The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 38 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

All Dollars Multiples Percentages Big numbers

Figure	As spoken	The claim	Who	When	Checked?
10,000×	“10,000 times”	Khan: NYPD testified it lacks accuracy data for its facial recognition systems	Albert Fox Khan	Oct 31, 2023	Supported
344×	“344 times”	Huffington: 72% of people sleep with their phones	Arianna Huffington	Aug 16, 2023	Partly supported
148×	“148 times”	Minshew: The Muse faced 148 investor rejections before seed funding	Kathryn Minshew	Jan 30, 2024	—
100×	“hundred X”	Maples: Floodgate maintains a database of 100x seed-stage startup investments	Mike Maples, Jr.	Jul 18, 2024	—
100×	“hundred x”	Luan: AI cyber attack risk is 10x to 100x larger than disinformation	David Luan	Oct 31, 2023	—
99×	“99 times”	Hoffman: New leaders must evolve the business, not preserve the status quo	Reid Hoffman	Jan 19, 2022	—
85×	“85 times”	Raskin: Whales have transmitted vocal culture for 34 million years	Aza Raskin	Jul 9, 2024	Contradicted
60×	“60 times”	Frankfort: Handbag loyalty stems from opening a personal vessel 50–60 times daily	Lew Frankfort	May 22, 2026	—
50×	“50 times”	Fake: Early Flickr's tiny team manually posted 50 times daily per person	Caterina Fake	Nov 24, 2023	—
50×	“50 X”	Hoffman: Passing on Etsy's angel round cost a 20x to 50x return	Reid Hoffman	Nov 24, 2023	—
45×	“45 times”	Vaynerchuk: Being right once in 45 hypotheses fully pays for exploration	Gary Vaynerchuk	Nov 16, 2023	—
25×	“25 times”	Eidelman: General practice veterinarians manage 15 to 25 emotionally volatile appointments daily	Steven Eidelman	Apr 17, 2025	Supported
20×	“20 X”	Hoffman: Passing on Etsy's angel round cost a 20x to 50x return	Reid Hoffman	Nov 24, 2023	—
12×	“12 times”	Barrocas: SharkNinja leadership visited China 10–12 times yearly to find factories	Mark Barrocas	Aug 15, 2025	—
12×	“12 times”	Nortman: Angel City FC model required 10,000 fans 12 times a year	Kara Nortman	May 11, 2024	—
10×	“10 X”	Krishna: IBM achieved a 10x ROI on AI spending after year two	Arvind Krishna	Jun 23, 2026	—
10×	“10 times”	Oza: 50 Cent made 10 times more from Vitaminwater than initially projected	Rohan Oza	Jun 4, 2026	—
10×	“10 X”	Hoffman and Mukherjee required a 10x improvement for Manus AI's tech	Reid Hoffman	Apr 3, 2025	—
10×	“10 X”	Abuzeid: Startup ideas must pass market, competition, and 10x insight filters.	Dr. Iman Abu Zayed	May 1, 2025	—
10×	“10 times”	Wang: Autonomous AI agents require 99.9% reliability to be commercially viable	Alexandr Wang	Jul 23, 2024	—
10×	“10 X”	Kagan: AppSumo is tracking at 25% growth in 2024	Noah Kagan	Jun 24, 2024	—
10×	“10 X”	Gelsinger claims BCG consultants saw 10x productivity improvements using AI for proposals	Pat Gelsinger	Dec 18, 2023	Contradicted
10×	“10 x”	Luan: AI cyber attack risk is 10x to 100x larger than disinformation	David Luan	Oct 31, 2023	—
10×	“10 times”	Bumble successfully pitched its female-first mechanic as rejection relief for men	Whitney Wolfe Herd	Oct 27, 2023	—
10×	“10 X”	Hoffman: 10x AI productivity will not cause massive job loss overall	Reid Hoffman	Aug 21, 2023	—
10×	“10 times”	Half of TaskRabbit users had a bad experience under the bidding model	Stacy Brown-Philpot	Oct 9, 2019	—
9×	“nine times”	Wilson: Care.com is seven to nine times larger than any competitor	Brad Wilson	Jun 25, 2026	—
6×	“six times”	Frankfort: Japanese consumers spent six times more on bags than Americans	Lew Frankfort	May 22, 2026	Contradicted
6×	“six times”	Dyson: Products require 5 to 6 times more engineers than 30 years ago	James Dyson	Jun 6, 2024	—
6×	“six times”	Cuban: Noel Doherty returned his Shark Tank investment 5 to 6 times	Mark Cuban	Jun 14, 2021	—
5×	“five times”	Ahrendts: Apple Retail had five times the productivity of closest peers	Angela Ahrendts	Sep 18, 2024	Partly supported
4×	“four X”	Levine: Underdog Fantasy saw 4x year-over-year growth in WNBA contests	Jeremy Levine	Sep 5, 2025	—
4×	“four times”	Mackey: Whole Foods dropped prices significantly four times in two years post-Amazon merger	John Mackey	Jun 11, 2024	Partly supported
4×	“four X”	Nortman: Angel City FC generated 4x projected first-year revenue	Kara Nortman	May 11, 2024	—
3×	“three times”	Ali: US protein snacking is growing three times faster than other snack subcategories	Rashid Ali	Oct 3, 2025	—
3×	“three times”	Wang: Flex's 2018 retail launch order was 3x larger than projected	Lauren Wang	Dec 5, 2024	—
3×	“three times”	Li: Hospital-acquired infections kill 3x more Americans annually than car crashes	Fei-Fei Li	Oct 11, 2023	Contradicted
2×	“two times”	Salguero: ButcherBox customers visit physical grocery stores twice weekly	Mike Salguero	Jul 30, 2026	—

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