| 100M | “hundred million” | Mavrookas: Saronic announced multi-hundred million dollar Navy contract in December 2025 | Dino Mavrookas | Sep 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 92M | “ninety two million” | Mavrookas: Saronic announced $392M Navy contract in December 2025 | Dino Mavrookas | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Cognition Had $70M–$80M ARR and 35–40 People When Buying Windsurf | Scott Wu | Jul 27, 2026 | — |
| 80M | “eighty million” | Mathew: Accel now regularly invests $500M to over $1B per company | Arun Mathew | Jul 6, 2026 | — |
| 75M | “seventy-five million” | Tandon: Commure ambient tool saves physicians 75M hours across 50M appointments | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | — |
| 70M | “seventy million” | Josephs: Autopilot Generates 70 Million Monthly Social Media Impressions | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 66M | “sixty six million” | Raanan: Wiz raised a $20M seed syndicate at a $66M post-money valuation | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | — |
| 66M | “a sixty-five million” | Vulcan Elements Raises $65M Series A Led by Altimeter | John Maslin | Aug 11, 2025 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Lowery: US produces 50,000 drones annually compared to China's 60 million | Andy Lowery | Oct 5, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Alter: Northzone writes checks from $2.5M seed up to $60M growth | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 2024 | — |
| 60M | “sixty million” | Radiant has raised about $60 million from a16z and USV | Doug Bernauer | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | WndrCo operates a $50M seed fund writing $500K non-lead checks | Chen Li | Dec 29, 2025 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Friedberg: US billionaires hold $8T of $183T wealth while bottom 50% hold $4T | David Friedberg | Jul 22, 2026 | Supported |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Beck: Small Rockets Cannot Absorb $1.5M Launch Pad Fees | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 24, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Morton: Revel raised $150M round and $180M total in 15 months | Scott Morton | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Rao: Rat and human cortex microcircuits are virtually indistinguishable | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Brad Jacobs raised $750 million from two listeners of Senra's podcast | David Senra | Dec 31, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | O'Shea says Alex Karp podcast interview reached 50 million impressions organically | Molly O'Shea | Dec 31, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Desai: ElevenLabs runs over 50 million agents on MongoDB | CJ Desai | Jul 20, 2026 | Open |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Clements: Accel's $150M PIPE investment in Nebius is up 13x in 16 months | Miles Clements | Jul 6, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Amoruso invested in Liquid Death at a $50M post-money valuation | Sophia Amoruso | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Amoruso bootstrapped Nasty Gal to $28M revenue, retaining 80% ownership | Sophia Amoruso | Aug 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Little: Reconciliation Bill Allocates $450M for Maritime Software and AI | Greg Little | Jul 22, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Vasavada: Tech billionaires' 'all-cash' mega-mansions are actually financed by margin loans | Samir Vasavada | Jul 25, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Tandon: Commure has raised approximately $750 million in total funding | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Tandon: Commure ambient tool saves physicians 75M hours across 50M appointments | Tanay Tandon | May 19, 2026 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Khosrowshahi: Uber One subscription has reached nearly 50 million members | Dara Khosrowshahi | May 8, 2026 | Supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Cost-plus contracts incentivize defense primes to maximize costs and avoid commercial components | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| 46M | “a forty-five million” | Radiant has raised about $60 million from a16z and USV | Doug Bernauer | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 41M | “a forty million” | Serhant: Toured a $40M Upper West Side Penthouse with iShowSpeed | Ryan Serhant | Nov 3, 2025 | Supported |
| 41M | “a forty million” | Wander is approaching a $40M gross merchandise value run rate | John Andrew | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | Cliffton: Zipline is largest autonomous system on Earth with 140M miles | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | Jan 21, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Cliffton: Zipline has 140M autonomous commercial miles with zero safety incidents | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | Jan 22, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 40M | “forty million” | Whop sends over 40 million notifications per day | Jack Sharky | May 23, 2025 | — |
| 37M | “thirty-seven million” | Blania: World has 37 million users, 17 million Orb-verified | Alex Blania | Feb 16, 2026 | Supported |
| 36M | “a thirty five million” | Hunter Walk: Homebrew's first two funds achieved over 120% capital recycling | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Woo: Anti Fund manages $65M+ AUM and is investing a $30M vehicle | Geoffrey Woo | Feb 11, 2026 | — |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Moore: $50M to $70M valuation caps are untenable for $30M seed funds | Bucky Moore | May 5, 2025 | — |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Hecht: USV avoids consensus deals and never leads $30M Series As | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Senra claims a single sponsor paid Pat McAfee $30 million annually | David Senra | Dec 31, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Chaddha: AI and vibe coding will create 3 billion programmers | Navin Chaddha | Oct 3, 2025 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Defense startups can secure up to $30M early prototyping contracts from DIU | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Contradicted |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Hecht: GroupMe retains 25 to 30 million monthly active users | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Hecht: USV avoids consensus deals and never leads $30M Series As | Jared Hecht | Apr 26, 2024 | — |
| 26M | “a twenty-five million” | Mignano: Lightspeed led a $25M Series A investment in Macroscope | Michael Mignano | Dec 27, 2025 | — |
| 25M | “twenty-five million” | O'Shea: Turing Reaches $300M+ Revenue and $2.2B Valuation Profitably | Molly O'Shea | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Rao: MosaicML grew from $20M to over $700M at Databricks | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | Supported |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Strachman: 1517 Fund's first $20M fund was anchored by Peter Thiel | Danielle Strachman | Aug 29, 2025 | — |
| 21M | “a twenty million” | Walk: Screen Door writes 10% anchor checks for emerging VC funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Amex acquired spend startup Center for $600M at under $20M revenue | Art Levy | Jul 10, 2025 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Harrison: China developed $15M to $20M missiles capable of destroying US carriers | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Supported |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Altimeter writes $15M to $25M for Series A and $250M+ for growth | Eric Crispin | May 16, 2025 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Zamp reduces monthly sales tax management time to 5 minutes | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Radiant microreactor contains 120 million poppy seed-sized ceramic fuel kernels | Doug Bernauer | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Fox: AssemblyAI processes four times YouTube's daily audio volume on peak weeks | Dylan Fox | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 16M | “a fifteen million” | Abouzeid: Shrug Capital Fund II was a $15M fund | Nick Abouzeid | Mar 22, 2024 | Supported |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Paylocity acquired Airbase for $300M with approximately $15M in revenue | Art Levy | Jul 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Del Buono: Founders can stack QSBS tax exemptions across multiple trusts | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Bhadange: 10 to 15 million US merchants must now manage sales tax | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | — |
| 12M | “twelve million” | Altman: Alt Capital check sizes range between $1M and $12M | Jack Altman | Jun 27, 2025 | — |
| 11M | “a ten million” | Gil: B2B Startups Typically Take 3 to 7 Years to Reach Enterprise Deals | Elad Gil | Oct 20, 2025 | — |
| 11M | “a ten million” | Pincus: First Round Offered Repeat Founders $250k Notes Sight Unseen | Mark Pincus | Jun 23, 2026 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 11M | “a ten million” | Walk: Screen Door writes 10% anchor checks for emerging VC funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Lin: AI startups are scaling to $10M ARR faster than ever | Alfred Lin | Mar 9, 2026 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Power: Hadrian raises $260M in equity and factory financing | Chris Power | Jul 18, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | 35-year-old marketers lack the viral sense to create massive hooks | Roy Lee | Jun 20, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Zhao: Zauey Talks reaches 350K followers and 10M monthly impressions | Claire Zhao | Jun 15, 2026 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Bry: Skydio raises $110M Series F at $4.4B valuation | Adam Bry | Apr 23, 2026 | Supported |
| 10M | “ten million” | Weisburd: A 25-company $10M fund yields 3x easily, but 20x rarely | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 9.2M | “9.2 million” | Maguire: SpaceX reported 9.2M Starlink consumer and 6M direct-to-cell subscribers | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 9M | “nine million” | Mathew: Supabase grew from under 1M to 9M developers in over a year | Arun Mathew | Jul 6, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 8.7M | “8.7 million” | Radiant has won seven government contracts totaling approximately $8.7 million | Doug Bernauer | May 31, 2024 | — |
| 7M | “seven million” | Josephs: Autopilot has raised approximately $6M to $7M to date | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 7M | “seven million” | Ukraine is projected to consume seven million FPV drones in 2026 | Soren Monroe-Anderson | Aug 11, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 6M | “six million” | Maguire: SpaceX reported 9.2M Starlink consumer and 6M direct-to-cell subscribers | Shaun Maguire | Jan 28, 2026 | Supported |
| 6M | “six million” | Zoo has raised about $6 million total in venture capital | Jordan Noone | Jul 26, 2024 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Stephens: Anduril opening 5M sq ft Arsenal-1 factory in Q1 | Trae Stephens | Dec 15, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Stephens: Anduril will open 5M sq ft Arsenal-1 factory in Q1 | Trae Stephens | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Trust Fund is a $5M vehicle with zero institutional investors | Sophia Amoruso | Aug 18, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Slotowicz: Pre-owned private jet prices range from $3M to $30M across categories | Israel "Izzy" Slotowicz | Jun 20, 2026 | Open |
| 5M | “five million” | Series B standard is moving to $10M-$15M ARR, says Entwistle | John Andrew | May 28, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Josephs: Autopilot's AI-generated Pelosi video gained 5M organic views | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | AI startups with $5M revenue are raising at $700M valuations | Alex Kolicich | Oct 11, 2024 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Housel: 'The Psychology of Money' grew from 5,000 print run to 5M+ copies sold | Morgan Housel | Apr 7, 2024 | Supported |
| 4M | “four million” | Tenev: Robinhood Gold reached 4M subscribers, including 40% of new signups | Vlad Tenev | Jan 10, 2026 | Supported |
| 4M | “four million” | O'Shea: Turing Reaches $300M+ Revenue and $2.2B Valuation Profitably | Molly O'Shea | Oct 10, 2025 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Rabois: Real estate tech must break even at 4M annual US transactions | Keith Rabois | Sep 15, 2025 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Oetting: 8VC Writes Initial Incubation Checks Between $3M and $40M | Drew Oetting | Aug 22, 2025 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Buying a private jet is cheap; operations cost $2M–$4M annually, says Slotowicz | Israel "Izzy" Slotowicz | Jun 20, 2026 | — |
| 3M | “Three million” | Michael: The Department of War is a three-million-person bureaucracy | Emil Michael | Dec 13, 2025 | Supported |
| 3M | “a two million” | Siemiatkowski: Klarna paid Salesforce $2M annually on $3B in revenue | Sebastian Siemiatkowski | Sep 12, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “a two million” | Socher: Gemini's 2M token context window equals one 5MB file | Richard Socher | Oct 25, 2024 | Supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Many B2B AI startups are stalling at $1 million to $3 million ARR | Jeff Morris Jr. | Oct 16, 2024 | — |
| 3M | “a two million” | Walk: Screen Door writes 10% anchor checks for emerging VC funds | Hunter Walk | Jun 14, 2024 | — |
| 2.5M | “2.5 million” | Josephs: Autopilot reached $500M in traded AUM and 2.5M downloads | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Rinaudo Cliffton: Zipline will cross 2M deliveries in 3–4 days | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | Jan 22, 2026 | Held up |
| 2M | “a one million” | Bhargava: Seed Checks Deserve Equal Focus as $100M Checks for Ownership | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Slotowicz: Dedicated pilots for private aircraft cost $1M to $2M annually | Israel "Izzy" Slotowicz | Jun 20, 2026 | Supported |
| 2M | “two million” | Del Buono: AI Startup Check Sizes Make Fund Scale Essential in Venture | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Whop can handle flash drops of over one to two million requests | Jack Sharky | May 23, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Peters: Superpower rejected a $2M domain offer from an AI startup | Jacob Peters | Apr 22, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Mansoor: Kalshi onboarded 2 million users in the fall of 2024 | Tarek Mansoor | Feb 28, 2025 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Fox: AssemblyAI processes four times YouTube's daily audio volume on peak weeks | Dylan Fox | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Ehrenstein: There are 2.5 million open manufacturing jobs | Philip Ehrenstein | Oct 5, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Cohen: Hello Patient raised a $22.5M Series A | Alex Cohen | Sep 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Klein: Browserbase has raised $67.5M in total funding | Paul Klein | Jun 17, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Josephs: Autopilot has distributed $500,000 in creator payouts to date | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Zuckerberg: Long Journey aims to invest up to $25M in breakout companies | Arielle Zuckerberg | Mar 14, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Alter: Northzone writes checks from $2.5M seed up to $60M growth | Molly Alter | Sep 20, 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 |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Sundblad: Oden Technologies raises $28.5M round of equity, debt, and notes | Willem Sundblad | Apr 19, 2024 | — |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | Baszucki: Top 1,000 Roblox developers average $1.3M in earnings | David Baszucki | Apr 1, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Raanan: Wiz scaled quarterly sales from $1M to $24M in year one | Gilly Raanan | Mar 11, 2026 | Contradicted |
| 1M | “a million” | Cliffton: Zipline Will Scale to 1M Deliveries Daily in Next Few Years | Keller Rinaudo Cliffton | Jan 21, 2026 | Open |
| 1M | “a million” | Tusk Loses $1 Million Annually on His Manhattan Bookstore | Bradley Tusk | Nov 29, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Bhargava: Seed Checks Deserve Equal Focus as $100M Checks for Ownership | Mark Bhargava | Dec 5, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Mathew: Supabase grew from under 1M to 9M developers in over a year | Arun Mathew | Jul 6, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Shadbolt: Useful quantum computing requires roughly one million qubits | Pete Shadbolt | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Shadbolt: PsiQuantum allocates zero resources toward small intermediate demo processors | Pete Shadbolt | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Shadbolt: PsiQuantum's million-qubit bet relies entirely on existing semiconductor fabs | Pete Shadbolt | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Shadbolt: Hyperscaler leaders understand quantum computing requires 1M qubits | Pete Shadbolt | Sep 10, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Vance: One million physical qubits yield roughly one thousand useful logical qubits | Ashlee Vance | Sep 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Siemiatkowski: Klarna cut headcount from 7,400 to 3,000 while doubling revenue | Sebastian Siemiatkowski | Sep 12, 2025 | Open |
| 1M | “a million” | Romo: MEO and GEO defense requires rapid spacecraft mobility, not proliferation | Eric Romo | Jun 2, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Adcock: Figure Helix AI trained on under one million hours of data | Brett Adcock | May 1, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Adcock: Figure hit $1M monthly burn and 40 staff within five months | Brett Adcock | Apr 30, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Harrison: Bureaucracy Imposes a Million Taxes of Friction on Defense R&D | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Harrison: $1M in Ukrainian Drones Destroyed a Third of Russia's Bomber Fleet | Kyle Harrison | Apr 29, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Del Buono: AI Startup Check Sizes Make Fund Scale Essential in Venture | Michel Del Buono | Mar 27, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Whop can handle flash drops of over one to two million requests | Jack Sharky | May 23, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | McCord: Hardware development is shifting to tight continuous iteration pioneered by SpaceX | Cameron McCord | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Slattery: Maritime, nuclear, and aerospace share identical core telemetry needs | Stephen Slattery | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Josephs: Autopilot's Instagram account generates more impressions than its Twitter | Chris Josephs | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Guo: Top-earning Passes creators have 100k to 1M followers, not millions | Lucy Guo | Dec 13, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Valor Equity Partners writes $1M early checks to preempt Series A rounds | Rohit Badangay | Sep 13, 2024 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Beck: Small Rockets Cannot Absorb $1.5M Launch Pad Fees | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 24, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Neros CEO: Millennium One facility is sized for 1M drones annually | Soren Monroe-Anderson | Aug 12, 2026 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Monroe-Anderson: Neros sized its facility to eventually build 1M drones annually | Soren Monroe-Anderson | Aug 11, 2026 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Fox: AssemblyAI handles nearly 100 million daily API calls from developers | Dylan Fox | Jul 31, 2026 | — |
| 500K | “500 thousand” | Socher: Only 5% to 10% of enterprise AI seats get utilized | Richard Socher | Oct 25, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Revel has converted 100% of customer pilots to date, says Morton | Scott Morton | Feb 26, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Barrett: Superconducting Logic Can Boost Compute Productivity 100x to 1,000x | Peter Barrett | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Rao: Unconventional AI has very high chance of hitting 50x efficiency first go | Naveen Rao | Feb 7, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Stephens: Heavy portfolio concentration drives superior venture fund returns | Trae Stephens | Dec 18, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Sequoia evaluates 1,000 companies before making a single investment | Alfred Lin | Oct 27, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Serhant operates daily schedule using a strict 1,000-minute productivity rule | Ryan Serhant | Nov 3, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Hurlston: Hyperscalers request millions of optical units versus historical thousands | Michael Hurlston | Jul 29, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Venner: Broadcom scaled from $400M to $8.6B across 52 acquisitions | Ken Venner | Jul 16, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Venner: Adding process too early constrains companies and stunts growth | Ken Venner | Jul 16, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Venner: SpaceX scaled from 1 booster/year to 40 boosters/year | Ken Venner | Jul 16, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Venner: Broadcom grew from $400M to $8.6B revenue across 52 acquisitions | Ken Venner | Jul 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Venner: SpaceX scaled from 1 to 40 boosters annually with Warp Drive | Ken Venner | Jul 15, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Feldman: Cerebras IPO created about 1,000 employee millionaires | Andrew Feldman | Jul 13, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Deploying 1,000 REGENT seagliders in the Taiwan Strait deters World War III | Billy Talheimer | Sep 7, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “A thousand” | Vance: One million physical qubits yield roughly one thousand useful logical qubits | Ashlee Vance | Sep 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Feig: Merge Faced 1,000 Bot Signups Scanning Endpoints in One Hour | Gil Feig | Jun 1, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Happi: Exowatt maintains thermal rock batteries at 800°C to 1,000°C | Hannan Happi | Apr 15, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Younis: Applied Intuition has 1,400 employees, including 1,000 engineers | Qasar Younis | Apr 7, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Klein: Browserbase has crossed 1,000 customers | Paul Klein | Jun 17, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | McCord: Hardware development is shifting to tight continuous iteration pioneered by SpaceX | Cameron McCord | Jun 12, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Wander has surpassed 1,000 active locations on its platform | John Andrew | May 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Schendel: Base Power has installed over 1,000 batteries in the ground | Zach Schendel | Apr 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mansour: Kalshi grew from 100 to 1,000 active markets | Tarek Mansoor | Feb 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Tunguz: AI inference costs will drop by another 1,000x | Tomasz Tunguz | Jan 23, 2025 | Open |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Weisburd: Power laws in VC end around a $100M valuation | David Weisburd | Mar 8, 2024 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Beck: Spacecraft components are massive moats due to fractured supply chains | Sir Peter Beck | Aug 26, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Lopez: Base Power acts as a retail energy provider without requiring batteries | Justin Lopas | Aug 3, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mavrookas: China built 1,000+ commercial ships in 2024 versus five US ships | Dino Mavrookas | Sep 8, 2026 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mavrookas: China built over 1,000 commercial ships in 2024 versus five in the US | Dino Mavrookas | Sep 10, 2026 | Partly supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Mavrookas: Saronic's Mirage carries 3,500 pounds with a 2,500-nautical-mile range | Dino Mavrookas | Sep 7, 2026 | Supported |