| 5M | “five million” | Josephs: Autopilot's AI-generated Pelosi video gained 5M organic views | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| $40M | “forty million dollars” | Josephs: Autopilot has $40M copying an AI-generated ChatGPT investment portfolio | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 7M | “seven million” | Josephs: Autopilot has raised approximately $6M to $7M to date | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Schendel: Base Power has installed over 1,000 batteries in the ground | Zach Schendel | Apr 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “1%” | Asparouhov: Goal is to meet only 30 founders annually | Delian Asparouhov | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Garrett: SpaceX has only raised $10B over 23 years | Christian Garrett | Mar 21, 2025 | Supported |
| $25M | “twenty five million dollars” | Zuckerberg: Long Journey aims to invest up to $25M in breakout companies | Arielle Zuckerberg | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Zuckerberg: Long Journey aims to invest up to $25M in breakout companies | Arielle Zuckerberg | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Mansoor: Kalshi onboarded 2 million users in the fall of 2024 | Tarek Mansoor | Feb 28, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Mansoor: CME and ICE boast the highest net margin profiles in the Fortune 500 | Tarek Mansoor | Feb 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mansour: Kalshi grew from 100 to 1,000 active markets | Tarek Mansoor | Feb 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Mansoor: Kalshi captured 7% of sports handle in its launch week | Tarek Mansoor | Feb 28, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 30% | “30%” | Mansoor: Ancillary prop markets drove 30% of Kalshi's Super Bowl volume | Tarek Mansoor | Feb 28, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 20% | “20%” | Mansoor: Kalshi aims to cover 100% of relevant daily news topics | Tarek Mansoor | Feb 28, 2025 | — |
| $68M | “sixty eight million dollars” | O'Shea: Saturn raised over $68M in funding from top Valley investors | Molly O'Shea | Feb 21, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Diamond: Saturn maintains over 50% DAU/MAU stickiness and 90% annual retention | Dylan Diamond | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Diamond: Saturn maintains over 50% DAU/MAU stickiness and 90% annual retention | Dylan Diamond | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Diamond: Saturn maintains over 50% DAU/MAU stickiness and 90% annual retention | Dylan Diamond | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Diamond: Saturn maintains over 50% DAU/MAU stickiness and 90% annual retention | Dylan Diamond | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Dylan Diamond: Saturn's first 50 schools grew from 7% to 60% weekly active users | Dylan Diamond | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Dylan Diamond: Saturn's first 50 schools grew from 7% to 60% weekly active users | Dylan Diamond | Feb 21, 2025 | — |
| 28B | “twenty eight billion” | McCormick: Anduril hit $28B valuation after doubling revenue | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | Supported |
| 2× | “two X” | McCormick: Anduril hit $28B valuation after doubling revenue | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | McCormick: SpaceX suffered only ~50% dilution despite raising $10B in equity | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | McCormick: SpaceX suffered only ~50% dilution despite raising $10B in equity | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | McCormick: Most fast-growing AI software startups will flatten and fail to IPO | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | McCormick: Anduril's early round was crowded at a $100M valuation | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Ritter: Veeva scaled to $2.5B revenue on just $3M in capital | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Ritter: Veeva scaled to $2.5B revenue on just $3M in capital | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Ritter: $500B Stargate project is $100B equity, 75% chips, 25% infrastructure | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Ritter: $500B Stargate project is $100B equity, 75% chips, 25% infrastructure | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | Open |
| 25% | “25%” | Ritter: $500B Stargate project is $100B equity, 75% chips, 25% infrastructure | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | Open |
| 75% | “75%” | Ritter: $500B Stargate project is $100B equity, 75% chips, 25% infrastructure | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | Open |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Tunguz: Microsoft, Google, and Meta each deploying $70B–$80B CapEx in 2025 | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tunguz: AI inference costs will drop by another 1,000x | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Open |
| 4B | “four billion” | Tunguz: 100x cost difference between small and largest AI models | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Tunguz: 100x cost difference between small and largest AI models | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Tunguz: 100x cost difference between small and largest AI models | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 250B | “two hundred fifty billion” | Tunguz: The $250B annual search marketing market is up for grabs | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 250B | “two hundred fifty billion” | Tunguz: Social media ad spend surpassed search engine marketing in 2024 | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Tunguz: High toil and labor shortages make buyers accept 75-80% AI accuracy | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Tunguz: Large companies average 8,000 daily security alerts, reviewing under 1% | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 350B | “three hundred fifty billion” | Tunguz: In Q1 2024, Ethereum was world's most profitable software entity | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 51B | “a fifty billion” | Tunguz: Theory Ventures was the second-largest investor in $50B Mysten Labs | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 28% | “28%” | Banister: Bible Sales Are Up 28% With Most Buyers First-Time Readers | Cyan Banister | Dec 20, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Guo: Passes Retains Nearly 100% of Creators Earning Over $5,000 Monthly | Lucy Guo | Dec 13, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Lucy Guo: Passes Creators Conceal Earnings From Managers to Dodge 20% Cut | Lucy Guo | Dec 13, 2024 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Guo: Passes will reach a billion-dollar valuation just by acquiring creators | Lucy Guo | Dec 13, 2024 | Open |
| 1M | “a million” | Guo: Top-earning Passes creators have 100k to 1M followers, not millions | Lucy Guo | Dec 13, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Wright: IoT camera, sensor, and drone costs fell 10x since 2019 | Dan Wright | Nov 22, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Fiedler: VCs underestimate consumer market scale, missing Monster Energy's $70B cap | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Fiedler: Pet care retains 80-90% of spend, mirroring enterprise software | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Fiedler: Pet care retains 80-90% of spend, mirroring enterprise software | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 345B | “three hundred forty-five billion” | Fiedler: Coca-Cola and Pepsi are experiencing their 'cigarette moment' | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Fiedler: All 20 of Coca-Cola's billion-dollar brands are declining year-over-year | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Fiedler: Left Lane portfolio company Holy is nearing a 100M run rate | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Fiedler: Tech and AI will boost home services margins by 5-10% | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Fiedler: Bearish on major cities due to high costs and questionable quality of life | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 500K | “500 thousand” | Socher: Only 5% to 10% of enterprise AI seats get utilized | Richard Socher | Oct 25, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Socher: Only 5% to 10% of enterprise AI seats get utilized | Richard Socher | Oct 25, 2024 | — |
| 3M | “a two million” | Socher: Gemini's 2M token context window equals one 5MB file | Richard Socher | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Socher: 95% accurate agents fail half the time over 15 steps | Richard Socher | Oct 25, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Josh Wolfe predicts 30% to 50% of VC firms will shut down | Jeff Morris Jr. | Oct 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 17% | “17%” | Data shows only 17% of venture capital funds survive to Fund IV | Jeff Morris Jr. | Oct 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Jeff Morris Jr. predicts 40%+ of non-institutional VCs will fail to raise | Jeff Morris Jr. | Oct 16, 2024 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Many B2B AI startups are stalling at $1 million to $3 million ARR | Jeff Morris Jr. | Oct 16, 2024 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | AI startups with $5M revenue are raising at $700M valuations | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Supported |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | AI startups with $5M revenue are raising at $700M valuations | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | AI startups with $5M revenue are raising at $700M valuations | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Early-stage 100x AI multiples are unsustainable artifacts of mega-fund capital oversupply | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Early-stage 100x AI multiples are unsustainable artifacts of mega-fund capital oversupply | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | The volume of venture-scale startup opportunities has declined 60% since 2021 | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | LLM scaling exhibits decreasing returns, requiring 10x compute for sublinear improvements | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Cloud giants must host foundation models even if they become low-margin commodities | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Cloud giants must host foundation models even if they become low-margin commodities | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | — |
| $1.5B | “half a billion dollars” | Institutional buyers will emerge for $500M single-position venture fund secondaries | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Open |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Defense startups can secure up to $30M early prototyping contracts from DIU | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 3× | “three times” | Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery stove is 3x more powerful per heating element | Sam D'Amico | Oct 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Sam D'Amico: Induction stoves account for only 1% of home energy consumption | Sam D'Amico | Oct 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery delivers 4-5x more power into the pan | Sam D'Amico | Oct 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Sam D'Amico: Gas stoves lose 60% of their energy to ambient air | Sam D'Amico | Oct 4, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Sam D'Amico: Gas stoves lose 60% of their energy to ambient air | Sam D'Amico | Oct 4, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Sam D'Amico: Impulse's battery stove qualifies for a 30% federal tax credit | Sam D'Amico | Oct 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 150% | “150%” | Electric stove buyers under 150% AMI qualify for an $840 federal rebate | Sam D'Amico | Oct 4, 2024 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Alter: Northzone writes checks from $2.5M seed up to $60M growth | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Alter: Northzone writes checks from $2.5M seed up to $60M growth | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Alter: European VC funding hit $30 billion in H1 2024, up 12% | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | Supported |
| 12% | “12%” | Alter: European VC funding hit $30 billion in H1 2024, up 12% | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Alter: Toyota, Boeing, and Samsung pay tens to hundreds of millions for legacy software | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | — |
| 16% | “16%” | Alter: Public SaaS average revenue growth is projected at historically low 16% | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | Supported |
| 36% | “36%” | Alter: Government spending accounts for 36% of US GDP | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | Supported |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Zamp raises $10M Series A led by Valor Equity Partners | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Valor Equity Partners writes $1M early checks to preempt Series A rounds | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | Supported |
| $8.4B | “8.4 billion dollars” | Avalara and TaxJar abandoned SMB market after acquisitions, says Badangay | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Avalara and TaxJar abandoned SMB market after acquisitions, says Badangay | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Bhadange: 10 to 15 million US merchants must now manage sales tax | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Badangay: Zamp targets e-commerce and SaaS companies with $1M to $200M revenue | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Zamp reduces monthly sales tax management time to 5 minutes | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | — |
| 6× | “six X” | Zamp reaches mid-seven-figure ARR with 6x YoY revenue growth | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Isford: NYC captured 20% of AI VC funding, second to SF's 40% | Grace Isford | Aug 23, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Isford: NYC captured 20% of AI VC funding, second to SF's 40% | Grace Isford | Aug 23, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Isford: Early-Revenue AI Startups Still Command 100x Multiples | Grace Isford | Aug 23, 2024 | — |
| 1.43% | “1.43%” | Sadeghi shares his 99.3 percentile schizophrenia genetic risk and 1.43% overall risk | Kian Sadeghi | Aug 16, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Sadeghi: Genetics alone can never predict IQ due to 50% environmental factor | Kian Sadeghi | Aug 16, 2024 | Supported |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Sadeghi: Whole genome sequencing cost $10M per sample in 2006 | Kian Sadeghi | Aug 16, 2024 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Sadeghi predicts a trillion-dollar platform integrating all personal health data | Kian Sadeghi | Aug 16, 2024 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Sadeghi predicts Nucleus will sequence 500,000 whole genomes by 2026 | Kian Sadeghi | Aug 16, 2024 | Didn’t hold up |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Noone: Hardware development labor and software represent a $1 trillion market | Jordan Noone | Jul 26, 2024 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Noone: The inability to edit outputs is generative AI's biggest bottleneck | Jordan Noone | Jul 26, 2024 | — |
| 1.2B | “1.2 billion” | Noone: Relativity Space has 1,200 employees and raised $1.2B | Jordan Noone | Jul 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 6M | “six million” | Zoo has raised about $6 million total in venture capital | Jordan Noone | Jul 26, 2024 | — |
| $60M | “sixty million dollars” | Soylent hit $60M revenue before bad hires ruined the company | John Coogan | Jul 24, 2024 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Coogan: Nicotine Replacement Therapy Category Generates Under $1B in Revenue | John Coogan | Jul 24, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 30% | “30%” | Altria bought 30 percent of Juul for $13B at a $60B valuation | John Coogan | Jul 24, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Suster: 25% of VC funds deployed their entire fund in 2021 | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 80% | “80%” | Suster: Roughly six deals drive 80% of returns in a venture fund | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | — |
| 300% | “300%” | Suster: Series A/B capital grew 9x from 2010 to 2022 | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 9× | “nine X” | Suster: Series A/B capital grew 9x from 2010 to 2022 | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Molly O'Shea says seed-to-Series A graduation rates hit record 13% low | Molly O'Shea | Jun 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 25× | “25 times” | Mark Suster notes 2021 software multiples hit 25x against historical 10x | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Mark Suster notes 2021 software multiples hit 25x against historical 10x | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Suster says 20-percent growth software startups currently trade at 4x revenue | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | Supported |
| 6× | “six X” | Suster says 20-percent growth software startups currently trade at 4x revenue | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | Supported |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Suster: Disciplined valuations leave startups a much larger pool of potential acquirers | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Suster: Disciplined valuations leave startups a much larger pool of potential acquirers | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Suster: Disciplined valuations leave startups a much larger pool of potential acquirers | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | — |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Suster: Disciplined valuations leave startups a much larger pool of potential acquirers | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Walk: Homebrew has made roughly 28 investments under its evergreen model | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Hunter Walk: Only 5% of VCs are exceptional and 5% are horrible | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Hunter Walk: Only 5% of VCs are exceptional and 5% are horrible | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Hunter Walk: Homebrew's 2013 fund ranks in the top one percent | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 36M | “a thirty five million” | Hunter Walk: Homebrew's first two funds achieved over 120% capital recycling | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| $42M | “forty two million dollars” | Hunter Walk: Homebrew's first two funds achieved over 120% capital recycling | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 120% | “120%” | Hunter Walk: Homebrew's first two funds achieved over 120% capital recycling | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Walk: Screen Door writes 10% anchor checks for emerging VC funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 3M | “a two million” | Walk: Screen Door writes 10% anchor checks for emerging VC funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Walk: Screen Door writes 10% anchor checks for emerging VC funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 11M | “a ten million” | Walk: Screen Door writes 10% anchor checks for emerging VC funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Walk: Emerging VC managers should change only one thing for Fund 2 | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Walk: Homebrew had extreme LP concentration in its first two funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | Walk: Homebrew had extreme LP concentration in its first two funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Radiant microreactor contains 120 million poppy seed-sized ceramic fuel kernels | Doug Bernauer | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 46M | “a forty-five million” | Radiant has raised about $60 million from a16z and USV | Doug Bernauer | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Radiant has raised about $60 million from a16z and USV | Doug Bernauer | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 8.7M | “8.7 million” | Radiant has won seven government contracts totaling approximately $8.7 million | Doug Bernauer | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Kim: Lighthouse aims to 10x the number of approved O-1 visas | Minn Kim | May 3, 2024 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Hecht: GroupMe retains 25 to 30 million monthly active users | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Hecht: Fundera surpassed $100M in revenue post-NerdWallet acquisition | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Hecht: Consumer tech success is 60% to 80% luck | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Hecht: Consumer tech success is 60% to 80% luck | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Hecht: Founders romanticize startups, suppressing the 90% to 99% that is hardship | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Hecht: Founders romanticize startups, suppressing the 90% to 99% that is hardship | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Hecht: USV provides pro-rata bridge support 100% of the time | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Hecht: USV avoids consensus deals and never leads $30M Series As | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Hecht: USV avoids consensus deals and never leads $30M Series As | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Sundblad: Oden Technologies raises $28.5M round of equity, debt, and notes | Willem Sundblad | Apr 19, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Sundblad: Factory operator training takes three months with 50% completion rate | Willem Sundblad | Apr 19, 2024 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Sundblad: Many manufacturing plants face 70% factory floor turnover | Willem Sundblad | Apr 19, 2024 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Sundblad: 60% of US plastics factories are small businesses | Willem Sundblad | Apr 19, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 40% | “40%” | Sundblad: 60% of US plastics factories are small businesses | Willem Sundblad | Apr 19, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 3× | “three X” | Sundblad: Oden grew 3x from 2022 to 2024 with flat headcount | Willem Sundblad | Apr 19, 2024 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Housel: 'The Psychology of Money' grew from 5,000 print run to 5M+ copies sold | Morgan Housel | Apr 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Housel: VC funds' top winners are rarely the investments expected to drive returns | Morgan Housel | Apr 7, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Housel: 90% of virality in content and business is driven by luck | Morgan Housel | Apr 7, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Power: US manufacturing must use software to gain 10x labor advantage over China | Chris Power | Mar 29, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Power: 90% of Hadrian recruits have never worked in a factory | Chris Power | Mar 29, 2024 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Power: Stripe and Google capped annual team headcount growth at exactly 30% | Chris Power | Mar 29, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 40% | “40%” | Power: Hadrian has a 60% chance of failing within 18 months | Chris Power | Mar 29, 2024 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Power: Hadrian has a 60% chance of failing within 18 months | Chris Power | Mar 29, 2024 | — |
| 16M | “a fifteen million” | Abouzeid: Shrug Capital Fund II was a $15M fund | Nick Abouzeid | Mar 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 2× | “two X” | Abouzeid: Ramp growth team targeted 2x their quarterly goal in expected value | Nick Abouzeid | Mar 22, 2024 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Abouzeid: Personal tax prep firms avoid complex, multi-jurisdiction clients | Nick Abouzeid | Mar 22, 2024 | — |
| $4M | “four million dollars” | Asparouhov: Varda per-mission cost will drop to $3.5M–$4M by mission six | Delian Asparouhov | Mar 15, 2024 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Weisburd: Founders Fund invests up to 25% of a fund in single positions | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Weisburd: Power laws in VC end around a $100M valuation | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Weisburd: Power laws in VC end around a $100M valuation | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Weisburd: Power laws in VC end around a $100M valuation | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Weisburd: Selling 10% to 20% of big winners generates DPI to raise next fund | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Weisburd: A 25-company $10M fund yields 3x easily, but 20x rarely | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Weisburd: A 25-company $10M fund yields 3x easily, but 20x rarely | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Weisburd: A 25-company $10M fund yields 3x easily, but 20x rarely | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Kolicich: 8VC allocates 50% to software, 20% biotech, 10% defense | Alex Kolicich | Mar 3, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Kolicich: 8VC allocates 50% to software, 20% biotech, 10% defense | Alex Kolicich | Mar 3, 2024 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Kolicich: Crossover funds exerted a 20x leverage effect on venture cap tables | Alex Kolicich | Mar 3, 2024 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Kolicich: Crossover funds exerted a 20x leverage effect on venture cap tables | Alex Kolicich | Mar 3, 2024 | — |
| 20× | “twenty-x” | Kolicich: Crossover funds exerted a 20x leverage effect on venture cap tables | Alex Kolicich | Mar 3, 2024 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Oltmann: Hadrian boasts 70% gross margins and top 3% SaaS growth | Xander Oltmann | Feb 1, 2024 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Oltmann: Hadrian boasts 70% gross margins and top 3% SaaS growth | Xander Oltmann | Feb 1, 2024 | — |
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