| 500% | “500%” | Enterprise AI drives 500% capacity shifts, not just 10% productivity gains | May Habib | Nov 21, 2024 | — |
| 500% | “500%” | Instacart grew revenue by 500 percent between early 2015 and late 2016 | Jeremy Stanley | Sep 30, 2016 | — |
| 400% | “400%” | An airport cart client achieved 400 percent ROI within three months | Ashley Kramer | Nov 1, 2020 | — |
| 300% | “300%” | Indian onion prices spiked 300 percent over a two-month period | Joe Reisinger | Jan 16, 2014 | Supported |
| 300% | “300%” | Yahoo drove a 300% CTR lift by combining algorithms with human editors | Todd Papaioannou | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 200% | “200%” | Podjarny: Snyk grew revenue and ARR by around 200% | Guy Podjarny | Feb 17, 2021 | — |
| 150% | “150%” | Laplanche: Lending Club caps annual growth at 150% to manage risk | Renaud Laplanche | May 29, 2014 | — |
| 140% | “140%” | Google Flu Trends suffered a 140% prediction error in 2013 | Stan Christiaens | Jul 13, 2017 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | AxiomProver is the first AI to solve research conjectures end-to-end | Corinna Hong | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Kant: Expert RL will lift enterprise agent quality to 90% in years | Eiso Kant | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | 78% of the Forbes AI 50 list use Stripe for payments | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 10, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Levie: Single-shot AI extraction drops to 75% accuracy on 200-page documents | Aaron Levie | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Kiela: AI systems will probably never reach 100 percent accuracy | Douwe Kiela | Mar 6, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Ada measures customer conversation quality as accurately as humans across 100% of interactions | Mike Murchison | Feb 13, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | LLM performance evaluation is arguably more critical than for traditional software | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Connecting multiple AI agents causes error rates to compound | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Glyman: Ramp approves nearly 100% of prospective clients | Eric Glyman | Aug 1, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Re-engineering LLM decoders can guarantee absolute schema accuracy for structured outputs | Sharon Zhou | Jul 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Glean AI shifted 100% of its machine learning stack to LLMs | Howard Katzenberg | Nov 29, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Sapoznik: Call center agents face an annual turnover rate near 100% | Gustavo Sapoznik | Dec 13, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | DeepScribe achieves nearly 100% patient consent rate | Akilesh Bapu | Nov 17, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Shah: Hippocratic AI operates fully in person five days a week | Munjal Shah | Aug 23, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Eifrem: Neo4j is frequently 1,000 times faster for connected data queries | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Text IQ achieved profitability by 2017 with a 100% pilot conversion rate | Apoorv Agarwal | May 13, 2019 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Enterprise AI only needs to outperform keyword searches and human reviewers | Apoorv Agarwal | May 13, 2019 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Tawakol: AI transcription needs human-in-the-loop systems for acceptable user experiences | Omar Tawakol | Sep 28, 2017 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Trifacta CTO: No data prep algorithm will ever be 100% correct | Sean Kandel | Jul 13, 2017 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Increasing dataset accuracy from 90% to 95% repeatedly halves error rates | Lukas Biewald | Sep 14, 2015 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Enterprise customers will not pay for 80% accurate machine learning | David Luan | May 28, 2015 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | US oncology EHR adoption will reach 100% by 2017 | Zach Weinberg | Feb 18, 2015 | Didn’t hold up |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Gutman: 100% of HealthTap content is doctor-created and peer-reviewed | Ron Gutman | Feb 18, 2015 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | 100% of Stitch Fix sales pass through its recommendation engine | Eric Colson | Mar 18, 2016 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Deighton: Vast majority of new startup data lives in cloud | Anthony Deighton | Sep 14, 2015 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Industry data scientists must aim for 80% perfection, unlike in academia | Jake Klamka | Mar 20, 2014 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Retail churn is fuzzy and non-deterministic compared to subscription businesses | Corey Pearson | Mar 3, 2014 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Semmelhack: Nest operates as a closed system to control customer experience | Peter Semmelhack | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Tumblr's explicit post categorization yielded perfectly accurate content classification data | Adam Laiacano | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Narayan: Materialize provides 99.9% of batch database functionality | Arjun Narayan | Mar 15, 2021 | — |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Chen: Enterprise AI solutions must hit 99.9% accuracy from day one | Kuang Chen | Mar 24, 2017 | — |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Papaioannou in 2012: HDFS will scale forever for most companies | Todd Papaioannou | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Biewald estimates 99% of Global 2000 use ML for core operations | Lukas Biewald | Aug 9, 2023 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Eifrem: Neo4j powers 99% of all flight ticket route calculations | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | MongoDB achieved 99 percent of its growth organically without acquisitions | Dev Ittycheria | Apr 27, 2021 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 99% | “99%” | Chris Dixon: 99% of network effect startups fail before achieving scale | Chris Dixon | Jun 8, 2018 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Deep learning teams using standard code branches are light years ahead | Dillon Erb | Feb 25, 2019 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Hoffman: Machine learning engineers spend up to 99% of time organizing data | Auren Hoffman | Nov 20, 2017 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | A 1952 Bell Labs voice system reached 97-99% accuracy | Evan Macmillan | Sep 14, 2015 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Muglia: Cloud security can surpass 99% of on-premises systems | Bob Muglia | Apr 20, 2015 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Flatiron captures EGFR mutation status in 99% of its dataset | Zach Weinberg | Feb 18, 2015 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Samsara-connected vehicles drive 99% of U.S. roads every single day | Sanjit Biswas | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Lambert: Big tech will realize 95-98% of LLM potential by 2030 | Nathan Lambert | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Machine learning's economic value lies in getting from 80% to 98% accuracy | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Eifrem: GQL standard query language is 98% identical to Cypher | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | Partly supported |
| 98% | “98%” | ZestFinance saw fraud drop 98% overnight after launching new model | Shawn Budde | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | AI evaluation will shift from single-shot answers to multi-step agentic execution | Sebastian Raschka | Jan 29, 2026 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | Stripe's AI foundation model increased card testing fraud detection to 97% | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 10, 2025 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | Ramot: Over 97% of Via rush-hour rides are shared | Daniel Ramot | Apr 6, 2017 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | Falkowitz: 97% of all cyberattacks begin with phishing | Oren Falkowitz | Oct 21, 2015 | Partly supported |
| 95% | “95%” | AI evaluation will shift from single-shot answers to multi-step agentic execution | Sebastian Raschka | Jan 29, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Soldaini: 95% of web pages are under 3,000 tokens | Luca Soldaini | Nov 20, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Kant: 95% of Poolside's researchers sit outside Silicon Valley | Eiso Kant | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | 76% of surveyed AI practitioners pay for tools out of pocket | Nathan Benaich | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Socher: 95% step accuracy yields 50% failure rates in 15-step AI tasks | Richard Socher | Oct 10, 2024 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | ADP's skills graph ontology is 95% automated | Jack Berkowitz | Nov 17, 2022 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Kanjun Qiu: 95% of Imbue's work is engineering, not research | Kanjun Qiu | Oct 4, 2023 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Goshen: 95% of enterprise AI use cases are task-specific | Ori Goshen | Sep 20, 2023 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Riparbelli: LLMs are not production-ready for 95% of intended tasks | Victor Riparbelli | Jul 19, 2023 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | 95% of machine learning models at Google and Facebook are neural nets | Bindu Reddy | Apr 5, 2021 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Volpi: Employees write 95% of code in open source startups | Mike Volpi | Nov 13, 2019 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Goldman Sachs targets 95% recall and 20% precision for compliance surveillance | Mayur Thakur | Dec 19, 2017 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Kimball: 95% of data in global software applications is inherently local | Spencer Kimball | Oct 17, 2018 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Hoffman: Google ML engineers spend 95% of their time building models | Auren Hoffman | Nov 20, 2017 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Foursquare maps venues within a 95% confidence interval using check-in data | Jeff Glueck | Mar 24, 2017 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Increasing dataset accuracy from 90% to 95% repeatedly halves error rates | Lukas Biewald | Sep 14, 2015 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Flatiron targets data from the 95% of cancer patients outside trials | Zach Weinberg | Feb 18, 2015 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Bloom: 95% of production machine learning code is just glue code | Josh Bloom | Nov 23, 2015 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Breslow: Small business online banking adoption rose from 60% to 95% | Noah Breslow | May 28, 2014 | Contradicted |
| 95% | “95%” | Mitra: OnDeck increased applicant scoring coverage from 60% to over 95% | Abhra Mitra | May 28, 2014 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Tim Hwang: 90% to 95% of government data is unstructured | Tim Hwang | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Matt Ocko: Data Collective got 2x-3x cash returns on failed investments | Matt Ocko | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 94% | “94%” | FiscalNote's prediction algorithms determine bill passage with 94% accuracy | Tim Hwang | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 94% | “94%” | Tim Hwang says roughly 94% of New York state legislative bills fail | Tim Hwang | Jan 16, 2014 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Top AI serving companies achieve 70% to 90% gross margins | Nathan Benaich | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | NVIDIA chips power 90% of open-source AI research papers | Nathan Benaich | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Valenzuela: Full-stack AI companies will eventually reach 80% to 90% SaaS margins | Cris Valenzuela | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Dohmke: OpenAI's Codex solved over 90% of GitHub interview coding exercises | Thomas Dohmke | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Dohmke: AI coding agents require 90% benchmark accuracy for broad adoption | Thomas Dohmke | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Fireworks AI improved speculative execution hit rates from 30% to 90% | Lin Qiao | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Mike Murchison: LLM model costs plummeted 90% in 12 months | Mike Murchison | Feb 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | GPT-4 price per token dropped roughly 90% in one year | Matt Turck | Nov 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Glyman: Ramp's experimental AI agent achieves 60% to 90% task accuracy | Eric Glyman | Aug 1, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Azhar: Over 90% of new US electricity capacity added was renewables | Azeem Azhar | Jul 2, 2024 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Handy: Building in-house is often faster than M&A for data infrastructure | Tristan Handy | Feb 22, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Kant: Model capabilities determine 80-90% of AI product value | Eiso Kant | Dec 20, 2023 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Alex Rinke: 90% of business partnerships fail | Alex Rinke | Feb 8, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Sivulka: Multi-step AI workflows suffer from compounding accuracy errors | George Sivulka | Jun 21, 2023 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Sivulka: LLMs excel at first-order tasks but struggle with nth-order | George Sivulka | Jun 21, 2023 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Meroxa's workforce is 60% Black/Brown, 40% women, and 90% underrepresented executives | DeVaris Brown | Jun 21, 2021 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Podjarny: Security products require broad stack coverage to deliver real value | Guy Podjarny | Feb 17, 2021 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | 90% of contacted open source projects want to contribute to OpenLineage | Julien Le Dem | Feb 1, 2021 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Over 90% of Python tabular data passes through Pandas | Wes McKinney | Feb 1, 2021 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Volpi: AWS holds an estimated 85% to 90% market share among developers | Mike Volpi | Nov 13, 2019 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Sherman: Timber reduced its data pipeline costs by about 90% | Zach Sherman | Dec 5, 2018 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Lubin: Acquiring users and UI/UX is 90% of building crypto apps | Joe Lubin | Sep 17, 2018 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Boujarwah: Dia&Co has served over a million women across most US zip codes | Nadia Boujarwah | Nov 20, 2017 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Lynn: 90% of useful electronic medical record data is lab data | Rebecca Lynn | Jul 13, 2017 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Maida: Over 90% of enterprise cybersecurity data goes completely unused | Liz Maida | Jul 13, 2017 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Ninety percent of Instacart customers are repeat buyers | Jeremy Stanley | Sep 30, 2016 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Weiss: Roughly 90% of Slack employees previously built consumer software | Noah Weiss | Sep 30, 2016 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Increasing dataset accuracy from 90% to 95% repeatedly halves error rates | Lukas Biewald | Sep 14, 2015 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Simple recommendation algorithms deliver 80 to 90 percent of the total benefit | David Glueck | Jun 19, 2015 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Howie Liu: 90% of spreadsheets are used as makeshift databases | Howie Liu | Apr 20, 2015 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | US oncology EHR adoption will reach 100% by 2017 | Zach Weinberg | Feb 18, 2015 | Didn’t hold up |
| 90% | “90%” | Flatiron spends 90% of its time on single-player software value | Zach Weinberg | Feb 18, 2015 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | AXA spends 90% of data project time on preparation, 10% on modeling | Louis DiModugno | May 23, 2016 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Nanduri estimates 90 percent of enterprise data questions are simple | Prakash Nanduri | Apr 13, 2016 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Amazon Web Services holds about 90% market share | Peter Fenton | Mar 18, 2016 | Contradicted |
| 90% | “90%” | Ten phishing emails yield a 90 percent success probability within 90 seconds | Oren Falkowitz | Oct 21, 2015 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Stephen Purpura argues 90-percent accurate predictive models suffice for commercial monetization | Stephen Purpura | May 27, 2014 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | White: 80 to 90 percent of Sailthru's infrastructure is databases | Ian White | Mar 3, 2014 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Lonsdale: Combining AI with human investigators cut PayPal fraud by 90% | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Ancestry's DNA testing service achieves 90% accuracy when matching fourth cousins | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Moody: Gnip serves 90% of Fortune 500 companies | Chris Moody | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Wolf: 90% of AI Fake News Is Made by Closed-Source Models | Thomas Wolf | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 87% | “87%” | Mooney: Forbes published that 87% of data science models fail to reach production | Carolyn Mooney | Apr 12, 2022 | Supported |
| 87% | “87%” | Gourley: Primer headline generator achieves 84% okay-or-better rating versus 87% for humans | Sean Gourley | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 87% | “87%” | Bensing: 87% of Americans are identifiable by birth date, gender, location | EJ Bensing | Apr 20, 2015 | Supported |
| 86% | “86%” | Xactly derived 86% of its pre-IPO business from 6sense predictions | Amanda Kahlow | May 23, 2016 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Ada's AI agents resolve up to 85% of customer service conversations autonomously | Mike Murchison | Feb 13, 2025 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Valenzuela: Research and engineering make up 85% of Runway's team | Cris Valenzuela | Mar 27, 2024 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Emil Eifrem: Over 85% of Neo4j's ARR originates with individual practitioners | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Oppenheimer: Serverless AI architecture can cut infrastructure costs by up to 85% | Diego Oppenheimer | Mar 2, 2018 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Horowitz: 85% of MongoDB's engineering team is based in New York | Eliot Horowitz | Mar 18, 2016 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Gourley: Google includes Wikipedia on page one for 85% of common searches | Sean Gourley | Mar 20, 2014 | Partly supported |
| 84% | “84%” | Gourley: Primer headline generator achieves 84% okay-or-better rating versus 87% for humans | Sean Gourley | Mar 19, 2019 | — |
| 82% | “82%” | FirstMark survey: 82% of developers use AI to write code | David Walsher | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lambert: 80% of a16z's open-model portfolio startups use Alibaba's Qwen | Nathan Lambert | Nov 20, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Kant: AI foundation model gross margins will settle near 40% | Eiso Kant | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Corporate AI subscription retention rose from 50% to 80% since 2022 | Nathan Benaich | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | OpenAI retains 80% of corporate AI model spending, per Ramp data | Nathan Benaich | Nov 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Machine learning's economic value lies in getting from 80% to 98% accuracy | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | 80% of cloud database query workloads are under 100 megabytes | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Azhar: 80% of regional maritime traffic is rerouting around the Horn of Africa | Azeem Azhar | Jul 2, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | AI content creation now surpasses the bottom 80% of marketing employees | Bob Moore | Mar 13, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Moody's Observes Up to 80% Efficiency Gains in Data Retrieval | Cristina Pieretti | Dec 21, 2023 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Sapoznik: Agents click ASAPP's AI suggestions 80% of the time | Gustavo Sapoznik | Dec 13, 2023 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Moonhub clients report 80% of candidates are unique to the platform | Nancy Xu | Oct 18, 2023 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Customer service agent attrition rates exceed 40% normally, 80% during pandemic | Mike Murchison | Jul 26, 2023 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Moses: Automation can resolve 80% of data downtime causes | Barr Moses | Apr 12, 2022 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Riparbelli: 80% of Synthesia's enterprise clients use custom avatars | Victor Riparbelli | May 24, 2021 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Podjarny: Security products require broad stack coverage to deliver real value | Guy Podjarny | Feb 17, 2021 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Celonis's first customer cut ticket resolution from five days to same-day | Alex Rinke | Aug 13, 2020 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Practical Enterprise ML is 20% Algorithms and 80% Systems Engineering | Raj De Datta | Jun 8, 2018 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Dixon: High-end VR headset prices fell 80% over three years | Chris Dixon | Jun 8, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 80% | “80%” | Dixon: 80% accurate ML models take a weekend; the rest takes decades | Chris Dixon | Jun 8, 2018 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Chainalysis tracks roughly 80% of transacted Bitcoin value involving known entities | Jonathan Levin | Apr 9, 2018 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lynn: 80% of Procter & Gamble marketing staff are engineers | Rebecca Lynn | Jul 13, 2017 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Ramot: Over 97% of Via rush-hour rides are shared | Daniel Ramot | Apr 6, 2017 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | David Loaiza: Roughly 80% of alternative data sold by vendors is duplicated | David Loisa | Mar 24, 2017 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Ribant: Datorama avoids privacy pushback by training on user actions, not data | Katrin Ribant | Nov 9, 2016 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Weiss: Surfacing individual experts satisfies 80% of workplace search needs | Noah Weiss | Sep 30, 2016 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Enterprise customers will not pay for 80% accurate machine learning | David Luan | May 28, 2015 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Data scientists are highly-paid janitors who spend 80 percent of time munging | Prakash Nanduri | Apr 13, 2016 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | De la Torre: 80% of data has location component, only 10% use it | Javier de la Torre | Feb 21, 2016 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Scholnick: Developer tool companies rely less on large enterprise customers | Dan Scholnick | Jan 25, 2016 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Gutierrez: Lenders need roughly 1,000 defaulted loans to build a risk model | James Gutierrez | May 29, 2014 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Industry data scientists must aim for 80% perfection, unlike in academia | Jake Klamka | Mar 20, 2014 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Retailers lose 80% of customers who go inactive for 4-5 months | Corey Pearson | Mar 3, 2014 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Perret: Plaid spends 80% of its time on B2B products | Zach Perret | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lonsdale: 80% of top tech talent comes from 20 universities | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Mailchimp's data science team spends 80 percent of time building tools | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Business registrations jump 40% in Netherlands and 80% in France | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 9, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 78% | “78%” | 78% of the Forbes AI 50 list use Stripe for payments | Emily Glassberg Sands | Jul 10, 2025 | — |
| 76% | “76%” | 76% of surveyed AI practitioners pay for tools out of pocket | Nathan Benaich | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Levie: Single-shot AI extraction drops to 75% accuracy on 200-page documents | Aaron Levie | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Chollet: OpenAI used about 75% of ARC training tasks to adapt o3 | Francois Chollet | Apr 3, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Microsoft and ServiceNow report 50-75% developer productivity gains from AI | Tomasz Tunguz | May 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Freedman: pgvectorscale on AWS is 75% cheaper than Pinecone | Mike Freedman | Sep 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Azeem Azhar: 75% of people will use AI daily by 2029 | Azeem Azhar | Jul 2, 2024 | Open |
| 75% | “75%” | Eifrem: Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j | Emil Eifrem | Feb 7, 2022 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | 25% of CB Insights data is investor-submitted, 75% programmatically extracted | Anand Sanwal | Sep 14, 2015 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Mashable's Velocity engine reaches 75% content prediction accuracy within five minutes | Haile Owusu | Nov 23, 2015 | — |
| 74% | “74%” | Gutman: 74% of nighttime ER visits are unnecessary | Ron Gutman | Feb 18, 2015 | Contradicted |
| 73% | “73%” | Lynn: About 73% of U.S. doctors are on Doximity | Rebecca Lynn | Jul 13, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 73% | “73%” | Foursquare data reveals 73% of venue visits are to previously visited places | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 72% | “72%” | Hebbia removed cosine similarity scores after finding they confused users | George Sivulka | Jun 21, 2023 | — |
| 71% | “71%” | Cisco's marketing-to-sales conversion rate jumped from 5% to 71% using 6sense | Amanda Kahlow | May 23, 2016 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Kant: Expert RL will lift enterprise agent quality to 90% in years | Eiso Kant | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | 76% of surveyed AI practitioners pay for tools out of pocket | Nathan Benaich | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Valenzuela: AI research lab gross margins currently range from 40% to 70% | Cris Valenzuela | Sep 4, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Misha Laskin: Engineers spend 70% of their time searching information, not coding | Misha Laskin | Jul 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Dohmke: Multilingual AI coding benchmarks hover around 20% to 30% success rate | Thomas Dohmke | Jun 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Kaplan: 60% to 70% of InfluxData's business is IoT | Evan Kaplan | May 8, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Bernhardsson: AWS EC2 retains 50% to 70% profit margins | Erik Bernhardsson | Oct 31, 2024 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | AI optimism is 70% in China and India, 30% in US/UK | Azeem Azhar | Jul 2, 2024 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Kim: Analysts and engineers make up 70% of Select Star's user base | Shinji Kim | Sep 12, 2022 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Ghodsi: Snowflake coexists with Databricks in about 70% of accounts | Ali Ghodsi | May 24, 2021 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Lubin: Traditional music intermediaries capture 70% of value in the ecosystem | Joe Lubin | Sep 17, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Boujarwah: 70% of US women wear plus size, but represent 16% of spend | Nadia Boujarwah | Nov 20, 2017 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Hoffman: Google has location data on 70% of US mobile phones | Auren Hoffman | Nov 20, 2017 | — |
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