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Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 251 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

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Figure	As spoken	The claim	Who	When	Checked?
3×	“three times”	Sanyal: Goa's per capita income is 3x national average, 10x Bihar's	Sanjeev Sanyal	Nov 1, 2024	Supported
3×	“three X”	Sanyal: Sikkim has the highest per capita income of any Indian state	Sanjeev Sanyal	Nov 1, 2024	Supported
3×	“three times”	Krishna: India's 2022 budget speech mentioned jobs 3 times, digital 16 times	Sridhar Krishna	Sep 13, 2024	Partly supported
3×	“three times”	Ferrari: Bending Spoons utilizes bank debt capped at roughly 3x leverage	Luca Ferrari	Sep 20, 2024	—
3×	“three X”	Parekh: China's delivery costs are 3x India's, making quick commerce unviable	Vipul Parekh	Sep 28, 2024	Supported
3×	“three X”	Doddala: $50M seed funds only need $220M in total outcomes for 3x net	Raja Doddala	Jul 5, 2024	—
3×	“three X”	Shenoy: Indian Small-Cap Earnings Growth Matched Their 3x Valuation Rise	Deepak Shenoy	Mar 1, 2024	Supported
3×	“three times”	Srikantaiah: Indus Treaty is a global model for sharing water despite war	Vishwanath Srikantaiah	Feb 23, 2024	Supported
3×	“three times”	Karuturi: India's puja flower market is 3x larger than bouquet market	Rhea Karuturi	Oct 13, 2023	Partly supported
3×	“three X”	Sinha: Cashfree Transaction Volume Grew 3x in the Last 12 Months	Akash Sinha	Mar 27, 2023	—
3×	“three x”	Five Star Business Finance expanded loan book 50x to ₹6,200 crore	Rangarajan Krishnan	Mar 6, 2023	Supported
3×	“three X”	Nahar: Happilo Had Zero Layoffs and Grew 2-3x During COVID	Vikas Nahar	Aug 3, 2022	—
3×	“three times”	Srinivasa: KrazyBee maintains 70% repeat rate and net margin profitability	Bala Srinivasa	Aug 30, 2022	Supported
3×	“three times”	Anand: Selling a company takes three times the effort of fundraising	Rohit Anand	Mar 21, 2022	—
3×	“three X”	Acharya: Zetwerk grew revenue nearly 3x to ~900 crore INR	Amrit Acharya	Oct 4, 2021	Supported
3×	“three X”	Acharya: Contract manufacturing delivery estimates are typically off by 2x to 3x	Amrit Acharya	Oct 4, 2021	—
3×	“three times”	Krishna: Vedantu grew 2.5x to 3x annually, reaching 4x in COVID	Vamsi Krishna	Oct 25, 2021	Partly supported
3×	“three X”	Krishna: Vedantu currently operates at $65M to $70M ARR	Vamsi Krishna	Oct 25, 2021	—
3×	“three X”	Garg: Wakefit was profitable, cashflow positive, and growing 3x before 2018 funding	Ankit Garg	Sep 27, 2021	Supported
3×	“three X”	Chadha: Early Nykaa exiters missed out on 10x returns	Ashvin Chadha	Jun 21, 2021	—
3×	“three X”	Venkatachalam: Building a $1B NBFC book results in 90% dilution	Arun Venkatachalam	Mar 9, 2021	—
3×	“three times”	Entrepreneurs should start their companies in their mid-thirties	Pravin Agarwala	Apr 25, 2021	—
3×	“three X”	Postman grows 3x profitably and generates cash without growth spend	Jishnu Bhattacharjee	Oct 26, 2020	—
3×	“three X”	Aavishkaar Capital achieves 3x realized MOIC and 25% IRR	Sushma Kaushik	Jun 7, 2020	—
3×	“three X”	Munjal: Akrit Vaish made 3x when CommonFloor acquired Flat.to	Gaurav Munjal	Feb 18, 2020	—
3×	“three X”	Aggarwal: PharmEasy has grown 3x since Fundamentum's entry	Sanjeev Aggarwal	Feb 19, 2020	Supported
3×	“three X”	Khattar: AdvantEdge Fund 1 expects to return 2-3X within five years	Kunal Khattar	Oct 3, 2019	—
3×	“three times”	Kumar: McDonald's account grew to triple company's prior revenue in six years	Pawan Raj Kumar	Sep 14, 2019	—
3×	“three X”	Reddy: Indian VC funds must target 5x returns to offset slower exits	Karthik Reddy	Aug 16, 2019	—
3×	“three X”	Reddy: Blume Fund I is marked at 3x and returned half	Karthik Reddy	Aug 16, 2019	—
3×	“three X”	Reddy: Niche market startups must exit at 2x-3x or risk failure	Karthik Reddy	Aug 16, 2019	—
3×	“three times”	Reddy: Mettl returned as many dollars as TaxiForSure due to ownership	Karthik Reddy	Aug 16, 2019	—
3×	“three times”	Tandon: Inpatient hospital procedures pay 3x to 4x outpatient rates	Tanay Tandon	Sep 3, 2026	Supported
2.5×	“2.5 times”	Pivoting From On-Premise to Cloud SaaS Compresses Top-Line Revenue 2.5x	Manav Garg	Jul 12, 2024	—
2.5×	“2.5 times”	Rengaswamy: IndiaMart is India's most successful digital IPO of the decade	Ganesh Rengaswamy	Jun 14, 2020	—
2×	“two times”	Reddy: High-Quality US SaaS Companies Sell For 0.5x to 2x Revenue	Aneesh Reddy	Apr 23, 2026	—
2×	“two times”	Kohli: GreyOrange faced two near-bankruptcy moments during early $10M ARR scale	Samay Kohli	Feb 21, 2026	—
2×	“two X”	Toshniwal: New AI products must be 10x better than ChatGPT to win	Ashish Toshniwal	Oct 22, 2025	—
2×	“two times”	Garg: India's GDP growth in dollar terms was slower under Modi than UPA	Subhash Chandra Garg	Nov 27, 2024	Supported
2×	“two X”	Clifford: Cleo Generates Over $100M ARR, Grows 2x Annually, Is Profitable	Matt Clifford	Aug 2, 2024	Supported
2×	“two times”	Shenoy: Power Finance Corp Is Not Necessarily Overvalued at 8x P/E	Deepak Shenoy	Mar 1, 2024	—
2×	“two times”	Agarwal: Consumers buy silver jewelry 4-5 times yearly versus gold's twice	Ishendra Agarwal	Feb 16, 2024	—
2×	“two X”	Rayapati: Minjar doubled Nutanix's initial acquisition offer in one week	Vijay Rayapati	Sep 1, 2023	—
2×	“two times”	Ganesan: Rocketlane ran twice-weekly problem-solving pipeline reviews early on	Srikrishnan Ganesan	Mar 13, 2023	—
2×	“two x”	Ganesan predicts SaaS multiples will max out at double their current levels	Srikrishnan Ganesan	Mar 13, 2023	—
2×	“two X”	Raw capital is no longer a differentiator for early-stage startup investors	Rajiv Srivatsa	Jul 18, 2022	—
2×	“two X”	Sasi: CloudSEK's BeVigil has scanned 500k apps with 5,000+ corporate users	Rahul Sasi	Apr 4, 2022	—
2×	“two X”	Acharya: Contract manufacturing delivery estimates are typically off by 2x to 3x	Amrit Acharya	Oct 4, 2021	—
2×	“two X”	Mohan: Angel investors require non-linear returns, not 2x over 10 years	Shanti Mohan	Oct 19, 2020	—
2×	“two times”	Rajaram: Software and industrial hardware are 1.5x to 2x more capital efficient than consumer	Vishesh Rajaram	Aug 24, 2020	—
2×	“two times”	Verma: Reliance Ventures' Paytm investment returned the fund over 2x	Sameer Brij Verma	Feb 14, 2020	—

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