| 15T | “15 trillion” | Prince: Cloudflare processes roughly 15 trillion requests per day | Matthew Prince | Aug 7, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Independent AI oversight will become a $100 billion market opportunity | Maxim Bar Kogan | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 9.3T | “9.3 trillion” | Burke: Evo 2 trained on 9.3 trillion nucleotides predicts BRCA1 pathogenicity | Dave Burke | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 7T | “seven trillion” | McDermott: ServiceNow hosts over 85B workflows and 7T transactions | Bill McDermott | Apr 17, 2026 | Supported |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Pereyra: Legal is a $1T market while professional services is $3T-$5T | Gabe Pereyra | Dec 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Gil: AI-transformable services headcount is $5T compared to $500B software spend | Elad Gil | Jul 18, 2024 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Gil: Converting 10% of human services payroll to AI matches US software | Elad Gil | Mar 7, 2024 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Elad Gil: AI converts low-margin services spend into high-margin software revenue | Elad Gil | Nov 30, 2023 | — |
| 3T | “three trillion” | Waymo focuses on robotaxis but plans future trucking and delivery deployments | Dmitri Dolgov | Oct 24, 2024 | — |
| 2.7T | “2.7 trillion” | Helberg: Global defense spending reached a record $2.7 trillion this year | Jacob Helberg | Aug 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 2T | “a one trillion” | McDermott: Cybercrime is a $1 trillion per month global problem | Bill McDermott | Apr 17, 2026 | Supported |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Guo: NVIDIA's competitive moat is really deep despite intense economic pressure | Sarah Guo | Mar 7, 2024 | — |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Elad Gil: AI converts low-margin services spend into high-margin software revenue | Elad Gil | Nov 30, 2023 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Gil: Late-stage AI investors wrongly assume startups have trillion-dollar trajectories | Elad Gil | Aug 6, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Pereyra: Legal is a $1T market while professional services is $3T-$5T | Gabe Pereyra | Dec 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Ma: Voyage Fine-Tuned Models on 2T Code and 1T Legal Tokens | Tengyu Ma | Jun 6, 2024 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Guo: Microsoft's Inflection Deal Is a Strategic Hedge Against OpenAI Reliance | Sarah Guo | Apr 11, 2024 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Feldman: Cerebras can run a trillion-parameter model on a single system | Andrew Feldman | Sep 7, 2023 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Zaharia: Trillion-parameter models are computationally inefficient for knowledge retrieval | Matei Zaharia | Apr 25, 2023 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Armstrong predicts skin rejuvenation is probably a trillion-dollar market | Brian Armstrong | Sep 10, 2026 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Taylor: Valar Atomics could be worth $500B in 10 years | Isaiah Taylor | Aug 15, 2026 | Open |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | Alidoust: 100 million single-cell data points equate to 200-300 billion tokens | Nima Alidoust | Feb 25, 2025 | — |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Knoop: ARC solution will likely need under 10k code lines, not massive LLMs | Mike Knoop | Jun 11, 2024 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Independent AI oversight will become a $100 billion market opportunity | Maxim Bar Kogan | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Huang: NVIDIA would be worth hundreds of billions even without chatbots | Jensen Huang | Jan 8, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Ramaswamy: Snowflake is not trying to replace SAP or Salesforce | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Nov 6, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Garman estimates 85% of enterprise workloads still run on-premise | Matt Garman | Aug 29, 2024 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Franceschi: Brex recently closed a $100B market cap public company customer | Pedro Franceschi | Aug 8, 2024 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Ma: Meta Achieved 1.6x Training Efficiency Gain Using Sophia Optimizer | Tengyu Ma | Jun 6, 2024 | — |
| 97B | “ninety seven billion” | Guo: Meta Added $197B in Largest Single-Session Gain Pre-NVIDIA | Sarah Guo | Mar 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 90B | “ninety billion” | AWS grew revenue from $500M in 2010 to $90B in 2023 | Elad Gil | Aug 29, 2024 | Supported |
| 86B | “eighty six billion” | Guo: OpenAI Staff Revolted to Protect $86B Tender Offer Value | Sarah Guo | Nov 30, 2023 | — |
| 85B | “eighty-five billion” | McDermott: ServiceNow hosts over 85B workflows and 7T transactions | Bill McDermott | Apr 17, 2026 | Supported |
| 78B | “seventy eight billion” | Gil: Microsoft's blocked Intuit buyout preceded Intuit reaching $178B market cap | Elad Gil | Mar 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 51B | “a fifty billion” | Gil: No $50B+ biotech started since the 1980s, excluding Moderna | Elad Gil | May 29, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 37B | “thirty seven billion” | Tiwari: Enterprise AI reached about $37B total TAM last year | Neil Tiwari | Feb 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 31B | “a thirty billion” | Torres: Drift reached $100M revenue before $1B cash sale | Elias Torres | Dec 19, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 25B | “twenty five billion” | Tan: Jensen Huang's $5B Intel investment is now worth $25B+ | Lip-Bu Tan | Jun 18, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Roblox targets capturing 10% of global gaming content and 300M DAUs | David Baszucki | Feb 5, 2026 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Halligan: Stepped down as HubSpot CEO because $2B-to-$20B wasn't his forte | Brian Halligan | Oct 12, 2023 | — |
| 16B | “a fifteen billion” | Younis: Applied Intuition is a profitable $15B AI company | Qasar Younis | Jun 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | Younis: Applied Intuition is a profitable $15B AI company | Qasar Younis | Jun 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Tang: DoorDash leverages 10 billion delivery data points and 40M MAUs | Stanley Tang | Jul 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Desai: Only single-digit pure-play software companies exceed $10B in revenue | CJ Desai | Jan 22, 2026 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Gil: AI labs scaled from $1B to $10B revenue in one year | Elad Gil | Feb 19, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Kushner: Antonio Gracias saved over $10B annually on Social Security | Jared Kushner | Sep 11, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Ma: Latency Limits Embedding Models to 10 Billion Parameters | Tengyu Ma | Jun 6, 2024 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Frontier AI training compute grew nine orders of magnitude in nine years | Mustafa Suleyman | May 11, 2023 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Huang: AI might reduce climate computation requirements 10B-fold | Jensen Huang | Apr 25, 2023 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Reid Hoffman: Calls for a Global Six-Month AI Pause Cannot Work | Reid Hoffman | Dec 21, 2023 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Uszkoreit: Global RNA manufacturing will reach 6-8B doses within two years | Jakob Uszkoreit | Aug 24, 2023 | Held up |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Liu: Sourcegraph Cody uses StarCoder 7B, matching larger models with context | Beyang Liu | Jan 18, 2024 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | Feldman: Commercial AI will settle on 3B to 13B parameter models | Andrew Feldman | Sep 7, 2023 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | Zaharia: 6B parameter models can achieve instruction following with 50x less data | Matei Zaharia | Apr 25, 2023 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Tan: Jensen Huang's $5B Intel investment is now worth $25B+ | Lip-Bu Tan | Jun 18, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Hoffman: AI creates path to medical assistants and tutors on 5B smartphones | Reid Hoffman | Dec 21, 2023 | — |
| 5B | “a four billion” | Ramaswamy: Neeva Built In-House Summarization Over OpenAI for Scale | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Apr 25, 2023 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Steinberger: AI inference spending will follow an extreme power-law distribution | Eric Steinberger | Aug 30, 2024 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Masad: Training models has become a founder status symbol over product needs | Amjad Masad | Sep 21, 2023 | — |
| 2.2B | “2.2 billion” | McDermott: 2.2 billion AI agents will enter the workforce within years | Bill McDermott | Apr 17, 2026 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Desai: MongoDB is the only new database to cross $2B revenue | CJ Desai | Jan 22, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 2B | “two billion” | Von Ahn: About two billion people worldwide are learning English | Luis von Ahn | May 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Guo: AMD bought ZT Systems as a billion-dollar data center acqui-hire | Sarah Guo | Sep 12, 2024 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Halligan: Stepped down as HubSpot CEO because $2B-to-$20B wasn't his forte | Brian Halligan | Oct 12, 2023 | — |
| 1.3B | “1.3 billion” | Zach Dell: Base Power raised $1.3B in past 18 months | Zach Dell | Oct 15, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.1B | “1.1 billion” | Rives: ESM Fold has predicted structures for over 1.1 billion proteins | Alex Rives | Jun 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Fogel: Booking Holdings processed $186B in travel and 1B room nights | Glenn Fogel | Jul 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Tan: Venture Capital Firms Are Now Putting $1B Checks Into Startups | Lip-Bu Tan | Jun 18, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Feldman: UAE sovereign AI firm G42 placed a $1B order with Cerebras | Andrew Feldman | May 21, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Gil: AI labs scaled from $1B to $10B revenue in one year | Elad Gil | Feb 19, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Huang: Servicing a billion robots will be the planet's largest repair industry | Jensen Huang | Jan 8, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Jain: Glean's largest customer holds over 1 billion internal documents | Arvind Jain | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Helberg: DeepSeek lied about compute capacity and distilled ChatGPT weights | Jacob Helberg | Aug 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Jain: One of Glean's largest customers has over 1B documents | Arvind Jain | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Jain: The entire internet was one billion documents in 2004 | Arvind Jain | May 15, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Jain: Enterprise search requires transformer models due to scarce user signals | Arvind Jain | May 15, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Goldman: $1B in exploration yields less than one deposit discovery today | Josh Goldman | Apr 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Torres: HubSpot Scaled from $30M to $130M Revenue in Three Years | Elias Torres | Dec 19, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Torres: Drift reached $100M revenue before $1B cash sale | Elias Torres | Dec 19, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Karpathy: Cognitive core models will likely shrink to one billion parameters | Andrej Karpathy | Dec 26, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Karpathy: One billion human thought trajectories would roughly achieve AGI | Andrej Karpathy | Sep 5, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Generative AI will dramatically increase time and money spent on music | Mikey Shulman | May 16, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Doshi: Video AI models are pre-trained on a billion images first | Suhail Doshi | Apr 18, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Gil: Microsoft's blocked Intuit buyout preceded Intuit reaching $178B market cap | Elad Gil | Mar 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Hoffman: AI creates path to medical assistants and tutors on 5B smartphones | Reid Hoffman | Dec 21, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Simo: Instacart processes one billion AI-powered search queries per quarter | Fidji Simo | Jun 22, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Simo: Instacart has suggested one billion AI-powered item replacements | Fidji Simo | Jun 22, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Huang: AI might reduce climate computation requirements 10B-fold | Jensen Huang | Apr 25, 2023 | — |
| 700M | “a six hundred million” | Guo: AMD's $600M Silo AI acquisition was essentially a massive acqui-hire | Sarah Guo | Sep 12, 2024 | Supported |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | Armstrong estimates 50M to 100M people actively use crypto monthly | Brian Armstrong | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | A $500 million AI model will likely be trained by 2025 | Noam Brown | Apr 25, 2023 | Didn’t hold up |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | AWS grew revenue from $500M in 2010 to $90B in 2023 | Elad Gil | Aug 29, 2024 | Supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Roblox targets capturing 10% of global gaming content and 300M DAUs | David Baszucki | Feb 5, 2026 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | ElevenLabs reached $300M ARR, split evenly between self-serve and enterprise | Mati Staniszewski | Dec 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 300M | “a two hundred million” | Noon: Top VCs avoid cybersecurity because typical outcomes cap at $200M | Ryan Noon | Oct 26, 2023 | — |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Allebest: Chess.com has over 250 million registered members | Erik Allebest | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Halligan: HubSpot pitched a $1M sales business alongside $200M marketing at IPO | Brian Halligan | Oct 12, 2023 | Supported |
| 120M | “a hundred twenty million” | Halligan: Propeller Ventures Raised $120M and Backed About 10 Ocean Startups | Brian Halligan | Oct 12, 2023 | — |
| 100M | “A hundred million” | Brown: AISI evals show AI cyber capabilities improve past 100M tokens | Noam Brown | Jun 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Brown: Test-time AI performance scales along a continuous, projectable slope | Noam Brown | Jun 26, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Desai: Only about 10 AI-native companies have reached $100M ARR | CJ Desai | Jan 22, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Alidoust: Tahoe dataset expands public perturbational single-cell data fiftyfold | Nima Alidoust | Feb 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Alidoust: 100 million single-cell data points equate to 200-300 billion tokens | Nima Alidoust | Feb 25, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Burke: Arc Institute built SC Basecamp with 230M single cells | Dave Burke | Feb 25, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Torres: Drift reached $100M revenue before $1B cash sale | Elias Torres | Dec 19, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Mansour: Kalshi expects $100M trades if institutional onboarding completes | Tarek Mansour | Oct 31, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Simons: AI Software Composers Could Eventually Reach 100 Million | Eric Simons | Dec 6, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Ma: 100M-Token Enterprises Cannot Afford Long-Context Inference Costs | Tengyu Ma | Jun 6, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Gil: Cerebras signed a $100 million supercomputer deal with the UAE | Elad Gil | Aug 10, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Armstrong: Coinbase prediction markets reached ~$100M run rate within months | Brian Armstrong | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Armstrong estimates 50M to 100M people actively use crypto monthly | Brian Armstrong | Sep 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 62M | “a sixty one million” | Zipline signed a $61 million nationwide medical delivery contract with Rwanda | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | May 10, 2023 | Supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Alidoust: Prior public single-cell data totaled only 45M to 60M cells | Nima Alidoust | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Alidoust: Single-cell AI performance holds even after 99% data downsampling | Nima Alidoust | Feb 25, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Chess.com has 10 million daily and 50 million monthly active users | Erik Allebest | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Alidoust: Prior public single-cell data totaled only 45M to 60M cells | Nima Alidoust | Feb 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Guo: Harvey serves over 250 clients and generates $50M+ ARR | Sarah Guo | Feb 14, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Knoop: Over 50M AI tasks have run on Zapier | Mike Knoop | Jun 11, 2024 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Tang: DoorDash leverages 10 billion delivery data points and 40M MAUs | Stanley Tang | Jul 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Burke: Arc Institute built SC Basecamp with 230M single cells | Dave Burke | Feb 25, 2025 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Torres: HubSpot Had $30M Revenue and 200 Employees at Performable Acquisition | Elias Torres | Dec 19, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Torres: HubSpot Scaled from $30M to $130M Revenue in Three Years | Elias Torres | Dec 19, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Davis: Peak Ethereum mining equaled 10 to 20 million V100 GPUs | Jared Quincy Davis | Aug 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Halligan: Groove Networks reached $20M revenue before Microsoft acquisition | Brian Halligan | Oct 12, 2023 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Chess.com has 10 million daily and 50 million monthly active users | Erik Allebest | Aug 13, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Duolingo has 10 million active users with 365+ day streaks | Luis von Ahn | May 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Guo: Healthcare AI startups hit $5M to $10M ARR in year one | Sarah Guo | Jul 18, 2024 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Elad Gil predicts AI context windows will exceed 10 million tokens soon | Elad Gil | May 9, 2024 | Held up |
| 10M | “ten million” | Gil: Multiple competing AI startups are reaching $10M revenue in one year | Elad Gil | Mar 21, 2024 | — |
| 9M | “nine million” | Tang: DoorDash employs over 9 million Dashers with 25 percent growth | Stanley Tang | Jul 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Feldman: Cerebras burned $8M monthly for two years before chips worked | Andrew Feldman | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 8M | “a seven million” | Stability AI Secured a Seven Million Hour Grant on Summit Supercomputer | Emad Mostaque | May 3, 2023 | — |
| 6M | “A five million” | Michael: Directed energy intercepts are far cheaper than missile defense against drones | Emil Michael | Jan 15, 2026 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Staniszewski: ElevenLabs has over 5 million monthly active creative users | Mati Staniszewski | Dec 11, 2025 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Stability AI Is Deploying Four Million Tablets to Children Across Malawi | Emad Mostaque | May 3, 2023 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Michael: Tiger team launched GenAI.mil to 3 million personnel in 60 days | Emil Michael | Jan 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Clerico: Florida conducts 2 to 3 million acres of prescribed burns annually | Bill Clerico | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Simons: StackBlitz has 3 million monthly active developers | Eric Simons | Dec 6, 2024 | — |
| 2.5M | “a half a million” | Tokmak: Netic closed a $500k enterprise contract in 14 days | Melisa Tokmak | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 2.3M | “2.3 million” | Gil: Klarna's AI assistant performed the equivalent work of 700 human agents | Elad Gil | Mar 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 2M | “2003 thousand” | Feldman: Companies scaling past 1,000 employees dangerously abandon fearless risk-taking | Andrew Feldman | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Alidoust: Tahoe dataset expands public perturbational single-cell data fiftyfold | Nima Alidoust | Feb 25, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Khan Academy Kids reaches nearly two million children primarily in the US | Sal Khan | Aug 17, 2023 | Supported |
| 1.8M | “1.8 million” | Dohmke: Copilot reached 77,000 organizations and 1.8M paid users | Thomas Dohmke | Mar 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “1.5 million” | Rauch: Jenni.ai grew from $1M to $1.5M ARR in two months | Guillermo Rauch | Aug 30, 2023 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Cliffton: 5.5 million kids die annually lacking access to basic medicine | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | May 10, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 1.3M | “a quarter million” | Masad: A non-coder built a $250k ARR startup in months using Replit | Amjad Masad | Sep 21, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Chess.com had roughly one million daily active users before COVID-19 | Erik Allebest | Aug 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Human-in-the-loop oversight will fail as AI agent actions scale exponentially | Maxim Bar Kogan | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Karpathy: Digital AI automation will outpace physical automation at speed of light | Andrej Karpathy | Mar 20, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Michael: GenAI.mil reached over one million unique users in 30 days | Emil Michael | Jan 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Gil: GPT-4-level token pricing dropped 150x in 21 months | Elad Gil | Feb 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Gil: o1-equivalent model inference costs dropped 88x in 11 months | Elad Gil | Feb 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Gil: GPT-4 equivalent token costs dropped over 100x in 2024 | Elad Gil | Jan 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Pereyra: Real software engineering lacks objective unit-test verifiability at scale | Gabe Pereyra | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Gil: Warp reaches near 1M MAUs, adds $1M revenue every 7–10 days | Elad Gil | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Clerico: Palisades Water Failed From Plumbing Depressurization, Not Supply Shortage | Bill Clerico | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Torres: Customer success reps scrutinize LLM emails far more than their own | Elias Torres | Dec 19, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Gil: GPT-4 Equivalent Token Costs Dropped 240x in 18 Months | Elad Gil | Nov 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Jensen Huang: Computing marginal costs fell 1,000,000x over the last decade | Jensen Huang | Nov 7, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 1M | “a million” | Dolgov: Waymo completes over 100,000 trips and one million miles weekly | Dmitri Dolgov | Oct 24, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Liu: Today's AI models hold a million times more untapped economic value | Howie Liu | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Tan: Median YC startup post-batch fundraising has reached $1.5M–$2M | Garry Tan | May 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Shazeer: Text Is a Thousand Times More Information-Dense Than Images | Noam Shazeer | Jan 11, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Rauch: Jenni.ai grew from $1M to $1.5M ARR in two months | Guillermo Rauch | Aug 30, 2023 | Supported |
| 1M | “one million” | Halligan: HubSpot pitched a $1M sales business alongside $200M marketing at IPO | Brian Halligan | Oct 12, 2023 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Guo: Expanding context windows to 1M tokens will not naively solve LLM context challenges | Sarah Guo | Jun 8, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Shazeer Estimates Text Is 1,000 Times More Information-Dense Than Images | Noam Shazeer | Apr 25, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Delangue: Hugging Face crossed 250,000 models from nearly 15,000 companies | Clem Delangue | May 19, 2023 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Taylor: Nuclear Fission Will Make Energy 1,000 Times Cheaper | Isaiah Taylor | Aug 15, 2026 | Open |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Human-in-the-loop oversight will fail as AI agent actions scale exponentially | Maxim Bar Kogan | May 28, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Srivastava: 1,024 B200s Require 3-5 Year Contracts and 20-30% Prepay | Tuhin Srivastava | May 1, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Feldman: Companies scaling past 1,000 employees dangerously abandon fearless risk-taking | Andrew Feldman | May 21, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Karpathy: Frontier AI researchers are actively automating themselves out of jobs | Andrej Karpathy | Mar 20, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Guo: AI inference clouds are growing 1,000x in compute consumption | Sarah Guo | Feb 19, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Pereyra: Harvey reaches nearly 1,000 customers and 500 employees | Gabe Pereyra | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Gil: Golden growth period for companies is between 50 and 2,000 employees | Elad Gil | Sep 18, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Gil: Applied Intuition Is Profitable and Has Not Spent Raised Capital | Elad Gil | Jun 17, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Conrad: Rippling employs over 1,000 engineers, staffing new products with 5–7 people | Parker Conrad | Jul 10, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Goldman: Mineral exploration yields 1,000x returns on a few million dollars | Josh Goldman | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Goldman: Mingomba is the highest-grade undeveloped large copper deposit globally | Josh Goldman | Apr 17, 2025 | Open |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Guo: AMD bought ZT Systems as a billion-dollar data center acqui-hire | Sarah Guo | Sep 12, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Davis: AI cloud customers are forced into unwanted 3-year GPU contracts | Jared Quincy Davis | Aug 22, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sands: Stripe Radar Evaluates 1,000 Characteristics in Under 100 Milliseconds | Emily Glassberg Sands | Feb 8, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Shazeer: Text Is a Thousand Times More Information-Dense Than Images | Noam Shazeer | Jan 11, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sutskever: Early neural networks failed primarily because they were too small | Ilya Sutskever | Nov 2, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Noon: AI allows a single hacker to execute mass social engineering attacks | Ryan Noon | Oct 26, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Simo: Instacart aggregates over 80,000 stores across 1,000+ retailers | Fidji Simo | Jun 22, 2023 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Shazeer Estimates Text Is 1,000 Times More Information-Dense Than Images | Noam Shazeer | Apr 25, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Autonomous flight is 1,000 times easier than autonomous road driving | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | May 10, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Zaharia: Nearly 1,000 Databricks customers used LLMs before ChatGPT | Matei Zaharia | Apr 25, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | BigScience is the largest ML collaboration to date, says Delangue | Clem Delangue | May 19, 2023 | Supported |
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