| 10,000× | “10,000 x” | Baker: Viral water usage statistics overestimated data center consumption by 10,000x | Gavin Baker | Aug 4, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3,000× | “3000 X” | Naimi: Indexing all 1,000 2008-2011 seed deals would return 3x from Uber | Ramtin Naimi | Jul 29, 2025 | — |
| 2,000× | “2000 times” | Patel: GPT-3 Quality Model Inference Is 2,000 Times Cheaper Now | Dylan Patel | Sep 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Kushner: Second Trump administration will bring far more business pragmatists to Washington | Jared Kushner | Dec 20, 2024 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Patel: Opus 4.6/4.7-level AI inference will be 100x cheaper in a year | Dylan Patel | Apr 23, 2026 | Open |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Vishria: High-multiple VC returns are no longer restricted to early stage | Eric Vishria | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 40× | “40 times” | Baker: Semi-cap equipment trades at 40x earnings vs DRAM at single digits | Gavin Baker | May 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 35× | “35 X” | Mehta: DeepSeek achieved a 35x token cost reduction versus OpenAI reasoning models | Neil Mehta | Apr 15, 2025 | Supported |
| 30× | “30 X” | Taggart: Our investment in beverage brand Poppi returned 30x | Drew Taggart | Jun 24, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Alternative Asset Manager FRE Multiples Expanded From 10x to 30x | Alan Waxman | Apr 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 26× | “26 times” | Escobari: US equities trade at 97th valuation percentile over 25 years | Martin Escobari | Nov 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Mitchell Green: Assuming 20x-25x exit multiples for AI deals is insanity | Mitchell Green | Mar 24, 2026 | — |
| 21× | “21 times” | George: a16z Growth's Recent Portfolio Grows 112% at 21x Revenue | David George | Dec 2, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Ovitz: Roger Goodell Grew the NFL 20x With Zero Unprofitable Owners | Michael Ovitz | Apr 8, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Alternative Asset Manager FRE Multiples Expanded From 10x to 30x | Alan Waxman | Apr 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 20× | “20 times” | Green: Lead Edge invested in Toast at 20x revenue ($500M valuation) | Mitchell Green | Mar 24, 2026 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Emanuel: WME acquired UFC at a 20x EBITDA valuation | Ari Emanuel | Nov 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Loeb: Nvidia represents a catch-up trade at 15x 2027 earnings | Dan Loeb | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Alternative Asset Manager FRE Multiples Expanded From 10x to 30x | Alan Waxman | Apr 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 14× | “14 times” | Escobari: Equities trade at 14x in Europe, 9x in Brazil | Martin Escobari | Nov 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 13× | “13 times” | Alpine Investors pays 13x multiples today for companies it bought at 5x | Graham Weaver | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Loeb: Nvidia represents a catch-up trade at 15x 2027 earnings | Dan Loeb | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Uberti: AI Token Serving Requires Non-Linear Cluster Scaling Economics | Gavin Uberti | Jun 30, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Khosrowshahi: Uber developers in India drive 10x more code commits using AI | Dara Khosrowshahi | Jun 3, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gurley: Top VC firms increased fund commitments 10x to $5B | Bill Gurley | Jun 10, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | George: Private Market Cap Reached $5T, Up 10x in 10 Years | David George | Dec 2, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Escobari: Brahma captured 95% of equity value in its merger with Antarctica | Martin Escobari | Nov 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Escobari: Equities trade at 14x in Europe, 9x in Brazil | Martin Escobari | Nov 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Escobari: $100M-revenue fast-growing companies have increased tenfold | Martin Escobari | Nov 25, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: Traditional classroom lecturing is the worst instructional method for children | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: Generative AI will scale high-speed personalized learning to 1B kids | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: Students will learn 10x faster if given their free time back | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: Personalized question streams produce 10x more learning than passive classes | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Vishria: China is adding ten times more energy capacity than the US | Eric Vishria | Aug 11, 2026 | Open |
| 10× | “10 times” | Movva: Reducing Costs Tenfold Creates a New Product Category | Neil Movva | Aug 25, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Escobari: Equities trade at 14x in Europe, 9x in Brazil | Martin Escobari | Nov 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 8× | “eight X” | Voice-to-voice AI models have an 8x higher hallucination rate than text | Jesse Zhang | Oct 6, 2025 | — |
| 8× | “eight times” | Movva: Sharding matrix multiply across eight GPUs yields only 4x to 5x speedup | Neil Movva | Aug 25, 2026 | — |
| 7× | “seven X” | George: SaaS Cloud Wave Split Revenue 50-50 Between Startups And Incumbents | David George | Dec 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Atiyeh: Rotating one billboard weekly beats buying two static billboards | Karim Atiyeh | Oct 21, 2025 | — |
| 7× | “seven X” | Naimi: Indexing all 1,000 2008-2011 seed deals would return 3x from Uber | Ramtin Naimi | Jul 29, 2025 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Escobari: Dominant platforms are always worth more than 6x EBITDA | Martin Escobari | Nov 25, 2025 | — |
| 6× | “six X” | Only 1% of public stocks compound at 20% over 10 years | Henry Ellenbogen | Dec 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 6× | “six X” | Even 10-year 6x compounder stocks average a 50% drawdown during strategic transitions | Henry Ellenbogen | Dec 16, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 5× | “five times” | Sacerdote: Whale Rock bought Tesla in 2019 at five times earnings | Alex Sacerdote | Jun 9, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Alpine Investors' explicit target is a 5x MOIC on every fund | Graham Weaver | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Graham Weaver: Executive placement is harder than financial modeling in roll-ups | Graham Weaver | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Alpine Investors has marked three consecutive funds at a 5x MOIC | Graham Weaver | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Alpine Investors pays 13x multiples today for companies it bought at 5x | Graham Weaver | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Kushner: Affinity acquired Brazilian restaurant business at just over 5x cash flow | Jared Kushner | Dec 20, 2024 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Ferrari: Acquisition integration effort does not scale linearly with target revenue | Luca Ferrari | Nov 4, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Escobari: General Atlantic's Top 10% of Deals Generate 50% of Returns | Martin Escobari | Nov 25, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Liemandt: Gifted Students Learn 3x to 5x Faster in Two Hours | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Naimi: A $100M fund at 5% ownership beats a $1.5B fund at 15% | Ramtin Naimi | Jul 29, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Horing: Pre-IPO late-stage growth rounds delivered 4-5x returns before 2017 | Jeff Horing | Sep 16, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Becker: Clear's face-first NV technology verifies identity five times faster | Caryn Seidman Becker | Jul 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Vishria: Fireworks achieves 5x speed and higher throughput than major clouds | Eric Vishria | Aug 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Movva: Sharding matrix multiply across eight GPUs yields only 4x to 5x speedup | Neil Movva | Aug 25, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Smith: Expand Energy trades at four times forward EBITDA | Matt Smith | Jul 21, 2026 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Sacerdote: Whale Rock bought Nvidia in 2023 at four times earnings | Alex Sacerdote | Jun 9, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Gurley: AI revenue growth includes compute wrappers resold at negative gross margins | Bill Gurley | Jun 10, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Nolan: Steep Venture Up-Rounds Are Often Underpriced Due to Anchoring | Scott Nolan | Apr 14, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Liemandt: Gifted Students Learn 3x to 5x Faster in Two Hours | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Horing: Lockups Reduced Insight's 1999 Fund Return From 4x to 1x | Jeff Horing | Sep 16, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Sacerdote: Transitioning GPU rack scale-up to fiber will 2x–3x Corning's market | Alex Sacerdote | Jun 9, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Alpine Investors underwrites individual deals to a 3.0x to 3.5x gross return | Graham Weaver | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Alpine Investors escaped an overconcentrated slot machine deal with a 3x return | Graham Weaver | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Michael Dell started with $1,000 and retained 70% ownership at IPO | David Senra | May 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Kushner: Spoke with Qatar's Sheikh Mohammed 3x Daily for 100 Days | Jared Kushner | Dec 20, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Paul Tudor Jones: Mandating AI watermarking with felony penalties is essential | Paul Tudor Jones | Apr 28, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Hockey nearly went bankrupt funding Column with a massive personal margin loan | William Hockey | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Behring: 3G Capital Made Nearly 3x on Heinz Investment | Alex Behring | Feb 10, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Schwartz: Burger King memo projected 3x in five years, not platform M&A | Daniel Schwartz | Feb 10, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | George: 2009 Wall Street Consensus Underestimated Apple's 2013 Performance by 3x | David George | Dec 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Wang: Chinese automakers launch new vehicles three times faster than Western peers | Dan Wang | Oct 16, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Positive real rate regimes yield 40 compounder stocks, compared to 120 under ZIRP | Henry Ellenbogen | Dec 16, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Liemandt: Gifted Students Learn 3x to 5x Faster in Two Hours | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Naimi: Indexing all 1,000 2008-2011 seed deals would return 3x from Uber | Ramtin Naimi | Jul 29, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Bertolini: Oscar built the first new health insurance platform since 1972 | Mark Bertolini | Aug 19, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Horing: Venture buyouts beat late-stage venture on risk-adjusted return | Jeff Horing | Sep 16, 2025 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Nolan: Steep Venture Up-Rounds Are Often Underpriced Due to Anchoring | Scott Nolan | Apr 14, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two times” | Sankar: Traditional defense primes have 9% margins and trade under 2x revenue | Sham Sankar | Mar 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 2× | “two times” | Sankar: Palantir holds bi-annual 'weeks of revolt' for rogue projects | Sham Sankar | Mar 10, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Liemandt: Alpha tests fail to hit 2x learning in 2 hours for homeschoolers | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Liemandt: Alpha will launch a homeschool product delivering 2x learning next year | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | Held up |
| 2× | “two X” | Liemandt: Gifted Students Learn 3x to 5x Faster in Two Hours | Joe Liemandt | Aug 26, 2025 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Losing TSMC Wouldn't Be Disastrous Because Intel Is Only 2x Behind | Neil Movva | Aug 25, 2026 | — |
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