| 20T | “20 trillion” | Barton: AI TAM is $20T in labor spend, not just $1T software | Michael Barton | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 20T | “20 trillion” | Global tech market cap is $10T software, $20T Mag-7, $30T hardware | Tony Kim | Jul 24, 2026 | Supported |
| 20T | “20 trillion” | Pincus: Multi-trillion tech companies will reach $10T to $20T valuations | Mark Pincus | Jun 23, 2026 | Open |
| 17T | “a 16 trillion” | Bhargava: AI roll-ups can grow faster with higher margins than software | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 16T | “16 trillion” | Bhargava: AI roll-ups can grow faster with higher margins than software | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 13T | “13 trillion” | Harvey's monthly token usage grew from 1T in January to 13T | Winston Weinberg | Jun 16, 2026 | — |
| 11T | “a 10 trillion” | Harrison: Conflict over Taiwan could cause a $10T global economic hit | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Lin: Top companies will reach $10 trillion valuations within ten years | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | Open |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Lin: OpenAI at $500 Billion Works If It Can Reach $5 Trillion | Alfred Lin | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Tony Kim: AI compute requires $10 trillion in CapEx over five years | Tony Kim | Jul 24, 2026 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Global tech market cap is $10T software, $20T Mag-7, $30T hardware | Tony Kim | Jul 24, 2026 | Supported |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Johnston: SpaceX will reach a $10 trillion valuation within years | Philip Johnston | Jul 19, 2026 | Open |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Liang: Frontier AI models are heading toward 10 trillion parameters | Rodrigo Liang | Jul 17, 2026 | — |
| 10T | “10 trillion” | Clements: The market will see $10 trillion companies in the next cycle | Miles Clements | Jul 6, 2026 | Open |
| 6T | “six trillion” | Chaddha: AI teammates represent a $3T-$6T opportunity over 5-7 years | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Lin: OpenAI at $500 Billion Works If It Can Reach $5 Trillion | Alfred Lin | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 5T | “five trillion” | Pincus: Multi-trillion tech companies will reach $10T to $20T valuations | Mark Pincus | Jun 23, 2026 | Open |
| 4T | “four trillion” | Lin: OpenAI at $500 Billion Works If It Can Reach $5 Trillion | Alfred Lin | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 4T | “four trillion” | Friedberg: US billionaires hold $8T of $183T wealth while bottom 50% hold $4T | David Friedberg | Jul 22, 2026 | Supported |
| 4T | “three one trillion” | Rangwalla: Trillion-dollar AI IPOs will not trigger Mag Seven selloff | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Tusk: Trillion-Dollar AI Spending Is Driven by Short-Term Share Prices | Bradley Tusk | Nov 29, 2025 | — |
| 2T | “a one trillion” | Barton: AI TAM is $20T in labor spend, not just $1T software | Michael Barton | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Liang: Frontier AI models are heading toward 10 trillion parameters | Rodrigo Liang | Jul 17, 2026 | — |
| 2T | “two trillion” | Levy: Total US commercial corporate card spend is $2 trillion annually | Art Levy | Jul 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5T | “1.5 trillion” | Tusk: Trillion-Dollar AI Spending Is Driven by Short-Term Share Prices | Bradley Tusk | Nov 29, 2025 | — |
| 1.5T | “a half trillion” | Liang: SambaNova serves 1.5T parameter models on one rack versus 10-20 | Rodrigo Liang | Jul 17, 2026 | Supported |
| 1.5T | “half a trillion” | Lamm: Invasive species represent a half-trillion-dollar global problem | Ben Lamm | Aug 20, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1.5T | “1.5 trillion” | Mavrookas: Only 1% of US defense budget allocated to autonomy | Dino Mavrookas | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Ramaswamy: Tech companies in the AI era face binary trillion-dollar-or-bust outcomes | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Jan 23, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Cliffton: Zipline has a clear path to a trillion-dollar valuation | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | Jan 21, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Bhargava: AI roll-ups can grow faster with higher margins than software | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Siddharth: Enterprise AI performs best on 0.5B-to-10B parameter custom models | Jonathan Siddharth | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Barton: AI TAM is $20T in labor spend, not just $1T software | Michael Barton | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Armstrong: Replace accredited investor wealth rules with financial literacy tests | Brian Armstrong | Jun 26, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Pereyra: Vertical AI Does Not Need Trillion-Parameter Models for Narrow Tasks | Gabe Pereyra | Jun 18, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Harvey's monthly token usage grew from 1T in January to 13T | Winston Weinberg | Jun 16, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “one trillion” | Rangwalla: Trillion-dollar AI IPOs will not trigger Mag Seven selloff | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Sadeghi: Genomic sequencing, analysis, and editing will create a trillion-dollar industry | Kian Sadeghi | Jun 4, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | McCormick: Most fast-growing AI software startups will flatten and fail to IPO | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Sadeghi predicts a trillion-dollar platform integrating all personal health data | Kian Sadeghi | Aug 16, 2024 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Noone: Hardware development labor and software represent a $1 trillion market | Jordan Noone | Jul 26, 2024 | — |
| 500B | “500 Billion” | Lin: OpenAI at $500 Billion Works If It Can Reach $5 Trillion | Alfred Lin | Oct 30, 2025 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Little: DoD's $1.8B AI Budget Cannot Compete With $500B Commercial Investment | Greg Little | Jul 22, 2025 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Ritter: $500B Stargate project is $100B equity, 75% chips, 25% infrastructure | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | Open |
| 350B | “three hundred fifty billion” | Tenev: Robinhood holds about $350 billion in assets under custody | Vlad Tenev | Jan 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 350B | “three hundred fifty billion” | Tunguz: In Q1 2024, Ethereum was world's most profitable software entity | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 345B | “three hundred forty-five billion” | Fiedler: Coca-Cola and Pepsi are experiencing their 'cigarette moment' | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 250B | “quarter trillion” | Immerman: Larry Page will be the world's second trillionaire | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Open |
| 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 |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Agrawal: Cloud Computing Generates $400B in Apps but Only $50B in Semis | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 126B | “a hundred twenty six billion” | Immerman: a16z joined Waymo's $16B Series D at $126B valuation | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Raanan: An Israeli cybersecurity startup will reach a $50B valuation by 2032 | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Open |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Bhargava predicts multiple $100B AI-native compounders in public markets by 2035 | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Mathew: Accel modeled Facebook secondary investment at 5X upside | Arun Mathew | Jul 6, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Chaddha: AI is a 100x era creating many $100B companies | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Brex has surpassed $100 billion in total payment volume | Molly O'Shea | Jul 10, 2025 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Randle: First Kleiner Perkins deal was SpaceX at $100B+ valuation | Ev Randle | Jun 29, 2026 | — |
| 100B | “hundred billion” | Miller: Public venture funds will become a multi-hundred-billion-dollar asset class | Ben Miller | Mar 30, 2026 | — |
| 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 |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Ritter: $500B Stargate project is $100B equity, 75% chips, 25% infrastructure | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | Open |
| 100B | “a hundred-billion” | AppLovin dropped 92% post-IPO before rebounding to a $100B valuation | Adam Foroughi | Aug 14, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Tunguz: Microsoft, Google, and Meta each deploying $70B–$80B CapEx in 2025 | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 70B | “seventy billion” | Fiedler: VCs underestimate consumer market scale, missing Monster Energy's $70B cap | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 60B | “sixty billion” | Coatue manages roughly $60B AUM, including $25B in public equities | Michael Barton | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 60B | “sixty billion” | Moore: Massive valuations for OpenAI and Anthropic can still generate fund-level multiples | Bucky Moore | May 5, 2025 | — |
| 60B | “sixty billion” | Mavrookas: Port Alpha will create 10,000 jobs and $160B economic impact | Dino Mavrookas | Sep 8, 2026 | Open |
| 55B | “fifty five billion” | McGee: Apple's China Investment from 2007 to 2025 Exceeds $800B | Patrick McGee | Sep 1, 2025 | Supported |
| 51B | “a fifty billion” | Raanan: An Israeli cybersecurity startup will reach a $50B valuation by 2032 | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Open |
| 51B | “a fifty billion” | Tunguz: Theory Ventures was the second-largest investor in $50B Mysten Labs | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Cliffton: Zipline's Dallas ordering rates imply 50B US deliveries annually | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | Jan 21, 2026 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Altimeter Invested in OpenAI at $150B Valuation | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Agrawal: Cloud Computing Generates $400B in Apps but Only $50B in Semis | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Rangwalla: Meta was the largest Mag Seven IPO at $100B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Tunguz: 100x cost difference between small and largest AI models | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Immerman: Top 1% venture outcome will reach $40B in 8-10 years | Alex Immerman | Mar 13, 2026 | Open |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Friedberg: California is functionally bankrupt with a $30B–$40B budget deficit | David Friedberg | Jul 22, 2026 | — |
| 40B | “forty billion” | O'Shea: Over $240B in 2025 Venture Secondaries Represented 31% of Venture Volume | Molly O'Shea | Jun 14, 2026 | Supported |
| 35B | “thirty five billion” | 300,000 homes meet Wander's quality standard, representing $35B GMV | John Andrew | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Agrawal: AI Semis Generate $200B, While AI Apps Are Only Earning $40B | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Moore: Massive valuations for OpenAI and Anthropic can still generate fund-level multiples | Bucky Moore | May 5, 2025 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Alter: European VC funding hit $30 billion in H1 2024, up 12% | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | Supported |
| 28B | “twenty eight billion” | McCormick: Anduril hit $28B valuation after doubling revenue | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | Supported |
| 25B | “twenty-five billion” | Coatue manages roughly $60B AUM, including $25B in public equities | Michael Barton | Oct 23, 2025 | — |
| 23B | “a twenty-two billion” | Harrison: Anduril took over Microsoft's $22B IVAS contract for EagleEye | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Serhant claims over $20B in lifetime real estate sales | Ryan Serhant | Nov 3, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 16B | “a fifteen billion” | Desai: ServiceNow nears $15B revenue after Luddy founded it bankrupt at 50 | CJ Desai | Jul 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Franceschi: Brex repriced equity from $12B to $4B, converting RSUs to options | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| 12B | “an eleven billion” | Rodrigo Liang: SambaNova closes $1B round at $11B valuation | Rodrigo Liang | Jul 17, 2026 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Siddharth: Enterprise AI performs best on 0.5B-to-10B parameter custom models | Jonathan Siddharth | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 11B | “eleven billion” | Liang: SambaNova announces $1B Series F at an $11B valuation | Rodrigo Liang | Jul 19, 2026 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Lin: Sequoia will soon look at $10B+ gains for legendary status | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Chaddha: AI is a 100x era creating many $100B companies | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Chaddha: Vibe coding companies at $100M revenue will quickly reach $10B | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Rangwalla: Anthropic Grew ARR From $9B in December to $30B | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Teresa Carlson grew AWS public sector revenue to $10B in ten years | Teresa Carlson | May 11, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 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 |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Sharky claims Whop can reach $10B GMV with just 10-20 engineers | Jack Sharky | May 23, 2025 | — |
| 8.6B | “8.6 billion” | Venner: Broadcom scaled from $400M to $8.6B across 52 acquisitions | Ken Venner | Jul 16, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 8.6B | “8.6 billion” | Venner: Broadcom grew from $400M to $8.6B revenue across 52 acquisitions | Ken Venner | Jul 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 8B | “A seven billion” | Clements: Accel has assembled a $7 billion portfolio of AI investments | Miles Clements | Jul 6, 2026 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Chaddha: AI and vibe coding will create 3 billion programmers | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 8B | “a seven billion” | AppLovin generates over $7B EBITDA run rate with 75% cash conversion | Adam Foroughi | Aug 14, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 7B | “a six billion” | Franceschi: Capital One spends $6B on marketing and $6B on R&D | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Mignano: Lightspeed is investing out of a $7B fund generation | Michael Mignano | Dec 27, 2025 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Kim: AI on 7 billion devices is one or two steps away | Brian Kim | Jul 3, 2025 | — |
| 6.8B | “6.8 billion” | Baszucki: Roblox has $6.8B in bookings, under 4% of global gaming | David Baszucki | Apr 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | Josephs: Autopilot reached $500M in traded AUM and 2.5M downloads | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Little: DoD Audit Data Prevents $1B in Improper Vendor Payments Annually | Greg Little | Jul 22, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5B | “Five billion” | General Catalyst Commits to Investing $5B in India Over Five Years | Hemant Taneja | Apr 20, 2026 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Whop's content rewards generated over 5 billion views in eight weeks | Jack Sharky | May 23, 2025 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Suster: Disciplined valuations leave startups a much larger pool of potential acquirers | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | — |
| 4.4B | “4.4 billion” | Bry: Skydio raises $110M Series F at $4.4B valuation | Adam Bry | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Agrawal: OpenAI's Consumer Business Could Reach $200B in Annual Revenue | Apoorv Agrawal | Aug 27, 2025 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Armstrong: Four billion people worldwide are unbrokered without U.S. investment access | Brian Armstrong | Jun 26, 2026 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Tunguz: 100x cost difference between small and largest AI models | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Supported |
| 3B | “three billion” | Chaddha: AI and vibe coding will create 3 billion programmers | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Ward: Carta needs PE for $1B ARR, new assets for $3B | Henry Ward | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Cost-plus contracts incentivize defense primes to maximize costs and avoid commercial components | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Suster: Disciplined valuations leave startups a much larger pool of potential acquirers | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | — |
| 2.5B | “a half a billion” | Siddharth: Enterprise AI performs best on 0.5B-to-10B parameter custom models | Jonathan Siddharth | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 2.5B | “2.5 billion” | Monroe-Anderson: Neros raised a $250M Series C at a $2.5B valuation | Soren Monroe-Anderson | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 2.2B | “2.2 billion” | O'Shea: Turing Reaches $300M+ Revenue and $2.2B Valuation Profitably | Molly O'Shea | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 2.2B | “a 1.2 billion” | Kleiner Perkins deploys $800M venture fund and $1.2B growth fund | Leigh Marie Braswell | May 2, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 2B | “a one billion” | Liang: SambaNova announces $1B Series F at an $11B valuation | Rodrigo Liang | Jul 19, 2026 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Oetting: OpenGov's ~$2B exit rivals Palantir on a relative basis | Drew Oetting | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 2B | “Two billion” | O'Shea: Kalshi is valued at $2 billion | Molly O'Shea | Jul 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Suster: Disciplined valuations leave startups a much larger pool of potential acquirers | Mark Suster | Jun 28, 2024 | — |
| 1.8B | “1.8 billion” | Little: DoD's $1.8B AI Budget Cannot Compete With $500B Commercial Investment | Greg Little | Jul 22, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Gil: Gil Capital has led multiple funding rounds of $500M+ | Elad Gil | Oct 17, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “1.5 billion” | Brex has raised about $1.5 billion in total primary funding | Art Levy | Jul 10, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Randle: Snowflake pre-IPO round turned $500M into $2.5B in four years | Ev Randle | Jun 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Josephs: Autopilot reached $500M in traded AUM and 2.5M downloads | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Josephs: Autopilot Will Reach $1 Billion in Traded AUM by Year-End | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | Partly held up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Ritter: Veeva scaled to $2.5B revenue on just $3M in capital | Gordon Ritter | Jan 30, 2025 | — |
| 1.2B | “1.2 billion” | Noone: Relativity Space has 1,200 employees and raised $1.2B | Jordan Noone | Jul 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Paul: Sora launch generated 1 billion views in six days | Jake Paul | Feb 11, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Das: Over-raising capital erodes startup hunger and hinders recruitment | Didi Das | Feb 5, 2026 | — |
| 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 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Maguire: Starlink scaled to a $1B run rate within 12 months | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Ramaswamy: ChatGPT has nearly one billion users | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Jan 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Ramaswamy: Google Search Ads scaled from $1.6B to $100B under his tenure | Sridhar Ramaswamy | Jan 23, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Schimpf: Anduril has 7,000 employees and is still doubling revenue past $1B | Brian Schimpf | Dec 16, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Stephens: Heavy portfolio concentration drives superior venture fund returns | Trae Stephens | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Bhargava: General Catalyst put ~$1.5B toward creation strategy in last fund cycle | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Dell: Addition is leading a $1B Series C for Base Power | Zach Dell | Oct 8, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Rodrigo Liang: SambaNova closes $1B round at $11B valuation | Rodrigo Liang | Jul 17, 2026 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Chaddha: Single-person billion-dollar startups will be extremely rare | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Shadbolt: PsiQuantum secured $1B AUD Australian deal for Brisbane quantum computer | Pete Shadbolt | Sep 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Ward: Carta needs PE for $1B ARR, new assets for $3B | Henry Ward | Aug 6, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Power: Hadrian targets close to $1B in top-line revenue by 2027 | Chris Power | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Rangwalla: OpenAI Reached Almost 1B Users Fastest in History | Jaimin Rangwalla | May 15, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Baszucki: Top 1,000 Roblox developers average $1.3M in earnings | David Baszucki | Apr 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Josephs: Autopilot Will Reach $1 Billion in Traded AUM by Year-End | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | Partly held up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Beck: Rocket Lab's $800M SDA deal grew past $1B supplying competing primes | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 24, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 900M | “an eight hundred million” | Beck: Rocket Lab's $800M SDA deal grew past $1B supplying competing primes | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 24, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Rao: MosaicML grew from $20M to over $700M at Databricks | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Barton: OpenAI has 800M WAU with engagement rivaling Instagram | Michael Barton | Oct 23, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 800M | “eight hundred million” | Whop reached an $800 million valuation in its latest funding round | Jack Sharky | May 23, 2025 | — |
| 700M | “seven hundred million” | AI startups with $5M revenue are raising at $700M valuations | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Supported |
| 600M | “six hundred million” | Amex acquired spend startup Center for $600M at under $20M revenue | Art Levy | Jul 10, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 600M | “a five hundred million” | Weisburd: Power laws in VC end around a $100M valuation | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Shadbolt: PsiQuantum is anchor tenant of $500M Chicago quantum campus | Pete Shadbolt | Sep 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Randle: Snowflake pre-IPO round turned $500M into $2.5B in four years | Ev Randle | Jun 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Venner: Broadcom scaled from $400M to $8.6B across 52 acquisitions | Ken Venner | Jul 16, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 400M | “four hundred million” | Venner: Broadcom grew from $400M to $8.6B revenue across 52 acquisitions | Ken Venner | Jul 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Serhant argues Netflix is a superior global distribution funnel to YouTube | Ryan Serhant | Nov 3, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “Three hundred million” | O'Shea: Turing Reaches $300M+ Revenue and $2.2B Valuation Profitably | Molly O'Shea | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Paylocity acquired Airbase for $300M with approximately $15M in revenue | Art Levy | Jul 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 300M | “three hundred million” | Harvey reached roughly 960 employees, 2,000 customers, and $300M ARR | Winston Weinberg | Jun 16, 2026 | — |
| 250M | “two hundred fifty million” | Monroe-Anderson: Neros raised a $250M Series C at a $2.5B valuation | Soren Monroe-Anderson | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Chaddha: Vibe coding companies at $100M revenue will quickly reach $10B | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Tandon: Commure supports 200 million patient encounters annually | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Altman: Founders pick specific partners over fund size, saving mid-sized VCs | Jack Altman | Jun 27, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Badangay: Zamp targets e-commerce and SaaS companies with $1M to $200M revenue | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | — |
| 150M | “a hundred fifty million” | GC invests $100M to $150M across 3-4 rounds per AI roll-up platform | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 111M | “a hundred eleven million” | Siemiatkowski: Klarna has 111 million users worldwide | Sebastian Siemiatkowski | Sep 12, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Deel reached $100 million in ARR within its first 20 months | Alex Bouaziz | Mar 17, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Lin: Sequoia's legendary wall threshold rose from $100M to over $1B | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Das: The Anthology Fund with Anthropic is a $100M fund | Didi Das | Feb 5, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Franceschi: Private fundraising valuations differ fundamentally from 100% full-liquidity acquisitions | Pedro Franceschi | Jan 30, 2026 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Rinaudo Cliffton: Zipline Logged 100M+ Autonomous Miles With Zero Safety Incidents | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | Jan 21, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Tenev: Robinhood Has 11 Business Lines Generating Over $100M in Revenue | Vlad Tenev | Jan 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | O'Shea: PJ's viral AI video for Kalshi reached over 100M people | Molly O'Shea | Dec 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Tusk Only Backs AI Companies With Series A Valuations Under $100M | Bradley Tusk | Nov 29, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Bhargava: Seed Checks Deserve Equal Focus as $100M Checks for Ownership | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Bhargava: Some GC AI roll-ups will reach $100M EBITDA under two years | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Chaddha: Vibe coding companies at $100M revenue will quickly reach $10B | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Vasavada: Tech billionaires' 'all-cash' mega-mansions are actually financed by margin loans | Samir Vasavada | Jul 25, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Brex has multiple business lines each generating over $100M in revenue | Art Levy | Jul 10, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Wander secured a $100M Credit Suisse facility at eight months old | John Andrew | May 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | McCormick: Anduril's early round was crowded at a $100M valuation | Packy McCormick | Feb 14, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Fiedler: Left Lane portfolio company Holy is nearing a 100M run rate | Jason Fiedler | Nov 8, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Walk: Screen Door writes 10% anchor checks for emerging VC funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Hecht: Fundera surpassed $100M in revenue post-NerdWallet acquisition | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Weisburd: Power laws in VC end around a $100M valuation | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Fox: AssemblyAI handles nearly 100 million daily API calls from developers | Dylan Fox | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
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