| 1M | “one million” | Parrish: US truck registrations grew from 215,000 to over one million between 1916 and 1920 | Shane Parrish | Jun 3, 2025 | Supported |
| $43M | “Forty-three million dollars” | Firestone Faced $43M in Debt and Collapsing Demand in 1920 | Shane Parrish | Jun 3, 2025 | Supported |
| $44M | “forty four million dollars” | Firestone generated $18M in sales and cut debt by $13M in late 1920 | Shane Parrish | Jun 3, 2025 | Supported |
| $31M | “thirty one million dollars” | Firestone generated $18M in sales and cut debt by $13M in late 1920 | Shane Parrish | Jun 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 56M | “fifty-six million” | By 1938, Firestone controlled 25% of US tire market with $156M+ sales | Shane Parrish | Jun 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 25% | “25%” | By 1938, Firestone controlled 25% of US tire market with $156M+ sales | Shane Parrish | Jun 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Belichick: NFL competition levels out raw talent that dominated lower leagues | Bill Belichick | May 27, 2025 | — |
| 83% | “83%” | Japanese competition dropped Intel's memory market share to 1.3% by 1985 | Shane Parrish | May 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.3% | “1.3%” | Japanese competition dropped Intel's memory market share to 1.3% by 1985 | Shane Parrish | May 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Memory chips generated over 90% of Intel's revenue in 1985 | Shane Parrish | May 20, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 2.5M | “2.5 million” | Fairchild's 1959 buyout returned $250,000 per founder on a $500 investment | Shane Parrish | May 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Gil: Invested in Airbnb, Stripe at 8 employees, Coinbase at $1B+ | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Gil: Startups captured 80% of Internet value, while incumbents won mobile | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Gil: Startups captured 80% of Internet value, while incumbents won mobile | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Gil: Startups captured 80% of Internet value, while incumbents won mobile | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Gil: The best early-stage startups operate almost 100% in person | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Gil: Big tech companies could cut headcounts close to 80% | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Gil: Bay Area represents 25% of global private tech wealth creation | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Gil: Bay Area represents 25% of global private tech wealth creation | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Gil: 80% to 90% of AI market cap is in the Bay Area | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 12% | “12%” | Gil: Cost-plus contracts incentivize defense firms to run late and overrun costs | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Gil: Cost-plus contracts incentivize defense firms to run late and overrun costs | Elad Gil | May 13, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Rose Blumkin Built Her Business by Consistently Selling 10% Above Cost | Shane Parrish | May 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 55M | “fifty-five million” | Berkshire Hathaway Acquired Nebraska Furniture Mart for Approximately $55 Million | Shane Parrish | May 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Berkshire Hathaway Acquired Nebraska Furniture Mart for Approximately $55 Million | Shane Parrish | May 6, 2025 | Partly 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 |
| 1M | “a million” | Tan: Median YC startup raises $1M to $1.5M post-program | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Tan: YC companies raise ~$1B yearly with a 1% acceptance rate | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Tan: YC companies raise ~$1B yearly with a 1% acceptance rate | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tan: YC group partners read 1,000 to 1,500 applications per cycle | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Garry Tan: About 2.5% of Y Combinator startups become $10B decacorns | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 4% | “four percent” | Garry Tan: Y Combinator's unicorn hit rate increased from 3.5% to 5.5% | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 0.5% | “half percent” | Garry Tan: Y Combinator's unicorn hit rate increased from 3.5% to 5.5% | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Garry Tan: Y Combinator's unicorn hit rate increased from 3.5% to 5.5% | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Garry Tan: Serial founders built 40% of recent global unicorns | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Garry Tan: 60% of serial founders who built recent unicorns are YC alumni | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 60% | “60%” | Garry Tan: 60% of serial founders who built recent unicorns are YC alumni | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $6M | “six million dollars” | Garry Tan: 5-person YC startups are hitting $12M revenue in 12 months | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| $12M | “twelve million dollars” | Garry Tan: 5-person YC startups are hitting $12M revenue in 12 months | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Garry Tan: Sub-15-person startups reaching $100M revenue will be common by 2027 | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Garry Tan: My AI existential risk 'p(doom)' score is 1% | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Garry Tan: $4 billion currently funds AI safety organizations and think tanks | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 90% | “90%” | Garry Tan: Elon Musk proved Twitter didn't need 80% of its staff | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Garry Tan: AI code generation makes engineers 5 to 10 times faster | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 110% | “110%” | Garry Tan: I didn't vote for Trump but I support the administration | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Tan: Automated systems will always require a human in the loop | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Tan: YC-backed Leaping AI automates 80% of German wine merchant orders | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Garry Tan: AI passing the Turing test will jump to 30% this year | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Garry Tan: AI passing the Turing test will jump to 30% this year | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Garry Tan: Software moats remain unchanged, but startups only need six employees | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | — |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Tan: Initialized Capital reached $3 billion in assets under management | Garry Tan | Apr 29, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.8M | “1.8 Million” | Teledyne Delivered 20.4% Annual Returns From 1963 to 1990 | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 20.4% | “20.4%” | Teledyne Delivered 20.4% Annual Returns From 1963 to 1990 | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Teledyne Delivered 20.4% Annual Returns From 1963 to 1990 | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 374% | “374%” | Teledyne's 1960s Stock-Funded Acquisitions Drove 374% Sales Growth | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 400% | “400%” | Teledyne's 1960s Stock-Funded Acquisitions Drove 374% Sales Growth | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 70× | “70 times” | Teledyne's 1960s Stock-Funded Acquisitions Drove 374% Sales Growth | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Singleton: Paying 15x Earnings Yields No Premium Over Treasury Bills | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 times” | Singleton: Paying 15x Earnings Yields No Premium Over Treasury Bills | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Teledyne Repurchased Over 90% of Its Outstanding Shares Over 12 Years | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 311% | “311%” | Parrish: Teledyne's EPS surged 311% from 1971 to 1975 | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 77% | “77%” | Parrish: Teledyne's EPS surged 311% from 1971 to 1975 | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 3,000% | “3000%” | Teledyne Investors Achieved Approximately 3,000% Returns Between 1972 and 1983 | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 8.6M | “8.6 million” | Singleton Repurchased 8.6 Million Teledyne Shares at $200 in Final Buyback | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Singleton Repurchased 8.6 Million Teledyne Shares at $200 in Final Buyback | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 87M | “eighty-seven million” | Teledyne Spun Off Argonaut at $234M Valuation After $87M Acquisition | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 34M | “thirty four million” | Teledyne Spun Off Argonaut at $234M Valuation After $87M Acquisition | Shane Parrish | Apr 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Taylor: 80% of acquirers and acquired teams disagree on success metrics | Bret Taylor | Apr 15, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Poilievre: Commits to 15% Income Tax Cut for Average Canadian Workers | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | — |
| $21B | “twenty-one billion dollars” | Poilievre: Canadian government spends $21B on consultants, double from 10 years ago | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Poilievre claims 25% of Canadians in poverty and food bank lineups doubled | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Poilievre claims 25% of Canadians in poverty and food bank lineups doubled | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $8B | “eight billion dollars” | Poilievre Plans to Cut Canada's Foreign Aid Budget | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | — |
| $500B | “five hundred billion dollars” | Poilievre cites $500 billion net capital outflow to the US over decade | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Poilievre: Canadian building permits rank second slowest in the OECD | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Poilievre commits to 25% federal regulation cut and two-for-one rule | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Poilievre: Canada's cold weather makes LNG liquefaction 25% cheaper | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 6,000× | “6000 times” | Poilievre: Vancouver police arrested the same 40 offenders 6,000 times | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 150× | “150 times” | Poilievre: Vancouver police arrested the same 40 offenders 6,000 times | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Poilievre: Society must treat successful entrepreneurs as heroes, not bandits | Pierre Poilievre | Apr 13, 2025 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Parrish: Only Five US Cities Had Over 10,000 Residents at Vanderbilt's Birth | Shane Parrish | Apr 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 11M | “eleven million” | Vanderbilt's $11M fortune in 1860 likely made him America's richest citizen | Shane Parrish | Apr 8, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Flatt: 50% of Brookfield's current investment asset classes did not exist 20 years ago | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 7B | “a six billion” | Flatt: Brookfield successfully took a $6B unindexed shipping company private | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “1.5 billion” | Flatt: China will thrive independently as a consumer service economy | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Flatt: Commodity Real Estate Underperforms While Top Quartile Thrives | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 33B | “a thirty two billion” | Flatt: Brookfield is building a $32B fabrication plant with Intel | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 19% | “19%” | Flatt: Brookfield's parent company achieved 19% annualized returns over 30 years | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 16% | “16%” | Flatt: Investment upside takes care of itself; downside risk is what matters | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Flatt: Managing $1T prevents Brookfield from investing in small countries | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Flatt: Managing $1T prevents Brookfield from investing in small countries | Bruce Flatt | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Dyson won £4 million in patent infringement damages from Hoover | Shane Parrish | Mar 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Dyson routinely invested 20% of revenue into R&D against a 2% norm | Shane Parrish | Mar 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Dyson routinely invested 20% of revenue into R&D against a 2% norm | Shane Parrish | Mar 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 2.5B | “2.5 billion” | Dyson abandoned a £2.5 billion electric car project in 2019 | Shane Parrish | Mar 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 11% | “11%” | Ury: Research Shows Only 11% of People Experience Love at First Sight | Logan Ury | Mar 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 14% | “14%” | Ury: Only 14% of US men are six feet or taller | Logan Ury | Mar 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Ury: Fifty percent of the population has a secure attachment style | Logan Ury | Mar 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Ury: Around 25% of People Can Shift Their Attachment Style Over Time | Logan Ury | Mar 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 86% | “86%” | Ury: 86% of daters prefer direct rejection over ghosting | Logan Ury | Mar 18, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Ury: Persistent 40-50% divorce rate shows traditional marriage needs rethinking | Logan Ury | Mar 18, 2025 | — |
| $75M | “seventy-five million dollars” | US cosmetics industry reached $75M by 1923, leaping 400% in a decade | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 400% | “400%” | US cosmetics industry reached $75M by 1923, leaping 400% in a decade | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Youth-Dew sales grew from $50,000 in 1953 to $150M by 1984 | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 98% | “98%” | The Lauder family withheld the final 5% of fragrance formulas from employees | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | The Lauder family withheld the final 5% of fragrance formulas from employees | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Estée Lauder expanded the fragrance market by selling perfume as bath oil | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Clinique annual sales reached $200 million by 1985 | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Supported |
| $5B | “five billion dollars” | The Estée Lauder Companies reached over $5B in revenue by 2004 | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Apple's retail strategy mirrors Estée Lauder's product demos and packaging obsession | Shane Parrish | Mar 11, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Wolfe: 30% to 50% of AI inference will occur on-device | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | Open |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Wolfe: Machines will replace white-collar knowledge workers while blue-collar craft is protected | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Wolfe: AI Will Cut Software Engineering Hiring by 10% to 30% | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Wolfe: AI Will Cut Software Engineering Hiring by 10% to 30% | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Wolfe: AI Will Cut Software Engineering Hiring by 10% to 30% | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Wolfe: Anduril will be a $30B–$50B public company with software margins | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | Open |
| 50% | “50%” | Wolfe: China graduates 50% of all global AI undergrads | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 38% | “38%” | Wolfe: 38% of US AI researchers are from China | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 23% | “23%” | Wolfe: US share of foreign graduates fell from 23% to 15% | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Wolfe: US share of foreign graduates fell from 23% to 15% | Josh Wolfe | Mar 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Parrish: Mellon's 1889 aluminum investment cut prices 75% within five years | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Parrish: The Mellons Controlled 10% of US Oil Exports in 1894 | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “100%” | Parrish: Gulf Oil once declared a staggering 500% dividend under Mellon | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 500% | “500%” | Parrish: Gulf Oil once declared a staggering 500% dividend under Mellon | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 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 |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Parrish: Mellon's Gulf Oil stake held $100M market value despite $17.4M book | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 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 |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Parrish: Mellon's Gulf Oil stake held $100M market value despite $17.4M book | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Parrish: Mellon's debt refinancing saved US Treasury $200 million annually | Shane Parrish | Feb 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 |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Parrish: Mellon's $100M net worth exceeded Harding's entire presidential cabinet combined | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 2.5% | “2.5%” | Parrish: Only 2.5% of Americans owned stocks in 1929 | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 5.2M | “5.2 million” | Parrish: Mellon's personal income surged to $7.8M during the 1929 crash | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 7.8M | “7.8 million” | Parrish: Mellon's personal income surged to $7.8M during the 1929 crash | Shane Parrish | Feb 25, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $70M | “seventy million dollars” | Filterbuy generated $70 million in revenue in 2019 | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| $250M | “two hundred fifty million dollars” | Filterbuy will reach roughly $250 million in revenue in 2024 | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Filterbuy will reach $1 billion in revenue within ten years | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | Open |
| $1.5M | “half a million dollars” | Heacock made $500,000 in 2008 via a StubHub affiliate side hustle | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| $1.5M | “a half million dollars” | My Office Delivered generated $6.5 million in 2009 dropshipping supplies | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | My Office Delivered generated $6.5 million in 2009 dropshipping supplies | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Filterbuy fulfills 100% of its Amazon orders directly | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| $42M | “forty-two million dollars” | Filterbuy targets $42M in marketing spend after $38M year | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 43M | “a forty-two million” | Filterbuy targets $42M in marketing spend after $38M year | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| $38M | “thirty-eight million dollars” | Filterbuy targets $42M in marketing spend after $38M year | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | 70% of all air filters are purchased for commercial settings | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Filterbuy lost $2 million on Prime Day due to an Amazon glitch | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Heacock liquidated Filterbuy's truck fleet in 2023, losing millions | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Typical good HVAC service businesses operate at 15-20% net margins | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Filterbuy has sold to roughly eight million unique US residences | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| $1.5M | “a half million dollars” | Heacock lost $4.5M on his first $3.5M acquisition | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Heacock lost $4.5M on his first $3.5M acquisition | David Heacock | Feb 18, 2025 | — |
| 87.8% | “87.8%” | Timothy Eaton bought a city block in 1883 with an 87.8% LTV | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 22M | “twenty-two million” | By 1920, Eaton's controlled 60% of Canada's department store sales | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 41M | “forty-one million” | By 1920, Eaton's controlled 60% of Canada's department store sales | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | By 1920, Eaton's controlled 60% of Canada's department store sales | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | By 1920, Eaton's controlled 60% of Canada's department store sales | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Eaton's Canadian retail market share collapsed from 60% to under 10% | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Eaton's Canadian retail market share collapsed from 60% to under 10% | Shane Parrish | Feb 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Drexler: Gap stock dropped around 50% during his first turnaround year | Mickey Drexler | Feb 4, 2025 | Supported |
| $15M | “fifteen million dollars” | Microsoft acquired LinkExchange for $265 million on $15 million in revenue | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Supported |
| $65M | “sixty-five million dollars” | Microsoft acquired LinkExchange for $265 million on $15 million in revenue | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Supported |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Zappos reached $1.6 billion in sales on just $10 million in equity | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $1.6B | “1.6 billion dollars” | Zappos reached $1.6 billion in sales on just $10 million in equity | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Lin: Startups Can Scale by Making First Orders Profitable via Service | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lin: 80% of Zappos's Daily Orders Came from Repeat Customers | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | — |
| $60M | “sixty million dollars” | Tellme Networks burned $60 million a quarter before its enterprise pivot | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $60M | “sixty million dollars” | Banks called Zappos's $60 million loan during the 2008 financial crisis | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Lin: Airbnb lost 80% of its revenue when the pandemic hit | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Lin: Airbnb lost 80% of its revenue when the pandemic hit | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Airbnb held $3 billion in cash against $4 billion in customer deposits | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Supported |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Airbnb held $3 billion in cash against $4 billion in customer deposits | Alfred Lin | Jan 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Interacting with wealthy peers boosts low-income individuals' lifetime earnings by 30% | Codie Sanchez | Jan 7, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Sitting near low performers decreases employee productivity by 30% | Codie Sanchez | Jan 7, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Sitting near low performers decreases employee productivity by 30% | Codie Sanchez | Jan 7, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Sanchez: First-time founders must run one business until it is self-sustaining | Codie Sanchez | Jan 7, 2025 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Between 80% and 98% of Dwayne Johnson's Instagram posts are ads | Codie Sanchez | Jan 7, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Codie Sanchez demands candidates turn around paid project scopes in 24 hours | Codie Sanchez | Jan 7, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Women wearing makeup earn 15% more annually than equally attractive peers | Codie Sanchez | Jan 7, 2025 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Housel: Americans spend roughly $100 billion annually on lottery tickets | Morgan Housel | Dec 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Housel: 99% of Warren Buffett's wealth accumulated after age 60 | Morgan Housel | Dec 24, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $800B | “eight hundred billion dollars” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50B by taking 6% market share | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | Open |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50B by taking 6% market share | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | Open |
| 900B | “an eight hundred billion” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50B by taking 6% market share | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | Open |
| 6% | “six percent” | Jacobs: QXO will reach $50B by taking 6% market share | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | Open |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create messy, unintegrated businesses | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create messy, unintegrated businesses | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Jacobs: Middle-market PE rollups create messy, unintegrated businesses | Brad Jacobs | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Patrick: High Omega-3 Index Correlates with Five-Year Longer Life Expectancy | Dr. Rhonda Patrick | Dec 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Patrick: High Omega-3 Index Correlates with Five-Year Longer Life Expectancy | Dr. Rhonda Patrick | Dec 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Patrick: Every 100mg magnesium increase reduces pancreatic cancer risk by 20% | Dr. Rhonda Patrick | Dec 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 1.5% | “1.5%” | Bryan Johnson: Cardiovascular Capacity Ranks in Top 1.5% of 18-Year-Olds | Bryan Johnson | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Johnson: Eating dinner at 5 PM halves deep and REM sleep | Bryan Johnson | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 100K | “a hundred thousand” | Authors Should Reject Traditional Publishing Deals Under $100,000 | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | James Clear Lost Roughly 3x Per Copy Traditionally Publishing 'Atomic Habits' | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Hoehn: At least 80% of book purchases happen on Amazon | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Hoehn: The Right Cover or Thumbnail Outperforms Mediocre Designs 1,000x | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Tim Ferriss Used Google Ads to Discover 'The 4-Hour Workweek' Title | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Hoehn: Authors Must Front-Load Editing Time Due to Reader Retention Drop-Off | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Hoehn: The average book sells fewer than 1,000 lifetime copies | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Only 20 of the 500,000 Books Published Annually Sell a Million Copies | Charlie Hoehn | Dec 10, 2024 | Partly supported |
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