The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 566 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

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FigureAs spokenThe claimWhoWhenChecked?
$100B “a hundred billion dollars” Sam Lessin: Public markets reward tech giants for burning billions on AI Sam Lessin Jul 5, 2024
35B “thirty five billion” Brit Morin: Tech M&A deal value reached $535B in 1H 2024 Brit Morin Jun 28, 2024 Partly supported
12B “twelve billion” Brit Morin: Tech M&A deal value reached $535B in 1H 2024 Brit Morin Jun 28, 2024 Partly supported
30% “30%” Brit Morin: Tech M&A deal value reached $535B in 1H 2024 Brit Morin Jun 28, 2024 Partly supported
7B “seven billion” Brit Morin: AI drove four of the five biggest 1H tech acquisitions Brit Morin Jun 28, 2024 Supported
35B “thirty-five billion” Brit Morin: AI drove four of the five biggest 1H tech acquisitions Brit Morin Jun 28, 2024 Supported
90% “90%” Jessica Lessin: OpenAI holds 90% market share among AI developers Jessica Lessin Jun 28, 2024
99% “99%” Gil: 99% of AI Companies Will Fail, But 1% Will Be Huge Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024
1% “one percent” Gil: 99% of AI Companies Will Fail, But 1% Will Be Huge Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024
$1T “a trillion dollars” Lessin: The AI Wave Will Sink $1 Trillion to Create $300 Billion Sam Lessin Jun 21, 2024
$300B “three hundred billion dollars” Lessin: The AI Wave Will Sink $1 Trillion to Create $300 Billion Sam Lessin Jun 21, 2024
26B “a twenty five billion” Gil: Microsoft Azure AI Services Lift Adds $1 Billion Quarterly Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024 Partly supported
1B “a billion” Gil: Microsoft Azure AI Services Lift Adds $1 Billion Quarterly Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024 Partly supported
5% “five percent” Gil: Microsoft Azure AI Services Lift Adds $1 Billion Quarterly Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024 Partly supported
90% “90%” Gil: Startups captured internet value, but incumbents captured mobile value Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024
$100B “a hundred billion dollars” Lessin: Native mobile startups capped out at around $100B, led by Uber Sam Lessin Jun 21, 2024
$5T “five trillion dollars” Gil: Automating 10% of Services Payroll Recreates the Entire SaaS Market Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024
500B “five hundred billion” Gil: Automating 10% of Services Payroll Recreates the Entire SaaS Market Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024
10% “10%” Gil: Automating 10% of Services Payroll Recreates the Entire SaaS Market Elad Gil Jun 21, 2024
1,000% “1000%” Lessin: Personalized Fantasy AI Companions for Children Will 1,000% Happen Sam Lessin Jun 21, 2024
$3M “three million dollars” Lessin: Seed-stage AI investing is a fool's errand for venture capitalists Sam Lessin Jun 14, 2024
$2M “two million dollars” Khosla: Blindly funding Google DeepMind spinouts with $2M seed checks is bad Vinod Khosla Jun 14, 2024
25M “twenty-five million” Khosla: 80% of Khosla Ventures seed investments are under $25M post-money valuation Vinod Khosla Jun 14, 2024
80% “80%” Khosla: 80% of Khosla Ventures seed investments are under $25M post-money valuation Vinod Khosla Jun 14, 2024
80% “80%” Khosla: Passes on 80% to 90% of startups seeking billion-dollar valuations Vinod Khosla Jun 14, 2024
90% “90%” Khosla: Passes on 80% to 90% of startups seeking billion-dollar valuations Vinod Khosla Jun 14, 2024
“five times” Khosla: Portfolio company Zordi operates fully automated, human-free strawberry greenhouses Vinod Khosla Jun 14, 2024 Partly supported
15M “fifteen million” Brit Morin: Life360 Grew From $15M to Nearly $500M in Revenue Brit Morin Jun 7, 2024 Partly supported
1.5B “half a billion” Brit Morin: Life360 Grew From $15M to Nearly $500M in Revenue Brit Morin Jun 7, 2024 Partly supported
70M “seventy million” Brit Morin: Life360 Is a Top-Five Social App With 70M DAUs Brit Morin Jun 7, 2024 Partly supported
33% “33%” Brit Morin: Life360 Is Growing 33% Year-Over-Year and Launching Ads Brit Morin Jun 7, 2024 Supported
$1B “a billion dollars” Sam Lessin: Owning a $10M Business Is Easier Than a $1B Exit Sam Lessin Jun 7, 2024
$10M “ten million dollars” Sam Lessin: Owning a $10M Business Is Easier Than a $1B Exit Sam Lessin Jun 7, 2024
10% “10%” Sam Lessin: Owning a $10M Business Is Easier Than a $1B Exit Sam Lessin Jun 7, 2024
100% “hundred percent” Sam Lessin: Owning a $10M Business Is Easier Than a $1B Exit Sam Lessin Jun 7, 2024
$77M “seventy seven million dollars” Jessica Lessin: The Washington Post Lost 50% of Its Audience Jessica Lessin Jun 7, 2024 Partly supported
77% “77%” Jessica Lessin: The Washington Post Lost 50% of Its Audience Jessica Lessin Jun 7, 2024 Partly supported
$1B “a billion dollars” Jessica Lessin: Humane will not sell for $1 billion Jessica Lessin May 24, 2024 Held up
3M “a two million” Lessin: Founders Can Build Massive Companies on One $2M Seed Check Sam Lessin May 24, 2024
$1.5T “half a trillion dollars” Lessin: Blackstone has only had one fund over 3x in 40 years Sam Lessin May 24, 2024 Supported
5% “five percent” Morin: Only about 5% of ChatGPT users had used GPT-4 Dave Morin May 17, 2024
10B “ten billion” Jessica Lessin: Elon Musk's xAI in final talks to pay Oracle $10B Jessica Lessin May 17, 2024
30M “thirty million” Sam Lessin: BuzzFeed doubled its market cap to $70 million Sam Lessin May 17, 2024
$70M “seventy million dollars” Sam Lessin: BuzzFeed doubled its market cap to $70 million Sam Lessin May 17, 2024
1K “a thousand” Sam Lessin: Late-Stage Venture Capital Is a Terrible Asset Class Sam Lessin Apr 26, 2024
“three X” Sam Lessin: Late-Stage Venture Capital Is a Terrible Asset Class Sam Lessin Apr 26, 2024
80% “80%” Dave Morin: Users Will Prefer Free Local AI Models Over Cloud Dave Morin Apr 26, 2024
10% “10%” Sam Lessin: Incumbents Will Dominate AI Features Via Existing Distribution Sam Lessin Apr 26, 2024
1B “a billion” Lessin: New York lacks tech giants because founders aren't empire-building Sam Lessin Apr 19, 2024
51B “a fifty billion” Lessin: GM delivers six times more cars than Tesla at one-tenth valuation Sam Lessin Apr 19, 2024 Partly supported
600B “a five hundred billion” Lessin: GM delivers six times more cars than Tesla at one-tenth valuation Sam Lessin Apr 19, 2024 Partly supported
“six times” Lessin: GM delivers six times more cars than Tesla at one-tenth valuation Sam Lessin Apr 19, 2024 Partly supported
14% “14%” Dave Morin: Apple shifted 14% of iPhone production to India quickly Dave Morin Apr 12, 2024 Supported
$100B “a hundred billion dollars” Jessica Lessin: OpenAI is probably not worth $100 billion Jessica Lessin Apr 5, 2024
9.1B “9.1 billion” Dave Morin: Reddit and Truth Social have comparable market caps despite revenue disparity Dave Morin Mar 29, 2024 Partly supported
$1.5B “half a billion dollars” Dave Morin: Reddit and Truth Social have comparable market caps despite revenue disparity Dave Morin Mar 29, 2024 Partly supported
11B “a ten billion” Dave Morin: Reddit and Truth Social have comparable market caps despite revenue disparity Dave Morin Mar 29, 2024 Partly supported
$3M “three million dollars” Dave Morin: Reddit and Truth Social have comparable market caps despite revenue disparity Dave Morin Mar 29, 2024 Partly supported
1.7B “1.7 billion” Lessin: About a Quarter of Canva's $1.7B ARR Came From Enterprise Sales Jessica Lessin Mar 29, 2024 Partly supported
5% “five percent” Dave Morin: Institutional Investors Allocate Maximum 5% to 10% to Venture Dave Morin Mar 29, 2024 Partly supported
10% “10%” Dave Morin: Institutional Investors Allocate Maximum 5% to 10% to Venture Dave Morin Mar 29, 2024 Partly supported
$2B “two billion dollars” Brit Morin: Selena Gomez's Rare Beauty Is Valued at $2 Billion Brit Morin Mar 29, 2024 Supported
$1B “a billion dollars” Sam Lessin: Children's entertainer Blippi is worth around a billion dollars Sam Lessin Mar 22, 2024
$100B “a hundred billion dollars” Sam Lessin: Big Tech burning $100B on AI is worth it for downside protection Sam Lessin Mar 22, 2024
10B “ten billion” Jessica Lessin: Most of Microsoft's $10B OpenAI deal is cloud credits, not cash Jessica Lessin Mar 22, 2024 Supported
99.9% “99.9%” Lessin: AI startups face a 99.9% failure rate Sam Lessin Mar 22, 2024
1K “a thousand” Sam Lessin: Reddit is a much easier business to own than Instacart Sam Lessin Mar 22, 2024
7B “a six billion” Sam Lessin: Reddit cannot generate billions just by selling data streams Sam Lessin Mar 22, 2024
75% “75%” Julia Hartz notes over 75% of Gen Z report suffering from loneliness Julia Hartz Mar 15, 2024 Supported
90% “90%” Julia Hartz notes virtual events reached 90% of Eventbrite listings during the pandemic Julia Hartz Mar 15, 2024 Not publicly verifiable
$31B “thirty-one billion dollars” Lessin: ByteDance Q3 2023 Revenue Rose 43% to $31 Billion Jessica Lessin Mar 8, 2024
43% “43%” Lessin: ByteDance Q3 2023 Revenue Rose 43% to $31 Billion Jessica Lessin Mar 8, 2024
100% “hundred percent” Lessin: Apple and Meta will dominate VR; third-party OEMs cannot survive Sam Lessin Feb 16, 2024
87% “87%” Lessin: Sam Altman's $7 trillion pitch just tries to outdo Elon Musk Sam Lessin Feb 16, 2024
$7T “seven trillion dollars” Lessin: Asking for $7 trillion is the act of a religious leader Sam Lessin Feb 16, 2024
60% “60%” Brian Singerman says early pitches were mostly social, local, and mobile Brian Singerman Feb 9, 2024
100% “100%” Brian Singerman says founders are moving past the AI company label Brian Singerman Feb 9, 2024
90% “90%” Neistat: Generative AI Will Steamroll Bottom 90% of Content Creators Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024
100% “hundred percent” Neistat: AI avatars will never close the authenticity gap with real humans Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024
60% “60%” Neistat: AI avatars will never close the authenticity gap with real humans Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024
80% “80%” Neistat: AI avatars will never close the authenticity gap with real humans Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024
90% “90%” Neistat: AI avatars will never close the authenticity gap with real humans Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024
95% “95%” Neistat: AI avatars will never close the authenticity gap with real humans Casey Neistat Feb 2, 2024
20% “20%” Jessica Lessin: Brex laid off 20% of workforce, replaced key executives Jessica Lessin Jan 26, 2024 Not publicly verifiable
1K “a thousand” Sam Lessin: Startups cannot sustain long-term value on single growth hacks Sam Lessin Jan 26, 2024
1% “one percent” Brit Morin: Brex serves less than 1% of its overall market Brit Morin Jan 26, 2024
12.3B “12.3 billion” Brit Morin: Brex's $12.3 billion valuation is at least 3x overinflated Brit Morin Jan 26, 2024
“three X” Brit Morin: Brex's $12.3 billion valuation is at least 3x overinflated Brit Morin Jan 26, 2024
50M “fifty million” Dave Morin: Netflix is losing nearly 100 million users per year Dave Morin Jan 26, 2024 Partly supported
100M “a hundred million” Dave Morin: Netflix is losing nearly 100 million users per year Dave Morin Jan 26, 2024 Partly supported
2% “two percent” Dave Morin: Netflix is losing nearly 100 million users per year Dave Morin Jan 26, 2024 Partly supported
4% “four percent” Dave Morin: Netflix is losing nearly 100 million users per year Dave Morin Jan 26, 2024 Partly supported
3% “three percent” Sam Lessin: Apple's 27% fee implies payment processing is worth only 3% Sam Lessin Jan 19, 2024
1M “a million” Dave Morin: Facebook Platform Attracted Nearly One Million Developers in First Year Dave Morin Jan 19, 2024 Contradicted
$3T “three trillion dollars” Dave Morin: Big Five Tech Platforms Accrued Over $3T Recently Dave Morin Dec 22, 2023 Supported
20B “twenty billion” Dave Morin: Cooling $100M+ acquisitions severely hurts the Silicon Valley ecosystem Dave Morin Dec 22, 2023
100M “hundred million” Dave Morin: Cooling $100M+ acquisitions severely hurts the Silicon Valley ecosystem Dave Morin Dec 22, 2023
$1B “a billion dollars” Sam Lessin: Loom sold for about $1 billion Sam Lessin Dec 8, 2023 Partly supported
1.7T “1.7 trillion” Lessin: Top 10 tech market caps grew from $1.7T to $12T in 10 years Jessica Lessin Dec 8, 2023 Partly supported
12T “12 trillion” Lessin: Top 10 tech market caps grew from $1.7T to $12T in 10 years Jessica Lessin Dec 8, 2023 Partly supported
90% “90%” Morin: Google Gemini Achieved 90% on MMLU, Beating Human Experts Brit Morin Dec 8, 2023 Partly supported
86.4% “86.4%” Morin: Google Gemini Achieved 90% on MMLU, Beating Human Experts Brit Morin Dec 8, 2023 Partly supported
2.2M “2.2 million” Dave Morin: DeepMind's GNoME Discovered 2.2M Crystals and 380k Stable Materials Dave Morin Dec 8, 2023 Supported
75% “75%” Jessica Lessin: Replacing blue links with AI answers kills 75% of news Jessica Lessin Dec 8, 2023
10M “ten million” Sara Foster reveals Oversubscribed Ventures raised a $10 million fund Sara Foster Nov 29, 2023
50% “50%” Erin Foster reveals a supply chain partner owns half of Favorite Daughter Erin Foster Nov 29, 2023
100B “a hundred billion” Lessin: Safest business outcome is Microsoft absorbing OpenAI's staff Sam Lessin Nov 22, 2023
4T “a three trillion” Lessin: Safest business outcome is Microsoft absorbing OpenAI's staff Sam Lessin Nov 22, 2023
2M “two million” Lessin: Slow Ventures invests $2M for 5-10% of creators' 30-year earnings Sam Lessin Nov 17, 2023
10% “10%” Lessin: Slow Ventures invests $2M for 5-10% of creators' 30-year earnings Sam Lessin Nov 17, 2023
1K “a thousand” Brit Morin: Bobbie's Series A Customer SPV Filled in 90 Minutes Brit Morin Nov 17, 2023
10× “10 X” Brit Morin: Bobbie Customer SPV Investors Are Up 10x Brit Morin Nov 17, 2023 Contradicted
$1.5M “a half million dollars” Sam Lessin: Founders will increasingly pitch rounds aimed at immediate profitability Sam Lessin Nov 17, 2023
20B “twenty billion” Lessin: Sub-$20B businesses are shut out by both banks and venture capitalists Sam Lessin Nov 10, 2023
1K “a thousand” Sam Lessin: Snap is an unsuccessful one-trick pony that got eclipsed Sam Lessin Oct 27, 2023
3M “three million” Sam Lessin: He will never fund a pure product CEO again Sam Lessin Oct 27, 2023
1% “one percent” Sam Lessin: Subscription News Orgs Won't Be Trusted Mass-Distribution Sources Sam Lessin Oct 13, 2023
5% “five percent” Sam Lessin: Subscription News Orgs Won't Be Trusted Mass-Distribution Sources Sam Lessin Oct 13, 2023
20% “20%” Sam Lessin: Subscription News Orgs Won't Be Trusted Mass-Distribution Sources Sam Lessin Oct 13, 2023
$1B “a billion dollars” Lessin: Founders Have the Right to Vet Who VCs Make Money For Sam Lessin Oct 13, 2023
$10B “ten billion dollars” Lessin: Microsoft Is Developing Cheaper In-House AI to Avoid OpenAI Costs Jessica Lessin Sep 29, 2023 Supported
16% “16%” Fiji Simo Rescued Instacart, Making It Profitable Within Two Years Brit Morin Sep 22, 2023 Partly supported
1% “one percent” Less Than 1% of Founders Taking Companies Public Are Female Brit Morin Sep 22, 2023 Contradicted
$50M “fifty million dollars” Sam Lessin: BuzzFeed trades at 33 cents with a $50M market cap Sam Lessin Sep 22, 2023 Supported
1M “a million” Lessin: Young VCs will struggle to ever return to operating roles Sam Lessin Sep 1, 2023
27% “27%” Brit Morin: SF downtown mobile activity sits at 27% of 2019 baseline Brit Morin Aug 25, 2023 Contradicted
45% “45%” Brit Morin: SF downtown mobile activity sits at 27% of 2019 baseline Brit Morin Aug 25, 2023 Contradicted
65% “65 Percent” Brit Morin: SF downtown mobile activity sits at 27% of 2019 baseline Brit Morin Aug 25, 2023 Contradicted
100× “hundred times” Jessica Lessin: Hugging Face valued at over 100x annualized revenue Jessica Lessin Aug 25, 2023
800M “eight hundred million” Jessica Lessin says Cadre is selling for $100M after $800M valuation Jessica Lessin Aug 18, 2023 Partly supported
50% “50%” Brit Morin: Penn gave Barstool back to Portnoy for 50% upside Brit Morin Aug 11, 2023 Supported
2.5B “a 1.5 billion” Brit Morin: ESPN Bet deal is $1.5B over 10 years plus $500M Brit Morin Aug 11, 2023 Supported
500M “five hundred million” Brit Morin: ESPN Bet deal is $1.5B over 10 years plus $500M Brit Morin Aug 11, 2023 Supported
2B “two billion” Brit Morin: ESPN Bet deal is $1.5B over 10 years plus $500M Brit Morin Aug 11, 2023 Supported
100M “a hundred million” Jessica Lessin: ESPN subscribers fell from 100 million peak to 72 million Jessica Lessin Aug 11, 2023 Partly supported
3B “three billion” Jessica Lessin: ESPN subscribers fell from 100 million peak to 72 million Jessica Lessin Aug 11, 2023 Partly supported
6% “six percent” Jessica Lessin: ESPN subscribers fell from 100 million peak to 72 million Jessica Lessin Aug 11, 2023 Partly supported
$100M “a hundred million dollars” Sam Lessin: LIV Golf's massive spending brilliantly extorted the PGA Tour Sam Lessin Aug 11, 2023
20% “20%” Brit Morin: Clinical trial shows semaglutide reduces cardiovascular risk by 20% Brit Morin Aug 11, 2023 Supported
90% “90%” Dave Morin: Ozempic costs $1,200 in US versus $100 in Mexico Dave Morin Aug 11, 2023 Partly supported
13.6M “13.6 million” Dave Morin: Taylor Swift's Eras Tour grosses $13.6 million per show Dave Morin Aug 4, 2023 Partly supported
13% “13%” Dave Morin: Kim Kardashian only owns roughly 13% of Skims Dave Morin Aug 4, 2023
50% “50%” Brit Morin: Theme park profit margins exceed 50% Brit Morin Aug 4, 2023 Contradicted
30M “thirty million” Brit Morin: Barbie Movie Production Cost $130M and Marketing Cost $150M Brit Morin Aug 4, 2023 Supported
500M “five hundred million” Dave Morin: Avatar Cost $500M to Produce and $500M to Market Dave Morin Aug 4, 2023 Partly supported
100% “hundred percent” Lessin: Shein is first in line to IPO in the US Jessica Lessin Aug 4, 2023
32B “thirty two billion” Lessin: Shein generates $32 billion in revenue Jessica Lessin Aug 4, 2023 Partly supported
70% “70%” Sam Lessin: Amazon Takes a 70% Cut on Kindle E-Books Over $10 Sam Lessin Jul 31, 2023 Partly supported
30% “30%” Sam Lessin: Amazon Takes a 70% Cut on Kindle E-Books Over $10 Sam Lessin Jul 31, 2023 Partly supported
21B “a twenty billion” Lessin: Meta's 3% pop on Threads launch added $20 billion Sam Lessin Jul 7, 2023 Supported
3% “three percent” Lessin: Meta's 3% pop on Threads launch added $20 billion Sam Lessin Jul 7, 2023 Supported
18% “18%” Dave Morin: Meta needs 18% of Instagram to match Twitter's size Dave Morin Jul 7, 2023 Supported
100B “a hundred billion” Sam Lessin: Crises and competition will prevent Twitter from ever reaching $100B Sam Lessin Jul 7, 2023
$1B “a billion dollars” Jessica Lessin: Databricks is acquiring MosaicML for over $1 billion Jessica Lessin Jun 30, 2023 Supported
72% “72%” Morin: Study shows 72% of founders report mental health concerns Dave Morin Jun 30, 2023 Supported
“two x” Morin: Study shows 72% of founders report mental health concerns Dave Morin Jun 30, 2023 Supported
“three x” Morin: Study shows 72% of founders report mental health concerns Dave Morin Jun 30, 2023 Supported
“six x” Morin: Study shows 72% of founders report mental health concerns Dave Morin Jun 30, 2023 Supported
10× “10 x” Morin: Study shows 72% of founders report mental health concerns Dave Morin Jun 30, 2023 Supported
80% “80%” Morin: Sunrise Foundation funded landmark psilocybin depression efficacy study Dave Morin Jun 30, 2023
100% “hundred percent” Lessin: Adult content will migrate to massive Apple iMessage groups Sam Lessin Jun 16, 2023
200M “a one hundred million” Dave Morin: Calling $100M AI funding rounds 'seed' is intellectually dishonest Dave Morin Jun 16, 2023
100M “hundred million” Brit Morin: Mistral AI's seed round exceeds BuzzFeed's public market cap Brit Morin Jun 16, 2023 Supported
85M “eighty-five million” Brit Morin: Mistral AI's seed round exceeds BuzzFeed's public market cap Brit Morin Jun 16, 2023 Supported
2% “two percent” Sam Lessin: Market reaction to SEC crypto lawsuits is a 'nothing burger' Sam Lessin Jun 12, 2023
1% “a percent” Sam Lessin: Market reaction to SEC crypto lawsuits is a 'nothing burger' Sam Lessin Jun 12, 2023
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