| 1% | “one percent” | Lemkin: Replacing qualifying reps with instant AI scheduling increases close rates | Jason Lemkin | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lemkin: Replacing qualifying reps with instant AI scheduling increases close rates | Jason Lemkin | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lemkin: 80% to 85% of Users Prefer Text Chat Over Voice AI | Jason Lemkin | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Lemkin: 80% to 85% of Users Prefer Text Chat Over Voice AI | Jason Lemkin | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Lemkin: 80% to 85% of Users Prefer Text Chat Over Voice AI | Jason Lemkin | Dec 10, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Lemkin: Zendesk automates 60-80% of enterprise support versus 20% for self-serve | Jason Lemkin | Dec 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Lemkin: Zendesk automates 60-80% of enterprise support versus 20% for self-serve | Jason Lemkin | Dec 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Lemkin: Reeve.art is likely much better than ChatGPT for B2B | Jason Lemkin | Nov 26, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lemkin: Gamma reached $100M ARR and raised at a $2B valuation | Jason Lemkin | Nov 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Lemkin: Gamma reached $100M ARR and raised at a $2B valuation | Jason Lemkin | Nov 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Ibarra: SaaStr AI outbound hits nearly 7% response rate | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 4% | “four percent” | Ibarra: SaaStr AI outbound hits nearly 7% response rate | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Ibarra: Outbound AI agent generated 10% of SaaStr AI London revenue | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Ibarra: SaaStr Inbound AI Agent Generated $1M Revenue in Three Months | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Ibarra: 70% of SaaStr October Closed-Won Revenue Came From AI | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Ibarra: SaaStr sales missed following up with 1,000 inbound event leads | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 72% | “72%” | Ibarra: SaaStr's Salesforce Agentforce campaign achieved a 72% email open rate | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Ibarra: SaaStr AI support agent fails less than 3% of the time | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Ibarra: SaaStr AI support agent fails less than 3% of the time | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Ibarra: 99% of SaaStr's AI SDR outreach uses first-party contacts | Amelia Ibarra | Nov 21, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Bonfire Ventures Manages $1B and Writes $3M-$4M Checks Exclusively in Application Software | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Bonfire Ventures Manages $1B and Writes $3M-$4M Checks Exclusively in Application Software | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 500K | “half million” | Bonfire Ventures Manages $1B and Writes $3M-$4M Checks Exclusively in Application Software | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 350M | “a two hundred fifty million” | Queener: A $250M seed fund requires $10B in net exit value | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Queener: A $250M seed fund requires $10B in net exit value | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Queener: A $250M seed fund requires $10B in net exit value | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Queener: 80% of code is currently written by AI | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Queener: Agentic startup targeting plumbers adds $1.5M monthly at low burn | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Queener: 75% of App Software Companies and 50% of Categories Will Disappear | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Queener: 75% of App Software Companies and 50% of Categories Will Disappear | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 175% | “175%” | Queener: Sales tech startups plunged from 175% NRR to 70% GRR | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Queener: Sales tech startups plunged from 175% NRR to 70% GRR | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five times” | Queener: Building vertical software is five times easier than horizontal | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Queener: Bonfire AI-native portfolio startup scaled to $20M in 18 months | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 12× | “12 times” | Queener: 90-Day Rep Onboarding Fails Because Product Value Props Change Constantly | Brett Queener | Oct 31, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | AI-Native Burn Multiples Fall to 0.4x at $100M ARR | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 4× | “four times” | AI-Native Burn Multiples Fall to 0.4x at $100M ARR | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Top AI B2B Companies Achieve 1.6 Magic Number and 6-Month Payback | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Lemkin Deployed Eight Production Apps Using Replit Without an Engineer | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | AI-Native B2B Converts 56% of Free Trials to Paid Versus 32% | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 56% | “56%” | AI-Native B2B Converts 56% of Free Trials to Paid Versus 32% | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 31% | “31%” | Post-Sales Accounts for 31% of Headcount at AI-Native Software Companies | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 22% | “22%” | Post-Sales Accounts for 31% of Headcount at AI-Native Software Companies | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lovable Is Scaling Toward $100M ARR With Only 45 Employees | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 94% | “94%” | 94% of Public B2B Software Companies Claim to Have AI Agents | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Lemkin Calls Adobe's $5B AI-Influenced Revenue Metric 'Malarkey' | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 63B | “sixty three billion” | AI Venture Funding Hit $377B in the First Half of the Year | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 77B | “seventy seven billion” | AI Venture Funding Hit $377B in the First Half of the Year | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 80% | “80%” | AI Now Accounts for 70% to 80% of All Venture Capital | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | SaaStr's Internal AI Agent Is Trained on 20 Million Words | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | VCs Have Zero Interest in Classic SaaS Companies Growing 80% | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | VCs Have Zero Interest in Classic SaaS Companies Growing 80% | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | VCs Have Zero Interest in Classic SaaS Companies Growing 80% | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | VCs Have Zero Interest in Classic SaaS Companies Growing 80% | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | PE Acquisitions of Classic SaaS at 6-10x Multiples Have Disappeared | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | PE Acquisitions of Classic SaaS at 6-10x Multiples Have Disappeared | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | PE Acquisitions of Classic SaaS at 6-10x Multiples Have Disappeared | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | PE Acquisitions of Classic SaaS at 6-10x Multiples Have Disappeared | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | PE Acquisitions of Classic SaaS at 6-10x Multiples Have Disappeared | Jason Lemkin | Oct 22, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Persson: 90% of Snowflake's 450 marketers use AI daily | Denise Persson | Oct 16, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Persson: AI cuts Snowflake media team's scriptwriting time by 90% | Denise Persson | Oct 16, 2025 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Lemkin: Notion Is Re-Accelerating at $500M ARR Following Agent Launch | Jason Lemkin | Oct 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Lemkin: Replit Grew From $1M to $150M ARR This Year | Jason Lemkin | Oct 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Lemkin: Filevine Reached $3B Valuation Through AI Reacceleration | Jason Lemkin | Oct 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Lemkin: Intercom's Fin AI Agent Crossed $50M in Revenue | Jason Lemkin | Oct 5, 2025 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Lemkin: SaaStr's Delphi AI Agent Is Trained on 20 Million Words | Jason Lemkin | Oct 5, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Lemkin: 20,000 Words of Recent Content Are Enough for AI Agents | Jason Lemkin | Oct 5, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Lemkin: B2B companies should buy off-the-shelf software rather than build custom AI | Jason Lemkin | Sep 23, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “Five percent” | Lerutte: Artisan CEO says average platform response rate is 2% to 4% | Amelia Lerutte | Sep 23, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Lemkin: Real-time 90% AI answers beat waiting a day for humans | Jason Lemkin | Sep 23, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Foster: Zapier's sales team touches under 1% of total customers | Wade Foster | Sep 17, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Lemkin: AI-vibe-coded sites all look like Claude and share a recognizable smell | Jason Lemkin | Sep 12, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Lemkin: 95% of vibe-coded apps fail because builders miss AI untruthfulness | Jason Lemkin | Sep 12, 2025 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Lemkin: Replit grew from $1M to $160M in revenue this year | Jason Lemkin | Sep 12, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Lemkin: Vibe Coders Must Roll Back Daily to Avoid Losing Features | Jason Lemkin | Sep 12, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Lemkin: Building a production vibe-coded B2B app takes a month, 60% QA | Jason Lemkin | Sep 12, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Cabane: Brands must spend 25% of marketing budgets on LLM visibility | Guillaume Cabane | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | No AI Company Enjoys 80% to 90% Gross Margins, Says Fal's Yurtseven | Gorkem Yurtseven | Sep 5, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | No AI Company Enjoys 80% to 90% Gross Margins, Says Fal's Yurtseven | Gorkem Yurtseven | Sep 5, 2025 | — |
| 2× | “two X” | Cursor's Jacob Jackson: AI Tools Have Already Accelerated Many Developers Over 2X | Jacob Jackson | Sep 5, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Consumer Demand for Top AI Models Has Increased Inference Costs 100X | Gorkem Yurtseven | Sep 5, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lemkin: Box, HubSpot, and Shopify IPO'd at roughly $800M valuations | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Lemkin: Box, HubSpot, and Shopify IPO'd at roughly $800M valuations | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Lemkin: Box, HubSpot, and Shopify IPO'd at roughly $800M valuations | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Lemkin: Recent B2B IPOs like Klaviyo and Rubrik reached $500M revenue | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Lemkin: Recent B2B IPOs like Klaviyo and Rubrik reached $500M revenue | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Lemkin: Only 20% to 30% of VCs still back classic T2D3 growth | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lemkin: Only 20% to 30% of VCs still back classic T2D3 growth | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Lemkin: VCs now target trillion-dollar outcomes instead of billion-dollar exits | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Lemkin: 30% to 40% of inside sales will become AI | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Lemkin: Owner is approaching $50M revenue, growing 10% monthly at $1B valuation | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lemkin: Owner is approaching $50M revenue, growing 10% monthly at $1B valuation | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Lemkin: Owner is approaching $50M revenue, growing 10% monthly at $1B valuation | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Lemkin: Calendly is well over $200 million in revenue | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Jason Lemkin: You aren't multi-product if product two is smaller | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Jason Lemkin: You aren't multi-product if product two is smaller | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lemkin: SaaS companies growing under 20% at $100M ARR lost product-market fit | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Lemkin: SaaS companies growing under 20% at $100M ARR lost product-market fit | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lemkin: SaaS companies growing under 20% at $100M ARR lost product-market fit | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Jason Lemkin: His venture returns are 10x lifetime and 5x recently | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Jason Lemkin: His venture returns are 10x lifetime and 5x recently | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Jason Lemkin: Most sales reps want 80% earnings for 30% work | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Jason Lemkin: Most sales reps want 80% earnings for 30% work | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Jason Lemkin: 80% of SaaS buyers choose top market leaders | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Jason Lemkin: 80% of SaaS buyers choose top market leaders | Jason Lemkin | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 18.2M | “18.2 million” | Lemkin: Dropbox maxed out its global market with 18.2M paid customers | Jason Lemkin | Aug 25, 2025 | Supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Awotona: External-Facing Roles Make Up About 25% of Business Headcount | Tope Awotona | Aug 25, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Awotona: A Few Hundred Million Unique People Have Used Calendly | Tope Awotona | Aug 25, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Awotona: About 90% of Calendly's revenue is self-serve | Tope Awotona | Aug 25, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Morgan Stanley Estimates AI Could Capture 25% of Global Software Spend | Jacob Effron | Aug 13, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $5.3B | “5.3 billion dollars” | Abridge Recently Raised a Series E at a $5.3 Billion Valuation | Jacob Effron | Aug 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Current Legal AI Products Possess Only 5% of Their Ultimate Capability | Jacob Effron | Aug 13, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Hott: OpenAI scaled from ~200 to ~1,000 employees post-ChatGPT launch | Maggie Hott | Aug 6, 2025 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Hott: Early GTM mishires cost over $1M and a year of wasted time | Maggie Hott | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Hott: OpenAI Long Customer Pilots Increased Deal Sizes by 5x | Maggie Hott | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Biestman: The US trades industry exceeds $1T in gross transaction volume | Ross Beesman | Jul 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Shen: Bessemer's initial investment memo gave ServiceTitan a 2% chance at $1B | Christina Shen | Jul 30, 2025 | Open |
| 2% | “two percent” | Shen: Bessemer's initial investment memo gave ServiceTitan a 2% chance at $1B | Christina Shen | Jul 30, 2025 | Open |
| 11B | “eleven billion” | Biestman: ServiceTitan currently trades at approximately an $11B market cap | Ross Beesman | Jul 30, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $30M | “thirty million dollars” | Biestman: ServiceTitan generated under $30M ARR when he joined in 2018 | Ross Beesman | Jul 30, 2025 | Supported |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Biestman: ServiceTitan has over 3,000 employees and $770M in revenue | Ross Beesman | Jul 30, 2025 | Supported |
| $11B | “eleven billion dollars” | Biestman: ServiceTitan co-founders spend 95% of their time with customers | Ross Beesman | Jul 30, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Biestman: ServiceTitan co-founders spend 95% of their time with customers | Ross Beesman | Jul 30, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Lemkin: SaaStr chatbot ran 100,000 chats across 20M ingested words | Jason Lemkin | Jul 23, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Herzberg: Marketing and pipeline metrics must grow over 20% quarter-over-quarter | Raaz Herzberg | Jul 16, 2025 | — |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Canva grew from 170M to 230M MAUs under Rob Giglio. | Rob Giglio | Jul 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Canva grew from 170M to 230M MAUs under Rob Giglio. | Rob Giglio | Jul 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Nithrakashyap: Ignore startup advice to say no; say yes to everything | Arvind Nithrakashyap | Jun 25, 2025 | — |
| 30× | “30 X” | Nithrakashyap: Ignore startup advice to say no; say yes to everything | Arvind Nithrakashyap | Jun 25, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Nithrakashyap: About 80% of AI Proofs of Concept Fail to Reach Production | Arvind Nithrakashyap | Jun 25, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Rubrik CTO: AI Code Generation Metrics Are Irrelevant Without Business Impact | Arvind Nithrakashyap | Jun 25, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Ramaswamy: Snowflake acquired Neeva for less than $1B | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Jun 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 100% | “100%” | Burton: Observe is built entirely on Snowflake infrastructure | Jeremy Burton | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Burton: Observe has tens of millions in revenue with 60% gross margins | Jeremy Burton | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 90M | “ninety million” | Burton: Observe ingests 1PB of data and runs 190M Snowflake queries daily | Jeremy Burton | Jun 18, 2025 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Ramaswamy: Snowflake processes approximately 5 billion queries per day | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Jun 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | AI Brings Non-Specialists to 80% Expert Level in Unfamiliar Fields | Dmitry Shevelenko | Jun 11, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Shevelenko: AI delivers 80% first drafts without replacing human judgment | Dmitry Shevelenko | Jun 11, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | LLM Output Quality Deteriorates at Million-Token Context Sizes | Dmitry Shevelenko | Jun 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Rangan: Sales teams spend only 25% to 35% of time with customers | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 35% | “35%” | Rangan: Sales teams spend only 25% to 35% of time with customers | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Rangan: 95% of HubSpot engineers use agentic code generation daily | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 45% | “45%” | Rangan: HubSpot resolves nearly 45% of internal support tickets with AI | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 52% | “52%” | Rangan: HubSpot Customer Agent has 2,500+ users and 52% average resolution | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Rangan: HubSpot Customer Agent has 2,500+ users and 52% average resolution | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Rangan: 40% of HubSpot's ARR is consistently influenced by partners | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Rangan: 40% of HubSpot's ARR is consistently influenced by partners | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Rangan: 40% of HubSpot's ARR is consistently influenced by partners | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Rangan: 70% of HubSpot partners focus specifically on HubSpot | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lemkin: Cloud security company Wiz sells entirely through partners | Jason Lemkin | Jun 4, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 8,500% | “8500%” | Rangan: HubSpot will not move its focus upmarket to the enterprise | Yamini Rangan | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lemkin: Owner raised funding at a $1 billion valuation | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Norton: Owner Sales Team Is 3x to 4x More Efficient Per Rep Than Competitors | Kyle Norton | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Norton: Owner increased rep selling time by 25% to 30% via automation | Kyle Norton | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Lemkin: Top 10% of Sales Reps Close 65% of Deals (Clari Data) | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Lemkin: Top 10% of Sales Reps Close 65% of Deals (Clari Data) | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 65% | “65%” | Lemkin: Top 10% of Sales Reps Close 65% of Deals (Clari Data) | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Lemkin: Sales Commission Rates Will Halve by End of 2026 | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2025 | Open |
| 50% | “50%” | Norton: Owner resolves nearly 50% of tier-one support tickets with AI | Kyle Norton | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Lemkin: SaaStr LinkedIn Poll Found Only 2% Make AI SDRs Work | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Norton: 50% of sales deals will close in one to two calls | Kyle Norton | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Lemkin: CROs must manage 50/50 AI and human teams by year-end | Jason Lemkin | May 28, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Lemkin: Owner.com Reaches $40M ARR and $1B Valuation | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Lemkin: Owner.com Reaches $40M ARR and $1B Valuation | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Lemkin: Owner.com Reaches $40M ARR and $1B Valuation | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Lemkin: AI Will Outperform 80% of Sales Reps by 2026 | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lemkin: All $100M+ ARR SaaS Portfolios Have Slowed to 10-20% Growth | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lemkin: All $100M+ ARR SaaS Portfolios Have Slowed to 10-20% Growth | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Lemkin: Gong Is Re-Accelerating Revenue Growth Toward $300M ARR | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Lemkin: Enterprise AI Drives Palantir's Re-Acceleration at $3.5B Revenue | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Lemkin: Average Public SaaS Growth Dropped from 70% in 2021 to Teens | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Lemkin: 20% to 40% of Customer Support Is Handled by AI Today | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Lemkin: RevenueCat Increased Software Developer Productivity by 50% Using AI | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Lemkin: RevenueCat Increased Software Developer Productivity by 50% Using AI | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lemkin: SaaStr Portfolio Company Gorgias Is Approaching $100M in Revenue | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Lemkin: The New Tech IPO Bar is 50% Growth at $500M ARR | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Lemkin: The New Tech IPO Bar is 50% Growth at $500M ARR | Jason Lemkin | May 21, 2025 | — |
| 40.9B | “40.9 billion” | Benioff: Salesforce Guided to Around $40.9 Billion for the Year | Marc Benioff | May 2, 2025 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Benioff: Major Japanese Firm Cutting Headcount 5% Annually for AI Agents | Marc Benioff | May 2, 2025 | — |
| 2.5M | “a half a million” | Benioff: Salesforce Completed Over 500,000 Support Interactions Using AI Agents | Marc Benioff | May 2, 2025 | — |
| 13B | “a twelve billion” | Kennedy: Google Cloud tripled its $12B revenue run rate in five years | Sarah Kennedy | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lemkin: Scaleups over $100M ARR no longer worry about AI compute costs | Jason Lemkin | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Lemkin: SaaStr lost $10M canceling its 2020 event, held $10M at SVB | Jason Lemkin | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Dean: Multi-bank redundancy threshold dropped from $50M to $10M in deposits | Chris Dean | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Dean: Syndicate platforms like AngelList hold billions in transient bank deposits | Chris Dean | Mar 19, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Mehta: ServiceNow Achieves Almost 100% Gross Retention | Nick Mehta | Mar 14, 2025 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Mehta: Running a startup shifted after 2021 into an ongoing grind | Nick Mehta | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 12% | “12%” | Frankel: Founder Collective owned roughly 12% of The Trade Desk at IPO | David Frankel | Mar 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Lemkin: EchoSign reached $250M revenue after acquisition despite neglect | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Lemkin: EchoSign reached $250M revenue after acquisition despite neglect | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lemkin: EchoSign reached $250M revenue after acquisition despite neglect | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 110% | “110%” | Lemkin: EchoSign reached $250M revenue after acquisition despite neglect | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Frankel: PayPal offered $100M to buy Olo before deal collapsed into $5M check | David Frankel | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Frankel: PayPal offered $100M to buy Olo before deal collapsed into $5M check | David Frankel | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Lemkin: Modern SaaS IPOs require 50% growth at $500M ARR | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Lemkin: Modern SaaS IPOs require 50% growth at $500M ARR | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Lemkin: Modern SaaS IPOs require 50% growth at $500M ARR | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Lemkin: Mailchimp suffered a failed year-long M&A deal before Intuit sale | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lemkin: Hiring a banker for a $100M exit always pays for itself | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Lemkin: Founders detect market share declines in sales cycles before VCs | Jason Lemkin | Mar 12, 2025 | — |
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