The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 241 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?
4M	“four million”	Morin: Only 4 million people use GitHub Codex	Dave Morin	May 8, 2026	Supported
4M	“a three million”	Sam Lessin: Slow Ventures invested $3M in Airtable at $90M valuation	Sam Lessin	Aug 7, 2026	—
4M	“four million”	Rauch: Google estimates there are four million React developers globally	Guillermo Rauch	Dec 27, 2024	Not publicly verifiable
4M	“four million”	Rauch: AI will expand React developers from four to fifty million	Guillermo Rauch	Dec 27, 2024	—
4M	“four million”	Rauch: Google estimates there are four million React engineers globally	Guillermo Rauch	Nov 8, 2024	—
4M	“four million”	Rauch: Natural language AI will trivially grow React developers to 50M	Guillermo Rauch	Nov 8, 2024	—
3M	“a two million”	Khosla: Khosla Ventures followed a $2M Symbolica seed with $15M	Vinod Khosla	Dec 27, 2024	—
3M	“three million”	Sam Lessin: Apple Cut Vision Pro Sales Targets From 3M to 450K	Sam Lessin	Oct 25, 2024	—
3M	“a two million”	Dave Morin: AI enabled him to build an app that previously cost $2M	Dave Morin	Oct 4, 2024	—
3M	“a two million”	Lessin: Founders Can Build Massive Companies on One $2M Seed Check	Sam Lessin	May 24, 2024	—
3M	“three million”	Sam Lessin: He will never fund a pure product CEO again	Sam Lessin	Oct 27, 2023	—
2.5M	“2.5 million”	Nick Bilton Will Make $2.5 Million as 60 Minutes Executive Producer	Jessica Lessin	Jun 12, 2026	—
2.2M	“2.2 million”	Dave Morin: DeepMind's GNoME Discovered 2.2M Crystals and 380k Stable Materials	Dave Morin	Dec 8, 2023	Supported
2M	“two million”	Brit Morin: One-person AI startup Pulsia hit $2M ARR in two weeks	Brit Morin	Mar 6, 2026	—
2M	“two million”	Brit Morin: Meta Sells Two Million Smart Glasses, Ramping to Ten Million	Brit Morin	Feb 21, 2025	Partly supported
2M	“two million”	Lessin: Slow Ventures invests $2M for 5-10% of creators' 30-year earnings	Sam Lessin	Nov 17, 2023	—
1.6M	“1.6 million”	Dave Morin: NBA regular season games average 1.6 million viewers	Dave Morin	Mar 7, 2025	Supported
1.5M	“half a million”	Brown: Teamshares focuses on acquisitions generating $500K to $5M in EBITDA	Mike Brown	Jun 17, 2026	—
1.5M	“a half million”	Morin: Protein bar maker David is on trajectory toward $100M revenue	Brit Morin	May 30, 2025	—
1M	“a million”	Brown: Small Acquisitions Usually Need External Presidents for Financial Leadership	Mike Brown	Jun 17, 2026	—
1M	“a million”	Dave Morin: OpenClaw will reach one million developers in 12 months	Dave Morin	Feb 13, 2026	—
1M	“a million”	Brit Morin: Taylor Swift's New Heights podcast drove 500 million views rapidly	Brit Morin	Aug 22, 2025	Supported
1M	“a million”	Sam Lessin: Orangetheory Fitness Studios Have $1M Build-Outs and Strong Paybacks	Sam Lessin	Aug 23, 2024	—
1M	“One million”	Lessin: AI wealth will pump $20M+ SV homes while $1M homes fall	Sam Lessin	Jun 13, 2025	—
1M	“one million”	Morin: A reputation and identity marketplace for AI bots will emerge	Dave Morin	May 23, 2025	—
1M	“a million”	Morin: Brian Armstrong says one million new crypto tokens are created weekly	Dave Morin	Jan 31, 2025	Supported
1M	“a million”	Dave Morin: Facebook Platform Attracted Nearly One Million Developers in First Year	Dave Morin	Jan 19, 2024	Contradicted
1M	“a million”	Lessin: Young VCs will struggle to ever return to operating roles	Sam Lessin	Sep 1, 2023	—
1K	“a thousand”	Dave Morin: OpenClaw meetup had 1,000 on waitlist, 1,500 attendees	Dave Morin	Feb 13, 2026	—
1K	“a thousand”	Dave Morin: Three-person agentic engineering teams produce 1,000x more software	Dave Morin	Feb 13, 2026	—
1K	“a thousand”	Lessin: Handing out market-compounding cash will not solve America's opportunity crisis	Sam Lessin	Aug 14, 2026	—
1K	“a thousand”	Landesberg: Napa wildfire tripled in size overnight as operations halted	Stuart Landesberg	Oct 31, 2025	Partly supported
1K	“a thousand”	Sam Lessin: Sheer ad frequency drives consumer purchases over precise targeting	Sam Lessin	Oct 10, 2025	—
1K	“a thousand”	Sam Lessin: Generative code will wash out low-code, middleware, and SaaS	Sam Lessin	Oct 4, 2024	—
1K	“a thousand”	Lessin: Media bifurcates into TikTok and serialized TV, eliminating two-hour movies	Sam Lessin	Sep 27, 2024	—
1K	“a thousand”	Sam Lessin: Late-Stage Venture Capital Is a Terrible Asset Class	Sam Lessin	Apr 26, 2024	—
1K	“a thousand”	Sam Lessin: Artificial scarcity in NFTs undermines high-velocity online communities	Sam Lessin	Jan 31, 2025	—
1K	“a thousand”	Sam Lessin: Reddit is a much easier business to own than Instacart	Sam Lessin	Mar 22, 2024	—
1K	“a thousand”	Sam Lessin: Startups cannot sustain long-term value on single growth hacks	Sam Lessin	Jan 26, 2024	—
1K	“a thousand”	Brit Morin: Bobbie's Series A Customer SPV Filled in 90 Minutes	Brit Morin	Nov 17, 2023	—
1K	“a thousand”	Sam Lessin: Snap is an unsuccessful one-trick pony that got eclipsed	Sam Lessin	Oct 27, 2023	—

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