| 20T | “20 trillion” | Rey Flemings: FDIC holds just $130 billion to insure all U.S. deposits | Rey Flemings | Aug 22, 2023 | Supported |
| 900B | “an eight hundred billion” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50 billion by capturing 6% of distribution market | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Open |
| 900B | “an eight hundred billion” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50B by taking 6% market share | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | Open |
| 900B | “an eight hundred billion” | Jacobs: QXO can reach $50B in revenue through acquisitions and organic growth | Brad Jacobs | Mar 19, 2024 | Open |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Kunal Shah: Elon Musk will likely create five or six $500B+ companies | Kunal Shah | Jun 28, 2022 | Open |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Meta is extremely underrated because Mark Zuckerberg remains founder and CEO | Balaji Srinivasan | Apr 5, 2022 | — |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | Parrish: Berkshire Hathaway holds roughly $300B in cash | Shane Parrish | Nov 12, 2024 | Supported |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Baszucki estimates Roblox captures 3% to 4% of the $200B gaming market | David Baszucki | Aug 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Finkelstein: Mutual accountability partnerships are how $100B companies are built | Harley Finkelstein | Jul 8, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Collison: Koch Industries scaled from $20M to $100B without a single breakthrough driver | Patrick Collison | May 2, 2018 | Supported |
| 76B | “a seventy-five billion” | Mega-round growth investing resembles traditional equity markets, not venture capital | Ben Thompson | Sep 5, 2018 | — |
| 71B | “seventy-one billion” | Ackman: Pershing Square held $71B notional CDS hedge committing $500M annually | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | — |
| 71B | “a seventy billion” | Bill Ackman Turned $27 Million in CDS Premiums Into $2.6 Billion | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | — |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Ackman: Pershing Square held $71B notional CDS hedge committing $500M annually | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | — |
| 51B | “a fifty billion” | Fraser: The sock market is valued at $50 billion | Rob Fraser | Oct 15, 2024 | Supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Home Depot Reached 2,300 Stores and $150B in Annual Revenue by 2024 | Shane Parrish | Dec 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | The fast casual restaurant sector is a $350 billion industry today. | Ron Shaich | Nov 11, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Wolfe: Anduril will be a $30B–$50B public company with software margins | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | Open |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Poilievre: $40B LNG Canada Project Is Canada's Largest Project Ever | Pierre Poilievre | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 33B | “a thirty two billion” | Tenev: Robinhood Lost Over 80% of Market Value Post-IPO | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 33B | “a thirty two billion” | Flatt: Brookfield is building a $32B fabrication plant with Intel | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Parrish: FedEx revenue grew from $7.8B in 1992 to nearly $30B by 2005 | Shane Parrish | Sep 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Rey Flemings: FDIC holds just $130 billion to insure all U.S. deposits | Rey Flemings | Aug 22, 2023 | Supported |
| 30B | “30 billion” | Cialdini: Opower prevented 30 billion pounds of CO2 via neighbor comparisons | Robert Cialdini | Oct 19, 2021 | Supported |
| 24B | “twenty-four billion” | Home Depot Reached 500 Stores and $24B in Sales by 1997 | Shane Parrish | Dec 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Mullenweg: WooCommerce is doing well over $20B in GMV | Matt Mullenweg | Jan 5, 2021 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Dixon: VC invests only $10B–$20B yearly, smaller than big tech R&D budgets | Chris Dixon | Nov 13, 2015 | Contradicted |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | Cava is arguably the most successful food service IPO in five years. | Ron Shaich | Nov 11, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | Pasricha: Living humans represent a 1-in-15 fraction of all who ever lived | Neil Pasricha | Oct 18, 2022 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Rey Flemings: Extreme wealth milestones never feel sufficient due to constant comparison | Rey Flemings | Aug 22, 2023 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Sinclair: Global Population Will Cap at 10 Billion Despite Longer Lifespans | Dr. David Sinclair | May 3, 2022 | Open |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Chamath: Running a $10B+ company is entirely about capital allocation | Chamath Palihapitiya | Oct 13, 2020 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Schwarzman: Blackstone made 3.2x return on Equity Office Properties deal | Stephen Schwarzman | Nov 12, 2019 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Collins: Investing in proven, scaling flywheels beats trying to predict nascent ones | Jim Collins | Oct 1, 2019 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Marks: Oaktree invested $10 billion across final 15 weeks of 2008 | Howard Marks | Mar 5, 2019 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Brockman: Global GPU production is nowhere near one GPU per person | Greg Brockman | Apr 22, 2026 | Supported |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Pasricha: Living humans represent a 1-in-15 fraction of all who ever lived | Neil Pasricha | Oct 18, 2022 | Supported |
| 7.8B | “7.8 billion” | Parrish: FedEx revenue grew from $7.8B in 1992 to nearly $30B by 2005 | Shane Parrish | Sep 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Over $7 billion in eligible U.S. customs duty drawbacks goes unclaimed annually | Ryan Petersen | Aug 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 7B | “a six billion” | Flatt: Brookfield successfully took a $6B unindexed shipping company private | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Pasricha: Living humans represent a 1-in-15 fraction of all who ever lived | Neil Pasricha | Oct 18, 2022 | Supported |
| 4B | “a three billion” | Parrish: Les Schwab built a $3B tire company while sharing 50% profits | Shane Parrish | Dec 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 4B | “a three billion” | Automattic rejected a $500M valuation weeks before securing a $3B valuation | Matt Mullenweg | Jan 5, 2021 | — |
| 3.8B | “3.8 billion” | Flexport reached profitability in 2022 as revenue peaked at $3.8 billion | Ryan Petersen | Aug 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Act III Holdings grew from $200 million to $2 billion, returning 55%. | Ron Shaich | Nov 11, 2025 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Les Schwab Tire Centers Sold for Over $3 Billion in 2020 | Shane Parrish | Jul 15, 2025 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Bragg: Family investment portfolio exceeds three billion dollars | John Bragg | Oct 1, 2024 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | US attempt to institute internet censorship is too late compared to China | Balaji Srinivasan | Apr 5, 2022 | — |
| 2.5B | “2.5 billion” | Dyson abandoned a £2.5 billion electric car project in 2019 | Shane Parrish | Mar 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 2.3B | “2.3 billion” | McGonigal: 2.3 billion people globally regularly play video games | Jane McGonigal | Jan 19, 2021 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Mary Kay Cosmetics reached $2 billion in annual sales by 2001 | Shane Parrish | Dec 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Dunford: Siebel Was the Fastest Silicon Valley Company to $1B Revenue | April Dunford | Aug 20, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 2B | “two billion” | Davis: Grandfather grew $100K into $2B and gave 100% to charity | Christopher Davis | Mar 5, 2024 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Pershing Square Bought $2.05 Billion in Equities While Unwinding COVID Hedge | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Communicating to a universal audience dilutes messaging into meaninglessness | Lulu Cheng Meservey | Sep 16, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “1.5 billion” | Flatt: China will thrive independently as a consumer service economy | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Greenblatt: Nikola held a $6.5B valuation despite appearing completely fraudulent | Joel Greenblatt | May 18, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Ackman: Pershing Square held $71B notional CDS hedge committing $500M annually | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | — |
| 1.4B | “1.4 billion” | Washington Post revenues grew from $84M to $1.4B under Katharine Graham | Shane Parrish | Jul 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | XPO turned a $3B Con-way acquisition into a $15B asset | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Paribas gave Jacobs's early oil trading business a $1B credit line | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Pincus: Apps earning an iPhone home screen spot hold $1B stick value | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Tenev: Robinhood scaled from 700 staff to thousands and nearly $1B revenue in 2020 | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Condé Nast lost nearly $1 billion as ad pages fell in 2009 | Shane Parrish | Jun 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Gil: Invested in Airbnb, Stripe at 8 employees, Coinbase at $1B+ | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Dunford: Siebel Was the Fastest Silicon Valley Company to $1B Revenue | April Dunford | Aug 20, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Halligan: AI means billion-dollar companies won't need 500-person marketing teams | Brian Halligan | Aug 6, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | XPO's Conway acquisition yielded $15B in value and $5B in cash | Brad Jacobs | Mar 19, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Banque Paribas granted Jacobs a $1B credit line for oil trading | Brad Jacobs | Mar 19, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Walker: Sleep Stories saved Calm and drove its near-billion-dollar valuation | Matthew Walker | Dec 27, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Kunal Shah: Startups become big companies when high-slope talent thins out | Kunal Shah | Jun 28, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Srinivasan: Public Health Risk Is Flattened Into Binary Morality Plays | Balaji Srinivasan | Apr 5, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Srinivasan: Lighter 2010s regulation would have yielded 1B sequenced genomes | Balaji Srinivasan | Apr 5, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lavingia: Startups Need Billion-Dollar Upside to Attract Big-Tech Talent | Sahil Lavingia | Dec 8, 2020 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Dr. Z: Juno Orbit Burn Was Canceled Due to Untested Engine Risk | Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen | Apr 6, 2021 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Pershing Square Bought $2.05 Billion in Equities While Unwinding COVID Hedge | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Esther Wojcicki: YouTube receives one billion education hits daily | Esther Wojcicki | Mar 17, 2020 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Ohno: Usain Bolt joked before races to prime a hyper-reactive physical state | Apolo Ohno | Aug 18, 2020 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Schwarzman: Blackstone raised $950M for Fund I with no investing record | Stephen Schwarzman | Nov 12, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Maintaining a Full Web Crawl Index Costs Hundreds of Millions Annually | Gabriel Weinberg | May 14, 2019 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Strogatz: Math revealed HIV produces a billion virus particles daily | Steven Strogatz | Jan 7, 2020 | Supported |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Rockefeller's Fortune Tripled to Nearly One Billion Dollars After Standard Oil's Breakup | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Davis: Grandfather grew $100K into $2B and gave 100% to charity | Christopher Davis | Mar 5, 2024 | Supported |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Weinberg: Harvey abandoned a $700M acquisition after securing $500M equity | Winston Weinberg | May 12, 2026 | — |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | MacAskill: Typical rich-country earners make ~100x the poorest 700M people globally | William MacAskill | Jul 11, 2018 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Pincus: Supercell made $500M profit the year after Zynga passed | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Korean Business Leaders Paid 500 Million Won Bi-Annually to President Park | Shane Parrish | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Flexport flew 500 million PPE items on 88 passenger planes during COVID | Ryan Petersen | Aug 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Automattic rejected a $500M valuation weeks before securing a $3B valuation | Matt Mullenweg | Jan 5, 2021 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Pincus: TCI Considered $400M Prodigy Stake Instead of Buying AOL for $110M | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Pincus: Zynga had a $400M handshake deal to acquire Supercell | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Rockefeller's Fortune Tripled to Nearly One Billion Dollars After Standard Oil's Breakup | Shane Parrish | Jul 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 300M | “a two hundred million” | Act III Holdings grew from $200 million to $2 billion, returning 55%. | Ron Shaich | Nov 11, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Bragg: Oxford processes half of the 300-million-pound wild blueberry industry | John Bragg | Oct 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Pershing Square Bought $2.05 Billion in Equities While Unwinding COVID Hedge | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | The CDC was bottlenecked to running only 12 coronavirus tests per day | Balaji Srinivasan | Mar 13, 2020 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Gawande: Surgical Checklists Reduced Mortality by 50% in Eight Cities | Dr. Atul Gawande | Oct 2, 2018 | Supported |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Tatte generates $250 million in annual revenue across just 50 locations. | Ron Shaich | Nov 11, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Pincus: Feud between Peter Thiel and Sequoia killed early Zynga financing | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Clinique annual sales reached $200 million by 1985 | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Parrish: Mellon's debt refinancing saved US Treasury $200 million annually | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create messy, unintegrated businesses | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Segal: David's Tea reached 200 stores, $200M sales, and $30M EBITDA | David Segal | Apr 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE roll-ups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | Mar 19, 2024 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Creel: Bill Ackman offered $200M when asked for $100M in unplanned capex | Keith Creel | Nov 29, 2022 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Tiny hired the former president of SodaStream to run AeroPress | Andrew Wilkinson | Jul 26, 2022 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Automattic rejected a $200M acquisition offer when it had 25 employees | Matt Mullenweg | Jan 5, 2021 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | Aug 4, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Zynga's Words with Friends turnaround generated $180M revenue, $100M contribution margin | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Tenev: Robinhood Has 11 Business Lines Generating Over $100M Annually | Vlad Tenev | Mar 3, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Tangen: Junior Investors Cannot Use Gut Feel Because Superiors Disbelieve It | Nicolai Tangen | Feb 17, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “one hundred million” | Mary Kay Cosmetics Scaled From $10M in 1967 to Over $100M in 1976 | Shane Parrish | Dec 2, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Parrish: Mellon's Gulf Oil stake held $100M market value despite $17.4M book | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Parrish: Mellon's $100M net worth exceeded Harding's entire presidential cabinet combined | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create messy, unintegrated businesses | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE roll-ups create unintegrated messes for multiple expansion | Brad Jacobs | Mar 19, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Living in Victoria protects Wilkinson from mimetic status competition | Andrew Wilkinson | Jul 26, 2022 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Cubitt: Large company boards must be 'nose in, fingers out' | Code Cubitt | Oct 27, 2020 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Cubitt: Hands-on VC work with struggling startups can preserve half the fund | Code Cubitt | Oct 27, 2020 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Godin: The internet is a micro medium, not a mass medium | Seth Godin | Feb 23, 2021 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | A startup could reach $100M in revenue using entirely no-code tools | Jason Calacanis | Apr 14, 2020 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Gawande: Surgical Checklists Reduced Mortality by 50% in Eight Cities | Dr. Atul Gawande | Oct 2, 2018 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Grant: Corning Fellows must author $100M patents and support others' patents | Adam Grant | Sep 21, 2017 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Steve Jobs Held Over $100 Million When Forced Out of Apple | Shane Parrish | Sep 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 87M | “eighty-seven million” | Teledyne Spun Off Argonaut at $234M Valuation After $87M Acquisition | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 84M | “eighty four million” | Washington Post revenues grew from $84M to $1.4B under Katharine Graham | Shane Parrish | Jul 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Zynga's Words with Friends turnaround generated $180M revenue, $100M contribution margin | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Parrish: Mellon's Gulf Oil stake held $100M market value despite $17.4M book | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Parrish: Ed Stack Borrowed $60M from GE Capital to Buy Out 60% of VC Stakes | Shane Parrish | Sep 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | By 1920, Eaton's controlled 60% of Canada's department store sales | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 59M | “fifty nine million” | NeonX grew to over 4,000 employees and $159M in annual sales by late 1968 | Shane Parrish | Jul 1, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 56M | “fifty-six million” | By 1938, Firestone controlled 25% of US tire market with $156M+ sales | Shane Parrish | Jun 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 55M | “fifty-five million” | Berkshire Hathaway Acquired Nebraska Furniture Mart for Approximately $55 Million | Shane Parrish | May 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 55M | “fifty-five million” | Parrish: Mellon's Gulf Oil stake held $100M market value despite $17.4M book | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 54M | “fifty-four million” | FedEx Cut 6,600 European Workers and Took $254M Charge in 1992 | Shane Parrish | Sep 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Hetty Green Was America's Wealthiest Woman With an Estimated $50M Fortune | Shane Parrish | Oct 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Les Schwab added 60 member dealers and $50M in sales in five years | Shane Parrish | Jul 15, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Youth-Dew sales grew from $50,000 in 1953 to $150M by 1984 | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Ridley: Government advance purchase commitments drove COVID mRNA vaccine breakthroughs | Matt Ridley | Mar 23, 2021 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Pershing Square Bought $2.05 Billion in Equities While Unwinding COVID Hedge | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Calacanis: Launch invested early in Ruby Love doing $250k monthly revenue on $50k raised | Jason Calacanis | Apr 14, 2020 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Parrish: Intelligence agency awarded Holland tens of millions after vowing not to | Shane Parrish | Sep 29, 2020 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Marks: Oaktree invested $10 billion across final 15 weeks of 2008 | Howard Marks | Mar 5, 2019 | — |
| 49M | “forty-nine million” | Vogue reached $149 million in revenue by 1999 under Anna Wintour | Shane Parrish | Jun 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 43M | “a forty-two million” | Filterbuy targets $42M in marketing spend after $38M year | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 41M | “forty-one million” | By 1920, Eaton's controlled 60% of Canada's department store sales | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Oxford Frozen Foods processes 140 million pounds of blueberries annually | Shane Parrish | Aug 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | The Washington Post's $40M acquisition of Kaplan eventually became worth billions | Shane Parrish | Jul 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Bragg: Oxford processes half of the 300-million-pound wild blueberry industry | John Bragg | Oct 1, 2024 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Ridley: Government advance purchase commitments drove COVID mRNA vaccine breakthroughs | Matt Ridley | Mar 23, 2021 | — |
| 35M | “thirty-five million” | Shah: Only 30 to 35 million people in India invest in financial assets | Kunal Shah | Jun 28, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 34M | “thirty four million” | Teledyne Spun Off Argonaut at $234M Valuation After $87M Acquisition | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Les Schwab reached over 120 locations and $130M in revenue by 1975 | Shane Parrish | Jul 15, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Segal: David's Tea reached 200 stores, $200M sales, and $30M EBITDA | David Segal | Apr 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Mullenweg: Automattic cut $25M-$30M in annual costs from Tumblr | Matt Mullenweg | Jan 5, 2021 | — |
| 30M | “Thirty million” | Domingos: AlphaGo Trained on 30 Million Human Moves Before Self-Play | Pedro Domingos | Aug 30, 2016 | Supported |
| 29M | “twenty nine million” | FedEx International Operations Lost $629 Million Over Three Years | Shane Parrish | Sep 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 27M | “twenty-seven million” | Mary Kay Cosmetics Scaled From $10M in 1967 to Over $100M in 1976 | Shane Parrish | Dec 2, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 27M | “twenty seven million” | Bill Ackman Turned $27 Million in CDS Premiums Into $2.6 Billion | Bill Ackman | Apr 28, 2020 | — |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Calacanis: Launch invested $25M with a 12-person team last year | Jason Calacanis | Apr 14, 2020 | — |
| 24M | “twenty-four million” | Marks: US lost 24M jobs to productivity gains versus 3M to China | Howard Marks | Mar 5, 2019 | Supported |
| 22M | “twenty-two million” | By 1920, Eaton's controlled 60% of Canada's department store sales | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Pincus: Feud between Peter Thiel and Sequoia killed early Zynga financing | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Singleton Repurchased 8.6 Million Teledyne Shares at $200 in Final Buyback | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | CD Baby scaled to $20M and 85 employees in four years | Derek Sivers | Jul 21, 2020 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Collison: Koch Industries scaled from $20M to $100B without a single breakthrough driver | Patrick Collison | May 2, 2018 | Supported |
| 17.4M | “17.4 million” | Parrish: Mellon's Gulf Oil stake held $100M market value despite $17.4M book | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Pincus: Zynga never spent a dollar of venture capital raised | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Mary Kay took her company private in a $315 million LBO | Shane Parrish | Dec 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 12M | “twelve million” | McDonald's repaid its 30-year buyout debt 19 years early in 1972 | Shane Parrish | Jan 27, 2026 | Supported |
| 12M | “twelve million” | Teen Vogue traffic surged to 12M and print subscribers tripled | Shane Parrish | Jun 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 11M | “eleven million” | Vanderbilt's $11M fortune in 1860 likely made him America's richest citizen | Shane Parrish | Apr 8, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 11M | “eleven million” | Koskinas: Greater Athens represents about 40% of Greece's total population | Aristotle Koskinas | Jan 5, 2017 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Pincus: TCI Considered $400M Prodigy Stake Instead of Buying AOL for $110M | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Housel: The Psychology of Money Has Sold Roughly 10 Million Copies | Morgan Housel | Jan 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Former Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli Resigned With $210M Severance Package | Shane Parrish | Dec 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Vogue monthly traffic grew from 1M to 10M visitors under Wintour | Shane Parrish | Jun 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | John Bragg: American business culture spends wealth while Canadians hide it | John Bragg | Oct 1, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Mullenweg: WordPress powers 38% of top 10 million sites | Matt Mullenweg | Jan 5, 2021 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Cubitt: Hands-on VC work with struggling startups can preserve half the fund | Code Cubitt | Oct 27, 2020 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Chamath: Running a $10B+ company is entirely about capital allocation | Chamath Palihapitiya | Oct 13, 2020 | — |
| 8.6M | “8.6 million” | Singleton Repurchased 8.6 Million Teledyne Shares at $200 in Final Buyback | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 8.5M | “8.5 million” | Jimmy Pattison executed Western Canada's first major hostile takeover | Shane Parrish | Jul 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 8.5M | “8.5 million” | NeonX grew to over 4,000 employees and $159M in annual sales by late 1968 | Shane Parrish | Jul 1, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 8M | “eight million” | Filterbuy has sold to roughly eight million unique US residences | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 7.8M | “7.8 million” | Parrish: Mellon's personal income surged to $7.8M during the 1929 crash | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 7M | “seven million” | Goldsmith: 'The Secret' is ridiculous and relies entirely on survivorship bias | Marshall Goldsmith | Jul 12, 2022 | — |
| 7M | “Seven million” | Legendary received a $7M newspaper advertising bill for one Hangover movie | Thomas Tull | May 28, 2019 | — |
| 6M | “six million” | Hetty Green Loaned Over $6M to Save Texas Banks in 1907 | Shane Parrish | Oct 7, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 5.2M | “5.2 million” | Parrish: Mellon's personal income surged to $7.8M during the 1929 crash | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 5M | “five million” | Pincus: Feud between Peter Thiel and Sequoia killed early Zynga financing | Mark Pincus | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Harik: Current Nvidia and Google chips offer 5M times 1990s compute | Mario Harik | Apr 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Koskinas: Greater Athens represents about 40% of Greece's total population | Aristotle Koskinas | Jan 5, 2017 | Supported |
| 4.9M | “4.94 million” | At 99, Rose Blumkin Sold Her Rival Store to NFM for $4.94M | Shane Parrish | May 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 4M | “four million” | Bragg eliminated $4M in public company overhead upon buying AM Telecom | Shane Parrish | Aug 26, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 4M | “four million” | Parrish: Only Five US Cities Had Over 10,000 Residents at Vanderbilt's Birth | Shane Parrish | Apr 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 4M | “four million” | Dyson won £4 million in patent infringement damages from Hoover | Shane Parrish | Mar 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 4M | “four million” | Parrish: Mellon's $100M net worth exceeded Harding's entire presidential cabinet combined | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 4M | “four million” | Heacock liquidated Filterbuy's truck fleet in 2023, losing millions | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
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