| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Wilkinson: Bootstrapping Flow against Asana cost me $10 million | Andrew Wilkinson | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| $300M | “three hundred million dollars” | Wilkinson: Tiny Generates Nearly $300M in Revenue Across Bootstrapped Portfolio | Andrew Wilkinson | Jul 3, 2025 | Supported |
| $40M | “forty million dollars” | Wilkinson: Focused Software Companies Can Scale to Hundreds of Millions Without VC | Andrew Wilkinson | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Wilkinson lost billionaire status following decline in Tiny’s stock price | Andrew Wilkinson | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Wilkinson: Over 90% of my money goes to a philanthropic foundation | Andrew Wilkinson | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Wilkinson: About 30% of Entrepreneurs Have ADHD Compared to 5% Generally | Andrew Wilkinson | Jul 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Wilkinson: About 30% of Entrepreneurs Have ADHD Compared to 5% Generally | Andrew Wilkinson | Jul 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 4.7B | “4.7 billion” | Deng: Facebook Messenger reached 4.7 billion daily messages in 2.5 years | Peter Deng | Jun 22, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Deng: Uber Reserve is a $5 billion high-margin annual business | Peter Deng | Jun 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Gridley: Will Ahmed's pixel-level obsession makes Whoop a vastly superior product | Hilary Gridley | Jun 15, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Gridley built custom GPTs to give her team on-demand management feedback | Hilary Gridley | Jun 15, 2025 | — |
| 1.5K | “a half thousand” | Apple Generated Billions From Its Global Online Store With Just Six Designers | Bob Baxley | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Barrios: Mercado Libre delivers over 5 million items per day | Sebastian Barrios | Jun 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Barrios: Mercado Libre has around 100 million active platform users | Sebastian Barrios | Jun 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Anthropic models hit 72% on SWE-bench, crushing earlier timeline predictions | Mike Krieger | Jun 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Anthropic models hit 72% on SWE-bench, crushing earlier timeline predictions | Mike Krieger | Jun 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Mike Krieger estimates Claude Code is over 95% written by AI | Mike Krieger | Jun 5, 2025 | — |
| 9M | “an eight million” | Uber has eight million worldwide drivers, doubling its post-COVID count | Sachin Kansal | Jun 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 33M | “thirty-three million” | Kansal: Uber completes 33 million trips every single day | Sachin Kansal | Jun 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 X” | OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise lead volume grew 40x overnight upon launch | Krithika Shankarraman | May 25, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Shankarraman: Stripe required support rotations for all new hires | Krithika Shankarraman | May 25, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Marketing programs require alignment at 20 percent strategy and 80 percent execution | Krithika Shankarraman | May 25, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Marketing programs require alignment at 20 percent strategy and 80 percent execution | Krithika Shankarraman | May 25, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Marketing programs require alignment at 20 percent strategy and 80 percent execution | Krithika Shankarraman | May 25, 2025 | — |
| 400B | “four hundred billion” | Binance hit a $400B peak valuation with 2,000 employees in five years | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Binance signup conversion crashed from 100% to 2% after mandatory KYC | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Binance signup conversion crashed from 100% to 2% after mandatory KYC | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | An iOS 4 bug triggered a 1,000x server load spike for Gmail | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | — |
| 500% | “500%” | Binance employee bonuses ranged from 0% to 500% of base salary | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Tech executives earn 90% of career compensation in their final five years | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | — |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Booking Holdings grew from $10B to $170B selling the exact same products | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Booking Holdings grew from $10B to $170B selling the exact same products | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10× | “10 x” | The highest-leverage business problems are almost always related to growth or compliance | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | AI coding co-pilots deliver an 18% to 25% productivity boost for developers | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | N26 automates 60% to 70% of routine customer support inquiries using AI | Mayur Kamat | May 22, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Rachitsky: AI coding startup Cursor hit $300M ARR in two years | Lenny Rachitsky | May 18, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Zlokazov: 85% to 90% of product owner skill set is shared across specializations | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Zlokazov: 85% to 90% of product owner skill set is shared across specializations | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Zlokazov: Revolut co-founders review 100% of screens shipped in the app | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Zlokazov: Revolut will soon reach 100 million customers | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | Open |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Zlokazov: Revolut will soon reach 100 million customers | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | Open |
| 45B | “forty five billion” | Zlokazov: Revolut can easily become a trillion-dollar company | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Zlokazov: Revolut can easily become a trillion-dollar company | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Zlokazov: Revolut can easily become a trillion-dollar company | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Zlokazov: Revolut can easily become a trillion-dollar company | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Zlokazov: Revolut can easily become a trillion-dollar company | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Zlokazov: Revolut joint accounts have over one million active users | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Zlokazov: A product that is 99% done is closer to zero than 100% | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Zlokazov: A product that is 99% done is closer to zero than 100% | Dmitry Zlokazov | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Rachitsky: 30% of departing Palantir PMs start a company | Lenny Rachitsky | May 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 18% | “18%” | Rachitsky: 30% of departing Palantir PMs start a company | Lenny Rachitsky | May 11, 2025 | Supported |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Qureshi: Rapid daily customer feedback loops make Palantir a founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi | May 11, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Qureshi: Palantir operates at 80%-plus gross margins, disproving consulting label | Nabeel S. Qureshi | May 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Qureshi: Palantir operates at 80%-plus gross margins, disproving consulting label | Nabeel S. Qureshi | May 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Qureshi: Palantir could 100x again due to proprietary data foundations for AI | Nabeel S. Qureshi | May 11, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Rachitsky: More YC founders come from Palantir than from Google | Lenny Rachitsky | May 11, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 10× | “10 X” | Qureshi: Cost of forward deployed engineering has dropped 5x to 10x | Nabeel S. Qureshi | May 11, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Qureshi: Dropping out of college is bad advice for 95% of people | Nabeel S. Qureshi | May 11, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Colonna: Founders sabotage successful businesses to avoid unresolved childhood baggage | Jerry Colonna | May 8, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Wu: 10x engineering speed will yield over 10x more code | Scott Wu | May 4, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Wu: Agentic workflows will unlock 200% to 1,000% software engineering gains | Scott Wu | May 4, 2025 | — |
| 200% | “200%” | Wu: Agentic workflows will unlock 200% to 1,000% software engineering gains | Scott Wu | May 4, 2025 | — |
| 500% | “500%” | Wu: Agentic workflows will unlock 200% to 1,000% software engineering gains | Scott Wu | May 4, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Larea: 70% of monday.com customers are non-technical | Daniel Larea | Apr 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Larea: monday.com reached $1B ARR serving 250,000 customers | Daniel Larea | Apr 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $28M | “twenty eight million dollars” | Mohan: Codeium pivoted overnight after raising $28 million | Varun Mohan | Apr 20, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Mohan: AI will probably write over 90% of software | Varun Mohan | Apr 20, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Mohan: Windsurf reached 1M developer trials in four months | Varun Mohan | Apr 20, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Varun Mohan: Windsurf's goal is to reduce app building time by 99% | Varun Mohan | Apr 20, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Mohan: Codeium's engineering pass rate is under 0.6% post-take-home | Varun Mohan | Apr 20, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Mohan: Dell operates single codebases exceeding 100 million lines of code | Varun Mohan | Apr 20, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Mohan: 70% to 80% of Java developers use JetBrains IDEs | Varun Mohan | Apr 20, 2025 | Supported |
| $1.5M | “half a million dollars” | Mohan: Codeium's GTM team saved $500K by building internal apps with AI | Varun Mohan | Apr 20, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Mohan: Windsurf sees 30% to 40% developer productivity improvements | Varun Mohan | Apr 20, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Rauch: Minimum 100 million people aspire to build digital products | Guillermo Rauch | Apr 13, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Rauch: Minimum 100 million people aspire to build digital products | Guillermo Rauch | Apr 13, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Rauch: Minimum 100 million people aspire to build digital products | Guillermo Rauch | Apr 13, 2025 | — |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | Rauch: Over 1.3 million users have interacted with v0 | Guillermo Rauch | Apr 13, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Rauch: Ramp handled 43x traffic spike with 100% uptime on Vercel | Guillermo Rauch | Apr 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Rauch: Ramp handled 43x traffic spike with 100% uptime on Vercel | Guillermo Rauch | Apr 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 43× | “43 X” | Rauch: Ramp handled 43x traffic spike with 100% uptime on Vercel | Guillermo Rauch | Apr 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Weil: Model accuracy levels dictate fundamentally different product designs | Kevin Weil | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Weil: Model accuracy levels dictate fundamentally different product designs | Kevin Weil | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 99.5% | “99.5%” | Weil: Model accuracy levels dictate fundamentally different product designs | Kevin Weil | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Weil: 3 million developers currently use OpenAI's API | Kevin Weil | Apr 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred x” | Weil: GPT-4o mini is 100x cheaper via API than GPT-3.5 | Kevin Weil | Apr 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Kao: Always re-establish context and value before diving into logistics | Wes Kao | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Kao: Concision is driven by insight density, not absolute word count | Wes Kao | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Kao: Constructive feedback must focus strictly on motivating future behavior change | Wes Kao | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Kao: Constructive feedback must focus strictly on motivating future behavior change | Wes Kao | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Rachitsky: Lenny's Newsletter surpasses 1 million active subscribers | Lenny Rachitsky | Apr 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Singer: Scoping projects beyond nine boxes degrades into ticket chaos | Ryan Singer | Mar 30, 2025 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Vohra: Hiring a president freed up 60 to 70% of his week | Rahul Vohra | Mar 23, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Vohra: Hiring a president freed up 60 to 70% of his week | Rahul Vohra | Mar 23, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Vohra: Fast-Growing Startups Almost Always Surpass 40% 'Very Disappointed' Benchmark | Rahul Vohra | Mar 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 37× | “37 times” | Vohra: Superhuman users average 37 'Write with AI' uses per week | Rahul Vohra | Mar 23, 2025 | — |
| 4× | “four times” | Vohra: Superhuman AI-written emails grew fourfold in 2024 | Rahul Vohra | Mar 23, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Cain: Kellogg research shows three people do 70% of meeting talking | Susan Cain | Mar 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Cain: Studies estimate 30% to 50% of people are introverts | Susan Cain | Mar 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Cain: Studies estimate 30% to 50% of people are introverts | Susan Cain | Mar 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Simons: Bolt grew from zero to over $30M ARR in 4.5 months | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Simons: Bolt grew from zero to over $30M ARR in 4.5 months | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Simons: Bolt reached 3M registered users and 1M MAUs within months | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Simons: Bolt reached 3M registered users and 1M MAUs within months | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Simons: Bolt forecasts reaching $100M ARR within the year | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Client-side compute is the only web model scaling to a billion users | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Cloud VM-based AI coding tools cannot scale due to global capacity limits | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Cloud VM-based AI coding tools cannot scale due to global capacity limits | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Simons: Bolt reached $20M ARR without mobile responsiveness | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Simons: AI coding agents fail on codebases exceeding 1,000 files | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 67% | “67%” | Simons: 67% of Bolt users are non-developers | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 99.999% | “99.999%” | Simons: Bolt generates personal websites zero-shot 99.999% of the time | Eric Simons | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Osika: Lovable generated $1M in ARR within its first week post-launch | Anton Osika | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 17% | “17%” | Rachitsky: 17% of surveyed newsletter readers already use Cursor | Lenny Rachitsky | Mar 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Osika: One dedicated week using AI puts you in the top 1% | Anton Osika | Mar 9, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Mullenweg: WordPress powers over 40% of websites, ten times second-place Shopify | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 x” | Mullenweg: WordPress powers over 40% of websites, ten times second-place Shopify | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 750M | “seven hundred fifty million” | Mullenweg: Meta's Llama isn't truly open source due to user restrictions | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 98% | “98%” | Mullenweg claims 98% of WordPress core developers remained despite public dispute | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Mullenweg: WordPress.com has introduced over 100 million users to WordPress | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | — |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Mullenweg: Internal sentiment analysis showed 52% negative reaction on Twitter | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | — |
| 52% | “52%” | Mullenweg: Internal sentiment analysis showed 52% negative reaction on Twitter | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | — |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Mullenweg confirms Automattic acquired Tumblr for roughly $3 million | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Automattic is migrating 500 million Tumblr sites to run on WordPress | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Mullenweg: Automattic replaced 85% to 90% of Tumblr's team after acquisition | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | — |
| $1.5B | “half a billion dollars” | Mullenweg: Automattic generates roughly $500M annually, mostly from WooCommerce | Matt Mullenweg | Mar 2, 2025 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Coleman: Community Notes generated 30B views across 95k notes in 2024 | Keith Coleman | Feb 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Coleman: Community Notes has roughly 950,000 global contributors | Keith Coleman | Feb 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Coleman: Community Notes only displays 7% to 11% of proposed notes | Keith Coleman | Feb 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Coleman: Community Notes only displays 7% to 11% of proposed notes | Keith Coleman | Feb 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Coleman: Community Notes only displays 7% to 11% of proposed notes | Keith Coleman | Feb 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 11% | “11%” | Coleman: Community Notes only displays 7% to 11% of proposed notes | Keith Coleman | Feb 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Baxter: Notes drop likes and reposts by 30% to 40% in internal A/B tests | Jay Baxter | Feb 27, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Baxter: External studies show Community Notes reduce total reposts by 50% to 60% | Jay Baxter | Feb 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Baxter: Authors are 80% more likely to delete posts after receiving a Community Note | Jay Baxter | Feb 27, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Moesta predicts his new book Job Moves will outshine Jobs-to-be-Done | Bob Moesta | Feb 23, 2025 | — |
| 53% | “53%” | 53% of workers claiming to leave for higher pay did not actually | Bob Moesta | Feb 23, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $30M | “thirty million dollars” | Levine: Waze investors advised selling for $20M–$30M following Google Maps navigation | Uri Levine | Feb 16, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Levine: Diluted all shareholders during cash crises to give staff 5x equity | Uri Levine | Feb 16, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Levine: Personnel makes up 70% to 75% of startup budgets | Uri Levine | Feb 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Levine: Personnel makes up 70% to 75% of startup budgets | Uri Levine | Feb 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Rachitsky: Procurement platform Zip pivoted six times before landing on its idea | Lenny Rachitsky | Feb 16, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Rachitsky: Reader Survey Ranks ChatGPT Ahead of Gmail and Slack | Lenny Rachitsky | Feb 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Nguyen: AI bottleneck is evaluations rather than data as benchmarks saturate | Karina Nguyen | Feb 9, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Tobi Lütke: Only 20% of valuable product work is fully quantifiable | Tobi Lütke | Feb 2, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Tobi Lütke: Only 20% of valuable product work is fully quantifiable | Tobi Lütke | Feb 2, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Product teams should build workable prototypes within 10% of their time budgets | Nan Yu | Jan 30, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Janakiraman: Strategy design sprints should create illustrative concepts, not final features | Chandra Janakiraman | Jan 26, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Verna: Sales-Led Companies Do Not Need Dedicated Growth Teams | Elena Verna | Jan 19, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Verna: Growth teams fail in declining businesses because they only lift 10-15% | Elena Verna | Jan 19, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Verna: Redesigning marketing sites to drive acquisition is a million-dollar failure | Elena Verna | Jan 19, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Verna: Over 50% of Dropbox acquisition comes from file sharing | Elena Verna | Jan 19, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Verna: Dedicate 20% to 25% of growth team time to new loops | Elena Verna | Jan 19, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Verna: Dedicate 20% to 25% of growth team time to new loops | Elena Verna | Jan 19, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Verna: One-off marketing emails will never drive measurable growth lift | Elena Verna | Jan 19, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Verna: One-off marketing emails will never drive measurable growth lift | Elena Verna | Jan 19, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Ten percent of Uber transactions failed over payment issues during Atawodi's tenure | Ebi Atawodi | Jan 18, 2025 | — |
| 42% | “42%” | Sixty percent of YouTube creators manage channels exclusively via the main app | Ebi Atawodi | Jan 18, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Sixty percent of YouTube creators manage channels exclusively via the main app | Ebi Atawodi | Jan 18, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Weaver: Alpine installs its own leadership team 100% of the time | Graham Weaver | Jan 16, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Houston: Getting into Y Combinator requires a hook or side door | Drew Houston | Jan 9, 2025 | — |
| 6M | “six million” | Dropbox valuation grew from $6M-$7M in 2007 to $4B in 2011 | Drew Houston | Jan 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 27M | “twenty seven million” | Dropbox valuation grew from $6M-$7M in 2007 to $4B in 2011 | Drew Houston | Jan 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Dropbox valuation grew from $6M-$7M in 2007 to $4B in 2011 | Drew Houston | Jan 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Houston: 80% of paying Dropbox users were already using it at work | Drew Houston | Jan 9, 2025 | — |
| 65% | “65%” | Cohn: 65% of startups fail due to founding team conflict | Alisa Cohn | Jan 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Reshef: Over 95% of Gong's built product capabilities achieve significant user adoption | Elan Reshef | Jan 2, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Reshef: Domain mastery occurs when expert interviews yield under 5% new information | Elan Reshef | Jan 2, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Reshef: Domain mastery occurs when expert interviews yield under 5% new information | Elan Reshef | Jan 2, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Clowes: 10x product managers produce 100x return via leverage | Shaun Clowes | Dec 29, 2024 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Clowes: 10x product managers produce 100x return via leverage | Shaun Clowes | Dec 29, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Clowes: A product manager's job is rejecting 90% of incoming requests | Shaun Clowes | Dec 29, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Clowes: A product manager's job is rejecting 90% of incoming requests | Shaun Clowes | Dec 29, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Clowes: 90% of AI development effort goes into data management | Shaun Clowes | Dec 29, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Clowes: Atlassian kept 10% of users in a permanent global experiment holdout | Shaun Clowes | Dec 29, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Clowes: PMs cannot succeed if they let calendars dictate their time | Shaun Clowes | Dec 29, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Clowes: Glean is 10x better than prior enterprise search tools | Shaun Clowes | Dec 29, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Salesforce Agentforce cut support escalations 50% and resolves 83% of inquiries robotically | Marc Benioff | Dec 22, 2024 | — |
| 83% | “83%” | Salesforce Agentforce cut support escalations 50% and resolves 83% of inquiries robotically | Marc Benioff | Dec 22, 2024 | — |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Salesforce processes about two trillion AI transactions weekly | Marc Benioff | Dec 22, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Salesforce laid off 10% of its workforce 'to save the company' | Marc Benioff | Dec 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “one million” | GitHub Copilot generated over one million lines of code at Shopify | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | AI coding tools will reach engineer-level only when they delete code | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Shopify's Delete Code Club removes over one million lines during hack days | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Shopify's Delete Code Club removes over one million lines during hack days | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Shopify operates 95 percent remote with intentional in-person annual summits | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Shopify operates 95 percent remote with intentional in-person annual summits | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke starts every new employee at fifty percent trust | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Startup job trials yielded twenty percent attrition initially but zero percent thereafter | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Startup job trials yielded twenty percent attrition initially but zero percent thereafter | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Shopify will hire one thousand interns in 2025 as full-time job trials | Farhan Thawar | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 9M | “nine million” | Duolingo has over 9 million users with year-plus streaks | Jackson Shuttleworth | Dec 15, 2024 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Streaks work best for products where daily user progress feels imperceptible | Jackson Shuttleworth | Dec 15, 2024 | — |
| 9M | “nine million” | Over-cheapening streaks for short-term engagement is an irreversible one-way door | Jackson Shuttleworth | Dec 15, 2024 | — |
| 56M | “fifty-six million” | Belsky: Behance has 56 million creative users worldwide | Scott Belsky | Dec 11, 2024 | Supported |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Godin: Yahoo had the opportunity to acquire Google for $10M | Seth Godin | Dec 8, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | The Ford F-150 sometimes generates over 100% of Ford's total profits | Seth Godin | Dec 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Abel: Mature outbound conversion rates typically sit at 5% to 7% | Jen Abel | Nov 24, 2024 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Abel: Mature outbound conversion rates typically sit at 5% to 7% | Jen Abel | Nov 24, 2024 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Abel: Mature outbound conversion rates typically sit at 5% to 7% | Jen Abel | Nov 24, 2024 | — |
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