The Numbers Museum

Every specific figure ever claimed on the show. 56 match this view. Red rows are numbers the cited sources contradict.

All Dollars Multiples Percentages Big numbers

Figure	As spoken	The claim	Who	When	Checked?
300×	“300 X”	Shankar: Brigade Towers land delivered a 250x to 300x return	Nirupa Shankar	Oct 11, 2024	Partly supported
100×	“hundred times”	Kamath: India needs 100x more risk capital	Nikhil Kamath	May 28, 2026	—
100×	“hundred times”	Adcock: Humanoids Must Run Real-Time Motor Neural Nets On-Board	Brett Adcock	Nov 5, 2025	—
50×	“50 times”	Yassin: How/why, superlatives, and paradoxes are the best title formulas	Nuseir Yassin	Nov 20, 2023	—
49×	“49 times”	Kamath: Investors and traders fail 49 times out of 100	Nikhil Kamath	Jul 27, 2024	—
40×	“40 times”	Deshpande: Profitable beauty brands jump from revenue multiples to 40x EBITDA	Shantanu Deshpande	Sep 20, 2025	—
20×	“20 X”	Ronnie Screwvala: Counter-trend businesses generate 10x to 20x enterprise value	Ronnie Screwvala	Jun 11, 2023	—
20×	“20 x”	Screwvala: Mat staging and rule tweaks boosted Kabaddi popularity 10x to 20x	Ronnie Screwvala	Jun 11, 2023	—
18×	“18 times”	Birla: Kumar Birla Has Lost His Temper Just 18 Times Since 1995	Kumar Mangalam Birla	Dec 20, 2024	—
15×	“15 times”	Kamath: Biggest upcoming portfolio allocation will be Indian IT and banking	Nikhil Kamath	May 28, 2026	—
15×	“15 times”	Kamath prefers Indian IT stocks at 15x PE over US AI stocks	Nikhil Kamath	Apr 20, 2026	—
14×	“14 times”	Kamath: Meta at 14x Earnings Is Cheaper Than Indian Tech Startups	Nikhil Kamath	Mar 12, 2023	—
14×	“14 times”	Escobari: China's GDP was 20% larger than Brazil's in 2000, now 14x	Martin Escobari	May 28, 2026	Contradicted
12×	“12 times”	Bijli: South India leads cinema attendance at 12 visits per year	Ajay Bijli	Aug 14, 2023	Partly supported
12×	“12 times”	Kamath: Biggest upcoming portfolio allocation will be Indian IT and banking	Nikhil Kamath	May 28, 2026	—
10×	“10 times”	Rajan Anandan: Governance failures are a global VC issue, not unique	Rajan Anandan	Sep 2, 2023	—
10×	“10 X”	Shamani: Family detergent brand grew 10x twice in consecutive 18-month periods	Raj Shamani	Oct 7, 2023	—
10×	“10 times”	Ronnie Screwvala: Having a backup plan ensures a founder's primary venture fails	Ronnie Screwvala	Jun 11, 2023	—
10×	“10 X”	Ronnie Screwvala: Counter-trend businesses generate 10x to 20x enterprise value	Ronnie Screwvala	Jun 11, 2023	—
10×	“10 x”	Screwvala: Mat staging and rule tweaks boosted Kabaddi popularity 10x to 20x	Ronnie Screwvala	Jun 11, 2023	—
10×	“10 times”	Screwvala: 10x More Capital in EdTech Slows the Process Down	Ronnie Screwvala	Jun 11, 2023	—
10×	“10 X”	Sharma: US hedge fund startup compliance costs increased 10x over twenty years	Ruchir Sharma	Sep 3, 2025	Supported
10×	“10 times”	F1's US Media Rights Jumped 10x After Netflix's Drive to Survive	Ted Sarandos	Jun 7, 2025	Supported
10×	“10 times”	Arora: Private Enterprise Domains Hold 10x More Data Than the Public Web	Nikesh Arora	Jun 28, 2025	—
10×	“10 X”	Arora: Startups with marginal 10-20% improvements are doomed in the AI era	Nikesh Arora	Jun 28, 2025	—
10×	“10 X”	Srinivas: Perplexity offers Deep Research 10x cheaper than OpenAI via DeepSeek	Aravind Srinivas	Mar 23, 2025	—
8×	“eight times”	Biyani: Digital fashion brands must achieve 7 to 8 annual inventory stock turns	Kishore Biyani	Oct 7, 2023	—
6×	“six X”	Gulati: Solid-state storage holds 6x more hydrogen than compressed cylinders	Chaitanya Gulati	Mar 21, 2025	Open
5×	“five X”	Prashanth Prakash: 20% to 30% of VC investments return 5x	Prashanth Prakash	Sep 2, 2023	—
5×	“five X”	Rajan Anandan: Angels should exit if a startup cannot 5x further	Rajan Anandan	Sep 2, 2023	—
5×	“five X”	Narayanan: Target Revenue Multiples Are 5x in Fashion and 6x-7x in Beauty	Ananth Narayanan	Oct 7, 2023	—
5×	“five times”	Narayanan: Premium pricing works within a narrow band, not at 5x markups	Ananth Narayanan	Oct 7, 2023	—
5×	“five times”	Deshpande: Profitable beauty brands jump from revenue multiples to 40x EBITDA	Shantanu Deshpande	Sep 20, 2025	—
5×	“five X”	Modi: Tier-2 and tier-3 Indian cities offer 5x headroom for premium beauty	Bhakti Modi	Sep 20, 2025	—
5×	“five times”	Khosrowshahi: Uber is adopting EVs five times faster than the public	Dara Khosrowshahi	Aug 24, 2025	—
5×	“five times”	Khosrowshahi: Average Uber driver logs 4-5x more mileage than regular drivers	Dara Khosrowshahi	Aug 24, 2025	—
4×	“four times”	Amlani: India's Casual Dining Market is 4x Larger Than QSR	Riyaaz Amlani	Oct 28, 2023	Contradicted
4×	“four X”	Armstrong: Stablecoin volume grows 3x to 4x annually uncorrelated with trading	Brian Armstrong	Jul 16, 2026	Partly supported
4×	“four times”	Deshpande: Profitable beauty brands jump from revenue multiples to 40x EBITDA	Shantanu Deshpande	Sep 20, 2025	—
4×	“four X”	Razack: Every Prestige Property Buyer Has Seen 2X to 4X Returns	Irfan Razack	Oct 11, 2024	—
4×	“four X”	Shankar: Prefab construction cuts time by a third but costs 3-4x	Nirupa Shankar	Oct 11, 2024	—
3×	“three X”	Narayanan: Branded Retail in India Is Growing 2x to 3x Faster Than GDP	Ananth Narayanan	Oct 7, 2023	Supported
3×	“three times”	Kamath: Raj Shamani raised from Lightspeed at 3x valuation in under 48 hours	Nikhil Kamath	Oct 7, 2023	—
3×	“three times”	Escobari: US VIX Is Trading at Three Times Historical Average	Martin Escobari	May 28, 2026	Contradicted
3×	“three times”	Sharma: Incumbent US White House party lost three consecutive elections for first time in 200 years	Ruchir Sharma	Sep 3, 2025	Contradicted
3×	“three times”	Sharma: US Stock Returns Outpaced Rest of World Threefold	Ruchir Sharma	Sep 3, 2025	Supported
3×	“three X”	Razack: Every Prestige Property Buyer Has Seen 2X to 4X Returns	Irfan Razack	Oct 11, 2024	—
3×	“three times”	Kamath: Launching equity-free grants of ₹20-40 lakhs for founders under 25	Nikhil Kamath	Jul 3, 2024	—
3×	“three times”	Poddar: Rare Rabbit repaints its office white thrice yearly to emphasize colors	Manish Poddar	Mar 6, 2024	—
3×	“three times”	Maini: EVs are around three times more efficient than ICE vehicles	Chetan Maini	Dec 10, 2023	Supported
3×	“three times”	Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles cost three times more to run than EVs	Chetan Maini	Dec 10, 2023	Held up
2×	“two X”	Mazumdar-Shaw: Enzyme tech is cheaper than chemicals factoring in effluent treatment	Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw	Jul 23, 2023	—
2×	“two X”	Sharma: People across income levels perpetually want to 2x their wealth	Ruchir Sharma	Sep 3, 2025	—
2×	“two times”	Gulati: Nisadia storage is twice as dense as liquid hydrogen	Chaitanya Gulati	Mar 21, 2025	Open
2×	“two X”	Razack: Every Prestige Property Buyer Has Seen 2X to 4X Returns	Irfan Razack	Oct 11, 2024	—
2×	“two times”	Razack: TDR at 2x guideline value is a windfall for landowners	Irfan Razack	Oct 11, 2024	—

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