| 10M | “ten million” | Cera: Polsia is operating at a $10M annual run rate | Ben Cera | May 27, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Cera: Polsia month-one customer churn is around 50% | Ben Cera | May 27, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Ben Cera: Polsia loses roughly 50% of users in month two | Ben Cera | May 27, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Cera: Top Polsia company made $3K–$4K; 10% made at least $1 | Ben Cera | May 27, 2026 | — |
| 1.5M | “1.5 million” | Cera: Polsia's monthly Anthropic bill reached $1.5M | Ben Cera | May 27, 2026 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Cera: Polsia raised a $30M round after launch | Ben Cera | May 27, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Cera: Polsia generates roughly 15% of revenue from ads | Ben Cera | May 27, 2026 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Cheney: AI implementation business grew from $1M to $4.5M ARR in nine months | Jon Cheney | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Cheney: AI implementation business grew from $1M to $4.5M ARR in nine months | Jon Cheney | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Cheney predicts his AI agency will reach $1M monthly revenue by December | Jon Cheney | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Cheney predicts his AI agency will reach $1M monthly revenue by December | Jon Cheney | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Eliason: Felix's Info Product Did Over $1,000 in Day-One Sales | Nat Eliason | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Eliason: Support sub-agent Iris handles 80-90% of customer emails | Nat Eliason | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Eliason: Alpha School offers $1M revenue or full tuition refund | Nat Eliason | Mar 27, 2026 | Supported |
| $45K | “45 thousand dollars” | David: Posties reaches $45,000 in monthly revenue | Nevo David | Mar 11, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Cera: Pulsia takes a 20% revenue split, leaving 80% to customers | Ben Cera | Mar 2, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Cera: Pulsia takes a 20% revenue split, leaving 80% to customers | Ben Cera | Mar 2, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Cera: Around 20% of Pulsia users adopt the automated ads feature | Ben Cera | Mar 2, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Cera: 30% to 40% of Pulsia users choose 'Surprise Me' onboarding | Ben Cera | Mar 2, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Cera: 30% to 40% of Pulsia users choose 'Surprise Me' onboarding | Ben Cera | Mar 2, 2026 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Gil: OpenAI and Anthropic are fastest companies ever to $10B revenue | Elad Gil | Feb 24, 2026 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Gil: Project Alexandria will translate foundational books for 80% of humanity | Elad Gil | Feb 24, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Gil: About 60% of New Jersey childhood ADHD diagnoses lack testing | Elad Gil | Feb 24, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 4T | “four trillion” | Gil: Trillion-dollar incumbents overlook markets that start small but reach $20B | Elad Gil | Feb 24, 2026 | — |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Gil: Trillion-dollar incumbents overlook markets that start small but reach $20B | Elad Gil | Feb 24, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “hundred million dollars” | Gil: Trillion-dollar incumbents overlook markets that start small but reach $20B | Elad Gil | Feb 24, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Wave AI converts 10 percent of installs and gets 800 daily downloads | Josh Mohrer | Feb 3, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Wave AI grew from $1M to $6M ARR in four months | Josh Mohrer | Feb 3, 2026 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Walls: Starter Story generated over $2 million in revenue last year | Pat Walls | Jan 23, 2026 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Walls: Starter Story gets 1.5 to 2 million monthly YouTube views | Pat Walls | Jan 23, 2026 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Thummala: PressW generated over $2 million in revenue last year | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Thummala: PressW automated 90% to 95%+ of court document processing for a client | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Thummala: 90% of PressW's business comes from post-launch relationships | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Thummala: 90% of PressW's business comes from post-launch relationships | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Thummala: Strategy is under 10% of PressW business; 80% are engineers | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Thummala: Strategy is under 10% of PressW business; 80% are engineers | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Thummala: AI enterprise buyers now demand specific workflows and ROI | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Thummala: AI flipped coding to 80% review and cut raw time 10x | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Thummala: AI flipped coding to 80% review and cut raw time 10x | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Thummala: AI flipped coding to 80% review and cut raw time 10x | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Thummala: MIT report found 95% of AI pilots failed to reach production | Tarun Thummala | Jan 12, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Matze: Rezora achieved over 80% sales conversion rate on demo calls | Evgeny Matze | Jan 8, 2026 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Apfelbaum: Ajax Union generates about $1M a year in revenue | Joe Apfelbaum | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Apfelbaum: EVAI is approaching $1M in annual revenue | Joe Apfelbaum | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Apfelbaum: First course cost $275K to make, netted over $1M profit | Joe Apfelbaum | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Apfelbaum: Ajax Union lost 75% of recurring revenue overnight during COVID | Joe Apfelbaum | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Apfelbaum: AI lets agency handle 100 clients without hiring new staff | Joe Apfelbaum | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Apfelbaum: Tony Robbins sells an AI course with a GPT that "sucks" | Joe Apfelbaum | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Apfelbaum: EVAI will become a hundred-million-dollar business | Joe Apfelbaum | Dec 30, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Santos: Women make roughly 70% of Gillette razor purchases | Ricardo Vice Santos | Dec 29, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $15M | “fifteen million dollars” | Santos: OpenAI's Sora is reportedly burning $15 million per day | Ricardo Vice Santos | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| 1.2M | “1.2 million” | Foster: Zapier raised a $1.2M seed round in 2012 | Wade Foster | Dec 19, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Hastings: Plaid is not accurate or sufficient for full bookkeeping | Helen Hastings | Dec 17, 2025 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Tossell: Solo billion-dollar companies are unlikely because building alone is boring | Ben Tossell | Dec 8, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Singla: Pepper Content has reached $10 million in ARR | Anirudh Singla | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Singla: Mercer reached $300M valuation using freelancers to train AI | Anirudh Singla | Nov 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Singla: 50% of Pepper Content's talent pool is US-based | Anirudh Singla | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Singla: Freshness timestamps boost LLM surfacing probability by 25% | Anirudh Singla | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Singla: Web traffic is declining for 80% of websites globally | Anirudh Singla | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 12% | “12%” | Singla: LinkedIn accounts for roughly 12% of all ChatGPT citations | Anirudh Singla | Nov 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Singla: PepperType hit #1 Product of the Month and 500k users in year one | Anirudh Singla | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 2.5M | “a half a million” | Singla: PepperType hit #1 Product of the Month and 500k users in year one | Anirudh Singla | Nov 17, 2025 | — |
| 8% | “Eight percent” | Ethan Smith: 8% of Webflow's signups come from LLMs | Ethan Smith | Nov 11, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Smith: Search volume is 5x to 10x larger than LLMs | Ethan Smith | Nov 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 X” | Smith: Search volume is 5x to 10x larger than LLMs | Ethan Smith | Nov 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Smith: Over 90% of ChatGPT users still use Google | Ethan Smith | Nov 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Lieberman says Tenex's top output-based engineer will make $1M next year | Alex Lieberman | Nov 5, 2025 | — |
| $1.3B | “1.3 billion dollars” | Pujji: Red Ventures Doubled Bankrate's EBITDA in Nine Months | Jesse Pujji | Nov 5, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Pujji: Red Ventures Doubled Bankrate's EBITDA in Nine Months | Jesse Pujji | Nov 5, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Pujji: Red Ventures Doubled Bankrate's EBITDA in Nine Months | Jesse Pujji | Nov 5, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lieberman asserts corporate claims that AI will not eliminate jobs are false | Alex Lieberman | Nov 5, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Lieberman plans to build a dedicated media arm for Tenex's AI agency | Alex Lieberman | Nov 5, 2025 | — |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | Dan Shipper: Every generates $1.3M ARR across nearly 7,000 paid subscribers | Dan Shipper | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 45% | “45%” | Dan Shipper: Every generates $1.3M ARR across nearly 7,000 paid subscribers | Dan Shipper | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “a two million” | Shipper: Every raised $2M 'sip seed' from Reid Hoffman, Starting Line | Dan Shipper | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Shipper: Every raised $2M 'sip seed' from Reid Hoffman, Starting Line | Dan Shipper | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Shipper: Every probably will not raise a standard VC Series A | Dan Shipper | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Shipper: Every probably will not raise a standard VC Series A | Dan Shipper | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Dan Shipper: OpenAI awarded Every a plaque for processing 10 billion tokens | Dan Shipper | Oct 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Dan Shipper: GPT-4 and Claude Opus beat human experts in blindly judged benchmarks | Dan Shipper | Oct 30, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 49% | “49%” | Dan Shipper: GPT-4 and Claude Opus beat human experts in blindly judged benchmarks | Dan Shipper | Oct 30, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Patel: AI summaries pushed client pages into Google Overviews within 48 hours | Neil Patel | Oct 24, 2025 | — |
| 13% | “13%” | Patel: HubSpot CMO says 13% of signups come from LLMs | Neil Patel | Oct 24, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Tan: Small YC startups routinely hit $20M revenue in 20 months | Garry Tan | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Tan: YC startups average 10% weekly revenue growth over 12-week batches | Garry Tan | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Tan: YC startups average 10% weekly revenue growth over 12-week batches | Garry Tan | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Tan: Anthropic's Claude Code team uses AI to write 95% of codebase | Garry Tan | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Tan: 18-to-22-year-old founders at YC are up over 100% year-over-year | Garry Tan | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Tan: 18-to-22-year-old founders at YC are up over 100% year-over-year | Garry Tan | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 times” | Tan: Asking AI to iteratively update its own prompt compounds output quality | Garry Tan | Oct 17, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Shim: Read.ai adds 50,000 accounts daily as fastest-growing AI note taker | David Shim | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 12M | “twelve million” | Shim: Read.ai adds 50,000 accounts daily as fastest-growing AI note taker | David Shim | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Shim: Read.ai hits 80% 30-day retention for active meeting users | David Shim | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Shim: Horizontal AI note takers will win over vertical SaaS tools | David Shim | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Shim: Placed was profitable and growing 50%+ when Snap spun it out | David Shim | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Shim: 'Magnificent Seven' companies use thousands of paid Read.ai licenses | David Shim | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Shim: Read.ai Sales Copilot managed $50M in deal changes in 3 months | David Shim | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 15× | “15 X” | Shim: Microsoft Copilot launch drove 15x surge in Teams usage on Read.ai | David Shim | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Shim: 1% to 2% of Colombia's entire population uses Read.ai daily | David Shim | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Howard: Modern AI removes the 10x earning advantage of software coders | Rob Howard | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Howard: The primary value of RAG chatbots is internal team drafting | Rob Howard | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Dolezal: Frontline staff finding daily micro-insights creates more value than rare breakthroughs | Pavel Dolezal | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Dolezal: Keboola signed 21,000+ companies via PLG, growing 3x in 12 months | Pavel Dolezal | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Keboola is approaching $15M in ARR | Pavel Dolezal | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 3.5M | “3.54 million” | Keboola reached $4M in profitable revenue before raising its seed round | Pavel Dolezal | Sep 3, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Dolezal: Solo founder built $10M ARR vibe-coding business in past year | Pavel Dolezal | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Dolezal: Solo founder built $10M ARR vibe-coding business in past year | Pavel Dolezal | Sep 3, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Herold: Visionary founders need COOs with high Kolbe Follow Through scores | Cameron Herold | Feb 14, 2018 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Herold: 'Hire for attitude, train for skill' yields only modest growth | Cameron Herold | Feb 14, 2018 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Herold: Hiring for attitude over experience caps company growth at 10 percent | Cameron Herold | Nov 22, 2017 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Yang: Messenger bot multi-step micro-interactions achieve 95% to 98% CTR | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Yang: 10K-user health bot achieved 80% opens sending 14 messages weekly | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Yang: 10K-user health bot achieved 80% opens sending 14 messages weekly | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | — |
| 14× | “14 times” | Yang: 10K-user health bot achieved 80% opens sending 14 messages weekly | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | — |
| 56% | “56%” | Yang: EDM record label bot gets 56% CTR on weekly audio previews | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Prediction: Messenger will replace email and websites within seven years | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Prediction: Messenger will replace email and websites within seven years | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | — |
| 1.2B | “1.2 billion” | Yang: Facebook has 65M business Pages adaptable into bots | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | Supported |
| 65M | “sixty five million” | Yang: Facebook has 65M business Pages adaptable into bots | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Yang: ManyBot has over 500,000 bots on Telegram | Mikael Yang | May 26, 2017 | — |
| 1.5K | “a half thousand” | Ovens has acquired 10,500 customers across all consulting training programs | Sam Ovens | Mar 3, 2017 | — |
| 6M | “six million” | Traffic from Tai Lopez generated $4M to $6M in revenue | Sam Ovens | Mar 3, 2017 | — |
| 2× | “two times” | Sam Ovens completely rebuilds his consulting course from scratch twice annually | Sam Ovens | Mar 3, 2017 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Harbinger: 99% of the pickup artist industry is cynical internet marketing | Jordan Harbinger | Aug 13, 2014 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Houston: Dropbox reached 200 million published users by late 2013 | Drew Houston | Apr 9, 2014 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Houston: Not every startup should aim to be a billion-dollar business | Drew Houston | Apr 9, 2014 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Houston: Not every startup should aim to be a billion-dollar business | Drew Houston | Apr 9, 2014 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Walling: Building a Dropbox-scale company requires attempting roughly 1,000 startups | Rob Walling | Apr 9, 2014 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Walling: Most of my new businesses are 5x to 10x larger | Rob Walling | Apr 9, 2014 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Rob Walling: Drip will never become a billion-dollar business | Rob Walling | Apr 9, 2014 | Held up |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Suster: Upfront Ventures sold Maker Studios to Disney for nearly $1B | Mark Suster | Apr 9, 2014 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Warner secured over $1M in ad checks from one sponsor | Andrew Warner | Apr 9, 2014 | — |
| $1.5M | “a half million dollars” | Griggs: HearAndPlay generates $3M–$3.5M annually with 10,000 paying subscribers | Jermaine Griggs | Apr 23, 2012 | — |
| 47M | “forty seven million” | Allis: iContact Reached $47M+ Annual Revenue and 70k Customers | Ryan Allis | Apr 9, 2012 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Allis: iContact Reached $47M+ Annual Revenue and 70k Customers | Ryan Allis | Apr 9, 2012 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Allis: Hitting over 75% of goals means targets were not ambitious enough | Ryan Allis | Apr 9, 2012 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Allis grew iContact to $1M in sales shortly after turning 21 | Ryan Allis | Apr 9, 2012 | Supported |
| $53M | “fifty three million dollars” | Allis: iContact raised a total of $53M over five years | Ryan Allis | Apr 9, 2012 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Allis: Founders should take secondary liquidity to think long term | Ryan Allis | Apr 9, 2012 | — |
| $40M | “forty million dollars” | Allis: Large preferred venture rounds increase liquidation risk for common shareholders | Ryan Allis | Apr 9, 2012 | — |
| 9M | “nine million” | Huffman: Reddit reached nine million unique visitors last month | Steve Huffman | Oct 20, 2010 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Huffman: A 10% speed increase boosted Reddit page views by 10% | Steve Huffman | Oct 20, 2010 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Huffman: Reddit grew 20x following its 2006 sale to Condé Nast | Steve Huffman | Oct 20, 2010 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Huffman: Hipmunk differentiates by filtering out up to 90% of flight results | Steve Huffman | Oct 20, 2010 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Huffman: Hipmunk differentiates by filtering out up to 90% of flight results | Steve Huffman | Oct 20, 2010 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Chesky: Making 100 people love a product is the hardest startup hurdle | Brian Chesky | Jan 28, 2010 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Warner: Quantcast reports Squidoo has over 15 million monthly visitors | Andrew Warner | Jan 25, 2010 | Supported |
| 40× | “40 times” | Godin: Isaac Asimov wrote 400 books working 6 to 10 a.m. daily | Seth Godin | Jan 25, 2010 | Partly supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Godin: Shepard Fairey earns over $1M yearly by distributing free art | Seth Godin | Jan 25, 2010 | — |
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