| 75M | “seventy-five million” | BRINC raised $75M led by Index Ventures with Motorola backing | Blake Resnick | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Over 600 US SWAT teams actively use BRINC's indoor tactical drones | Blake Resnick | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | DJI controls 90% of the global drone market while Autel holds 5% | Blake Resnick | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | DJI controls 90% of the global drone market while Autel holds 5% | Blake Resnick | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 75% | “75%” | D'Sa: 75-80% of LiveKit cloud signups are building voice AI agents | Russell D'Sa | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | D'Sa: 75-80% of LiveKit cloud signups are building voice AI agents | Russell D'Sa | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 380B | “a two hundred eighty billion” | Mehr: Sheet metal forming is a $280 billion industry | Edward Mehr | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Mehr: 70% of Machina Labs' bill of materials is off-the-shelf | Edward Mehr | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Mehr: A single manufacturing die for a car door can cost $1M | Edward Mehr | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 7% | “seven percent” | Mehr: Golden Dome will be 7% of DoD budget in 2-3 years | Edward Mehr | Apr 26, 2025 | Didn’t hold up |
| $80B | “eighty billion dollars” | Meta has spent approximately $80 billion on Reality Labs to date | Mike Vernal | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| $1K | “a thousand dollars” | Senra: Michael Dell launched Dell with $1,000 and zero venture capital | David Senra | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| $67B | “Sixty seven billion dollars” | Senra: Dell acquired EMC for $67B using $50B in debt | David Senra | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Senra: Dell acquired EMC for $67B using $50B in debt | David Senra | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Senra: Dell acquired EMC for $67B using $50B in debt | David Senra | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| $50B | “50 billion dollars” | Senra: Dell acquired EMC for $67B using $50B in debt | David Senra | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 25B | “twenty-five billion” | Coogan: Dell was significantly bigger than Apple for a decade | John Coogan | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Tisch: Early-stage startup deal flow has surged to 170% AI-focused | David Tisch | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 170% | “170%” | Tisch: Early-stage startup deal flow has surged to 170% AI-focused | David Tisch | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Wischoff: LPs Say 80% of Fund II/III VCs Lack Portfolio Construction Models | Nichole Wischoff | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Wischoff: Over 75% of VC capital raised went to around 10 mega-funds | Nichole Wischoff | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Wischoff: VC partners write small seed checks to minimize personal reputational risk | Nichole Wischoff | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Wischoff: VC partners write small seed checks to minimize personal reputational risk | Nichole Wischoff | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 31M | “a thirty million” | Wischoff: VC partners write small seed checks to minimize personal reputational risk | Nichole Wischoff | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 51B | “a fifty billion” | Yanisse targets a $50B+ verification and identity TAM | Daniel Yanisse | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Yanisse targets a $50B+ verification and identity TAM | Daniel Yanisse | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | Yanisse targets a $50B+ verification and identity TAM | Daniel Yanisse | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Yanisse: Truework employment verification is 10x better than Checkr's | Daniel Yanisse | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Yanisse: Tech IPOs now require over $1 billion in revenue | Daniel Yanisse | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Yanisse: Tech IPOs now require over $1 billion in revenue | Daniel Yanisse | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Yanisse: 2021 valuation overhangs will drive sustained startup M&A | Daniel Yanisse | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Brown: DeepSeek's efficiency comes from stacking 10 to 15 compound gains | Will Brown | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Brown: DeepSeek's efficiency comes from stacking 10 to 15 compound gains | Will Brown | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 3T | “three trillion” | Feldmann: Global mining is a $2T to $3T market | Ted Feldmann | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Feldmann: MP Materials produces about 15% of global rare earth supply | Ted Feldmann | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Feldmann: Drilling out a mineral deposit costs $100 million | Ted Feldmann | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Feldmann: Traditional drilling of a 1,000-foot hole takes 10 days | Ted Feldmann | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 3× | “three times” | Leading Freeform is more stressful than reporting directly to Elon Musk | Erik Palitsch | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 X” | Freeform's third-generation 3D printer will offer 10 to 20 times higher throughput | Erik Palitsch | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 51B | “a fifty billion” | Sam Lessin: $50B mega-funds are merely paid to move gross dollars | Sam Lessin | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Sam Lessin: Public markets value private capital platforms entirely on fees | Sam Lessin | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 20× | “20 times” | Malling: Formula One provides scale equivalent to twenty Super Bowls annually | Jannick Malling | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Farid: US factories run under 2,000 hours annually versus 7,500 in China | Saman Farid | Apr 26, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 10% | “10%” | Farid: Getting a robot to work is only 10% of robotics deployment | Saman Farid | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Farid: Getting a robot to work is only 10% of robotics deployment | Saman Farid | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Farid: Programming accounts for under 5% of Formic's robot deployment costs | Saman Farid | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Farid: Custom engineering represents 70% of industrial robotics costs | Saman Farid | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Farid: Custom engineering represents 70% of industrial robotics costs | Saman Farid | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Farid: US has offered automation subsidies and 50% matching grants for a decade | Saman Farid | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Means: Tobacco giants controlled 50% of US food supply in early 1990s | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 70% | “70%” | Means: US children's diets are 70% ultra-processed vs 15% in Japan and Italy | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Means: US children's diets are 70% ultra-processed vs 15% in Japan and Italy | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Means: US spends 5x more on healthcare than Spain but lives 6 years less | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Means: 90% of US Farm Subsidies Go to Corn, Soy, and Wheat | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 4% | “4%” | Means: 90% of US Farm Subsidies Go to Corn, Soy, and Wheat | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Soda is the top SNAP item; 60% buys ultra-processed food | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Means: Democrats reflexively defend $10B SNAP soda subsidy against Trump | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Means: Pharma makes up over 50% of news channel advertising | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 16% | “16%” | Means: US had 16% of COVID deaths with 4% of world population | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Means: US had 16% of COVID deaths with 4% of world population | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Means: Ozempic costs 10 times more in US than Germany or Sweden | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 35% | “35%” | Means: 35% of American teens take chronic disease medications | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 3× | “three times” | Calley Means: Europe spends 3x less on healthcare and 2x more on food per capita | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 2× | “two times” | Calley Means: Europe spends 3x less on healthcare and 2x more on food per capita | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 77% | “77%” | Means: 77% of military-aged US youth cannot join the military | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Means: 50% of US teens are overweight and 38% pre-diabetic | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 38% | “38%” | Means: 50% of US teens are overweight and 38% pre-diabetic | Calley Means | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Hausman: Pi-05 model achieves 50% to 80% task success in unfamiliar homes | Karol Hausman | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Hausman: Pi-05 model achieves 50% to 80% task success in unfamiliar homes | Karol Hausman | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Groom: Consumer robotics deployment will require 98% to 99% reliability | Lachy Groom | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Groom: Consumer robotics deployment will require 98% to 99% reliability | Lachy Groom | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Asparouhov: Silicon Valley political donations were 85% Democratic by dollars | Delian Asparouhov | Apr 26, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 4B | “four billion” | Asparouhov: Portfolio company Sword Health is valued at $4 billion | Delian Asparouhov | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Ginn: Building GPUs is easier than the US government thinks | Aaron Ginn | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| $15B | “fifteen billion dollars” | Gedmark: $15B of Large Satellites Launch to GEO Annually | John Gedmark | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Gedmark: Commercial GEO Satellites Cost Hundreds of Millions, Military Over $1B | John Gedmark | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Gedmark: Commercial GEO Satellites Cost Hundreds of Millions, Military Over $1B | John Gedmark | Apr 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Astranis CEO discloses $100M+ commercial satellite deal with Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom | John Gedmark | Apr 26, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred x” | Srinivas: AI subscription market will expand dramatically as agents perform tasks | Aravind Srinivas | Apr 25, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Kilpatrick: AI inference costs dropped 99% over two years | Logan Kilpatrick | Apr 25, 2025 | Supported |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Randle: Over 80 public SaaS companies generate more than $500M ARR | Everett Randle | Apr 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Randle: Top-tier scale startups can raise practically unlimited private capital | Everett Randle | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Randle: Databricks can make pre-revenue acquisitions that would crush Snowflake's stock | Everett Randle | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| $2B | “two billion dollars” | Randle: Databricks can make pre-revenue acquisitions that would crush Snowflake's stock | Everett Randle | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Randle: Databricks can make pre-revenue acquisitions that would crush Snowflake's stock | Everett Randle | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Randle: Neil Mehta's track record proves power law dominates growth VC | Everett Randle | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Randle: Neil Mehta's track record proves power law dominates growth VC | Everett Randle | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Bezel logged its highest-grossing sales weekend following US tariff announcement | Quaid Walker | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Walker: Watch Community Roots for Patek and Rolex Missteps Out of Envy | Quaid Walker | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Walker: Tariffs shrink the retail-to-secondary watch price premium gap | Quaid Walker | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 31% | “31%” | Walker: Tariffs shrink the retail-to-secondary watch price premium gap | Quaid Walker | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Walker: Tariffs shrink the retail-to-secondary watch price premium gap | Quaid Walker | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Cliffton: Zipline is the largest autonomous system on Earth | Keller Cliffton | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Cliffton: US to complete 5.5 billion instant deliveries this year | Keller Cliffton | Apr 17, 2025 | Supported |
| 300× | “300 times” | Cliffton: Zipline power users have ordered 300 times in 12 months | Keller Cliffton | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 50× | “50 x” | Cliffton: Global instant delivery will grow 10x to 50x with automation | Keller Cliffton | Apr 17, 2025 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Dhillon: Roughly 85% of Critical Data Breaches Stem from Social Engineering | Alex Dhillon | Apr 17, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 5× | “five times” | Mohnot: The Jones Act is highly protectionist to US shipbuilding | Sheel Mohnot | Apr 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 80× | “80 times” | Hays: Circle is the regulated stablecoin winner with 80x competitor supply | Jordi Hays | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 3M | “a two million” | Mohnot: Mega-funds writing small seed checks make a strategic mistake | Sheel Mohnot | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 350M | “a two hundred fifty million” | Mohnot: Mega-funds writing small seed checks make a strategic mistake | Sheel Mohnot | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Hammond: China distorts trade via suppressed consumption and overproduction, not currency | Samuel Hammond | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Hammond: China added 446 GW of power last year versus US net zero additions | Samuel Hammond | Apr 10, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Ramade: Electrical engineering enrollments dropped 90% over 50 years as CS surged | Pratap Ramade | Apr 10, 2025 | Contradicted |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Huber: Never bet against Zuckerberg and Meta's distribution power | Jeff Huber | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Huber: 10x compute increases are not producing 10x better AI models | Jeff Huber | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Arnott: Over 90% of internet traffic runs on unprotected subsea cables | Shane Arnott | Apr 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Arnott: Over 90% of internet traffic runs on unprotected subsea cables | Shane Arnott | Apr 10, 2025 | Supported |
| $40B | “forty billion dollars” | Crivello: OpenAI is burning cash on viral consumer toys because it raised $40B | Flo Crivello | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Crivello: Only 5% of a phone agent startup's work is core phone code | Flo Crivello | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “100 X” | Crivello: AI Inference Costs Fall 40x to 100x Annually | Flo Crivello | Apr 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Flo Crivello: A 10% AI Extinction Risk Is Unacceptably High and Under-Discussed | Flo Crivello | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Flo Crivello: A 10% AI Extinction Risk Is Unacceptably High and Under-Discussed | Flo Crivello | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Flo Crivello: A 10% AI Extinction Risk Is Unacceptably High and Under-Discussed | Flo Crivello | Apr 10, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Hudson: Honey spent over $100M on creator partnerships | Ryan Hudson | Apr 9, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Swyx: Cursor Grew From Zero to $200M ARR in Two Years | Shawn 'swyx' Wang | Apr 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Swyx: AI Autonomous Task Horizon Doubles Every 3 to 7 Months | Shawn 'swyx' Wang | Apr 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Kirsten Green says 60% of consumers prioritize health over friends and family | Kirsten Green | Apr 9, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 2.8T | “a 1.8 trillion” | Kirsten Green notes the wellness economy grows six times faster than GDP | Kirsten Green | Apr 9, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 6× | “six times” | Kirsten Green notes the wellness economy grows six times faster than GDP | Kirsten Green | Apr 9, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 25% | “25%” | Perret: AI and deepfakes drive 20-25% annual financial fraud growth | Zachary Perret | Apr 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Housel: Investors with gambling urges should allocate 20% to speculative trading | Morgan Housel | Apr 8, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Housel: Investors with gambling urges should allocate 20% to speculative trading | Morgan Housel | Apr 8, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Housel: You cannot cut 20% of effort because waste is unpredictable | Morgan Housel | Apr 8, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Knoop: AI Agent Failure Rates Make Unsupervised Automation Unviable | Mike Knoop | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Knoop: Pure LLMs Score 0% and o1 Scores 1% on ARC-AGI-2 | Mike Knoop | Apr 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Knoop: Zapier never spent its $1M seed round from 2012 | Mike Knoop | Apr 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Handmer: Solar Panels Convert Sunlight to Energy 100x More Efficiently Than Plants | Casey Handmer | Apr 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Handmer: Global Solar Panel Production Exceeds 1 TW, Growing 30-40% Annually | Casey Handmer | Apr 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 6% | “six percent” | Handmer: Solar on 6% of Earth Could Provide US-Level Energy Globally | Casey Handmer | Apr 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 1% | “one percent” | Handmer: One Percent of the US Federal Budget Is Spent on Dialysis | Casey Handmer | Apr 6, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 1% | “1%” | Handmer: US Spends Less Than 0.1% of Health Budget on Anti-Aging | Casey Handmer | Apr 6, 2025 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Patel: AI Art Is a Glimpse Into a Transhumanist Future | Dwarkesh Patel | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Patel: AI Art Is a Glimpse Into a Transhumanist Future | Dwarkesh Patel | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Patel: There Is a 10% to 20% Chance of AI Stagnation | Dwarkesh Patel | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Patel: Humanity Has an 80% to 90% Chance of Surviving AI | Dwarkesh Patel | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Patel: Humanity Has an 80% to 90% Chance of Surviving AI | Dwarkesh Patel | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Doricko: California water strategy requires 500k farmland acres fallowed by 2030 | Augustus Doricko | Apr 6, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 9% | “nine percent” | Doricko: Only 9% of atmospheric water over the US precipitates | Augustus Doricko | Apr 6, 2025 | Supported |
| $30B | “thirty billion dollars” | Citadel Made $30B Trading Commodities By Hiring Ex-Enron Talent | David Senra | Apr 6, 2025 | Supported |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Valenzuela: Gen-4 Enables Anyone to Match $100M Studio Production Quality | Cristóbal Valenzuela | Apr 6, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Asparouhov: Half of hard tech startups will die or sell for cheap | Delian Asparouhov | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Love: Lightspeed backs defense from core funds, not dedicated vehicle | Connor Love | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Love: Product-led growth does not exist in defense technology | Connor Love | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Love: Anduril has a unique acquisition machine that nobody else matches | Connor Love | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 8M | “a seven million” | Love: US small-business defense manufacturing base is dying | Connor Love | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 500M | “five hundred million” | Love: Raising over $500M forces defense startups into IPO or PE exits | Connor Love | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Love: Lightspeed values early defense R&D and SBIR revenue at zero | Connor Love | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 9× | “nine times” | Love: Lightspeed values early defense R&D and SBIR revenue at zero | Connor Love | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Power: 100% of Hadrian's workforce had no prior factory experience | Chris Power | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Power: Robotics should augment workers 10x rather than replace them | Chris Power | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Power: 80% of Hadrian Factory Processes Require No Specialist Expertise | Chris Power | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Power: 80% of Hadrian Factory Processes Require No Specialist Expertise | Chris Power | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Power: Hadrian's core business is growing 10x year-over-year | Chris Power | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Power: 70% of Deep Tech Capital Goes to Prototypes, Factories, and Components | Chris Power | Apr 1, 2025 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Schneider: 85% of US STEM PhD graduates try to stay or remain in America | Jordan Schneider | Mar 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 15× | “15 times” | Schneider: China Can Manufacture Drones 15 Times Cheaper Than the US | Jordan Schneider | Mar 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 75% | “75%” | Schneider: Over 75% of top AI founders and research engineers are foreign-born | Jordan Schneider | Mar 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| $27M | “twenty seven million dollars” | Selena Health raised $27 million across its Seed and Series A rounds | Pavel Asparouhov | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 5M | “five million” | Selena Health raised $27 million across its Seed and Series A rounds | Pavel Asparouhov | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 22M | “twenty two million” | Selena Health raised $27 million across its Seed and Series A rounds | Pavel Asparouhov | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Reed: Doug Leone Made a $3B Gain on the Wiz Deal | Andrew Reed | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Reed: Effective board members act as emotional shock absorbers | Andrew Reed | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 40× | “40 X” | Reed: Sequoia Made Single-Digit Millions on a 40x Return in Apple | Andrew Reed | Mar 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 400M | “a three hundred million” | Akhund: Mercury raises $300M round led by Sequoia Capital | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Akhund: Late-Stage Mega-Rounds Still Require Pitching a 100x Vision | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| $2T | “two trillion dollars” | Akhund: US banking is surprisingly uncompetitive compared to B2B SaaS | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 1.6B | “1.6 billion” | Akhund: Mercury increased valuation from $1.6B to $3.5B | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Akhund: About 60% of Mercury customers come from organic word of mouth | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Akhund: About 60% of Mercury customers come from organic word of mouth | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 8B | “a seven billion” | Akhund: SVB held a $7B venture debt portfolio when it failed | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Akhund: Venture debt is dangerous for pre-revenue startups seeking runway | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | A $1M venture debt round saved Akhund's previous startup | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Akhund: A 3% interest rate is ideal for Mercury's business model | Immad Akhund | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Schwartz claims Whop Content Rewards offers 5x to 10x cheaper CPMs | Steven Schwartz | Mar 28, 2025 | — |
| $10B | “ten billion dollars” | SpaceX runs two annual tender offers totaling over $1.5 billion | Christian Garrett | Mar 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | SpaceX runs two annual tender offers totaling over $1.5 billion | Christian Garrett | Mar 27, 2025 | Supported |
| 5M | “five million” | Percentage of holdings sold signals more than absolute dollar size | Christian Garrett | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Percentage of holdings sold signals more than absolute dollar size | Christian Garrett | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Percentage of holdings sold signals more than absolute dollar size | Christian Garrett | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Percentage of holdings sold signals more than absolute dollar size | Christian Garrett | Mar 27, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Rauch: Vercel's AI SDK hits one million weekly downloads | Guillermo Rauch | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Rauch: 5% of Vercel signups come from ChatGPT, growing 30% MoM | Guillermo Rauch | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Rauch: 5% of Vercel signups come from ChatGPT, growing 30% MoM | Guillermo Rauch | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Rauch: 5% of Vercel signups come from ChatGPT, growing 30% MoM | Guillermo Rauch | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Rauch: Fluid Compute yielded 85% efficiency gains for some customers | Guillermo Rauch | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Meservey applies the "crazy hot" matrix to early startup communications | Lulu Cheng Meservey | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Masad: Replit Agent V2 improved user metrics by 100% to 500% | Amjad Masad | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 500% | “500%” | Masad: Replit Agent V2 improved user metrics by 100% to 500% | Amjad Masad | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Masad: Replit maintains over 100% net dollar retention on its consumer plan | Amjad Masad | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Masad: AI game aggregators like Roblox won't reach trillion-dollar valuations | Amjad Masad | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 2.5M | “2.5 million” | Stebbings: AI coding startup Lovable adds $2.5 million in ARR weekly | Harry Stebbings | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 85% | “85%” | Stebbings: Lovable maintains over 85% retention, beating ChatGPT | Harry Stebbings | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 50M | “Fifty million” | Stebbings: Unprofitable $50M–$200M ARR SaaS growing in the teens are completely trapped | Harry Stebbings | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Stebbings: Unprofitable $50M–$200M ARR SaaS growing in the teens are completely trapped | Harry Stebbings | Mar 25, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | LLMs won't be a 10X ad platform for discovery-driven DTC brands | Conor Macdonald | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Ridge completes creative concepting 5x to 10x faster using Claude | Conor Macdonald | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Putting sweepstakes vehicles in YouTube creator videos boosts performance 3x | Conor Macdonald | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Frank: Sub-$10M e-commerce brand shutdowns have surged since Trump's election | Sean Frank | Mar 24, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Sean Frank: Chubbies does roughly $100M in sales and is EBITDA-positive | Sean Frank | Mar 24, 2025 | Supported |
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