| 20T | “20 trillion” | Latka: Confiscating top corporate cash reserves cannot solve the US deficit | Nathan Latka | Apr 15, 2020 | — |
| 2.5T | “a 1.5 trillion” | Meir: Business travel equals leisure travel globally at $1.5 trillion | Avi Meir | Oct 12, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 1.5T | “1.5 trillion” | Matty: Versium owns over 1.5 trillion data attributes | Chris Matty | Mar 29, 2019 | — |
| 1.5T | “a half trillion” | Stronach: North American farmland is a $2.5T vertical | Luke Stronach | Feb 18, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.3T | “a quarter trillion” | Fortune 500 companies account for 40% of global corporate travel spend | Dan Ruch | Mar 17, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Global grain spoilage costs $14B annually, reaching 22% in Africa | Naeem Zafar | Oct 4, 2019 | Partly supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Anderson: SocialFlow Clients Publish 50M Posts Annually With 1T Reach | Jim Anderson | May 14, 2019 | — |
| 800B | “eight hundred billion” | Herzog: A 10% VAT would generate $800B annually for US | Jonathan Herzog | May 18, 2020 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | FundApps triggers pricing increases for M&A, not organic AUM growth | Andrew White | Nov 22, 2019 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Birdzell: 90% of upstream spend is within 60 days of drilling | Luther Birdzell | Mar 20, 2019 | Contradicted |
| 400B | “a three hundred billion” | The US domestic laundry market is a $300 billion industry | Mort Fertel | May 29, 2022 | — |
| 400B | “four hundred billion” | Renan de Villa: Manufacturing software is a $400B+ global market | Renan de Villa | Apr 10, 2021 | Contradicted |
| 350B | “three hundred fifty billion” | Nathan Latka: The $349B PPP stimulus funds will run out quickly | Nathan Latka | Apr 3, 2020 | Held up |
| 300B | “three hundred billion” | Direct freight carriers represent $200 billion; forwarder resales add $300 billion | Zvi Schreiber | Jul 15, 2020 | Supported |
| 300B | “a two hundred billion” | Website operations is a $200B market with multiple $100M-plus incumbents | Zach Rosen | Sep 26, 2018 | — |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Direct freight carriers represent $200 billion; forwarder resales add $300 billion | Zvi Schreiber | Jul 15, 2020 | Supported |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | Altman: Exterior property services is an untapped $100B to $200B market | AJ Altman | May 7, 2020 | — |
| 200B | “two hundred billion” | FundApps triggers pricing increases for M&A, not organic AUM growth | Andrew White | Nov 22, 2019 | — |
| 136B | “one hundred thirty six billion” | Latka: Confiscating top corporate cash reserves cannot solve the US deficit | Nathan Latka | Apr 15, 2020 | — |
| 128B | “one hundred twenty eight billion” | Latka: Confiscating top corporate cash reserves cannot solve the US deficit | Nathan Latka | Apr 15, 2020 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Olson: Pendo processes over 100 billion events per week | Todd Olson | Nov 3, 2022 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Parker estimates promo products at $23B and gifting market over $100B | Jeremy Parker | May 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Ariza: A Single Amazon Fulfillment Center Costs Over $100M | Ivan Ariza | Dec 29, 2021 | Supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Kanagavel: In SaaS, $10M ARR Is Extremely Hard and $100M Is Inevitable | Madhan Kanagavel | Jun 18, 2021 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Rippling's ambition is to reach a $100 billion valuation or bust | Prasanna Sankar | May 13, 2020 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Latka: Confiscating top corporate cash reserves cannot solve the US deficit | Nathan Latka | Apr 15, 2020 | — |
| 100B | “A hundred billion” | Sailthru sends 100 billion emails on behalf of its customers | Neil Lustig | Dec 15, 2018 | — |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Spivack: Bottlenose processes nearly 100 billion data records per day | Nova Spivack | Jun 2, 2016 | — |
| 90B | “ninety billion” | Kineshanko: Token market grew to $90B in roughly five years | Tom Kineshanko | Aug 18, 2017 | Supported |
| 81B | “an eighty billion” | Britton: Qualtrics holds less than 2% of the $80B research market | Matt Britton | Jan 30, 2024 | Supported |
| 80B | “eighty billion” | Dubey: 12 Labs founders would refuse an $8M buyout | Ashu Dubey | Mar 31, 2016 | — |
| 75B | “seventy-five billion” | Golan: Cloud market will hit $175B by 2019, driven by SaaS | Danny Golan | Jun 10, 2017 | Held up |
| 74B | “seventy four billion” | Singh: TikTok reached $74B valuation and 500M users via watermark distribution | Jagat Singh | Dec 8, 2020 | — |
| 66B | “sixty six billion” | Latka: US government made $66B in profit from 2008 TARP bailouts | Nathan Latka | Apr 22, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 61B | “a sixty billion” | The sports equipment industry is a $60B market waiting for a marketplace | Brendan Candon | Jul 18, 2016 | — |
| 60B | “sixty billion” | Wise: Competing with MediaOcean requires $50B to $60B in processing volume | Bill Wise | Dec 4, 2017 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Abbott helped build and IPO a company now valued over $50B | Mark Abbott | Nov 19, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Payne: Code42 Surpassed $50M ARR on New Security Product Last Year | Joe Payne | Nov 1, 2023 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Klaff: No Pre-Existing Capital Market Exists for Sub-$10M SaaS | Oren Klaff | Nov 4, 2018 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | Leeds: 5% of Tango Card Revenue Is International, vs Half Addressable Market | David Leeds | Jan 9, 2018 | — |
| 50B | “fifty billion” | The global luxury apparel and accessories market is under $50B | Diego Abba | Apr 6, 2016 | Contradicted |
| 41B | “a forty billion” | Keil: Software testing is a $40B market, QASymphony targets $3B-$4B | David Keil | Oct 15, 2018 | — |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Parry: GameSparks processed 40 billion API calls per month | Griff Parry | Mar 7, 2024 | — |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Dakota has raised over $40 billion for investment firms since 2006 | Guy Koston | Aug 24, 2021 | — |
| 40B | “forty billion” | LeadCrunch analyzes 40 billion data points across 10 million companies | Olin Hyde | Jan 3, 2021 | — |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Latka: US government made $66B in profit from 2008 TARP bailouts | Nathan Latka | Apr 22, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Americans will receive over 40 billion customer surveys in 2019 | Max Israel | Jun 22, 2019 | Contradicted |
| 40B | “Forty Billion” | Customerville's industry vlog gets 10,000 monthly viewers and is shot on iPhone | Max Israel | Jun 22, 2019 | — |
| 40B | “forty billion” | Flashtalking delivers 15 billion to 40 billion impressions per month | John Nardone | Nov 11, 2017 | — |
| 36B | “a thirty five billion” | Keil estimates the overall software testing market at $35 billion | David Keil | Apr 10, 2019 | Supported |
| 35B | “thirty-five billion” | Netcore Sends About 35 Billion Emails Monthly | Rajesh Jain | Dec 24, 2024 | — |
| 31B | “a thirty billion” | Software Integration Market Is Estimated at Over $30 Billion | Mark Geene | Feb 28, 2018 | Supported |
| 30B | “Thirty billion” | Matlick: Bombora processes 30 billion page events monthly | Eric Matlick | Apr 9, 2020 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Kartzman: Spongecell's enterprise clients deliver up to 30 billion impressions annually | Ben Kartzman | Oct 20, 2017 | — |
| 26B | “a twenty five billion” | Hoppe: Audit showed 68% bad phone numbers at $25B enterprise firm | Ken Hoppe | May 22, 2023 | — |
| 26B | “a twenty five billion” | Craft beer market grew from $7B to $25B over ten years | Charlie Mulligan | Jun 5, 2016 | Partly supported |
| 25B | “twenty-five billion” | Sweeney: Founded healthcare companies have generated over $25B in exit value | Jim Sweeney | Apr 26, 2017 | Supported |
| 23B | “twenty three billion” | Parker estimates promo products at $23B and gifting market over $100B | Jeremy Parker | May 20, 2022 | Supported |
| 23B | “a twenty-two billion” | Shamia: Call center market is $22B dominated by legacy incumbents | Gadi Shamia | Jun 1, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 22B | “one twenty one billion” | Latka: Confiscating top corporate cash reserves cannot solve the US deficit | Nathan Latka | Apr 15, 2020 | — |
| 22B | “twenty-two billion” | Brown: Digital Asset Management Market Will Reach $22B Within 24 Months | Mike Brown | Jun 29, 2018 | — |
| 21B | “a twenty billion” | Abbott: North American product fundraising is a $20B industry | Mark Abbott | Apr 2, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 21B | “a twenty billion” | Doody: The traditional moving market is worth $20 billion | Cam Doody | Sep 16, 2016 | Partly supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Evans: NFT Market Heading for $20 Billion Market Cap in 2021 | Alan Evans | Nov 27, 2021 | Held up |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Sohn: The recruiting industry is a $120 billion fragmented market | Evan Sohn | Nov 4, 2021 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Eric Yuan estimates the video conferencing total addressable market at $20 billion | Eric Yuan | May 4, 2018 | — |
| 20B | “Twenty billion” | Yu: Boost Insider indexes over 350,000 influencers covering 20 billion fans | Heidi Yu | Apr 25, 2018 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Lead Crunch AI's seed investors boast over $20B in collective exits | Olin Hyde | Oct 1, 2017 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Golan: Cloud market will hit $175B by 2019, driven by SaaS | Danny Golan | Jun 10, 2017 | Held up |
| 16B | “a fifteen billion” | Litvak estimates the U.S. youth sports transaction market at $15 billion | Brian Litvak | Dec 31, 2020 | — |
| 16B | “a fifteen billion” | Talent software is a $7.5B market, but recruitment advertising is $15B | Colin Day | Dec 10, 2018 | — |
| 16B | “a fifteen billion” | DTC mattress sales accounted for 20 percent of $15B market | David Farley | Oct 3, 2018 | Supported |
| 16B | “a fifteen billion” | Aronson: Mexico's Bottled Water Market Is $15B Growing at 8-10% Annually | Peter Aronson | May 3, 2017 | Supported |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | Flashtalking delivers 15 billion to 40 billion impressions per month | John Nardone | Nov 11, 2017 | — |
| 15B | “fifteen billion” | McLaughlin: FT Partners did $10B–$15B in 2016 transaction volume | Steve McLaughlin | May 26, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 13.5B | “13.5 billion” | Patankar: Enterprise workflow market is $13.5B, led by SharePoint | Vinay Patankar | Jun 30, 2017 | Supported |
| 13B | “a twelve billion” | Beckett: Brex's $5B exit is a great outcome despite $12B peak | Miles Beckett | Apr 29, 2026 | — |
| 13B | “a twelve billion” | Salesforce churns 3% to 9% of annual revenue, estimates John Lee | John Lee | Nov 25, 2018 | Supported |
| 12B | “seven five billion” | GitLab raised $268M at a $2.75B post-money valuation | Sid Sijbrandij | Jul 24, 2020 | Supported |
| 12B | “twelve billion” | Glueck: Foursquare sees about 7M daily check-ins and nearly 12B cumulative | Jeff Glueck | Sep 11, 2017 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | The RevOps Software Market is at Least $10 Billion | Dharmesh Singh | Nov 9, 2020 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Volset: Sam Altman's $10B startup valuation rule makes no sense | Einar Volset | Jun 10, 2020 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Singh: PAR Is Second-Best Performing Sub-$10B Public Software Stock | Savneet Singh | Jan 14, 2025 | Contradicted |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Martin: Bootstrapped Startups Should Target Sub-$10B Total Addressable Markets | Liam Martin | May 16, 2024 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | AppBroda handled 10 billion ad impressions in 2022 | Ashish Agarwal | Feb 4, 2023 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | AppBroda estimates $20M to $30M in GMV across 10B impressions | Ashish Agarwal | Feb 4, 2023 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Danilo: Valuation caps of $10M vs $18M rarely impact venture returns | Raphael Danilo | Jan 27, 2022 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Mortensen: About 10 billion formal meetings occur annually in the US | Dennis Mortensen | Jul 9, 2021 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Singh's stealth AI startup has acquired multiple $10B+ market cap customers | Vic Singh | May 18, 2021 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Saarenvirta: Most Daisy Intelligence clients generate $1B to $2B in revenue | Gary Saarenvirta | Jul 16, 2019 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Robbins: The push-to-talk and walkie-talkie market is over $10 billion | Jesse Robbins | Jul 21, 2018 | Supported |
| 9B | “nine billion” | UK supermarket giant Morrisons is a recent Kumo customer | Kieran Bollard | Jan 6, 2020 | — |
| 9B | “an eight billion” | De Datta estimates Adobe holds $1.2B in Bloomreach's $8B addressable market. | Raj De Datta | Jul 30, 2018 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 8.5B | “a 7.5 billion” | Talent software is a $7.5B market, but recruitment advertising is $15B | Colin Day | Dec 10, 2018 | — |
| 8B | “eight billion” | Ackerman: The Change Healthcare breach turned health systems away from point solutions | Jay Ackerman | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| 8B | “four Four billion” | Fondavilla: €800M of Holded's €4B GMV came from sub-€1,000 invoices | Javi Fondavilla | Oct 24, 2020 | — |
| 8B | “a seven billion” | Ozen: Digital billboards represent $2B of the $7B billboard market | Jeremy Ozen | Jun 11, 2017 | Supported |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Centro processes 3M queries per second and stores 7B audience profiles | Sean Riegsecker | Jan 23, 2018 | — |
| 7B | “seven billion” | Craft beer market grew from $7B to $25B over ten years | Charlie Mulligan | Jun 5, 2016 | Partly supported |
| 6B | “Six billion” | Singh: Task Powers McDonald's International Loyalty with 6B API Calls Monthly | Savneet Singh | Jul 23, 2024 | Supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | George Kaiser Family Foundation backed THG Energy's seed round | Daniel Fry | Mar 16, 2023 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | Vroozi has 55 customers, 30,000 users, and $6B in annual throughput | Shaz Khan | Oct 20, 2022 | — |
| 6B | “six billion” | AdGreetz built a campaign for Nissan with six billion possible versions | Eric Frankel | Jul 10, 2018 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 6B | “six billion” | Wise: Mediaocean processed $141B in 2016 media spend | Bill Wise | Dec 4, 2017 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Davis: Volley deduplicated 5B consumer records to 244M unique customers | Scott Davis | Jan 7, 2026 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Britton: Suzy Targets Super Enterprises Making Over $5B in Revenue | Matt Britton | Dec 20, 2022 | — |
| 5B | “a four billion” | Founders should never turn down a substantial acquisition offer | Emeric Ernoult | May 26, 2018 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Kartzman: Spongecell's enterprise clients deliver up to 30 billion impressions annually | Ben Kartzman | Oct 20, 2017 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Valkin: Billions of mobile devices will run core games, dwarfing PCs | Adam Valkin | Jun 18, 2016 | — |
| 4.4B | “4.4 billion” | Rachleff: Wealthfront manages about $4.4 billion in AUM | Andy Rachleff | Dec 4, 2016 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Fondavilla: Holded processed nearly €4B in GMV in 2019 | Javi Fondavilla | Oct 24, 2020 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Armbrust: OwnLocal serves 4 billion monthly ad impressions | Lloyd Armbrust | Apr 6, 2019 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | Keil: Software testing is a $40B market, QASymphony targets $3B-$4B | David Keil | Oct 15, 2018 | — |
| 4B | “four billion” | CreativeLive Has Reached 10M Students and Streamed 4B Video Minutes | Chase Jarvis | Sep 6, 2017 | — |
| 3.6B | “3.6 billion” | Latka: US government made $66B in profit from 2008 TARP bailouts | Nathan Latka | Apr 22, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 3.5B | “3.5 billion” | Eyeota tracks 3.5 billion unique users across 30,000 global publishers | Kevin Tan | May 8, 2018 | — |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Ackerman: Building a Scaled Business on a $2B TAM Is Difficult | Jay Ackerman | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Moore: Strategic Decisions Cost RJMetrics a $3 Billion Market Opportunity | Bob Moore | May 30, 2024 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Federspiel: Blackthorn has 630 customers and processed $3B in transaction volume | Chris Federspiel | Apr 28, 2023 | — |
| 3B | “a two billion” | Gordon: Purolator is SalesChoice's largest client account | Dr. Cindy Gordon | Oct 21, 2021 | — |
| 3B | “three billion” | Thrower: COVID-19 caused a $3B drop in event management software | Mitch Thrower | Mar 11, 2021 | Contradicted |
| 3B | “three billion” | Three billion people globally still cook with wood and charcoal every day | Patrick Sherwin | Dec 25, 2020 | Supported |
| 2.9B | “a 1.85 billion” | VisiPay processed $1.85B across 35M transactions in 2023 | Austin McNair | Apr 2, 2024 | — |
| 2.7B | “a 1.7 billion” | Maropost is executing a secondary round at a $1.7B valuation | Ross Paquette | Apr 17, 2022 | — |
| 2.6B | “2.6 billion” | Moore: Selling Stitch for $60M Was a $2.6 Billion Mistake | Bob Moore | May 30, 2024 | Supported |
| 2.6B | “2.6 billion” | Moore: Looker won the BI market hands down with $2.6B sale | Bob Moore | Jun 14, 2020 | — |
| 2.5B | “a half a billion” | Singh: PAR Acquired Punchh for $500M Using Overvalued Stock | Savneet Singh | Jul 23, 2024 | — |
| 2.5B | “2.5 billion” | Navision was Denmark's first unicorn with a $2.5B exit to Microsoft | Rasmus Holst | Apr 16, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 2.5B | “a half a billion” | Liang: HR tech addressable market in Southeast Asia is $500M | Chitong Liang (Chi-Tung Leong) | Jul 26, 2020 | — |
| 2.5B | “a half a billion” | Friend: Carbonite backed up 500 million files every day | David Friend | May 19, 2020 | — |
| 2.5B | “2.5 billion” | Francisco Larrain grew a Chilean hedge fund from $300M to $2.5B | Francisco Larrain | Jan 30, 2017 | — |
| 2.5B | “a half a billion” | Berman: CollegeClub targeted $500M IPO before selling for ~$25M | Eric Berman | Jan 29, 2017 | Supported |
| 2.3B | “a 1.3 billion” | Flock Freight raised $215M from SoftBank at a $1.3B valuation | Oren Zaslansky | Nov 8, 2021 | — |
| 2.3B | “a 1.3 billion” | Schuckert: 80% of Website Visitors Are on Facebook Messenger | Carl Schuckert | Aug 11, 2019 | — |
| 2.2B | “a 1.2 billion” | Britton: Qualtrics holds less than 2% of the $80B research market | Matt Britton | Jan 30, 2024 | Supported |
| 2.2B | “2.2 billion” | Montgomery: Android Captures 90% Mobile Market Share Due to Open Source | Josh Montgomery | Oct 1, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 2.2B | “a 1.2 billion” | De Datta estimates Adobe holds $1.2B in Bloomreach's $8B addressable market. | Raj De Datta | Jul 30, 2018 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 2.1B | “2.1 billion” | Burnside: LendingPoint loan originations reached $2.1B in 2021 | Tom Burnside | Apr 7, 2022 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 2B | “2020 3.5 million” | Lawyer for Your Debts Bootstrapped to €3.5M Cumulative Revenue Since 2017 | Christian Tanasi | Apr 22, 2021 | Contradicted |
| 2B | “two billion” | Britton: Suzy achieved nearly 130% net revenue retention in its enterprise segment | Matt Britton | Jan 30, 2024 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | DiscoverOrg received a $2B buyout offer four years after TA's investment | Henry Schuck | May 2, 2022 | Supported |
| 2B | “Two billion” | McDonald: Terminus's $400M Valuation Is Conservative Compared to 6sense | Justin McDonald | Jun 24, 2021 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Murphy: Epicor Refinanced Over $2B in Debt to Cut Rates 125 Bps | Steve Murphy | Mar 10, 2021 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Schwarz: Risk Methods' average $5K/mo customer has $2B in turnover | Heiko Schwarz | Sep 29, 2019 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | LBA Ware has processed over $2 billion in lifetime mortgage commissions | Lori Brewer | Apr 9, 2019 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Coveo's founding team previously built Taleo, selling to Oracle for $2B | Louis Têtu | Oct 2, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Berry: TripleLift serves over two billion ad impressions daily | Eric Berry | Jun 20, 2018 | — |
| 2B | “a one billion” | A $10 oil increase cost commercial aviation $1 billion in 2008 | Scott Duffy | Jul 17, 2017 | Contradicted |
| 2B | “two billion” | Ozen: Digital billboards represent $2B of the $7B billboard market | Jeremy Ozen | Jun 11, 2017 | Supported |
| 2B | “two billion” | Singhal claims US college students make 2B monthly Google searches for homework | Aditya Singhal | Jun 6, 2016 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | ZenBusiness raised $205M at a $1.7B valuation | Ross Buhrdorf | May 21, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | Hurt: ZenBusiness recently closed a round at a $1.7B valuation | Brett Hurt | Jun 6, 2023 | — |
| 1.7B | “1.7 billion” | Coupa priced its IPO at a unicorn valuation, avoiding a down round | Rob Bernshteyn | Dec 25, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Cleeng manages 35 million accounts and $500M in gross billing | Gilles Domartini | Jun 20, 2024 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Tidy Reached $1.5M ARR With Only 17 Enterprise Customers | Kieran Menon | Dec 27, 2022 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Owens: Paddle might have raised at a $3.5B valuation two months earlier | Christian Owens | Jun 27, 2022 | — |
| 1.5B | “1.5 billion” | DiscoverOrg received a $2B buyout offer four years after TA's investment | Henry Schuck | May 2, 2022 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Customer Support Software Is a $10.5 Billion Market Growing Over 10% | Sam Senior | Nov 10, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Ardius competitors raised capital at valuations up to $500 million | Josh Lee | Aug 5, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “1.5 billion” | Competitor Articulate sold 40 percent of shares for $1.5 billion | Casper Spiro | Jul 29, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Anderson: SocialFlow sees 2.5B clicks worth of traffic on platform | Jim Anderson | May 14, 2019 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Agarwal: Cvent will collect over $500 million in cash this year | Reggie Agarwal | Feb 6, 2019 | Held up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Frohwein: Kabbage will lend nearly $2.5B in 2018 | Rob Frohwein | Nov 19, 2018 | Didn’t hold up |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Herman: Viewlogic IPO'd in 1991 and Sold for ~$500M in 1996-1997 | Will Herman | Oct 7, 2018 | Supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Of Centro's $500M processed ad spend, up to $175M is self-service | Sean Riegsecker | Jan 23, 2018 | — |
| 1.5B | “1.5 billion” | FreeConferenceCall.com has hosted over 1.5 billion calls since 2001 | David Erickson | Dec 30, 2017 | — |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | McLaughlin: FT Partners did $10B–$15B in 2016 transaction volume | Steve McLaughlin | May 26, 2017 | Partly supported |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Sweeney: Clarify Medical will exit between $500 million and $1 billion | Jim Sweeney | Apr 26, 2017 | Open |
| 1.5B | “a half billion” | Kaplan: Digital asset management market will reach $7.5B by 2024 | Michael Kaplan | Mar 15, 2017 | Held up |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Goel: KarmaCircles Has a $500M to $1B TAM If Fully Penetrated | Deepak Goel | Aug 29, 2016 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Froda Reaches $500 Million in Active Outstanding Loan Balance | Oliver Moseni | Sep 8, 2026 | Open |
| 1.4B | “1.4 billion” | Ranjan: Connected vehicle comps Otonomo and Wejo reached $1.4B valuations | Sandeep Ranjan | Nov 30, 2022 | Supported |
| 1.4B | “1.4 billion” | Crowley: Replacing all vehicles with new EVs will take ~100 years | Norman Crowley | Mar 29, 2021 | — |
| 1.4B | “1.4 billion” | Constant Contact achieved 2.5% monthly churn before $1.4B exit | Emeric Ernoult | May 26, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 1.4B | “1.4 billion” | Kaplan: Digital asset management market will reach $7.5B by 2024 | Michael Kaplan | Mar 15, 2017 | Held up |
| 1.3B | “1.3 billion” | Denk: beehiiv sends 1.3B emails monthly to 150M-200M unique subscribers | Tyler Denk | Aug 20, 2024 | — |
| 1.2B | “1.2 billion” | Gabriner: RollWorks has 1.2B digital profiles and over 300M emails | Toby Gabriner | Dec 18, 2018 | — |
| 1.1B | “1.1 billion” | Latka: Copado passed $52M run rate and raised at $1.1B valuation | Nathan Latka | Dec 27, 2021 | Supported |
| 1.1B | “1.1 billion” | G2's recent $1.1 billion Series D valuation was post-money | Godard Abel | Oct 25, 2021 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Ackerman: Reveleer Ingests Nearly One Billion Medical Record Pages Annually | Jay Ackerman | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Hyrkin: Raising equity in 2021 would have required a $1B exit | Joe Hyrkin | Oct 24, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Coro expects to reach $100M ARR by the end of 2024 | Dror Liwer | May 28, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Martin: Bootstrapped Startups Should Target Sub-$10B Total Addressable Markets | Liam Martin | May 16, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Segment SaaS accounts by overall growth potential, not current spend | Adam Baker | Jul 4, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Harris: Cloudbeds aims to drive $1 billion in bookings through Amplify | Adam Harris | Dec 5, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Latka: Freelance management software will spawn a $1B company within five years | Nathan Latka | Aug 7, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Hurt: Bazaarvoice had a $1B+ IPO, ranked top five in 2012 | Brett Hurt | Jun 6, 2023 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Stripe's 100th Largest Partner Processes Roughly $1B Annually | Thomas Smale | Jul 3, 2023 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Latka: An employer review site for rating employees is a billion-dollar business | Nathan Latka | Oct 12, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Corwin: Sustainable hedge funds require at least $500M to $1B AUM | Robert Corwin | Aug 23, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Latka: A founder will build a billion-dollar business with one FTE | Nathan Latka | Aug 15, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Vlad Jovtenko: RedTrack's largest customer tracks over a billion monthly clicks | Vlad Jovtenko | Aug 3, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Keeley: Justifi works with multiple platforms with over $1 billion in GMV | Joe Keeley | Jul 6, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Belenga: Breakcold plans to remain bootstrapped despite investor interest | Arno Belenga | May 24, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Latka: Sumsub can achieve over a $1 billion valuation in Series B | Nathan Latka | Apr 12, 2022 | Didn’t hold up |
| 1B | “a billion” | Burnside: LendingPoint loan originations reached $2.1B in 2021 | Tom Burnside | Apr 7, 2022 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 1B | “a billion” | Burnside: LendingPoint can reach at least $1.5B in debt capacity | Tom Burnside | Apr 7, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | European universities demand 10% equity while Stanford relies on alumni donations | Luke Feeney | Mar 8, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Danilo: Valuation caps of $10M vs $18M rarely impact venture returns | Raphael Danilo | Jan 27, 2022 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Latka argues building a $5M bootstrapped SaaS beats chasing a unicorn IPO | Nathan Latka | Jan 12, 2022 | — |
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