $4.6B | “4.6 billion dollars” | Lieberman: Digital music streaming represents 84% of industry revenue at $17.5B | Alex Lieberman | Mar 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 84% | “84%” | Lieberman: Digital music streaming represents 84% of industry revenue at $17.5B | Alex Lieberman | Mar 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $800M | “eight hundred million dollars” | Blockbuster Made $800M in Late Fees in 2000 | Alex Lieberman | Mar 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 16% | “16%” | Blockbuster Made $800M in Late Fees in 2000 | Alex Lieberman | Mar 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Snowflake lost $17B in market cap following Frank Slootman's retirement announcement | Alex Lieberman | Mar 1, 2024 | Supported |
| $28M | “twenty-eight million dollars” | Data Domain returned $2.4B to shareholders on just $28M in net capital | Alex Lieberman | Mar 1, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $2.4B | “2.4 billion dollars” | Data Domain returned $2.4B to shareholders on just $28M in net capital | Alex Lieberman | Mar 1, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $6.5M | “6.5 million dollars” | ServiceNow reached $1B in revenue having raised only $6.5M in external funding | Alex Lieberman | Mar 1, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | ServiceNow reached $1B in revenue having raised only $6.5M in external funding | Alex Lieberman | Mar 1, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | ServiceNow reached $1B in revenue having raised only $6.5M in external funding | Alex Lieberman | Mar 1, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Reaching personal networks drives early growth for 20% of startups | Alex Lieberman | Feb 28, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Yelp reached its first 1,000 users through PayPal alumni network | Alex Lieberman | Feb 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Direct outreach drives early growth for 30% of consumer startups | Alex Lieberman | Feb 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Targeting existing audience gathering spots is the highest-ROI acquisition strategy | Alex Lieberman | Feb 28, 2024 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Morning Brew reached 10,000 subscribers by leveraging a hub-and-spoke model | Alex Lieberman | Feb 28, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Press coverage drove early growth for over 20% of top consumer startups | Alex Lieberman | Feb 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Morning Brew achieved $20 million in revenue in 2020 | Alex Lieberman | Feb 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Crossing the financial freedom line provides diminishing returns on further wealth | Alex Lieberman | Feb 26, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Crossing the financial freedom line provides diminishing returns on further wealth | Alex Lieberman | Feb 26, 2024 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | First-time founders will likely fail on 50% of their executive hires | Alex Lieberman | Feb 23, 2024 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Compounding 7% monthly improvements across business vectors creates exponential growth | Alex Lieberman | Feb 21, 2024 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Ambitious missions are as effective at recruiting as having celebrity founders | Alex Lieberman | Feb 21, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Early-stage founders must spend roughly 50% of their time recruiting | Alex Lieberman | Feb 21, 2024 | — |
| 63% | “63%” | Lieberman: MLK had a 63% disapproval rating at peak activism | Alex Lieberman | Feb 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Girouard: Resolving Big Project Blocks Early Eliminates 90% of Overhead | Alex Lieberman | Feb 12, 2024 | — |
| $1M | “one million dollars” | Pseudonymous account Bored Elon Musk made $1M selling NFTs in one month | Alex Lieberman | Feb 9, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 3.6M | “3.6 million” | YouTuber MeganPlays scaled from $400 monthly to an $8M gaming studio | Alex Lieberman | Feb 9, 2024 | — |
| $8M | “eight million dollars” | YouTuber MeganPlays scaled from $400 monthly to an $8M gaming studio | Alex Lieberman | Feb 9, 2024 | — |
| 2.5B | “2.5 billion” | Lil Nas X produced Old Town Road for $50 before 2.5B streams | Alex Lieberman | Feb 9, 2024 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Lieberman: Morning Brew Kept Four Newsletter Employees From 50K to 4.5M Subscribers | Alex Lieberman | Jan 31, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Airbnb lost 80% of its business in eight weeks during early 2020 | Alex Lieberman | Jan 29, 2024 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 x” | Imagining 10x Scale Forces First-Principles Problem Solving | Alex Lieberman | Jan 29, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lieberman: Founders Can Make Fortunes With 1,000 High-Paying True Fans | Alex Lieberman | Jan 26, 2024 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Lieberman: Superfan referrals drove Morning Brew to 4.5 million subscribers | Alex Lieberman | Jan 26, 2024 | — |
| 4.5M | “4.5 million” | Lieberman: Superfan referrals drove Morning Brew to 4.5 million subscribers | Alex Lieberman | Jan 26, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Lieberman: Superfan referrals drove Morning Brew to 4.5 million subscribers | Alex Lieberman | Jan 26, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lieberman: Successful Kickstarter campaigns average only 241 funders | Alex Lieberman | Jan 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lieberman: Creators should aim beyond 1,000 fans to afford operational help | Alex Lieberman | Jan 26, 2024 | — |
| $60M | “sixty million dollars” | Gumroad generates $160 million annual GMV and $8 million net income | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 22, 2024 | Supported |
| $8M | “eight million dollars” | Gumroad generates $160 million annual GMV and $8 million net income | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Gumroad generates $160 million annual GMV and $8 million net income | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Annual growth of 60% to 80% is insufficient for Series B funding | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 22, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Billion-dollar startup valuations are phantom wealth that drive founder unhappiness | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 22, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Billion-dollar startup valuations are phantom wealth that drive founder unhappiness | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 22, 2024 | — |
| 6M | “six million” | Kleiner Perkins sold its $6 million Gumroad stake back for one dollar | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 22, 2024 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Gumroad's charter permits 60% net income dividends without investor approval | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 22, 2024 | — |
| $47M | “forty-seven million dollars” | Lieberman: Amazon Grew 1997 Revenue by 838% to $147 Million | Alex Lieberman | Jan 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Lieberman: Amazon Grew 1997 Revenue by 838% to $147 Million | Alex Lieberman | Jan 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “1.5 million” | Lieberman: Amazon Grew 1997 Revenue by 838% to $147 Million | Alex Lieberman | Jan 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 838% | “838%” | Lieberman: Amazon Grew 1997 Revenue by 838% to $147 Million | Alex Lieberman | Jan 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Lieberman: 99.9% of founders should not aspire to blitzscaling | Alex Lieberman | Jan 17, 2024 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Vohra: A 40% 'very disappointed' user survey response signals product-market fit | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Vohra: PMF scores above 20% enable iteration; below 15% require pivoting | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Vohra: PMF scores above 20% enable iteration; below 15% require pivoting | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Vohra: Segmenting for high-expectation customers boosted Superhuman's PMF by 10% | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Vohra: Segmenting for high-expectation customers boosted Superhuman's PMF by 10% | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 32% | “32%” | Vohra: Segmenting for high-expectation customers boosted Superhuman's PMF by 10% | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 33% | “33%” | Vohra: Superhuman's PMF score grew from 33% to 58% in one year | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 47% | “47%” | Vohra: Superhuman's PMF score grew from 33% to 58% in one year | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 56% | “56%” | Vohra: Superhuman's PMF score grew from 33% to 58% in one year | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 58% | “58%” | Vohra: Superhuman's PMF score grew from 33% to 58% in one year | Rahul Vohra | Jan 12, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Nagpal: Business owners get a 20% QBI income tax deduction | Ankur Nagpal | Jan 10, 2024 | Supported |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Nagpal: R&D tax credits offset payroll taxes by up to 6-8% of engineering salaries | Ankur Nagpal | Jan 10, 2024 | Supported |
| 28B | “a twenty seven billion” | HubSpot funded 8 50-yard line National Championship seats for a guerrilla stunt | Alex Lieberman | Jan 8, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Fried: 37signals Distributes 10% of Annual Profits as Cash | Jason Fried | Jan 5, 2024 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Lieberman: Gumroad to Distribute 60% Profit Share in 2024 | Alex Lieberman | Jan 5, 2024 | Supported |
| 20M | “Twenty million” | Lavingia: Gumroad generates $20M revenue and $8M-$9M profit with no full-time employees | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 1, 2024 | — |
| 9M | “nine million” | Lavingia: Gumroad generates $20M revenue and $8M-$9M profit with no full-time employees | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 1, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Gumroad contractors convert up to 80% of earnings into dividend-paying equity | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 1, 2024 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Lavingia: Gumroad will distribute $6M in dividends from 2023 net income | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 1, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lavingia: Gumroad hired two people out of 2,000 applicants | Sahil Lavingia | Jan 1, 2024 | — |
| $1.5M | “1.5 million dollars” | Lieberman: StoryArb hit over $1.5M annualized revenue in six months | Alex Lieberman | Dec 29, 2023 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lieberman: Career success requires spending 80% of time on core strengths | Alex Lieberman | Dec 29, 2023 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Bezos: Early Amazon investors were told they had a 30% chance of break-even | Jeff Bezos | Dec 18, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Bezos: Founders must balance statistical failure odds with 100% optimism | Jeff Bezos | Dec 18, 2023 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Nagpal: Startups should give first employees 2x to 4x more equity | Ankur Nagpal | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Nagpal: Startups should give first employees 2x to 4x more equity | Ankur Nagpal | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Nagpal: Carry raised $2M from 200 angels as one cap table line | Ankur Nagpal | Dec 15, 2023 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Lieberman: 60-Second Startup drove funding rounds and more sales than TechCrunch | Alex Lieberman | Dec 8, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lieberman: News media succeeds only via analysis, niches, or edutainment | Alex Lieberman | Dec 8, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lieberman: Major Project Failures Stem From Compounding Insignificant Errors | Alex Lieberman | Dec 4, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Siroker: Rewind's public pitch deck got over 1,000 investment offers | Dan Siroker | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 450M | “a three hundred fifty million” | Siroker: Rewind raised Series A at $350M valuation with $700K ARR | Dan Siroker | Nov 29, 2023 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Siroker: Cold outreach to portfolio CEOs yields honest back-channel investor references | Dan Siroker | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Siroker: Rewind received 20 funding offers at $1B valuation or higher | Dan Siroker | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Siroker: Rewind received 20 funding offers at $1B valuation or higher | Dan Siroker | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Morning Brew scaled from $3M to $75M in revenue using EOS | Alex Lieberman | Nov 27, 2023 | — |
| $75M | “seventy five million dollars” | Morning Brew scaled from $3M to $75M in revenue using EOS | Alex Lieberman | Nov 27, 2023 | — |
| $100M | “one hundred million dollars” | Michael Girdley's holding company of 12 businesses generates $100M annually | Alex Lieberman | Nov 27, 2023 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Selecting and using any standard framework drives 70% of operational improvement | Michael Girdley | Nov 27, 2023 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Eighty percent of business operations are universal regardless of the industry | Michael Girdley | Nov 27, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Morning Brew Main YouTube Channel Reaches 1M Views on a Video in 6 Days | Alex Lieberman | Nov 24, 2023 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Lieberman: Microsoft Learned of Altman's Ouster One Minute Before Announcement | Alex Lieberman | Nov 20, 2023 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Adcock: Sam Altman Will Emerge Ten Times Stronger From OpenAI Firing | Brett Adcock | Nov 20, 2023 | — |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Nagpal: QSBS exempts up to $10M in capital gains from federal and state taxes | Ankur Nagpal | Nov 15, 2023 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Nagpal: Gifting shares to family members creates multiple $10M tax exemption limits | Ankur Nagpal | Nov 15, 2023 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Nagpal used family and charitable remainder trusts to multiply QSBS limits | Ankur Nagpal | Nov 15, 2023 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Nagpal: Founders should wait until Series A or B to stack QSBS | Ankur Nagpal | Nov 15, 2023 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Lieberman: Morning Brew founders reached $350k salaries as revenue hit $25M | Alex Lieberman | Nov 15, 2023 | — |
| 120M | “a hundred twenty million” | Siroker: Optimizely reached $120M ARR and 450 employees | Dan Siroker | Nov 8, 2023 | Partly supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Lieberman: Brett Adcock Invested First Exit Proceeds Into Archer and $100M Into Figure | Alex Lieberman | Nov 6, 2023 | Supported |
| 9M | “nine million” | Gagliardi: The Bond Market Has Nine Million CUSIPs Versus 10,000 Stock Issues | John Gagliardi | Nov 2, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Gagliardi: Bottom 100 S&P 500 Names Make Up Only 3-4% of Index | John Gagliardi | Nov 2, 2023 | Supported |
| 1% | “a percent” | Gagliardi: Bottom 100 S&P 500 Names Make Up Only 3-4% of Index | John Gagliardi | Nov 2, 2023 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Corcos: Co-founder CEOs must be 80% good at almost every business function | Sam Corcos | Nov 1, 2023 | — |
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