| 15T | “15 trillion” | SwiftKey saved users 15 trillion keystrokes out of 50 trillion typed characters | Ben Medlock | Apr 2, 2015 | — |
| 15T | “15 trillion” | Sumo Logic processes over 800,000 daily queries across four petabytes | Vance Loiselle | Sep 22, 2014 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Ai2 samples 6T tokens from 10T pool for OLMo 3 | Luca Soldaini | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Pomel: Datadog processes about 10 trillion records per day | Olivier Pomel | Jan 22, 2020 | — |
| 6T | “six trillion” | Ai2 samples 6T tokens from 10T pool for OLMo 3 | Luca Soldaini | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Fu predicts increasing hardware diversity, particularly for AI model inference | Dan Fu | Jan 22, 2026 | — |
| 3.4T | “3.4 trillion” | Narkhede: Apache Kafka powers over 1.2 trillion written messages daily at LinkedIn | Neha Narkhede | Jun 16, 2016 | Supported |
| 2.5T | “2.5 trillion” | Spun out, the top three cloud providers would be worth $2.5T | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | — |
| 2.5T | “a half a trillion” | Google's Peter Norvig estimated strong AI is worth up to $2T annually | Gary Marcus | Jan 25, 2016 | — |
| 1.5T | “1.5 trillion” | Shah: Hippocratic AI acquired 1.5 trillion healthcare tokens for training | Munjal Shah | Aug 23, 2023 | — |
| 1.5T | “half a trillion” | Braze processes 500 billion monthly data points to deliver personalized brand messages | Jon Hyman | Apr 9, 2018 | — |
| 1.5T | “half a trillion” | Gourley: Primer counts GIC, Walmart, and US intelligence agencies as customers | Sean Gourley | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 1.3T | “1.25 trillion” | Total real estate turnover in New York City is roughly $1.25 trillion | Mike Flowers | Dec 5, 2013 | Contradicted |
| 1.2T | “1.2 trillion” | Narkhede: Apache Kafka powers over 1.2 trillion written messages daily at LinkedIn | Neha Narkhede | Jun 16, 2016 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Rauch: Vercel's fluid compute platform reached 1 trillion function invocations | Guillermo Rauch | Jun 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Traynor: There is no line of sight to a trillion-dollar European company | Des Traynor | Feb 29, 2024 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Cerebras's WSE is the first chip with over 1 trillion transistors | Michael James | Feb 20, 2020 | Supported |
| 900B | “nine hundred billion” | Gutierrez: Post-2008 regulations dropped available revolving credit by over $900 billion | James Gutierrez | May 29, 2014 | Partly supported |
| 800B | “eight hundred billion” | Freedman: Timescale's insights service ingests 800 billion records daily | Mike Freedman | Sep 25, 2024 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Patel: Cumulative semiconductor CapEx in Taiwan exceeds $500 billion | Dylan Patel | Feb 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | Gutierrez: Post-2008 regulations dropped available revolving credit by over $900 billion | James Gutierrez | May 29, 2014 | Partly supported |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Crespo: Pigment aims to build a $100B+ to $200B+ business | Eleonore Crespo | Sep 11, 2025 | — |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Meta, Google, and Amazon on track for $200B in AI capex | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Patel: AI software industry could hit $100 billion ARR this year | Dylan Patel | Feb 5, 2026 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Crespo: Pigment aims to build a $100B+ to $200B+ business | Eleonore Crespo | Sep 11, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | OpenAI aims to reach $100B in ARR by 2029 | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Future AI models will deliver 100B parameter intelligence at 1B speeds | Sharon Zhou | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Qiu: Imbue pre-trains 100B+ parameter models from scratch | Kanjun Qiu | Oct 4, 2023 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Zhou: Lamini can train models up to 100 billion parameters | Sharon Zhou | Nov 8, 2023 | — |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Diffblue generates unit tests in 1.5 seconds versus 40 seconds for LLMs | Mathew Lodge | Oct 25, 2023 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Eifrem: Graph databases could become a $20B to $40B market | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | AWS is nearly certain to reach $100B in annual revenue | Peter Fenton | Mar 18, 2016 | Held up |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Breslow estimates $100B in unmet US small business loan demand | Noah Breslow | May 28, 2014 | — |
| 97B | “a ninety six billion” | Nvidia generates $53 billion net income on $96 billion revenue | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 90B | “ninety billion” | 6sense processes 90 billion behavioral signals to predict buyer intent | Amanda Kahlow | May 23, 2016 | — |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Walsher: Tech buyers value Cursor's opinion over $80B legacy software incumbents | David Walsher | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Guo estimates the 2019 cybersecurity market at $75B to $80B | Sarah Guo | Sep 17, 2019 | Contradicted |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Rao predicts Livefyre will process over 80 billion events per month | Ramana Rao | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Top three cloud providers spend $60B to $70B quarterly on CapEx | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Annual spend on relational database tools is double the underlying platform spend | Mike Olson | Dec 18, 2014 | Partly supported |
| 60B | “sixty billion” | Hanlon: Reddit ingested 55-60B daily events managed by one person in 2019 | Jack Hanlon | Mar 15, 2021 | — |
| 57B | “fifty seven billion” | OpenAI's $6.6B round was the largest VC round ever | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 53B | “fifty three billion” | Nvidia generates $53 billion net income on $96 billion revenue | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Hebbia processes 250 billion LLM calls per month | George Sivulka | May 29, 2025 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Sisense's knowledge graph leverages 650 billion metadata points collected over ten years | Ashley Kramer | Nov 1, 2020 | — |
| 45B | “forty-five billion” | Bloomberg infrastructure processed 45 billion financial ticks per day | Matt Turck | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 42B | “forty-two billion” | 42 billion customer service calls are made annually | Sameer Maskey | May 28, 2015 | Contradicted |
| 41B | “a forty billion” | Moody: Social data will integrate into the $40B business intelligence industry | Chris Moody | Dec 5, 2013 | Held up |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Eifrem: Graph databases could become a $20B to $40B market | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | — |
| 31B | “a thirty billion” | NVIDIA details Nemotron 3 parameter specs from 3B to 55B active | Bryan Catanzaro | Jul 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Buying Nvidia stock instead of funding AI chip rivals yielded 4x more | Nathan Benaich | Nov 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Katz: ClickHouse handled 30 billion daily events when built at Yandex | Aaron Katz | Nov 16, 2021 | Partly supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | AppNexus processes 30 billion daily impressions on a 16-node Hadoop cluster | Catherine Williams | Nov 20, 2014 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Enigma aggregated 30 billion public records in its database by 2013 | Jeremy Bronfman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Buying Nvidia stock instead of funding AI chip rivals yielded 4x more | Nathan Benaich | Nov 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Skonnard: Adaptive learning bet can grow Pluralsight to $10B-$20B | Aaron Skonnard | Feb 21, 2016 | Didn’t hold up |
| 12B | “Twelve billion” | Bisignano: Major diagnostic companies Quest and LabCorp lack agile software teams | Alexander Bisignano | Feb 18, 2015 | — |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Ancestry holds over 12 billion records and 10 petabytes of data | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Joe Lubin: ConsenSys processes about 10 billion queries per day for Ethereum | Joe Lubin | Sep 17, 2018 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Mortensen: 87 million US knowledge workers schedule 10 billion meetings annually | Dennis Mortensen | Nov 20, 2014 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Steier: Adding 10 billion rows to a data warehouse takes a long time | Sandy Steier | Mar 3, 2014 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Mailchimp expects to hit 10 billion monthly emails by late 2013 | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | Didn’t hold up |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Klout API monthly volume grew from 100M to over 10B in 2011 | Joe Fernandez | Dec 5, 2013 | Partly supported |
| 9B | “an eight billion” | Kant: A 250MW AI data center costs roughly $8 billion to build | Eiso Kant | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 9B | “nine billion” | Pesenti in 2020: 9B parameter Blenderbot is the largest chat model | Jerome Pesenti | Jun 10, 2020 | Partly supported |
| 8B | “a seven billion” | Ratner: $200 of ChatGPT calls can clone closed models into open ones | Alex Ratner | May 31, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 7.4B | “7.4 billion” | CTRL-Labs uniquely identifies users among 7.4 billion in 800 milliseconds | Thomas Reardon | Sep 17, 2019 | — |
| 7B | “a six billion” | JPMorgan built a six-billion-row pivot table using Sigma Computing | Mike Palmer | May 1, 2025 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Future AI models will deliver 100B parameter intelligence at 1B speeds | Sharon Zhou | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Mailchimp sends 6-7 billion monthly emails across 4 million users | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 6.6B | “6.6 billion” | OpenAI's $6.6B round was the largest VC round ever | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 6.6B | “6.6 billion” | OpenAI's $6.6B round required a $250M minimum ticket | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | Buying Nvidia stock instead of funding AI chip rivals yielded 4x more | Nathan Benaich | Nov 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Safe Superintelligence raised a $1B seed round pre-product | Aman Kabeer | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Levie: A $5B startup will be built around AI compute ERP | Aaron Levie | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Hebbia is on track to process five billion document pages in 2025 | George Sivulka | May 29, 2025 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Nanduri predicts 2.5 billion people will be knowledge workers by 2030 | Prakash Nanduri | Apr 13, 2016 | Open |
| 5B | “five billion” | Ancestry users built over 50 million family trees containing 5 billion profiles | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 4.5B | “4.5 billion” | MarketShare ran sub-second simulations on 4.5 billion data points in 2015 | Satya Ramachandran | Feb 21, 2016 | — |
| 4.5B | “4.5 billion” | Foursquare reports 40 million registered users and 4.5 billion total check-ins | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Alex Dean: Strava generates four billion events per day using Snowplow | Alex Dean | Oct 24, 2022 | — |
| 4B | “a three billion” | Mega-fund VCs are just lottery ticket buyers lacking company-building skills | Chris Lynch | Jun 26, 2014 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Replit trained a 3B model that outperformed Google PaLM in coding | Amjad Masad | Feb 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Goldman Sachs indexes up to 3 billion internal communications for surveillance | Mayur Thakur | Dec 19, 2017 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Timber.io processes 3 billion events daily across 4,000 applications | Ben Johnson | Dec 5, 2018 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Kaganovich: Human genome sequencing costs plummeted from $3 billion to $1,000 | Mark Kaganovich | Feb 18, 2015 | Partly supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Livefyre reaches 350 million unique visitors and 3 billion page views | Ramana Rao | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Bisignano: Human genome sequencing costs fell from $3B to $1,000 | Alexander Bisignano | Feb 18, 2015 | Contradicted |
| 3B | “three billion” | Moody: Gnip processes over three billion social data activities daily | Chris Moody | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | NVIDIA details Nemotron 3 parameter specs from 3B to 55B active | Bryan Catanzaro | Jul 2, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.7B | “2.7 billion” | Google's $2.7B Character.AI deal was the largest acquihire ever | Aman Kabeer | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 2.7B | “2.7 billion” | Palantir has reached $2.7 billion in ARR | Aman Kabeer | Nov 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 2.6B | “2.6 billion” | HealthTap has served over 2.6 billion doctor answers | Ron Gutman | Feb 18, 2015 | — |
| 2.5B | “a half a billion” | Katz: Elastic hit $500M+ ARR with 41% international revenue mix | Aaron Katz | Nov 16, 2021 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Patel: Nvidia is backstopping CoreWeave's land and power capital needs | Dylan Patel | Feb 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Dohmke: GitHub passed $2 billion in ARR in July 2024 | Thomas Dohmke | Jun 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | AssemblyAI has processed almost two billion audio files to date | Dylan Fox | May 1, 2023 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Eifrem: Neo4j's 2021 funding round valued the company over $2B | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | One terabyte of log data equals roughly two billion events | Vance Loiselle | Sep 22, 2014 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Midsize enterprises generate over two billion log records daily | Vance Loiselle | Sep 22, 2014 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Turck: NYC had only two billion-dollar exits in a decade, both DoubleClick | Matt Turck | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion training data copyright settlement | Nathan Benaich | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Benaich: Hugging Face data shows over 500M Llama derivative downloads | Nathan Benaich | Nov 14, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Sierra quadrupled its valuation to $4.5B on $20M ARR | Aman Kabeer | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Socher: I angel invested in Hugging Face at a $5M valuation | Richard Socher | Oct 10, 2024 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | De Datta: Adobe is Bloomreach's largest competitor with a $1.5B business in their space | Raj De Datta | Jun 8, 2018 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Dixon: League of Legends made $2.5B selling cosmetic items | Chris Dixon | Jun 8, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Srivas: MapR powers a global email provider with 1.5 billion accounts | M.C. Srivas | Dec 17, 2015 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Sailthru processes roughly half a billion events every day | Ian White | Mar 3, 2014 | — |
| 1.4B | “1.4 billion” | Evans: Accenture recorded $1.4B in generative AI bookings in one quarter | Benedict Evans | May 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.3B | “1.3 billion” | Bendov: ClickSoftware was acquired by Salesforce for $1.3 billion | Amit Bendov | Nov 1, 2020 | Partly supported |
| 1.3B | “1.3 billion” | VMware's Nicira business grew from $20M to $600M ARR during Casado's tenure | Martin Casado | Mar 19, 2019 | Supported |
| 1.3B | “a quarter billion” | Hyman: Braze helps client brands reach over 1.25 billion monthly active users | Jon Hyman | Apr 9, 2018 | — |
| 1.2B | “1.2 billion” | A major New York bank receives 1.2 billion text messages annually | Ben Vigoda | May 22, 2018 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Patel: ChatGPT has roughly one billion users | Dylan Patel | Feb 5, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Dohmke: Visual Studio was a billion-dollar business in 2018 | Thomas Dohmke | Jun 12, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1B | “a billion” | Masad predicts Replit will eventually reach one billion users | Amjad Masad | Feb 6, 2025 | Open |
| 1B | “a billion” | Writer provides 1B randomized tokens for customers to audit copyright compliance | May Habib | Nov 21, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Howie Liu: Airtable has nearly $1B on balance sheet and is profitable | Howie Liu | May 23, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Future AI models will deliver 100B parameter intelligence at 1B speeds | Sharon Zhou | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Matt Turck: Celonis reached 3,000 employees and a $13B valuation | Matt Turck | Feb 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Zhou: Fine-tuning transformed GPT-3 into ChatGPT | Sharon Zhou | Nov 8, 2023 | Supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Moonhub indexes data on one billion people across the public web | Nancy Xu | Oct 18, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Synthesia reached a $1B valuation in Series C led by Accel | Matt Turck | Jul 19, 2023 | Supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Mezhanskiy: Datafold's data-diff benchmarks over 1B rows in 5 minutes | Gleb Mezhanskiy | Sep 12, 2022 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1B | “a billion” | Katz: eBay ingests one billion events per minute into ClickHouse | Aaron Katz | Nov 16, 2021 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Goldman Sachs' internal surveillance graph has 100M nodes and 1B edges | Mayur Thakur | Dec 19, 2017 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Goldman Sachs processes billions of market data events daily | Mayur Thakur | Dec 19, 2017 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Bob Moore categorizes himself as an "in-the-middle" entrepreneur | Bob Moore | Dec 5, 2018 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | BenevolentAI's biological knowledge graph contains approximately one billion facts | Jerome Pesenti | Oct 26, 2017 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Foursquare processes one billion daily API calls to power Twitter location | Jeff Glueck | Mar 24, 2017 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Brute-forcing a 10-word sentence requires one billion permutations | Sameer Maskey | May 28, 2015 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Medlock: SwiftKey is used on close to a billion devices worldwide | Ben Medlock | Apr 2, 2015 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Nanduri notes there are currently one billion knowledge workers worldwide | Prakash Nanduri | Apr 13, 2016 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Skonnard: Adaptive learning bet can grow Pluralsight to $10B-$20B | Aaron Skonnard | Feb 21, 2016 | Didn’t hold up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Marcus: Facebook M relies mostly on human operators rather than AI | Gary Marcus | Jan 25, 2016 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Balaban: Lambda's cloud revenue run rate is just under $1B | Stephen Balaban | Jun 18, 2026 | — |
| 900M | “nine hundred million” | Evans: OpenAI has 900M weekly active users, but only 5% pay | Benedict Evans | Mar 19, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Moses cites 2022 revenues for BigQuery, Snowflake, and Databricks | Barr Moses | Apr 12, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | MongoDB spent over $700M on R&D, dedicating half to free software | Dev Ittycheria | Apr 27, 2021 | — |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Turck says multiple $200M-$600M revenue software companies are waiting to IPO | Matt Turck | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | VMware's Nicira business grew from $20M to $600M ARR during Casado's tenure | Martin Casado | Mar 19, 2019 | Supported |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Tawakol: Oracle Data Cloud grew into a $500 million business | Omar Tawakol | Sep 28, 2017 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | MarketShare ran sub-second simulations on 4.5 billion data points in 2015 | Satya Ramachandran | Feb 21, 2016 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Delangue: Hugging Face is profitable with most of $500M raised in bank | Clement Delangue | Oct 17, 2024 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Traynor: Intercom powers 500 million conversations a month | Des Traynor | Feb 29, 2024 | — |
| 500M | “a four hundred million” | Scholnick: Trinity Ventures closed a $400M 12th fund | Dan Scholnick | Jan 25, 2016 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | White: Sailthru has 500 million users in its database | Ian White | Mar 3, 2014 | — |
| 450M | “four hundred fifty million” | Maximizer boosted Hebbia's token throughput to 500 million tokens per minute | George Sivulka | May 29, 2025 | — |
| 450M | “a three hundred fifty million” | MongoDB Atlas hit $350M run rate with 66 percent annualized growth | Dev Ittycheria | Apr 27, 2021 | Supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Turck: The Information reports Claude Code hit $400M ARR in six months | Matt Turck | Aug 7, 2025 | Supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Ethereum's $400M Q1 net income makes it the most profitable software business | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 360M | “three hundred sixty million” | Celonis bootstrapped without outside capital for its first five years | Alex Rinke | Aug 13, 2020 | — |
| 350M | “three hundred fifty million” | Livefyre reaches 350 million unique visitors and 3 billion page views | Ramana Rao | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 302M | “a two hundred two million” | Socher: AIX Ventures hit 3x TVPI on its first venture fund | Richard Socher | Oct 10, 2024 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | AI coding assistant Cursor passed $300 million ARR two years after launch | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Turck says Midjourney makes $200M to $300M with 40 employees | Matt Turck | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 300M | “Three hundred million” | McGuire: Roblox AI Code Assist has suggested 300M characters of code | Morgan McGuire | Apr 17, 2024 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Ben Uretsky: DigitalOcean raised $123M in venture capital and ~$300M in debt | Ben Uretsky | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | AppNexus has raised around $250 million in venture capital | Michael Rubenstein | Nov 20, 2014 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Automated Insights generated more content than all media combined in 2013 | Robbie Allen | Jun 26, 2014 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Fernandez: Klout refreshes scores daily for 300M people | Joe Fernandez | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Stripe's Link consumer wallet now has 300 million users | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Dohmke: GitHub grew from $200M ARR in 2017 to $2B in 2024 | Thomas Dohmke | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Databricks SQL product line hit $200M in revenue and is doubling | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Turck says multiple $200M-$600M revenue software companies are waiting to IPO | Matt Turck | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Turck says Midjourney makes $200M to $300M with 40 employees | Matt Turck | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Foursquare tracks 200 million points of interest across 190 countries | Gary Little | Apr 3, 2024 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Dataiku reached over $200 million ARR and 1,200 employees | Florian Douetteau | Jul 5, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | DigitalOcean generated over $200 million in revenue in 2018 | Ben Uretsky | Mar 19, 2019 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Tuchen: Talend will surpass $200 million in revenue in 2018 | Mike Tuchen | Oct 17, 2018 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Rauch: Vercel's v0 has generated over 100 million applications | Guillermo Rauch | Jun 26, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Canva Code went from concept to production in just three months | Brendan Humphreys | Jun 20, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | SingleStore reached $100 million in ARR during Tigani's tenure as CPO | Jordan Tigani | Oct 24, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Crypto token equity rounds will hit hundreds of millions to billions | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Turck: Fivetran generates over $100M in annual revenue | Matt Turck | Oct 10, 2022 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Over 100 US recruiting agencies generate more than $100 million annually | Nancy Xu | Oct 18, 2023 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Turck: Companies with $100M+ ARR have been built solely on data connectors | Matt Turck | Jul 12, 2023 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | AssemblyAI processes over 100 million audio files monthly via API | Dylan Fox | May 1, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | BigID expects to cross $100 million in revenue during 2023 | Dimitri Sirota | Jan 30, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Eifrem: Neo4j crossed $100M ARR in 2021 | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Eifrem: Only 5 modern NoSQL database companies have crossed $100M ARR | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Goldman Sachs' internal surveillance graph has 100M nodes and 1B edges | Mayur Thakur | Dec 19, 2017 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Mostak: Tableau data extracts fail on datasets exceeding 100 million rows | Todd Mostak | Apr 6, 2017 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Glueck: Foursquare can map 100 million places worldwide for venue targeting | Jeff Glueck | Mar 24, 2017 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | IBM created a $100 million Watson investment fund | Michael Karasick | Jan 15, 2015 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | New Relic wouldn't have reached $100M without its early sales hires | Dan Scholnick | Jan 25, 2016 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Srivas: A single Apache HDFS cluster handles roughly 100 million files | M.C. Srivas | Dec 17, 2015 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Livefyre reaches 350 million unique visitors and 3 billion page views | Ramana Rao | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 100M | “one hundred million” | Global AIS ship tracking relies entirely on an unverified honor system | Ami Daniel | Oct 16, 2014 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Context Relevant ran a 120-server demo to automatically discover triangle area formulas | Stephen Purpura | May 27, 2014 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Klout API monthly volume grew from 100M to over 10B in 2011 | Joe Fernandez | Dec 5, 2013 | Partly supported |
| 90M | “ninety million” | Matt Turck: Ada raised over $190 million in VC funding | Matt Turck | Jul 26, 2023 | Supported |
| 90M | “ninety million” | There are 90 million patents and 30 million scientific articles available | Jerome Pesenti | Oct 26, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 87M | “eighty-seven million” | Mortensen: 87 million US knowledge workers schedule 10 billion meetings annually | Dennis Mortensen | Nov 20, 2014 | — |
| 80M | “eighty million” | K Health trained its diagnostic AI on 80 million doctors' notes | Allon Bloch | Jan 16, 2019 | — |
| 70M | “seventy million” | McGuire: Roblox has around 70 million daily active users | Morgan McGuire | Apr 17, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Wilson: 5M teachers and 70M students use Edmodo in the US | Fred Wilson | Dec 19, 2013 | Contradicted |
| 67M | “sixty-seven million” | Celonis bootstrapped without outside capital for its first five years | Alex Rinke | Aug 13, 2020 | — |
| 65M | “sixty five million” | Gong had not spent a dollar of its $65M Sequoia Series C | Amit Bendov | Nov 1, 2020 | — |
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