| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Bloomberg acquired BNA for approximately $1 billion | Itai Gurari | Jan 16, 2014 | Supported |
| $8M | “eight million dollars” | Judicata raised $8 million from Peter Thiel and Khosla Ventures | Itai Gurari | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| $1.5B | “half a billion dollars” | Judicata raised $8 million from Peter Thiel and Khosla Ventures | Itai Gurari | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| $250M | “two hundred fifty million dollars” | The Bureau of Labor Statistics spends $250M annually collecting price data | Joe Reisinger | Jan 16, 2014 | Contradicted |
| 300% | “300%” | Indian onion prices spiked 300 percent over a two-month period | Joe Reisinger | Jan 16, 2014 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Tim Hwang: 90% to 95% of government data is unstructured | Tim Hwang | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 94% | “94%” | FiscalNote's prediction algorithms determine bill passage with 94% accuracy | Tim Hwang | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| $4T | “four trillion dollars” | Tim Hwang states state legislation impacts $4 trillion in US spending | 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 |
| 2.7M | “2.7 million” | Ancestry has 2.7 million paying subscribers and leads online family history | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | Supported |
| $80M | “eighty million dollars” | Ancestry generated $480 million in 2012 revenue across eight countries | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | Partly supported |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Ancestry holds over 12 billion records and 10 petabytes of data | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Ancestry users built over 50 million family trees containing 5 billion profiles | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Ancestry users built over 50 million family trees containing 5 billion profiles | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Ancestry's DNA testing service achieves 90% accuracy when matching fourth cousins | Scott Sorensen | Jan 16, 2014 | — |
| $1.5M | “a half million dollars” | Wilson: USV invested $2.5M in Indeed before its $1.4B acquisition | Fred Wilson | Dec 19, 2013 | Partly supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Wilson: 5M teachers and 70M students use Edmodo in the US | Fred Wilson | Dec 19, 2013 | Contradicted |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Wilson: 5M teachers and 70M students use Edmodo in the US | Fred Wilson | Dec 19, 2013 | Contradicted |
| 90% | “90%” | Lonsdale: Combining AI with human investigators cut PayPal fraud by 90% | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Joe Lonsdale: $20B spent annually on wealth management technology | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| $45B | “forty-five billion dollars” | Lonsdale: US government spends $45B annually gathering intelligence data | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | Partly supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Lonsdale: Palantir won a $100M contract replacing a $500M banking system | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Lonsdale: Palantir won a $100M contract replacing a $500M banking system | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lonsdale: 80% of top tech talent comes from 20 universities | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lonsdale: Over 1,000 partners are building on Palantir's platform | Joe Lonsdale | Dec 5, 2013 | Contradicted |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Tumblr hosted approximately 150 million blogs as of November 2013 | Adam Laiacano | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Tumblr's explicit post categorization yielded perfectly accurate content classification data | Adam Laiacano | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Foursquare reports 40 million registered users and 4.5 billion total check-ins | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 55M | “fifty-five million” | Foursquare reports 40 million registered users and 4.5 billion total check-ins | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 4.5B | “4.5 billion” | Foursquare reports 40 million registered users and 4.5 billion total check-ins | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 6M | “six million” | Foursquare reports 40 million registered users and 4.5 billion total check-ins | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Foursquare claims its background contextual notifications use under 1% battery hourly | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 73% | “73%” | Foursquare data reveals 73% of venue visits are to previously visited places | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 62% | “62%” | Foursquare data reveals 73% of venue visits are to previously visited places | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 18% | “18%” | 18% of users shown a Foursquare Explore recommendation check in within days | Blake Shaw | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | eHarmony has data on about 40 million registered users | Vaclav Petricek | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Petricek: eHarmony has fewer than 10 people on machine learning | Vaclav Petricek | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Mailchimp sends 6-7 billion monthly emails across 4 million users | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Mailchimp sends 6-7 billion monthly emails across 4 million users | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Mailchimp expects to hit 10 billion monthly emails by late 2013 | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | Didn’t hold up |
| 20% | “20%” | Mailchimp's data science team spends 80 percent of time building tools | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Mailchimp's data science team spends 80 percent of time building tools | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Gmail's tabbed inbox launch dropped Mailchimp open rates by 10 percent | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Gmail's tabbed inbox launch dropped Mailchimp open rates by 10 percent | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 13% | “13%” | Gmail's tabbed inbox launch dropped Mailchimp open rates by 10 percent | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 12% | “12%” | Gmail's tabbed inbox launch dropped Mailchimp open rates by 10 percent | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | EPA email engagement fell to 10 percent during the government shutdown | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Mailchimp's Discovered Segments boosted a developer newsletter engagement by 50 percent | John Foreman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| $400M | “four hundred million dollars” | New York City mortgage fraud totals roughly $400 million annually | Mike Flowers | Dec 5, 2013 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1.3T | “1.25 trillion” | Total real estate turnover in New York City is roughly $1.25 trillion | Mike Flowers | Dec 5, 2013 | Contradicted |
| 10M | “ten million” | Perlich: Digital advertising machine learning models operate in ten million dimensions | Claudia Perlich | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Enigma aggregated 30 billion public records in its database by 2013 | Jeremy Bronfman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Hawkinson: IoT devices cost $2-$5 to connect with 1,000-foot range | Alex Hawkinson | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Semmelhack: Nest operates as a closed system to control customer experience | Peter Semmelhack | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Budde: Top credit variables hold 3-5% weight in ZestFinance models | Shawn Budde | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Budde: Top credit variables hold 3-5% weight in ZestFinance models | Shawn Budde | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Perret: Plaid spends 80% of its time on B2B products | Zach Perret | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | ZestFinance saw fraud drop 98% overnight after launching new model | Shawn Budde | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | ZestFinance saw fraud drop 98% overnight after launching new model | Shawn Budde | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 50× | “50 x” | Frenkiel: Moving data from disk to memory yields a 50x speedup | Eric (MemSQL) | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | DataMarket will adopt D3.js once IE7 and IE8 market share drops | Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) | Dec 5, 2013 | Didn’t hold up |
| 4% | “four percent” | DataMarket will adopt D3.js once IE7 and IE8 market share drops | Hjalmar Gislason (Halmar) | Dec 5, 2013 | Didn’t hold up |
| 95% | “95%” | Matt Ocko: Data Collective got 2x-3x cash returns on failed investments | Matt Ocko | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Matt Ocko: Data Collective got 2x-3x cash returns on failed investments | Matt Ocko | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Matt Ocko: Data Collective got 2x-3x cash returns on failed investments | Matt Ocko | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Turck: NYC had only two billion-dollar exits in a decade, both DoubleClick | Matt Turck | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Merriman: Fast distributed transactions across hundreds of commodity servers are impossible | Dwight Merriman | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Papaioannou in 2012: HDFS will scale forever for most companies | Todd Papaioannou | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 300% | “300%” | Yahoo drove a 300% CTR lift by combining algorithms with human editors | Todd Papaioannou | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Klout API monthly volume grew from 100M to over 10B in 2011 | Joe Fernandez | Dec 5, 2013 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Klout API monthly volume grew from 100M to over 10B in 2011 | Joe Fernandez | Dec 5, 2013 | Partly supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Klout API monthly volume grew from 100M to over 10B in 2011 | Joe Fernandez | Dec 5, 2013 | Partly supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Fernandez: Klout refreshes scores daily for 300M people | Joe Fernandez | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 45B | “forty-five billion” | Bloomberg infrastructure processed 45 billion financial ticks per day | Matt Turck | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Moody: Gnip processes over three billion social data activities daily | Chris Moody | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Moody: Gnip serves 90% of Fortune 500 companies | Chris Moody | Dec 5, 2013 | — |
| 41B | “a forty billion” | Moody: Social data will integrate into the $40B business intelligence industry | Chris Moody | Dec 5, 2013 | Held up |
| 3% | “Three percent” | Mason: 3% of all 2011 Bitly clicks went to top 100 celebrity pages | Hilary Mason | Dec 5, 2013 | Supported |
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