| $20T | “20 trillion dollars” | Barton: AI TAM is $20T in labor spend, not just $1T software | Michael Barton | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| $10T | “10 trillion dollars” | Vasavada: Enterprise RIA assets will hit $10 trillion by 2032 | Samir Vasavada | Jul 25, 2025 | Open |
| $8T | “eight trillion dollars” | Friedberg: US billionaires hold $8T of $183T wealth while bottom 50% hold $4T | David Friedberg | Jul 22, 2026 | Supported |
| $6T | “six trillion dollars” | O'Shea: AI Companies Accounted for 70-75% of 2025 Market Gains | Molly O'Shea | Jan 23, 2026 | Supported |
| $5T | “five trillion dollars” | Lin: Top companies will reach $10 trillion valuations within ten years | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | Open |
| $2T | “two trillion dollars” | Vasavada: Enterprise RIA assets will hit $10 trillion by 2032 | Samir Vasavada | Jul 25, 2025 | Open |
| $2T | “two trillion dollars” | Vasavada: Sub-2% of $83T Retail Wealth Is in Alternatives | Samir Vasavada | Jul 25, 2025 | Supported |
| $2T | “two trillion dollars” | Levy: Total US commercial corporate card spend is $2 trillion annually | Art Levy | Jul 10, 2025 | Supported |
| $1.3T | “1.25 trillion dollars” | Rangwalla: SpaceX reached a $1.25T valuation in xAI transaction | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.2T | “1.2 trillion dollars” | Mavrookas: US Navy 30-year shipbuilding plan will cost $1.2 trillion | Dino Mavrookas | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Laffont: Microsoft lost nearly $1T in value over AI positioning concerns | Thomas Laffont | Mar 6, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Rao: Trillion-dollar GPU data centers are physically impossible to power | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Clements: The market will see $10 trillion companies in the next cycle | Miles Clements | Jul 6, 2026 | Open |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Harrison: F-35 Program Costs Could Reach $1T Versus Projected $13B–$15B | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Happi: Hyperscalers plan $1 trillion in data center capex | Hannan Happi | Apr 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Foroughi: Mobile gaming ad spend cannot support a $1T valuation | Adam Foroughi | Aug 14, 2026 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Mavrookas: Only 1% of US defense budget allocated to autonomy | Dino Mavrookas | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| $800B | “eight hundred billion dollars” | McGee: Apple's China Investment from 2007 to 2025 Exceeds $800B | Patrick McGee | Sep 1, 2025 | Supported |
| $700B | “seven hundred billion dollars” | Katzenberg: Hyperscalers are investing $700B in capex over 24 months | Jeffrey Katzenberg | Dec 29, 2025 | Supported |
| $400B | “Four hundred billion dollars” | Agrawal: Cloud Computing Generates $400B in Apps but Only $50B in Semis | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| $275B | “two hundred seventy five billion dollars” | McGee: Tim Cook Pledged $275B in Apple Investment to China | Patrick McGee | Sep 1, 2025 | Supported |
| $200B | “two hundred billion dollars” | Agrawal: OpenAI's Consumer Business Could Reach $200B in Annual Revenue | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| $150B | “a hundred fifty billion dollars” | Little: $150B Defense Investment Over Last Three Years Matches Prior Decade | Greg Little | Jul 22, 2025 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Ramaswamy: Google Search Ads scaled from $1.6B to $100B under his tenure | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Jan 23, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Ramaswamy: Snowflake was valued at over $100B with under $1B revenue | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Jan 23, 2026 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Rangwalla: Meta was the largest Mag Seven IPO at $100B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $71B | “seventy one billion dollars” | Romo: Space Force budget request has grown to $71 billion | Eric Romo | Jun 2, 2026 | Supported |
| $60B | “sixty billion dollars” | Rangwalla: Combined OpenAI and Anthropic ARR Exceeds Salesforce and ServiceNow | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $55B | “fifty-five billion dollars” | McGee: Tim Cook Pledged $275B in Apple Investment to China | Patrick McGee | Sep 1, 2025 | 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 |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Agrawal: AI Semis Generate $200B, While AI Apps Are Only Earning $40B | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Agrawal: Meta Generates Double OpenAI's $40B Funding in Annual Operating Cash Flow | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | 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 |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Feldman: Cerebras to provide OpenAI over $20B in hardware | Andrew Feldman | Jul 13, 2026 | — |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Mathew: Accel bought Facebook secondary shares around a $20B valuation | Arun Mathew | Jul 6, 2026 | Supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Moore: Billion-dollar checks in frontier AI could return up to $20B | Bucky Moore | May 5, 2025 | — |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Mathew: Accel bought Facebook secondary shares around a $20B valuation | Arun Mathew | Jul 6, 2026 | Supported |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Harrison: F-35 Program Costs Could Reach $1T Versus Projected $13B–$15B | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $12B | “twelve billion dollars” | Maguire: Sequoia invested ~$1.2B in SpaceX, now worth ~$12B | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Cohen: Navan reaches over $10 billion in annual bookings | Ariel Cohen | Jul 19, 2026 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Garrett: SpaceX has only raised $10B over 23 years | Christian Garrett | Mar 21, 2025 | Supported |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | McCormick: SpaceX suffered only ~50% dilution despite raising $10B in equity | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | — |
| $9B | “nine billion dollars” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $8.4B | “8.4 billion dollars” | Avalara and TaxJar abandoned SMB market after acquisitions, says Badangay | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | 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 |
| $5.2B | “5.15 billion dollars” | Franceschi: Private fundraising valuations differ fundamentally from 100% full-liquidity acquisitions | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| $4B | “four billion dollars” | Randle: Multiple people I know hold $3B to $4B in Anthropic | Ev Randle | Jun 29, 2026 | — |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Chaddha: Mayfield stealth startup scaled $0 to $3B in 14 months | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Siemiatkowski: Klarna paid Salesforce $2M annually on $3B in revenue | Sebastian Siemiatkowski | Sep 12, 2025 | — |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Raanan: Cyberstarts' 2018 fund turned $50M into nearly $2B in three years | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1.6B | “1.6 billion dollars” | Ramaswamy: Google Search Ads scaled from $1.6B to $100B under his tenure | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Jan 23, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1.5B | “a half billion dollars” | Liang: SambaNova has raised $2.5 billion in total capital | Rodrigo Liang | Jul 17, 2026 | — |
| $1.5B | “a half billion dollars” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $1.5B | “1.5 billion dollars” | Wander is adding 200 to 300 homes worth $1.5B this month | John Andrew | May 28, 2025 | — |
| $1.5B | “half a billion dollars” | Josephs: Autopilot reached $500M in traded AUM and 2.5M downloads | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| $1.5B | “half a billion dollars” | Institutional buyers will emerge for $500M single-position venture fund secondaries | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Open |
| $1.2B | “1.2 billion dollars” | Maguire: Sequoia invested ~$1.2B in SpaceX, now worth ~$12B | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | — |
| $1.2B | “1.2 billion dollars” | Beck: Branson poured $1.2B into Virgin Orbit before it went bankrupt | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 26, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Woo: Prime is the fastest-growing beverage in history with $1B sales | Geoffrey Woo | Feb 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Goldstein: Airplane startups require at least $1 billion in capital | Adam Goldstein | Jan 17, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Ramaswamy: Snowflake was valued at over $100B with under $1B revenue | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Jan 23, 2026 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | O'Shea: Sourcery will only cover fundraising announcements over $1 billion | Molly O'Shea | Dec 31, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Mathew: Accel now regularly invests $500M to over $1B per company | Arun Mathew | Jul 6, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Shadbolt: $1B in revenue marks the starting point for useful quantum computing | Pete Shadbolt | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Ashlee Vance: Worthwhile Hardware Breakthroughs Require 10 to 12 Years | Ashlee Vance | Sep 11, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Little: DoD Audit Data Prevents $1B in Improper Vendor Payments Annually | Greg Little | Jul 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Stripe and Shopify were each valued at $1B when they partnered | Art Levy | Jul 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Randle: AI startups can hit $1B revenue without proving unit economics | Ev Randle | Jun 29, 2026 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Kleiner Perkins checks range from $1M early-stage to $150M growth | Leigh Marie Braswell | May 2, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Moore: Billion-dollar checks in frontier AI could return up to $20B | Bucky Moore | May 5, 2025 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Guo: Passes will reach a billion-dollar valuation just by acquiring creators | Lucy Guo | Dec 13, 2024 | Open |
| $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 |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Avalara and TaxJar abandoned SMB market after acquisitions, says Badangay | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | Partly supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Coogan: Nicotine Replacement Therapy Category Generates Under $1B in Revenue | John Coogan | Jul 24, 2024 | Contradicted |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Beck: Rocket Lab Added Nearly $1B in Backlog in Record Quarter | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 24, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $800M | “eight hundred million dollars” | Kleiner Perkins deploys $800M venture fund and $1.2B growth fund | Leigh Marie Braswell | May 2, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $660M | “six hundred sixty million dollars” | a16z prepares second American Dynamism fund after $660M first vehicle | David Ulevitch | Nov 18, 2025 | — |
| $625M | “six hundred twenty-five million dollars” | Zipline closes over $625M in new funding to accelerate expansion | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | Jan 21, 2026 | — |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Mathew: Accel now regularly invests $500M to over $1B per company | Arun Mathew | Jul 6, 2026 | — |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Suster: Disciplined valuations leave startups a much larger pool of potential acquirers | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | — |
| $400M | “four hundred million dollars” | Katzenberg predicts WndrCo will generate $400M in free cash flow next year | Jeffrey Katzenberg | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| $350M | “three hundred fifty million dollars” | Josephs: About $350M in capital follows Nancy Pelosi's trades on Autopilot | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| $260M | “two hundred sixty million dollars” | Power: Hadrian raises $260M in equity and factory financing | Chris Power | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| $260M | “two hundred sixty million dollars” | Power: Morgan Stanley provides factory financing for Hadrian's $260M round | Chris Power | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| $108M | “a hundred eight million dollars” | Whop processed over $108 million for creators in a single month | Jack Sharky | May 23, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Senra claims podcasters get elite access that a $100M raise cannot buy | David Senra | Dec 31, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Tusk Only Backs AI Companies With Series A Valuations Under $100M | Bradley Tusk | Nov 29, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | PsiQuantum Spent Over $100M to Establish Manufacturing at GlobalFoundries | Pete Shadbolt | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Siemiatkowski: Klarna swung from -$100M to +$1M-$2M monthly profit in 2 years | Sebastian Siemiatkowski | Sep 12, 2025 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Nasty Gal reached over $100M in revenue before its bankruptcy | Sophia Amoruso | Aug 18, 2025 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Del Buono: AI Startup Check Sizes Make Fund Scale Essential in Venture | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Wander has raised over $100M in venture equity | John Andrew | May 28, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Beck: Rocket Lab bought Virgin Orbit's $100M facility for $16M | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 28, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Beck: Rocket Lab reached orbit for under $100M with 80 people | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 26, 2026 | — |
| $80M | “eighty million dollars” | Romo: Falcon Heavy costs $70M to $80M more than Falcon 9 | Eric Romo | Jun 2, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $80M | “eighty million dollars” | Lead Bank reached $280M in revenue and $31M in net income | Jackie Reses | May 28, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $80M | “eighty million dollars” | Whop has raised about $80 million through Series B | Jack Sharky | May 23, 2025 | — |
| $75M | “seventy-five million dollars” | WndrCo allocates $50M-$75M per studio build and $5M-$15M for venture checks | Chen Li | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| $75M | “seventy-five million dollars” | Vulcan Elements Raises $65M Series A Led by Altimeter | John Maslin | Aug 11, 2025 | — |
| $70M | “seventy million dollars” | Tusk: Fund II is at 3.5x on paper with no real DPI | Bradley Tusk | Nov 29, 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 |
| $65M | “sixty-five million dollars” | Senra Systems Closes $65M Series B Led by Lowercarbon and Interlagos | Jordan Black | Jul 15, 2026 | — |
| $60M | “sixty million dollars” | Soylent hit $60M revenue before bad hires ruined the company | John Coogan | Jul 24, 2024 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Raanan: Cyberstarts' 2018 fund turned $50M into nearly $2B in three years | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Blania: Merge Labs Raised a $250 Million Seed Round | Alex Blania | Feb 16, 2026 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Capital One filings allocate $950M for Brex integration and retention | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Katzenberg offered Steve Jobs $50M to buy Pixar, but Jobs refused | Jeffrey Katzenberg | Dec 29, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Ulevitch: Federal R&D overhead gives defense primes a monopoly over startups | David Ulevitch | Nov 18, 2025 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Serhant claims 22-year-old streamer iShowSpeed makes $50M a year | Ryan Serhant | Nov 3, 2025 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Barton: Google and OpenAI Pay Reddit ~$50M Annually for Training Data | Michael Barton | Oct 23, 2025 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Amoruso bootstrapped Nasty Gal to $28M revenue, retaining 80% ownership | Sophia Amoruso | Aug 18, 2025 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Vasavada: Vise manages accounts ranging from $200 to over $150 million | Samir Vasavada | Jul 25, 2025 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Del Buono: Perennial targets centi-millionaires and billionaires with $25M-$50M minimum | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Alter: Toyota, Boeing, and Samsung pay tens to hundreds of millions for legacy software | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | — |
| $43M | “forty three million dollars” | Simoni: Allen Control Systems Has Raised $43 Million So Far | Steve Simoni | Oct 5, 2025 | — |
| $42M | “forty two million dollars” | Hunter Walk: Homebrew's first two funds achieved over 120% capital recycling | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| $40M | “forty million dollars” | Exowatt has raised about $140M over the last two years | Hannan Happi | Apr 15, 2026 | Supported |
| $40M | “forty million dollars” | Josephs: Autopilot has $40M copying an AI-generated ChatGPT investment portfolio | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $35M | “Thirty five million dollars” | Tusk Ventures Fund I Is Currently Sitting at a 5x Multiple | Bradley Tusk | Nov 29, 2025 | — |
| $31M | “thirty one million dollars” | Lead Bank reached $280M in revenue and $31M in net income | Jackie Reses | May 28, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $30M | “thirty million dollars” | Senra claims a single sponsor paid Pat McAfee $30 million annually | David Senra | Dec 31, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $30M | “30 million dollars” | Slotowicz: Pre-owned private jet prices range from $3M to $30M across categories | Israel "Izzy" Slotowicz | Jun 20, 2026 | Open |
| $30M | “thirty million dollars” | Kim: a16z check sizes are dictated by strict fund ownership requirements | Brian Kim | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| $28M | “twenty-eight million dollars” | Amoruso bootstrapped Nasty Gal to $28M revenue, retaining 80% ownership | Sophia Amoruso | Aug 18, 2025 | Supported |
| $25M | “twenty five million dollars” | Zuckerberg: Long Journey aims to invest up to $25M in breakout companies | Arielle Zuckerberg | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| $24M | “twenty four million dollars” | Raanan: Wiz scaled quarterly sales from $1M to $24M in year one | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Raanan: Wiz raised a $20M seed syndicate at a $66M post-money valuation | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | — |
| $20M | “twenty million dollars” | Arc Boats delivered its first electric boat with under $20M deployed | Mitch Lee | Sep 7, 2025 | — |
| $15M | “fifteen million dollars” | WndrCo allocates $50M-$75M per studio build and $5M-$15M for venture checks | Chen Li | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| $12M | “twelve million dollars” | Tusk: Early Uber Advisory Equity Stake Reached $12M Valuation Following Funding Round | Bradley Tusk | Nov 29, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Zamp raises $10M Series A led by Valor Equity Partners | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | — |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Sadeghi: Whole genome sequencing cost $10M per sample in 2006 | Kian Sadeghi | Aug 16, 2024 | Supported |
| $8M | “eight million dollars” | Raanan: Wiz scaled quarterly sales from $1M to $24M in year one | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $8M | “eight million dollars” | Beck: Small Rockets Cannot Absorb $1.5M Launch Pad Fees | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 24, 2026 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Opendoor paid a consulting firm $5M to advise cutting quality across operations | Kaz Nejatian | Feb 24, 2026 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Agrawal: Palantir's Median ACV Is Over $5 Million | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| $4M | “four million dollars” | Asparouhov: Varda per-mission cost will drop to $3.5M–$4M by mission six | Delian Asparouhov | Mar 15, 2024 | — |
| $3M | “three million dollars” | Ritter: Veeva scaled to $2.5B revenue on just $3M in capital | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Raanan: Wiz scaled quarterly sales from $1M to $24M in year one | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Siemiatkowski: Klarna swung from -$100M to +$1M-$2M monthly profit in 2 years | Sebastian Siemiatkowski | Sep 12, 2025 | Supported |
| $2M | “Two million dollars” | K2 Space produces reaction wheels 10x to 100x cheaper than Honeywell | Eric Crispin | May 16, 2025 | — |
| $1.4M | “1.4 million dollars” | Josephs: Richard Burr sold $1.4M in stocks after publishing reassuring COVID-19 op-ed | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | 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 |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Kleiner Perkins checks range from $1M early-stage to $150M growth | Leigh Marie Braswell | May 2, 2025 | — |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Abouzeid: Personal tax prep firms avoid complex, multi-jurisdiction clients | Nick Abouzeid | Mar 22, 2024 | — |
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