| 5% | “five percent” | Del Buono: Semi-liquid evergreen funds can gate redemptions below five percent | Michel Del Buono | May 22, 2026 | — |
| 9,000% | “9000%” | Del Buono: Young investors can hold up to 100% alternative assets | Michel Del Buono | May 22, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Taxable investors can immediately depreciate 100% of data center capital expenditures | Michel Del Buono | May 22, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | UK expat tax reform triggered flight by exposing full global balance sheets | Michel Del Buono | May 22, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | UK expat tax reform triggered flight by exposing full global balance sheets | Michel Del Buono | May 22, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Tandon: Commure has raised approximately $750 million in total funding | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Tandon: Commure supports 200 million patient encounters annually | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Tandon: Commure ambient tool saves physicians 75M hours across 50M appointments | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | — |
| 75M | “seventy-five million” | Tandon: Commure ambient tool saves physicians 75M hours across 50M appointments | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Tandon: Full Commure Platform Boosts Provider Revenue 15-20% | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Tandon: Healthcare LLMs will improve outcomes enough to lower malpractice premiums | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Rangwalla: OpenAI Reached Almost 1B Users Fastest in History | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Rangwalla: Meta was the largest Mag Seven IPO at $100B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Rangwalla: Meta was the largest Mag Seven IPO at $100B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1.3T | “1.25 trillion dollars” | Rangwalla: SpaceX reached a $1.25T valuation in xAI transaction | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $9B | “nine billion dollars” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.5B | “a half billion dollars” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $60B | “sixty billion dollars” | Rangwalla: Combined OpenAI and Anthropic ARR Exceeds Salesforce and ServiceNow | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 2× | “two X” | Rangwalla: AI Gives Top Developers 2x to 3x Productivity Gains | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Rangwalla: AI Gives Top Developers 2x to 3x Productivity Gains | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Rangwalla: Individual semiconductor footprints will expand 10x due to AI agents | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 2× | “two x” | Rangwalla: AI Hardware Ratios May Flip to 4 CPUs per GPU | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Rangwalla: Intel Has Significant Catch-Up Room vs Other Chipmakers | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Rangwalla: S&P 500 Earnings Growth Accelerates to 18% Through 2026 | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Open |
| 18% | “18%” | Rangwalla: S&P 500 Earnings Growth Accelerates to 18% Through 2026 | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Open |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Rangwalla: Stock Multiples Remain Consistent Because Earnings Growth Outpaces Prices | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Rangwalla: Trillion-dollar AI IPOs will not trigger Mag Seven selloff | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 4T | “three one trillion” | Rangwalla: Trillion-dollar AI IPOs will not trigger Mag Seven selloff | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 1.5% | “1.5%” | Carlson: Amazon retail operated on 1.2% to 1.5% margins circa 2010 | Teresa Carlson | May 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Teresa Carlson grew AWS public sector revenue to $10B in ten years | Teresa Carlson | May 11, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 3× | “three times” | Khosrowshahi: Cross-platform Uber users spend 3x more and are more loyal | Dara Khosrowshahi | May 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Khosrowshahi: Uber One subscription has reached nearly 50 million members | Dara Khosrowshahi | May 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Adcock: Figure runs onboard neural network inference hundreds of times per second | Brett Adcock | May 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Adcock: Figure robots dock at 10-15% battery and swap within 30 seconds | Brett Adcock | May 1, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Adcock: Figure Helix AI trained on under one million hours of data | Brett Adcock | May 1, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Adcock: Figure reduced robot costs by 90% between Figure 2 and 3 | Brett Adcock | May 1, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Adcock: Figure will build thousands of robots this year, has parts in-house | Brett Adcock | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Adcock: Figure hit $1M monthly burn and 40 staff within five months | Brett Adcock | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 36% | “36%” | Harrison: DoD Accounted for 36% of Global R&D in the 1950s and 1960s | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Harrison: Bureaucracy Imposes a Million Taxes of Friction on Defense R&D | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Harrison: F-35 Program Costs Could Reach $1T Versus Projected $13B–$15B | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Harrison: F-35 Program Costs Could Reach $1T Versus Projected $13B–$15B | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Harrison: China developed $15M to $20M missiles capable of destroying US carriers | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Harrison: $1M in Ukrainian Drones Destroyed a Third of Russia's Bomber Fleet | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $7B | “seven billion dollars” | Harrison: $1M in Ukrainian Drones Destroyed a Third of Russia's Bomber Fleet | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Harrison: $1M in Ukrainian Drones Destroyed a Third of Russia's Bomber Fleet | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Harrison: The DoD represents sub-1% of global R&D spending today | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 3B | “three billion” | Cost-plus contracts incentivize defense primes to maximize costs and avoid commercial components | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Cost-plus contracts incentivize defense primes to maximize costs and avoid commercial components | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Cost-plus contracts incentivize defense primes to maximize costs and avoid commercial components | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| 23B | “a twenty-two billion” | Harrison: Anduril took over Microsoft's $22B IVAS contract for EagleEye | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 11T | “a 10 trillion” | Harrison: Conflict over Taiwan could cause a $10T global economic hit | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Bry: Skydio raises $110M Series F at $4.4B valuation | Adam Bry | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 4.4B | “4.4 billion” | Bry: Skydio raises $110M Series F at $4.4B valuation | Adam Bry | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 42% | “42%” | Bry: SF auto theft dropped 42% after launching Skydio drone program | Adam Bry | Apr 23, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 80% | “80%” | Bry: Skydio drones arrive before police 70% to 80% of the time | Adam Bry | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Bry: 16 million Americans live within two miles of a Skydio dock | Adam Bry | Apr 23, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Taneja: General Catalyst was the first firm to write down portfolio 40% during COVID | Hemant Taneja | Apr 20, 2026 | — |
| 5B | “Five billion” | General Catalyst Commits to Investing $5B in India Over Five Years | Hemant Taneja | Apr 20, 2026 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Abraham: The top 25% will inherit 85% of the great wealth transfer | Leif Abraham | Apr 17, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Abraham: The top 25% will inherit 85% of the great wealth transfer | Leif Abraham | Apr 17, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Abraham: Bottom 75% can't compound wealth, forcing fintechs to monetize via speculation | Leif Abraham | Apr 17, 2026 | — |
| 350% | “350%” | Abraham: Public's top AI-generated asset basket is defense stocks, up 350% | Leif Abraham | Apr 17, 2026 | — |
| 99.6% | “99.6%” | Happi: Solar panel manufacturing costs dropped 99.6% over 50 years | Hannan Happi | Apr 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Happi: Exowatt maintains thermal rock batteries at 800°C to 1,000°C | Hannan Happi | Apr 15, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Happi: Hyperscalers plan $1 trillion in data center capex | Hannan Happi | Apr 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $40M | “forty million dollars” | Exowatt has raised about $140M over the last two years | Hannan Happi | Apr 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Building a data center requires roughly $50 billion in CapEx per gigawatt | Hannan Happi | Apr 15, 2026 | — |
| $48B | “forty eight billion dollars” | Affirm Will Originate Over $47 Billion in Loans This Fiscal Year | Max Levchin | Apr 13, 2026 | Held up |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Younis: Applied Intuition has 1,400 employees, including 1,000 engineers | Qasar Younis | Apr 7, 2026 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Ludwig: Only 1% of mines worldwide are autonomous | Peter Ludwig | Apr 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Baszucki: Roblox aims to capture 10% of the global gaming market | David Baszucki | Apr 1, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Baszucki: Top 1,000 Roblox developers average $1.3M in earnings | David Baszucki | Apr 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | Baszucki: Top 1,000 Roblox developers average $1.3M in earnings | David Baszucki | Apr 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 6.8B | “6.8 billion” | Baszucki: Roblox has $6.8B in bookings, under 4% of global gaming | David Baszucki | Apr 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Baszucki: Roblox has $6.8B in bookings, under 4% of global gaming | David Baszucki | Apr 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 9% | “nine percent” | Miller: Founders create 99% to 100% of business value, not VCs | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Miller: Founders create 99% to 100% of business value, not VCs | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | — |
| 65% | “65%” | Miller: Fundrise venture fund was up 65% over past 12 months | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Miller: Public venture funds will become a multi-hundred-billion-dollar asset class | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | O'Shea: OpenAI's $110B round comprised roughly one-third of 2025 tech funding | Molly O'Shea | Mar 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Miller: VCX Portfolio Grew 193% Last Year Versus 25% for QQQ | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 193% | “193%” | Miller: VCX Portfolio Grew 193% Last Year Versus 25% for QQQ | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Miller: Every American will allocate 5% to public VC in 10 years | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | O'Shea: PitchBook data shows 40% of unicorns haven't raised in three years | Molly O'Shea | Mar 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Miller predicts AI will displace 20% to 30% of white-collar jobs | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Miller predicts AI will displace 20% to 30% of white-collar jobs | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Del Buono: Portfolios with 50-70% alternatives incur 3-4% annual look-through fees | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 4% | “four percent” | Del Buono: Portfolios with 50-70% alternatives incur 3-4% annual look-through fees | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Del Buono: Perennial targets centi-millionaires and billionaires with $25M-$50M minimum | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Del Buono: Most tech-focused RIAs have at most one or two professional investors | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Del Buono: Most tech-focused RIAs have at most one or two professional investors | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Del Buono: Most tech-focused RIAs have at most one or two professional investors | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Del Buono: Founders can stack QSBS tax exemptions across multiple trusts | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Del Buono: AI Startup Check Sizes Make Fund Scale Essential in Venture | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Del Buono: AI Startup Check Sizes Make Fund Scale Essential in Venture | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Del Buono: AI Startup Check Sizes Make Fund Scale Essential in Venture | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Del Buono: Putting initial founder liquidity into friends' startups almost always fails | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | a16z Perennial maintains higher liquidity for founders self-funding next companies | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | a16z Perennial maintains higher liquidity for founders self-funding next companies | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Del Buono: AI CapEx boom shields leveraged private credit from near-term crisis | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Huffman: Reddit had over 60% revenue growth for five straight quarters | Steve Huffman | Mar 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Huffman: 40% of conversations on Reddit are commercial | Steve Huffman | Mar 20, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Huffman: AI productivity gains will not decrease Reddit's engineering headcount | Steve Huffman | Mar 20, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Huffman: AI productivity gains will not decrease Reddit's engineering headcount | Steve Huffman | Mar 20, 2026 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Huffman: Companies must hire top graduates before they permanently leave market | Steve Huffman | Mar 20, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Deel reached $100 million in ARR within its first 20 months | Alex Bouaziz | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Bouaziz: Exactly 50% of Deel's revenue comes from non-US companies | Alex Bouaziz | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “tenx” | AI-native new graduates will 10x output and displace older workers | Alex Bouaziz | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Bouaziz: 10% of Deel's revenue comes from inorganic acquisitions | Alex Bouaziz | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Immerman: Roughly 50% of a16z Growth investments are early-stage portfolio follow-ons | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Immerman: a16z early-stage team met 90% of companies a16z Growth backs | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Immerman: Flock Safety solves over 2,800 cases daily, 15% of US crime | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Immerman: Half of all murders in America remain unsolved | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Immerman: Under five public software and fintech companies grow 30%+ | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 30% | “30%” | Immerman: Under five public software and fintech companies grow 30%+ | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 126B | “a hundred twenty six billion” | Immerman: a16z joined Waymo's $16B Series D at $126B valuation | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Immerman: Waymo reached 25% San Francisco market share, beating Lyft | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Immerman: Ride hailing represents under 1% of US vehicle miles | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Immerman: Revolut has 10 revenue streams, none exceeding 20% of total | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Immerman: Revolut has reached 40% ROE, surpassing Nubank | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Immerman: a16z Growth portfolio companies average over 100% growth | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 18% | “18%” | O'Shea: a16z raised 18% of all US venture dollars last year | Molly O'Shea | Mar 13, 2026 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 x” | Immerman: 150 companies hit $100M revenue annually today versus 15 in 2009 | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Immerman: Top 1% venture outcome will reach $40B in 8-10 years | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Open |
| 1% | “one percent” | Immerman: Top 1% venture outcome will reach $40B in 8-10 years | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Open |
| 90% | “90%” | Immerman: Elon Musk has 90%+ odds of becoming world's first trillionaire | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Held up |
| 250B | “quarter trillion” | Immerman: Larry Page will be the world's second trillionaire | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Open |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Immerman: Larry Page will be the world's second trillionaire | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Open |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Raanan: Cyberstarts' 2018 fund turned $50M into nearly $2B in three years | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $25B | “twenty five billion dollars” | Raanan: Cyberstarts' 2018 fund turned $50M into nearly $2B in three years | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Raanan: Cyberstarts' 2018 fund turned $50M into nearly $2B in three years | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Raanan: Cyberstarts portfolio is over 50% of global private cybersecurity market cap | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 51B | “a fifty billion” | Raanan: An Israeli cybersecurity startup will reach a $50B valuation by 2032 | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Raanan: An Israeli cybersecurity startup will reach a $50B valuation by 2032 | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Open |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Raanan: Wiz raised a $20M seed syndicate at a $66M post-money valuation | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | — |
| 66M | “sixty six million” | Raanan: Wiz raised a $20M seed syndicate at a $66M post-money valuation | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Raanan: Wiz scaled quarterly sales from $1M to $24M in year one | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Raanan: Wiz scaled quarterly sales from $1M to $24M in year one | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $8M | “eight million dollars” | Raanan: Wiz scaled quarterly sales from $1M to $24M in year one | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $24M | “twenty four million dollars” | Raanan: Wiz scaled quarterly sales from $1M to $24M in year one | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $5T | “five trillion dollars” | Lin: Top companies will reach $10 trillion valuations within ten years | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | Open |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Lin: Top companies will reach $10 trillion valuations within ten years | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | Open |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lin: Sequoia's legendary wall threshold rose from $100M to over $1B | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Lin: Sequoia will soon look at $10B+ gains for legendary status | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Lin: AI startups are scaling to $10M ARR faster than ever | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Lin: Sequoia's Most Successful Fund Had a 50% Write-Off Rate | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Lin: Top engineers shipped 3x more code using AI tools | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Lin: Top engineers shipped 3x more code using AI tools | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Laffont: Microsoft lost nearly $1T in value over AI positioning concerns | Thomas Laffont | Mar 6, 2026 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Laffont: Broadcom grows at 40% while trading cheaper than SaaS companies | Thomas Laffont | Mar 6, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 3× | “three X” | Laffont: Initial TAM size is irrelevant compared to market expansion potential | Thomas Laffont | Mar 6, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Laffont: Initial TAM size is irrelevant compared to market expansion potential | Thomas Laffont | Mar 6, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Laffont: Early Coatue models wrongly predicted iPhone prices declining five percent | Thomas Laffont | Mar 6, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Morton: Revel raised $150M round and $180M total in 15 months | Scott Morton | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Morton: Revel increased Impulse Space's engine test throughput 5x to 10x | Scott Morton | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 10× | “10 x” | Morton: Revel increased Impulse Space's engine test throughput 5x to 10x | Scott Morton | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Revel has converted 100% of customer pilots to date, says Morton | Scott Morton | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Opendoor paid a consulting firm $5M to advise cutting quality across operations | Kaz Nejatian | Feb 24, 2026 | — |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Blania: AI will soon drive 99.9% of all internet traffic | Alex Blania | Feb 16, 2026 | — |
| 37M | “thirty-seven million” | Blania: World has 37 million users, 17 million Orb-verified | Alex Blania | Feb 16, 2026 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Blania: Merge Labs Raised a $250 Million Seed Round | Alex Blania | Feb 16, 2026 | — |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Woo: Anti Fund manages $65M+ AUM and is investing a $30M vehicle | Geoffrey Woo | Feb 11, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Paul: Sora launch generated 1 billion views in six days | Jake Paul | Feb 11, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Woo: Prime is the fastest-growing beverage in history with $1B sales | Geoffrey Woo | Feb 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five X” | Woo: Anti Fund targets a 5x net fund return | Geoffrey Woo | Feb 11, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Barrett: Superconducting Logic Can Boost Compute Productivity 100x to 1,000x | Peter Barrett | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Rao: MosaicML grew from $20M to over $700M at Databricks | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Rao: MosaicML grew from $20M to over $700M at Databricks | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Rao: MosaicML grew from $20M to over $700M at Databricks | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Rao: Unconventional AI will probably need $1.5B for its first product | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Rao: Unconventional AI has very high chance of hitting 50x efficiency first go | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Rao: Unconventional AI has very high chance of hitting 50x efficiency first go | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Rao: Trillion-dollar GPU data centers are physically impossible to power | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Rao: Rat and human cortex microcircuits are virtually indistinguishable | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Das: The Anthology Fund with Anthropic is a $100M fund | Didi Das | Feb 5, 2026 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | O'Shea: Carta report shows AI Series A rounds get 30% premium | Molly O'Shea | Feb 5, 2026 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Das: At least 90% of AI startups are just modifying LLM prompts | Didi Das | Feb 5, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Das: Over-raising capital erodes startup hunger and hinders recruitment | Didi Das | Feb 5, 2026 | — |
| 7B | “a six billion” | Franceschi: Capital One spends $6B on marketing and $6B on R&D | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Franceschi: Brex is growing 40% to 50% and borderline cash-flow positive | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | Open |
| 14× | “14 times” | Capital One acquired Brex at a 13.4x forward gross profit multiple | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Capital One filings allocate $950M for Brex integration and retention | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Franceschi: Brex and Ramp hold just ~3% of US corporate card market | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Franceschi: Private fundraising valuations differ fundamentally from 100% full-liquidity acquisitions | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| $5.2B | “5.15 billion dollars” | Franceschi: Private fundraising valuations differ fundamentally from 100% full-liquidity acquisitions | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Franceschi: Private fundraising valuations differ fundamentally from 100% full-liquidity acquisitions | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Franceschi: Private fundraising valuations differ fundamentally from 100% full-liquidity acquisitions | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Finance teams own all spend but make 5% of decisions | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Finance teams own all spend but make 5% of decisions | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Finance teams own all spend but make 5% of decisions | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Franceschi: Brex repriced equity from $12B to $4B, converting RSUs to options | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| 9.2M | “9.2 million” | Maguire: SpaceX reported 9.2M Starlink consumer and 6M direct-to-cell subscribers | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 6M | “six million” | Maguire: SpaceX reported 9.2M Starlink consumer and 6M direct-to-cell subscribers | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.2B | “1.2 billion dollars” | Maguire: Sequoia invested ~$1.2B in SpaceX, now worth ~$12B | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | — |
| $12B | “twelve billion dollars” | Maguire: Sequoia invested ~$1.2B in SpaceX, now worth ~$12B | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Maguire: Starlink scaled to a $1B run rate within 12 months | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | Contradicted |
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