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Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 32 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?
150×	“150 X”	Private AI Startups Trade at 40x to 150x Revenue, Dwarfing Public SaaS	Jessica Lessin	Feb 28, 2025	—
100×	“hundred times”	Lessin: Anthropic tokens cost 100 times more than open-source tokens	Sam Lessin	Jun 5, 2026	Supported
100×	“hundred x”	Sam Lessin: Tech faces 100x employment downshift from bot management	Sam Lessin	Mar 20, 2026	—
100×	“hundred X”	Dave Morin Achieved 100x DPI on Oura Ring Seed Investment	Dave Morin	May 15, 2026	—
100×	“hundred times”	Jessica Lessin: Hugging Face valued at over 100x annualized revenue	Jessica Lessin	Aug 25, 2023	—
50×	“50 X”	Suds: AI code volume breaks traditional CI pipelines and raises costs	Sudarshan "Suds"	Sep 4, 2026	—
20×	“20 x”	Dave Morin: Anthropic's funding round is roughly 20x oversubscribed	Dave Morin	Sep 6, 2025	—
15×	“15 X”	Dave Morin: Figure AI's valuation increased 15x in one year	Dave Morin	Mar 7, 2025	Contradicted
12×	“12 times”	Brown: PE HVAC roll-ups bought at 12x EBITDA are entering liquidation	Mike Brown	Jun 17, 2026	Partly supported
10×	“10 times”	Sam Lessin: Huge AI premiums will be charged for security and privacy	Sam Lessin	Apr 3, 2026	—
10×	“10 times”	Morin: Frontier AI labs run opposition research teams planting hit stories	Brit Morin	Apr 17, 2026	—
10×	“10 times”	Morin: GLM 5.2 on B200s achieves 150 tokens per second	Dave Morin	Jun 26, 2026	Partly supported
10×	“10 X”	Dave Morin: Three-person agentic engineering teams produce 1,000x more software	Dave Morin	Feb 13, 2026	—
10×	“10 times”	Levie: AI will cause 10x more software to be created	Aaron Levie	Dec 27, 2024	—
10×	“10 times”	Levie predicts 10 times more software will be created	Aaron Levie	Dec 6, 2024	—
10×	“10 times”	Morin: Cursor enables software developers to write code 10 times faster	Dave Morin	Nov 1, 2024	—
10×	“10 X”	Brit Morin: Bobbie Customer SPV Investors Are Up 10x	Brit Morin	Nov 17, 2023	Contradicted
10×	“10 x”	Morin: Study shows 72% of founders report mental health concerns	Dave Morin	Jun 30, 2023	Supported
8×	“eight X”	Private AI Startups Trade at 40x to 150x Revenue, Dwarfing Public SaaS	Jessica Lessin	Feb 28, 2025	—
6×	“six times”	Sam Lessin: Prediction markets must use real money to matter	Sam Lessin	Jun 26, 2026	—
6×	“six times”	Lessin: GM delivers six times more cars than Tesla at one-tenth valuation	Sam Lessin	Apr 19, 2024	Partly supported
6×	“six x”	Morin: Study shows 72% of founders report mental health concerns	Dave Morin	Jun 30, 2023	Supported
5×	“five X”	Rauch: Vercel has seen a 5x increase in valuation	Guillermo Rauch	Apr 10, 2026	Contradicted
5×	“five X”	Brown: Teamshares plans to grow corporate EBITDA to $100M by 2027	Mike Brown	Jun 17, 2026	Open
5×	“five times”	Khosla: Portfolio company Zordi operates fully automated, human-free strawberry greenhouses	Vinod Khosla	Jun 14, 2024	Partly supported
4×	“four times”	Brown: Constant Private Equity Flipping Destabilizes Operating Companies	Mike Brown	Jun 17, 2026	—
4×	“four X”	Morin: Top 9 VC firms spent $27.5B on AI rounds in past year	Brit Morin	Jun 20, 2025	—
3×	“three X”	Dave Morin: AI Makes the Average Silicon Valley Engineer 3x More Productive	Dave Morin	Aug 23, 2024	—
3×	“three X”	Sam Lessin: Late-Stage Venture Capital Is a Terrible Asset Class	Sam Lessin	Apr 26, 2024	—
3×	“three X”	Brit Morin: Brex's $12.3 billion valuation is at least 3x overinflated	Brit Morin	Jan 26, 2024	—
3×	“three x”	Morin: Study shows 72% of founders report mental health concerns	Dave Morin	Jun 30, 2023	Supported
2×	“two x”	Morin: Study shows 72% of founders report mental health concerns	Dave Morin	Jun 30, 2023	Supported

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