| 65M | “sixty-five million” | PlaceIQ tracks movement data from 165 million opted-in US consumers | Duncan McCall | May 24, 2017 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Kulkarni: Elastic filed for IPO making $160M in revenue, more than MongoDB | Ajay Kulkarni | Sep 17, 2018 | Supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Snowflake closed a $260 million funding round led by Sequoia | Bob Muglia | Apr 9, 2018 | — |
| 55M | “fifty-five million” | Foursquare reports 40 million registered users and 4.5 billion total check-ins | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Tuchen: Talend will surpass $200 million in revenue in 2018 | Mike Tuchen | Oct 17, 2018 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Stockholm-based AI startup Lovable reached $50 million ARR in six months | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | AI photo editor PhotoRoom reached $50 million ARR in three years | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | OpenAI's $6.6B round required a $250M minimum ticket | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | $50M+ startup acquisitions take 12-18 months of internal championing | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Collibra raised a $250 million Series G at a $5.25 billion valuation | Matt Turck | Mar 17, 2022 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | The New York Times sees 150 million unique visitors per month | Nick Rockwell | Jan 17, 2019 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Christine Hung: Spotify has 150M monthly active users across 60+ countries | Christine Hung | Oct 26, 2017 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Glueck: Foursquare reaches 50M monthly users across web and apps | Jeff Glueck | Mar 24, 2017 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Tumblr hosted approximately 150 million blogs as of November 2013 | Adam Laiacano | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Ancestry users built over 50 million family trees containing 5 billion profiles | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Berkowitz: ADP pays about 40 million workers globally every month | Jack Berkowitz | Nov 17, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | ADP uses ML to reduce 21 million job titles into 7,000 categories | Jack Berkowitz | Nov 17, 2022 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | eHarmony has data on about 40 million registered users | Vaclav Petricek | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Foursquare reports 40 million registered users and 4.5 billion total check-ins | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 32M | “two thirty million” | Dataiku reached $230M ARR and 600 customers as of September 2023 | Florian Douetteau | Mar 20, 2024 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Poolside scales its RL environment repository to over 1M codebases | Eiso Kant | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | AI startups reach $30M ARR three times faster than fast-growing SaaS startups | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 10, 2025 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | AI startups reach $30M ARR five times faster than legacy SaaS | Aman Kabeer | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Matt Turck: Ada raised over $190 million in VC funding | Matt Turck | Jul 26, 2023 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Unacast has raised $30 million with engineering team in Oslo | Thomas Walle | Nov 13, 2019 | — |
| 30M | “30 million” | Startups need around $30M ARR before partners handle professional services | Martin Casado | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Oudghiri: Enigma's company graph covers 30 million SMBs and 1,000+ attributes | Hicham Oudghiri | Dec 5, 2018 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | There are 90 million patents and 30 million scientific articles available | Jerome Pesenti | Oct 26, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Essas: OpenTable has 30 million reviews in its database | Joseph Essas | Jun 19, 2015 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Flatiron Health spent over half its $130M Series B acquiring an EHR | Zach Weinberg | Feb 18, 2015 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Srivas: India's Aadhaar biometric system has registered 930 million people | M.C. Srivas | Dec 17, 2015 | Supported |
| 26M | “a twenty-five million” | Mezhanskiy: Datafold's data-diff benchmarks over 1B rows in 5 minutes | Gleb Mezhanskiy | Sep 12, 2022 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Deloitte partners carry a $25 million annual quota, says Crespo | Eleonore Crespo | Sep 11, 2025 | — |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | Neo4j maintained 2ms query latency when scaled to 1,000,000 users | Emil Eifrem | Apr 20, 2015 | — |
| 23M | “twenty three million” | Ben Uretsky: DigitalOcean raised $123M in venture capital and ~$300M in debt | Ben Uretsky | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 21M | “twenty-one million” | Emi Gal: Ezra raised $21M Series B co-led by FirstMark and Healthier Capital | Emi Gal | Mar 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 21M | “twenty one million” | ADP uses ML to reduce 21 million job titles into 7,000 categories | Jack Berkowitz | Nov 17, 2022 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Sierra quadrupled its valuation to $4.5B on $20M ARR | Aman Kabeer | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | VMware's Nicira business grew from $20M to $600M ARR during Casado's tenure | Martin Casado | Mar 19, 2019 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Global unstructured data generation will hit 20 million petabytes annually by 2016 | Vance Loiselle | Sep 22, 2014 | Didn’t hold up |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Walsher: GitHub Copilot reached $400M ARR and 15M developers | David Walsher | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | BigID generated $5M in revenue in year one and $15M in year two | Dimitri Sirota | Jan 30, 2023 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Textio collected 15 million job listings tagged with performance outcome metrics | Kieran Snyder | Mar 18, 2016 | — |
| 12M | “twelve million” | Ramot: Via has completed 12M total rides and 250k weekly rides | Daniel Ramot | Apr 6, 2017 | — |
| 12M | “twelve million” | Glueck: Foursquare outpredicted Wall Street on iPhone 6s launch sales | Jeff Glueck | Mar 24, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 12M | “twelve million” | The unmarketed IRS GetTranscript tool increased annual digital requests to 12 million | Nick Sinai | Oct 16, 2014 | Supported |
| 11M | “a ten million” | Rogojan: Databricks and Snowflake are fighting for workflows, not contract lock-in | Ben Rogojan (Seattle Data Guy) | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Masad broke Facebook's Android beta for 10 million users during bootcamp | Amjad Masad | Feb 6, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Evans: Meta Quest 3 lacks traction with roughly 10M active users | Benedict Evans | Apr 10, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Goshen: AI21 Labs' Wordtune has over 10 million users | Ori Goshen | Sep 20, 2023 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Ober: Quant funds require two years of backtestable daily data before purchasing | Matt Ober | Feb 25, 2019 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Ramot: Via has completed 12M total rides and 250k weekly rides | Daniel Ramot | Apr 6, 2017 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Turck: MapR raised a $110 million funding round from Google Capital | Matt Turck | Dec 17, 2015 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Perlich: Digital advertising machine learning models operate in ten million dimensions | Claudia Perlich | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 8.5M | “8.5 million” | LlamaIndex announced an $8.5 million seed round led by Greylock | Matt Turck | Jul 12, 2023 | Supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Crouch: FBI's NCIC database receives around 8M daily law enforcement queries | Scott Crouch | Apr 20, 2015 | Partly supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | OnDeck tracks eight million US small businesses from creation to closure | Noah Breslow | May 28, 2014 | — |
| 8M | “eight million” | Feldman: Cerebras burned $8M monthly for 18 months before building successful chips | Andrew Feldman | Jul 23, 2026 | — |
| 7M | “seven million” | Zeghidour: Kyutai trained its Moshi model on 7 million hours of speech | Neil Zeghidour | Feb 19, 2026 | — |
| 7M | “a six million” | Gourley: Primer cut bank analyst report summary time, saving $6M | Sean Gourley | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 6M | “a five million” | DeepSeek-R1 cost roughly $300,000 to train, 10x cheaper than DeepSeek-V3 | Sebastian Raschka | Jan 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 6M | “six million” | DeepScribe grew from zero to $6M ARR purely through inbound marketing | Akilesh Bapu | Nov 17, 2023 | — |
| 6M | “six million” | Foursquare reports 40 million registered users and 4.5 billion total check-ins | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Delangue: Hugging Face has 5M builders and 1M public models | Clement Delangue | Oct 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Socher: I angel invested in Hugging Face at a $5M valuation | Richard Socher | Oct 10, 2024 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | BigID generated $5M in revenue in year one and $15M in year two | Dimitri Sirota | Jan 30, 2023 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Foursquare passively tracks user phone movements across 105 million businesses | Jeff Glueck | Mar 24, 2017 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Washington D.C. estimates 20% to 40% of police records are duplicates | EJ Bensing | Apr 20, 2015 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 5M | “five million” | Wilson: 5M teachers and 70M students use Edmodo in the US | Fred Wilson | Dec 19, 2013 | Contradicted |
| 5M | “five million” | Burazin: Client requested 5 million concurrent AI agent sandboxes | Ivan Borzin | May 14, 2026 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | 5 million Americans now make a living running solo companies | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 4M | “four million” | Sapoznik: The US employs roughly 3 to 4 million call center agents | Gustavo Sapoznik | Dec 13, 2023 | Supported |
| 4M | “four million” | AssemblyAI is training its next speech model on ~4 million hours of audio | Dylan Fox | May 1, 2023 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | PlayStation 4 launch generated four million pieces of content on Livefyre | Ramana Rao | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Livefyre processes four million requests per minute across its live widgets | Ramana Rao | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Jesse St. Charles: Knewton served roughly 4 million students in 18 months | Jesse St. Charles | Mar 20, 2014 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Mailchimp sends 6-7 billion monthly emails across 4 million users | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 3.5M | “3504 thousand” | Perret: Plaid powers about 3,500 to 4,000 financial products | Zach Perret | May 13, 2019 | Contradicted |
| 3M | “three million” | Uretsky: DigitalOcean gets about 3 million monthly visitors to tutorials | Ben Uretsky | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Noah Weiss: Slack has passed 3 million daily active users | Noah Weiss | Sep 30, 2016 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Crouch: San Antonio police system has 1.2M duplicate records out of 3M | Scott Crouch | Apr 20, 2015 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 3M | “three million” | The unmarketed IRS GetTranscript tool increased annual digital requests to 12 million | Nick Sinai | Oct 16, 2014 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Trojanowski: Over Three Million Accountants Work in the US | Mitch Trojanowski | Aug 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 2.7M | “2.7 million” | Ancestry has 2.7 million paying subscribers and leads online family history | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | Supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Ai2 received an initial grant of two million GPU hours from AMD | Luca Soldaini | Nov 20, 2025 | Open |
| 2M | “two million” | Deloitte partners carry a $25 million annual quota, says Crespo | Eleonore Crespo | Sep 11, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “1502 thousand” | Google earns $1 to $2 every time a user searches 'auto insurance' | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “1.5 million” | Better identified $1.5M in savings on $15M of annual vendor spend | Howard Katzenberg | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | DeepScribe has gathered over 2.5 million labeled medical conversations | Akilesh Bapu | Nov 17, 2023 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | K Health reached 500,000 users within six months of launch | Allon Bloch | Jan 16, 2019 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Dauber: Portfolio AI analyzes medical cases 10% more accurately than humans | Mike Dauber | Sep 30, 2016 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Srivas: Aadhaar will take 2.5 years to achieve full enrollment in India | M.C. Srivas | Dec 17, 2015 | Partly held up |
| 1.4M | “1.4 million” | Rauch: Next.js has 1.4 million monthly active developers as top React framework | Guillermo Rauch | Jun 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | InfluxData has 1.3 million open-source users but only 2,600 paying customers | Evan Kaplan | May 8, 2025 | — |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | Clarifai automatically tagged 1.3 million stock images in a few minutes | Matthew Zeiler | Nov 20, 2014 | — |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Primer generated 40,000 new scientist profiles using RNNs and scientific papers | Sean Gourley | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Shah: Julia programming language has surpassed 1.2 million downloads | Viral Shah | Sep 28, 2017 | — |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Crouch: San Antonio police system has 1.2M duplicate records out of 3M | Scott Crouch | Apr 20, 2015 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1M | “1014 thousand” | CartoDB analysis finds 114,000 daily commuters depend on NYC's L train | Javier de la Torre | Feb 21, 2016 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Poolside scales its RL environment repository to over 1M codebases | Eiso Kant | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Maximizer boosted Hebbia's token throughput to 500 million tokens per minute | George Sivulka | May 29, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Ramaswamy: Neeva reached a $300M valuation on under $1M revenue | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Kiela: Advanced RAG systems break down when scaling to a million PDFs | Douwe Kiela | Mar 6, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Chip Huyen warns million-token context capacity does not imply efficient processing | Chip Huyen | Jan 16, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | AI startups reach $30M ARR five times faster than legacy SaaS | Aman Kabeer | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Ethereum write costs fell from 1M to 1,000 times AWS RDS | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Delangue: Hugging Face has 5M builders and 1M public models | Clement Delangue | Oct 17, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Delangue: Hugging Face has almost 1 million private models | Clement Delangue | Oct 17, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Paribus reached about 1 million customers within one year of launch | Eric Glyman | Aug 1, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Azhar: Iranian drones costing $20,000 require $1M missile interceptors to destroy | Azeem Azhar | Jul 2, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Hugging Face hosts over one million AI models as of April 2024 | Matt Turck | Apr 26, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Evans: Machine learning functions as an infinitely fast intern | Benedict Evans | Apr 10, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Liberty: Even naive RAG implementation significantly reduces AI hallucinations | Edo Liberty | May 31, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Synthesia has generated over one million videos across 40 countries | Synthesia AI Avatar | May 24, 2021 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Cancel: Enterprise software will move away from dozens of loosely coupled tools | David Cancel | Sep 25, 2020 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | TimescaleDB surpassed 1 million downloads in its first 18 months | Ajay Kulkarni | Sep 17, 2018 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Muglia: Snowflake was named after Northstar California resort's logo | Bob Muglia | Apr 9, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | DigitalOcean has over 500,000 monthly active customers | Ben Uretsky | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Boujarwah: Dia&Co has served over a million women across most US zip codes | Nadia Boujarwah | Nov 20, 2017 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | SecurityScorecard aimed to monitor one million entities by the end of 2018 | Dr. Bob Sohval | Oct 26, 2017 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Ramot: Via has completed 12M total rides and 250k weekly rides | Daniel Ramot | Apr 6, 2017 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Nguyen: In 2016, Google Brain is at the intelligence of a cockroach | Christopher Nguyen | Jun 16, 2016 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Neo4j maintained 2ms query latency when scaled to 1,000,000 users | Emil Eifrem | Apr 20, 2015 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Ryan Smith: Qualtrics grew to one million academic users | Ryan Smith | Apr 2, 2015 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Bloom: Netflix couldn't deploy its $1M prize algorithm due to complexity | Josh Bloom | Nov 23, 2015 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Livefyre regularly hits one million concurrent live users across its network | Ramana Rao | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Mashable crawls about a million pieces of content daily | Haile Wusu | Nov 23, 2015 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Area 1 Data: Top spam filters miss 9 targeted phishing emails per million | Oren Falkowitz | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Dubois: Models like Kimi and DeepSeek use ~1M RL data points | Yann Dubois | May 21, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | 5 million Americans now make a living running solo companies | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 128K | “128 thousand” | Fox's breaking news coverage topped 200,000 concurrent interactive users via Livefyre | Ramana Rao | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 100K | “a hundred thousand” | Lending Club had 20 employees and $100K in loans at evaluation | Rebecca Lynn | Jul 13, 2017 | — |
| 66K | “66 thousand” | Livefyre processes four million requests per minute across its live widgets | Ramana Rao | Oct 21, 2015 | — |
| 10K | “ten-thousand” | Sisense analyzed 10 terabytes in 10 seconds on a sub-$10k server | Amit Bendov | Mar 3, 2014 | Supported |
| 2K | “two thousand” | Half of the $2.8 trillion global crude imports travel by sea | Ami Daniel | Oct 16, 2014 | Partly supported |
| 1.5K | “a half thousand” | Feldman: Cerebras moves weights to compute ~2,500x faster than standard GPUs | Andrew Feldman | Jul 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Douglas: DeepMind has 1,000 on Gemini and 10,000 on foundational research | Sholto Douglas | Oct 2, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Crespo: Pigment becomes useful for companies at around 1,000 employees | Eleonore Crespo | Sep 11, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Bernhardsson: Modal can typically scale customers to 1,000 GPUs within minutes | Erik Bernhardsson | Oct 31, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Ethereum write costs fell from 1M to 1,000 times AWS RDS | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Timescale Cloud reaches over 1,000 customers alongside open-source adoption | Mike Freedman | Sep 25, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | ZoomInfo's technical organization numbers roughly 900 to 1,000 people | Ali Dasdan | Sep 19, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | ClickHouse Cloud accumulated over 1,000 customers in its first year | Aaron Katz | Jun 13, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tristan Handy: dbt had 1,000 company users before raising venture capital | Tristan Handy | Feb 22, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Stancil: Enterprise data market won't support 1,000 unicorns | Benn Stancil | Oct 10, 2022 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lamini switches across 1,000 fine-tuned models in three milliseconds | Sharon Zhou | Nov 8, 2023 | Open |
| 1K | “a thousand” | The prompt engineer title jumped to roughly 1,000 SF workers in 2023 | Nancy Xu | Oct 18, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Fox: AssemblyAI serves over 1,000 customers and tens of thousands of monthly developers | Dylan Fox | May 1, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Top developers, lawyers, and doctors will become 1,000x more productive using AI | Amr Awadallah | May 1, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Reducing database query latency to 100ms cuts infrastructure requirements 10x | Jorge Gomez Sancha | Mar 9, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Kimball: Google ran over 1,000 MySQL shards for a decade before Spanner | Spencer Kimball | Nov 17, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Eifrem: Neo4j is frequently 1,000 times faster for connected data queries | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | Supported |
| 1K | “A thousand” | Craib: Numerai trades around 1,000 stocks with 500 long, 500 short | Richard Craib | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Craib: 55% success on 1,000 assets proves edge better than Bitcoin gains | Richard Craib | Jan 31, 2022 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Pinterest runs about 1,000 parallel A/B experiments at any time | Dave Burgess | Apr 5, 2021 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Delangue: Over 1,000 companies including Apple and Bing use Hugging Face | Clement Delangue | Jan 22, 2020 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Cell phones would drop calls 1,000x more often without Bayesian probability bounds | Ben Vigoda | May 22, 2018 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Oudghiri: Enigma's company graph covers 30 million SMBs and 1,000+ attributes | Hicham Oudghiri | Dec 5, 2018 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tuchen: Talend will surpass $200 million in revenue in 2018 | Mike Tuchen | Oct 17, 2018 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | SecurityScorecard observes a 1,000-to-1 ratio of non-breached to breached companies | Dr. Bob Sohval | Oct 26, 2017 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Cadre transacts on roughly 20 of the 1,000 assets it evaluates annually | Jean Sini | Oct 26, 2017 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Endor outperformed nearly 1,000 teams on a Kaggle benchmark | Yaniv Altshuler | Apr 6, 2017 | Contradicted |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Kimball: Google expanded its MySQL AdWords backend to 1,000 shards before replacement | Spencer Kimball | Jun 19, 2015 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Neo4j ran a social network graph query 1,000 times faster than MySQL | Emil Eifrem | Apr 20, 2015 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Orad: Sisense has over 1,000 customers including NASA, eBay, and Target | Amir Orad | Jan 25, 2016 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Srivas: MapR has reached 1,000 customers in four years | M.C. Srivas | Dec 17, 2015 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Gutierrez: Lenders need roughly 1,000 defaulted loans to build a risk model | James Gutierrez | May 29, 2014 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Hawkinson: IoT devices cost $2-$5 to connect with 1,000-foot range | Alex Hawkinson | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lonsdale: Over 1,000 partners are building on Palantir's platform | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | Contradicted |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Merriman: Fast distributed transactions across hundreds of commodity servers are impossible | Dwight Merriman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Klout API monthly volume grew from 100M to over 10B in 2011 | Joe Fernandez | Dec 5, 2013 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Evans: Submitting 1,000 prompts placed ChatGPT users in top 20% | Benedict Evans | Mar 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Prince predicts bot traffic will be 1,000x human traffic within five years | Matthew Prince | Jun 25, 2026 | Open |
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