| 10,000× | “10,000 X” | US attempt to institute internet censorship is too late compared to China | Balaji Srinivasan | Apr 5, 2022 | — |
| 10,000× | “10,000 X” | Ravikant: Venture bets limit downside to 1X with 10,000X upside potential | Naval Ravikant | Apr 11, 2017 | — |
| 6,000× | “6000 times” | Poilievre: Vancouver police arrested the same 40 offenders 6,000 times | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5,000× | “5000 X” | Calacanis: Uber Seed Round Paid Off 4,000x to 5,000x | Jason Calacanis | Apr 14, 2020 | Supported |
| 1,000× | “1000 X” | US attempt to institute internet censorship is too late compared to China | Balaji Srinivasan | Apr 5, 2022 | — |
| 1,000× | “1000 X” | Calacanis: Probable He Hits Another 300x to 1,000x Return | Jason Calacanis | Apr 14, 2020 | — |
| 500× | “500 X” | Calacanis: Probable He Hits Another 300x to 1,000x Return | Jason Calacanis | Apr 14, 2020 | — |
| 300× | “300 X” | Calacanis: Probable He Hits Another 300x to 1,000x Return | Jason Calacanis | Apr 14, 2020 | — |
| 200× | “200 X” | Calacanis: Accredited investor rules harm poor people by blocking high-upside bets | Jason Calacanis | Apr 14, 2020 | — |
| 150× | “150 times” | Jacobs's companies generated 32x and 150x returns for shareholders | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 150× | “150 times” | Poilievre: Vancouver police arrested the same 40 offenders 6,000 times | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 150× | “150 times” | Jacobs delivered 32x to 150x returns across five consecutive companies | Brad Jacobs | Mar 19, 2024 | Supported |
| 120× | “120 times” | First-year methane warming impact is 120 times higher than CO2 | Nathan Myhrvold | Mar 21, 2023 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Weinberg: AI leverage turns 10x talent into 100x contributors | Winston Weinberg | May 12, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Housel: People's Internal Emotional Range Vastly Exceeds Their Curated Public Performances | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Clear: Working on the right objective yields 100x results; pure effort scales 20% | James Clear | Jan 1, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Wolfe: AI Will Cut Software Engineering Hiring by 10% to 30% | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Satya Nadella executed subtraction at Microsoft better than most founders | Tobi Lütke | Nov 15, 2022 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Huberman: 1mg Melatonin Is ~100x Natural Secretion and Suppresses Puberty | Dr. Andrew Huberman | Mar 22, 2022 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Haidt: Learning from experience is 10 to 100 times more effective than instruction | Jonathan Haidt | Jul 2, 2019 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | MacAskill: Typical rich-country earners make ~100x the poorest 700M people globally | William MacAskill | Jul 11, 2018 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Galef: Top charities can save 100 times more lives per dollar donated | Julia Galef | Feb 20, 2016 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Zweig: Financial columnists repeat the same advice 100 times a year | Jason Zweig | Oct 19, 2015 | — |
| 99× | “99 times” | Robinson: Bond traders are right over equity traders 99% of the time | Adam Robinson | Dec 11, 2018 | — |
| 70× | “70 times” | Nooyi: Frito-Lay chips turn 40 to 50 times annually, beverages 60 to 70 | Indra Nooyi | Jun 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 70× | “70 times” | Teledyne's 1960s Stock-Funded Acquisitions Drove 374% Sales Growth | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | Nooyi: Frito-Lay chips turn 40 to 50 times annually, beverages 60 to 70 | Indra Nooyi | Jun 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 50× | “50 times” | The Patriots were the first NFL team to win two 50-pass games | Michael Lombardi | May 29, 2015 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Post-War Korean Construction Contracts Paid Up to 40 Times Auto Repair | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 32× | “32 times” | Jacobs's companies generated 32x and 150x returns for shareholders | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 32× | “32 times” | Jacobs delivered 32x to 150x returns across five consecutive companies | Brad Jacobs | Mar 19, 2024 | Supported |
| 20× | “twenty-x” | Hetty Green Multiplied Her Inheritance 20x After Taking Control in Her Thirties | Shane Parrish | Oct 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 19× | “19 times” | Robinson: Bond traders are right over equity traders 99% of the time | Adam Robinson | Dec 11, 2018 | — |
| 17× | “17 times” | Schwarzman: Blackstone received 17 rejections for every yes on Fund I | Stephen Schwarzman | Nov 12, 2019 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Singleton: Paying 15x Earnings Yields No Premium Over Treasury Bills | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Calacanis: Launch hosted 13 to 14 Founder University cohorts, half for women and transgender people | Jason Calacanis | Apr 14, 2020 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Nooyi: Frito-Lay chips turn 40 to 50 times annually, beverages 60 to 70 | Indra Nooyi | Jun 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 11× | “11 X” | Wolfe: GM acquired Cruise for $1 billion within a year of funding | Josh Wolfe | Jan 22, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Weinberg: Harvey abandoned a $700M acquisition after securing $500M equity | Winston Weinberg | May 12, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Weinberg: AI leverage turns 10x talent into 100x contributors | Winston Weinberg | May 12, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: Alpha's App Teaches K-8 Subjects to Mastery in Under 30 Hours | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: LLMs Commoditize School Knowledge While Enabling 10x Faster Learning | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Liemandt: Alpha School Prepares Students for SAT 10x Faster at 20 Hours | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Nooyi: Frito-Lay chips turn 40 to 50 times annually, beverages 60 to 70 | Indra Nooyi | Jun 24, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Hastings: Gates-Funded GMO Cassava Delivers 5 to 10x Crop Yield in Trials | Reed Hastings | Jun 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Garry Tan: AI code generation makes engineers 5 to 10 times faster | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | Wolfe: AI Will Cut Software Engineering Hiring by 10% to 30% | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Parrish: Leaders who break agreements miss out on 10x performance | Shane Parrish | Mar 7, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Satya Nadella executed subtraction at Microsoft better than most founders | Tobi Lütke | Nov 15, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Sinclair: Tally Health Will Release a 10x Cheaper Biological Age Test | Dr. David Sinclair | May 3, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Tavel: DoorDash beat Postmates by targeting uncontested suburbs instead of cities | Sarah Tavel | Jun 15, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Greenblatt: Position sizes are determined by downside risk, not upside potential | Joel Greenblatt | May 18, 2021 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Mullenweg: WordPress powers 38% of top 10 million sites | Matt Mullenweg | Jan 5, 2021 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Gross: Increasing problem-solvers 10x offers more leverage than direct solutions | Daniel Gross | Apr 16, 2019 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Pasricha: Disconnected 'untouchable days' boosted writing output 10x to 5,000 words | Neil Pasricha | Dec 24, 2019 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Lütke: Most corporate processes force people to act against common sense | Tobi Lütke | Sep 18, 2018 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Teskey: Waiting for absolute certainty in deals guarantees zero completed transactions | Connor Teskey | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Voss: Fear impedes deals 3x to 9x more than benefits create them | Chris Voss | Jan 3, 2018 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Nejatian: Opendoor is buying 6-7x more homes year-over-year by removing friction | Kaz Nejatian | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Using a Sauna Four to Seven Times Weekly Cuts Mortality by 40% | Dr. Rhonda Patrick | Apr 2, 2024 | Supported |
| 7× | “seven times” | Markel Liquidated Its Citigroup Position at $26 Ahead of the 2008 Crash | Tom Gaynor | Jan 23, 2024 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Grant: Second and third movers are seven times less likely to fail | Adam Grant | Sep 21, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Cool: Cambric uses 2x-3x leverage versus traditional private equity's 4x-6x | Tracy Britt Cool | Oct 14, 2025 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Research Shows Average Young Siblings Squabble Six Times an Hour | Dacher Keltner | Feb 21, 2018 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Cava market capitalization is four to five times higher than Sweetgreen. | Ron Shaich | Nov 11, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 5× | “five times” | Jacobs delivered 32x to 150x returns across five consecutive companies | Brad Jacobs | Mar 19, 2024 | Supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Parrish: Leaders who break agreements miss out on 10x performance | Shane Parrish | Mar 7, 2023 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Tversky: Sitting on your hands during study significantly impairs test performance | Barbara Tversky | Sep 6, 2022 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Klein: Historical performance and tenure do not reliably prove expertise | Gary Klein | Aug 9, 2022 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Nejatian: Opendoor built AI exoskeletons making employees three to four times faster | Kaz Nejatian | Jul 21, 2026 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Chung Ju-Yung Ran Away From Home Four Times Before Escaping Permanently | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Liemandt: Alpha Student Produced Musical Garnering 1M Streams in Week One | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Poilievre: Natural gas fetches 4x domestic price in Asia and Europe | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Firestone sold his early Chicago tire business for $1.25M, netting $45k | Shane Parrish | Jun 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | 70-Year-Olds Produce 4x Less Vitamin D From Sun Than 20-Year-Olds | Dr. Rhonda Patrick | Apr 2, 2024 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Jacobs: XPO levered past 4x for Conway before $550M asset sale | Brad Jacobs | Mar 19, 2024 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Strogatz: In taxicab geometry, pi equals four | Steven Strogatz | Jan 7, 2020 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Greene was fired from a television research job for outshining his superiors. | Robert Greene | Jun 27, 2018 | — |
| 3.2× | “3.2 times” | Schwarzman: Blackstone made 3.2x return on Equity Office Properties deal | Stephen Schwarzman | Nov 12, 2019 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Chung Ju-Yung Ran Away From Home Four Times Before Escaping Permanently | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Liemandt: Alpha's top 1% students learn 3x faster than elite peers | Joe Liemandt | Mar 31, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Tenev: Robinhood scaled from 700 staff to thousands and nearly $1B revenue in 2020 | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Housel: New American Homes Today Are Nearly Triple 1950s Average Size | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Security Pacific Banker Threatened Resignation to Force Home Depot Loan Approval | Shane Parrish | Dec 16, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Cool: Cambric uses 2x-3x leverage versus traditional private equity's 4x-6x | Tracy Britt Cool | Oct 14, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Poilievre: Canadian building permits rank second slowest in the OECD | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three X” | James Clear Lost Roughly 3x Per Copy Traditionally Publishing 'Atomic Habits' | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Hoehn: Automated Email Funnel Tripled Normal Sales-to-Review Conversion | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Using a Sauna Four to Seven Times Weekly Cuts Mortality by 40% | Dr. Rhonda Patrick | Apr 2, 2024 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Three Minutes of Vigorous Exercise Thrice Weekly Cuts Mortality by 50% | Dr. Rhonda Patrick | Apr 2, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three X” | Performance cultures must reward top staff along a strict bell curve | Frank Slootman | Aug 8, 2023 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Stalk: Delivering 3x Faster Yields 3x Growth and Double the Profitability | George Stalk Jr. | May 2, 2023 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Karp: Cleaning up comfort foods changes dietary habits better than pushing salads | Jason Karp | Apr 4, 2023 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Pasricha: US suicide rate is 14 per 100k, double the murder rate | Neil Pasricha | Oct 18, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Hoffman: Passed on investing in Pinterest three times after misunderstanding it | Reid Hoffman | Sep 20, 2022 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Shah: Indian retail data shows living room margins are 3x bedroom margins | Kunal Shah | Jun 28, 2022 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Sinclair: Losing breath 10 minutes weekly provides substantial aerobic health benefits | Dr. David Sinclair | May 3, 2022 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Huberman: Double inhales and long exhales rapidly eliminate acute stress | Dr. Andrew Huberman | Mar 22, 2022 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Huberman: Physiological sighs relieve running side cramps 99% of the time | Dr. Andrew Huberman | Mar 22, 2022 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | A 21-Minute Writing Intervention Halted the Downward Trend in Marital Satisfaction | Greg Walton | Aug 20, 2019 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Headlee: Barney Frank Hung Up on Her Multiple Times | Celeste Headlee | Feb 5, 2019 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Robinson: Equity traders beat currency traders on FX direction 75% of time | Adam Robinson | Dec 11, 2018 | — |
| 2.5× | “2.5 X” | Huberman: Cold water exposure triggers a 2.5x sustained dopamine increase | Dr. Andrew Huberman | Mar 22, 2022 | Supported |
| 2× | “two X” | Tim Ferriss Used Google Ads to Discover 'The 4-Hour Workweek' Title | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 2× | “two X” | Performance cultures must reward top staff along a strict bell curve | Frank Slootman | Aug 8, 2023 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Ohno: A smarter, predictable racing strategy could have doubled my career results | Apolo Ohno | Aug 18, 2020 | — |
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