The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 16 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?
40×	“40 times”	Godin: Isaac Asimov wrote 400 books working 6 to 10 a.m. daily	Seth Godin	Jan 25, 2010	Partly supported
30×	“30 times”	Tan: Asking AI to iteratively update its own prompt compounds output quality	Garry Tan	Oct 17, 2025	—
20×	“20 times”	Huffman: Reddit grew 20x following its 2006 sale to Condé Nast	Steve Huffman	Oct 20, 2010	—
15×	“15 X”	Shim: Microsoft Copilot launch drove 15x surge in Teams usage on Read.ai	David Shim	Sep 15, 2025	—
14×	“14 times”	Yang: 10K-user health bot achieved 80% opens sending 14 messages weekly	Mikael Yang	May 26, 2017	—
10×	“10 X”	Thummala: AI flipped coding to 80% review and cut raw time 10x	Tarun Thummala	Jan 12, 2026	—
10×	“10 X”	Smith: Search volume is 5x to 10x larger than LLMs	Ethan Smith	Nov 11, 2025	Supported
10×	“10 times”	Pujji: Red Ventures Doubled Bankrate's EBITDA in Nine Months	Jesse Pujji	Nov 5, 2025	—
10×	“10 X”	Lieberman plans to build a dedicated media arm for Tenex's AI agency	Alex Lieberman	Nov 5, 2025	—
10×	“10 X”	Howard: Modern AI removes the 10x earning advantage of software coders	Rob Howard	Sep 10, 2025	—
10×	“10 X”	Walling: Most of my new businesses are 5x to 10x larger	Rob Walling	Apr 9, 2014	—
5×	“five X”	Smith: Search volume is 5x to 10x larger than LLMs	Ethan Smith	Nov 11, 2025	Supported
5×	“five times”	Pujji: Red Ventures Doubled Bankrate's EBITDA in Nine Months	Jesse Pujji	Nov 5, 2025	—
3×	“three times”	Dolezal: Keboola signed 21,000+ companies via PLG, growing 3x in 12 months	Pavel Dolezal	Sep 3, 2025	—
3×	“three times”	Herold: Visionary founders need COOs with high Kolbe Follow Through scores	Cameron Herold	Feb 14, 2018	—
2×	“two times”	Sam Ovens completely rebuilds his consulting course from scratch twice annually	Sam Ovens	Mar 3, 2017	—

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