| 300M | “three hundred million” | Parikh: Facebook scaled deployment from daily to continuous release cadence | Jay Parikh | Aug 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Parikh: Facebook scaled deployment from daily to continuous release cadence | Jay Parikh | Aug 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Noronha: One billion monthly presentation software users are unhappy with existing tools | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Noronha: Pre-AI Gamma had an 'appallingly low' 5% to 10% activation rate | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Noronha: Presentation creators reported spending 90% of time formatting slides | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Noronha: Presentation creators reported spending 90% of time formatting slides | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Noronha: Gamma has over 100 million registered user signups | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | Supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Noronha: Gamma reached over $2 million in ARR per employee | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | AI products require disposable engineering systems lasting only six to twelve months | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Noronha: Presentation Prosumer Products Cannot Achieve Over 100% NRR | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Noronha: AI Agent Organizations Will Still Face Legacy Operational Friction | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Noronha: Gamma is 10x larger due to international expansion | Jon Noronha | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Sager: Plaid kept Visa acquisition deal team intentionally small | Eric Sager | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Sager: Plaid pairs 80%-knowledge vertical sales quarterbacks with horizontal product specialists | Eric Sager | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Sager: Plaid intentionally avoids running at 100% capacity to preserve agility | Eric Sager | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 20.25% | “20.25%” | Sager: Plaid COO allocates his calendar 50% business, 25% team, 25% ecosystem | Eric Sager | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Sager: Plaid COO allocates his calendar 50% business, 25% team, 25% ecosystem | Eric Sager | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Sager: Plaid COO allocates his calendar 50% business, 25% team, 25% ecosystem | Eric Sager | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Sager: Seven or eight Plaid ICs now run $100M businesses | Eric Sager | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 8M | “eight million” | Copplestone: Supabase now serves eight million developers | Paul Copplestone | Jun 25, 2026 | Supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Copplestone: Supabase developer growth accelerates off a 7-8M user base | Paul Copplestone | Jun 25, 2026 | Supported |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Copplestone: Building in SF is the right approach for 99.9% of startups | Paul Copplestone | Jun 25, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Copplestone: Founders must pitch unhedged ambition because VCs discount projections anyway | Paul Copplestone | Jun 25, 2026 | — |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Copplestone: Founders must pitch unhedged ambition because VCs discount projections anyway | Paul Copplestone | Jun 25, 2026 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Copplestone: Founders must pitch unhedged ambition because VCs discount projections anyway | Paul Copplestone | Jun 25, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Copplestone: Supabase rejects bespoke enterprise feature requests | Paul Copplestone | Jun 25, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Copplestone: Support outreach boosts Supabase account usage growth to 125% QoQ | Paul Copplestone | Jun 25, 2026 | — |
| 125% | “125%” | Copplestone: Support outreach boosts Supabase account usage growth to 125% QoQ | Paul Copplestone | Jun 25, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Moreno: Enterprise AI sales requires simultaneous top-down and bottom-up pressure | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Moreno: Enterprise AI sales requires simultaneous top-down and bottom-up pressure | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| $40M | “forty million dollars” | Moreno: Windsurf invested in partner networks $40M earlier than peers | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Moreno: Top three AI vendors in any category have roughly equal tech | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Moreno: Parallel converts 50% of evaluations to scope and 60% to close | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Moreno: Parallel converts 50% of evaluations to scope and 60% to close | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Moreno: Parallel converts 50% of evaluations to scope and 60% to close | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Moreno: Top AI sales comp plans require 10x to 30x OTE performance | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Moreno: Top AI sales comp plans require 10x to 30x OTE performance | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Moreno: Top AI sales comp plans require 10x to 30x OTE performance | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Moreno: Windsurf Decided to Route 100% of Revenue Through Partners | Graham Moreno | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | Xero's AI bank reconciliation hits 97% accuracy, saving businesses 22 hours monthly | Diya Jolly | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Product leaders must spend half their time thinking to remain competitive | Diya Jolly | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Xero's AI financial chatbot hits 95% accuracy on scenario and advice queries | Diya Jolly | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | A single underperformer drags down total team performance by up to 30% | Diya Jolly | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Hirshberg: Artemis co-founders spend over 60% of their time on hiring | Shachar Hirshberg | Apr 21, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Hirshberg: 50% of Artemis customers are in highly regulated industries | Shachar Hirshberg | Apr 21, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Hirshberg: 70% of Artemis customers fully replace legacy security solutions | Shachar Hirshberg | Apr 21, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Hirshberg: 70% of Artemis customers fully replace legacy security solutions | Shachar Hirshberg | Apr 21, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Payne: Leaders must ring-fence 10% of resources to protect new initiatives | Christopher Payne | Apr 17, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Payne: Leaders must ring-fence 10% of resources to protect new initiatives | Christopher Payne | Apr 17, 2026 | — |
| 92% | “92%” | Payne: 92% of eBay sales went through search in 2009 | Christopher Payne | Apr 17, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Kreps: CEOs must learn ~80% of what functional executives know | Jay Kreps | Mar 26, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Epling: New CPOs mistakenly isolate in EPD instead of the C-suite | Jeremy Epling | Mar 19, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Epling: Engineering teams should target hitting 90% of dates to avoid sandbagging | Jeremy Epling | Mar 19, 2026 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Early-stage sales leaders must close deals while scale CROs focus on strategy | Chris Degnan | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Snowflake was trending toward $500 million in revenue when Frank Slootman joined | Chris Degnan | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Fortune 500 accounts require distinct resourcing but offer $50 million revenue potential | Chris Degnan | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Snowflake once paid a single sales rep a $1 million deal commission | Chris Degnan | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “A million” | Snowflake once paid a single sales rep a $1 million deal commission | Chris Degnan | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Grosser: Direct reports should independently mirror the executive's decisions 90% of the time | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser | Feb 5, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Varanasi: Managing hardware allows Meter to use 20% to 40% pricier components | Anil Varanasi | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Varanasi: Managing hardware allows Meter to use 20% to 40% pricier components | Anil Varanasi | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Varanasi: Managing hardware allows Meter to use 20% to 40% pricier components | Anil Varanasi | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Varanasi: Business Model Innovation Is Severely Underrated Compared to Product and Delivery | Anil Varanasi | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Varanasi: Expanding initial startup scope by 20% unlocks vastly more value | Anil Varanasi | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Varanasi: Meter lost 100% of customer office activity starting March 12, 2020 | Anil Varanasi | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Varanasi: Any business goes through roughly 1,000 days of severe hardship | Anil Varanasi | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Varanasi: 90% of networking equipment is sold through channel partners | Anil Varanasi | Dec 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Varanasi: Networking revenue comprises nearly 50% of IT channel sales | Anil Varanasi | Dec 10, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 300M | “Three hundred million” | Early startups should avoid hiring sales executives removed from frontline management | Jyoti Bansal | Nov 19, 2025 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Jyoti Bansal spent 25% of his time managing a broken AppDynamics board | Jyoti Bansal | Nov 19, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Jyoti Bansal spent 25% of his time managing a broken AppDynamics board | Jyoti Bansal | Nov 19, 2025 | — |
| 300B | “a Two hundred billion” | Kanter: Automotive aftermarket has a $200B repair and $40B upgrade market | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 41B | “a forty billion” | Kanter: Automotive aftermarket has a $200B repair and $40B upgrade market | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Kanter: Complex fitment criteria kept auto parts e-commerce penetration around 4% | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Kanter: Complex fitment criteria kept auto parts e-commerce penetration around 4% | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 11M | “a ten million” | Kanter: Founder anti-VC bias stems from confusing ownership with control | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Kanter: Founder anti-VC bias stems from confusing ownership with control | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Kanter: Founder anti-VC bias stems from confusing ownership with control | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Kanter: Founder anti-VC bias stems from confusing ownership with control | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Kanter: Half of B2B deals that seem 99% likely to close fail | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Kanter: Half of B2B deals that seem 99% likely to close fail | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Stedi threw away its entire codebase roughly eight times before public launch | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Kanter: Most buyers won't pay more for software beyond 80% quality | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Kanter: 20 years of experience is often just one year repeated 20 times | Zack Kanter | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Stauch: Displacing enterprise software requires a 10x experience | Jake Stauch | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Serval expects forward-deployed engineers to spend 20%+ time talking to customers | Jake Stauch | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Stauch: Verkada scaled to 1,000 employees with only two product managers | Jake Stauch | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Latency percentage gains matter substantially more on minute-long AI workloads | Gorkem Yurtseven | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Sekar: Meraki reached $100M revenue before $1.2B Cisco acquisition | Kiren Sekar | Sep 11, 2025 | Supported |
| $1.2B | “1.2 billion dollars” | Sekar: Meraki reached $100M revenue before $1.2B Cisco acquisition | Kiren Sekar | Sep 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Sekar: Samsara scaled ARR from $1M to $17M to $70M in consecutive years | Kiren Sekar | Sep 11, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 3% | “three percent” | Chaudhary: 70% of education spending goes to personnel, leaving little for tech | Sam Chaudhary | Sep 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Chaudhary: 70% of education spending goes to personnel, leaving little for tech | Sam Chaudhary | Sep 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | ClassDojo has never spent a single dollar on paid user acquisition | Sam Chaudhary | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | ClassDojo is currently used in 90% of US schools | Sam Chaudhary | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | ClassDojo retained users at 6x the rate of typical consumer apps | Sam Chaudhary | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 6× | “six X” | ClassDojo retained users at 6x the rate of typical consumer apps | Sam Chaudhary | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 7M | “seven million” | Asthana: Teleport Me reached six to seven million users | Abhinav Asthana | Aug 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Asthana: Postman rolled a $1M seed into a $7M Series A | Abhinav Asthana | Aug 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 8M | “a seven million” | Asthana: Postman rolled a $1M seed into a $7M Series A | Abhinav Asthana | Aug 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 200% | “200%” | Asthana: Postman's recurring revenue grew 200% initially, then 100% annually | Abhinav Asthana | Aug 28, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Asthana: Postman's recurring revenue grew 200% initially, then 100% annually | Abhinav Asthana | Aug 28, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Asthana: Tech startup salaries in India have grown 5x to 6x | Abhinav Asthana | Aug 28, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 6× | “six X” | Asthana: Tech startup salaries in India have grown 5x to 6x | Abhinav Asthana | Aug 28, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Melanie Perkins' previous yearbook business generated two to three million in revenue | Cameron Adams | Aug 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Canva has grown to 230 million monthly active users | Cameron Adams | Aug 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Canva grew monthly revenue 30 percent using one-dollar micro-transactions | Cameron Adams | Aug 20, 2025 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Subscription revenue eclipsed Canva's two-million-dollar micro-transaction business within three months | Cameron Adams | Aug 20, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Agrawal: AIs will use the web 1,000x to 1,000,000x more than humans | Parag Agrawal | Aug 14, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Agrawal: AIs will use the web 1,000x to 1,000,000x more than humans | Parag Agrawal | Aug 14, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Agrawal: Twitter planned 20-25% headcount cut just before Musk acquisition | Parag Agrawal | Aug 14, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Akhund: Mercury grew 30% to 40% monthly during its first year | Imad Akhund | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Akhund: A customer deposited $1M into Mercury via self-service four days post-launch | Imad Akhund | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Akhund: Mercury's sales team only handles about 5% of accounts | Imad Akhund | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Akhund: Mercury lost 60% of revenue in March 2020 | Imad Akhund | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Younis: Applied Intuition has retained nearly all of its $1B raised | Qasar Younis | Aug 1, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Younis: Zoox misunderstood autonomous vehicle economics and chose the wrong strategy | Qasar Younis | Aug 1, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Younis: Top 10 employees at major AI startups make over $50M combined | Qasar Younis | Aug 1, 2025 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Younis: Silicon Valley secondary cash-outs before failure are borderline fraud | Qasar Younis | Aug 1, 2025 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Younis: A startup across the street pays double Applied Intuition's rent | Qasar Younis | Aug 1, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Taking a product from 95% to 100% quality is exceptionally challenging | Ankur Goyal | Jul 24, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Taking a product from 95% to 100% quality is exceptionally challenging | Ankur Goyal | Jul 24, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Taking a product from 95% to 100% quality is exceptionally challenging | Ankur Goyal | Jul 24, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “100 X” | Tantivi was the only search library to survive Braintrust's 100x benchmark | Ankur Goyal | Jul 24, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | London: Polite customer feedback provides zero signal compared to extreme reactions | Tomer London | Jul 1, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | London: About 500,000 new employers are created annually in the US | Tomer London | Jul 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Cramer: Founders can turn almost any software into a $100M business today | David Cramer | Jun 19, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Cramer: Sentry's tracing product drives 20% of revenue despite lacking PMF | David Cramer | Jun 19, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Cramer: Sentry targets every customer of rival startups reaching $10M ARR | David Cramer | Jun 19, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Saarinen: Linear waitlist reached 10,000 emails with 10% converting | Karri Saarinen | Jun 5, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Saarinen: Linear had over 1,000 DAUs at public launch | Karri Saarinen | Jun 5, 2025 | — |
| 6% | “six percent” | Kao: Completion rates for asynchronous video courses were only 3% to 6% | Wes Kao | May 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Song: Enterprise-specific features built by Persona almost always generalize to others | Rick Song | May 8, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Reducto refused equation parsing requests to focus on higher-value table parsing | Adit Abraham | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Abraham: Reducto crossed $1M ARR with just four employees | Adit Abraham | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | 1Password raised $200M from Accel primarily to attract world-class executive talent | Jeff Shiner | Apr 24, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Owner reached $1M revenue and raised $10M within 10 months of pivoting | Adam Guild | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Owner reached $1M revenue and raised $10M within 10 months of pivoting | Adam Guild | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “twenty-x” | Owner charged restaurants $2,000 monthly for a website builder, 20x competitors | Adam Guild | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Guild: Customer retention is at least 50% emotional rather than purely utilitarian | Adam Guild | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Diners choose direct ordering for value and convenience, not to help restaurants | Adam Guild | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Delivery apps charge restaurants 30% and consumers 20% on average per order | Adam Guild | Mar 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Delivery apps charge restaurants 30% and consumers 20% on average per order | Adam Guild | Mar 27, 2025 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Guild: P.F. Chang's contract was worth over $1M annually to Owner | Adam Guild | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | De Milliano: 80% of executive hiring success comes from pre-interview introspection | Eeke de Milliano | Mar 6, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | De Milliano: Executive hiring decisions fail 50% of the time within 18 months | Eeke de Milliano | Mar 6, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Milliano: Founders must lend social capital to onboard new executives | Eeke de Milliano | Mar 6, 2025 | — |
| 36% | “36%” | Busque: TaskRabbit's 401(k) had only 36% participation, mostly directors and above | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Busque: 65% to 70% of 401(k) participants don't know they pay fees | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 92% | “92%” | Busque: 92% of Guideline participants accept automated portfolio recommendations | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | — |
| 1.67% | “1.67%” | Busque: TaskRabbit's early 401(k) asset-based fees reached 1.67% | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1.6% | “1.6%” | Busque: 1.6% 401(k) fees cost individuals up to $600K over 20 years | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | — |
| 92% | “92%” | Busque: 92% of Guideline customers are on integrated payroll platforms | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | — |
| 76% | “76%” | Busque: 76% of US investors first learn to invest via 401(k)s | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Busque: 100% of Guideline's 401(k) plans require automatic enrollment | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Busque: Guideline's plan acquisition is split 50/50 between self-serve and sales | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Busque: Guideline charges $8 per active participant instead of per eligible employee | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Busque: Under 2% of US taxpayers contribute annually to an IRA | Kevin Busque | Feb 20, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 90% | “90%” | Magnuson: 85% to 90% of mobile SaaS in 2012-2015 targeted gaming | Bill Magnuson | Feb 6, 2025 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Magnuson: Competitors burned out raising $50M Series As in an immature market | Bill Magnuson | Feb 6, 2025 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Magnuson: Competitors burned out raising $50M Series As in an immature market | Bill Magnuson | Feb 6, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Wang: Thinking about competition under $5M ARR is generally distracting | Kevin Wang | Feb 6, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Wang: Thinking about competition under $5M ARR is generally distracting | Kevin Wang | Feb 6, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Anand: Clay manually invoiced customers via Stripe until hitting $1M ARR | Varun Anand | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Handy: dbt Labs grew 10% month-over-month for six years straight | Tristan Handy | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Handy: In 2019, 3 dbt engineers supported 1,000 companies driving $100M+ compute | Tristan Handy | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Handy: In 2019, 3 dbt engineers supported 1,000 companies driving $100M+ compute | Tristan Handy | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “Ten million” | Handy: dbt Labs reached its first $10M ARR via product-led growth | Tristan Handy | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Handy: dbt Labs once spent 2% of monthly revenue on coaching | Tristan Handy | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Five percent of Figma files were presentation decks before Slides launched | Yuhki Yamashita | Dec 5, 2024 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | LiveRamp scaled from $30M to over $200M ARR between 2014 and 2017 | Anneka Gupta | Oct 10, 2024 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | LiveRamp scaled from $30M to over $200M ARR between 2014 and 2017 | Anneka Gupta | Oct 10, 2024 | Supported |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Acxiom Paid One-Third of Its Market Cap for Unprofitable Startup LiveRamp | Anneka Gupta | Oct 10, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Acxiom Paid One-Third of Its Market Cap for Unprofitable Startup LiveRamp | Anneka Gupta | Oct 10, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 20% | “20%” | Gupta: New enterprise products only need one killer differentiating feature to sell | Anneka Gupta | Oct 10, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Gupta: New enterprise products only need one killer differentiating feature to sell | Anneka Gupta | Oct 10, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Gupta: Companies building a second product should dedicate 100% GTM resources early | Anneka Gupta | Oct 10, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Gupta: Companies building a second product should dedicate 100% GTM resources early | Anneka Gupta | Oct 10, 2024 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Lerner: 95% of PayPal's Growth Came From Just Five Initiatives | Matt Lerner | Sep 26, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Startups must find the 10% of work yielding 90% of results | Matt Lerner | Sep 26, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Startups must find the 10% of work yielding 90% of results | Matt Lerner | Sep 26, 2024 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Popsa will hit $40 million in profitable revenue without outside investment | Matt Lerner | Sep 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Popsa will hit $40 million in profitable revenue without outside investment | Matt Lerner | Sep 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 65% | “65%” | Smart Tales top-of-funnel repositioning lifted paywall conversion by 65% | Matt Lerner | Sep 26, 2024 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Lerner: Prioritize growth experiments by maximum potential upside, not effort | Matt Lerner | Sep 26, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Use paid ads for quick testing, not scaling early-stage startup growth | Matt Lerner | Sep 26, 2024 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Bob Moesta boosted housing sales 70% by advertising in the obituaries | Matt Lerner | Sep 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Moore: Product-market fit is ephemeral and does not permanently persist | Bob Moore | Sep 19, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Moore: RJMetrics growth plummeted from 100% to 10% amid high churn | Bob Moore | Sep 19, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Moore: RJMetrics growth plummeted from 100% to 10% amid high churn | Bob Moore | Sep 19, 2024 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Moore: Crossbeam raised $100M and rival Reveal raised $50M during ZIRP | Bob Moore | Sep 19, 2024 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Moore: Crossbeam raised $100M and rival Reveal raised $50M during ZIRP | Bob Moore | Sep 19, 2024 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | McCabe: Every VC met in 2011 said $100M SMB revenue was impossible | Eoghan McCabe | Sep 5, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | McCabe: Prescriptive advice is incompatible with building billion-dollar companies | Eoghan McCabe | Sep 5, 2024 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | McCabe: Intercom enforces quarterly bottom-tier quotas with fast-track termination PIPs | Eoghan McCabe | Sep 5, 2024 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | McCabe: Intercom enforces quarterly bottom-tier quotas with fast-track termination PIPs | Eoghan McCabe | Sep 5, 2024 | — |
| 27% | “27%” | McCabe: Cut Intercom headcount by 27% and removed most HR upon return | Eoghan McCabe | Sep 5, 2024 | — |
| 41% | “41%” | McCabe: Intercom pull requests rose 41% in 12 months after CEO return | Eoghan McCabe | Sep 5, 2024 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | McCabe: Intercom scored in high 90s percentile on employee survey | Eoghan McCabe | Sep 5, 2024 | — |
| 29% | “29%” | McCabe: Intercom AI bot resolves 48% of tickets vs Zendesk's 29% | Eoghan McCabe | Sep 5, 2024 | — |
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