| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Tan: Cursor Reached $100M ARR in 20 Months at $9B Valuation | Garry Tan | Jun 11, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Truell: AI writes 40% to 50% of all code produced inside Cursor | Michael Truell | Jun 11, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Truell: AI writes 40% to 50% of all code produced inside Cursor | Michael Truell | Jun 11, 2025 | — |
| 1.5B | “half a billion” | Truell: Cursor processes over 500 million daily model calls on custom inference | Michael Truell | Jun 11, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Truell: ChatGPT supposedly cost only 1% more to train than GPT-3 | Michael Truell | Jun 11, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Truell: Fast-growing AI startups must break rules against 50% annual headcount growth | Michael Truell | Jun 11, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Blomfield: In 5 years, 99% of people won't touch their system prompts | Tom Blomfield | May 23, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Tom Blomfield says AI makes him 10x more productive than before | Tom Blomfield | May 9, 2025 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Tom Blomfield says AI coding in YC startups surged to 25% | Tom Blomfield | May 9, 2025 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Tom Blomfield says AI will fulfill surging global demand for software | Tom Blomfield | May 9, 2025 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Tom Blomfield says AI will fulfill surging global demand for software | Tom Blomfield | May 9, 2025 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Tom Blomfield says software startups are reaching revenue milestones faster than ever | Tom Blomfield | May 9, 2025 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 x” | Blomfield: Claude Sonnet 3.7 configured DNS and Heroku, accelerating progress 10x | Tom Blomfield | Apr 25, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “1.5 million” | Tan: Zepto does 1.5M daily orders with $3B GMV at $5B valuation | Garry Tan | Apr 18, 2025 | Supported |
| $3B | “three billion dollars” | Tan: Zepto does 1.5M daily orders with $3B GMV at $5B valuation | Garry Tan | Apr 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 6B | “a five billion” | Tan: Zepto does 1.5M daily orders with $3B GMV at $5B valuation | Garry Tan | Apr 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 300% | “300%” | Tan: Zepto does 1.5M daily orders with $3B GMV at $5B valuation | Garry Tan | Apr 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 4× | “four times” | Palicha: Indian grocery purchase frequency is four times higher than in US | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 4% | “four percent” | Palicha: Zepto had only 3-4% weekly retention with one-hour delivery | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Palicha: Zepto reached $1B GMV by early 2024 near EBITDA breakeven | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 70% | “70%” | Palicha: 70% of Zepto markets profitable, mature markets at 4-5% EBITDA | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Palicha: 70% of Zepto markets profitable, mature markets at 4-5% EBITDA | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 800B | “a seven hundred billion” | Palicha: Zepto can easily reach $20B to $30B in top-line revenue | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 30B | “thirty billion” | Palicha: Zepto can easily reach $20B to $30B in top-line revenue | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Palicha: Zepto scaled to a $200M run rate in six months | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 10M | “a nine million” | Palicha: Zepto raised $9M, $50M, and $100M rounds in four months | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Palicha: Zepto raised $9M, $50M, and $100M rounds in four months | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Palicha: Zepto raised $9M, $50M, and $100M rounds in four months | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 41M | “a forty million” | Palicha: Zepto ad revenue ARR surged from $40M to over $200M | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 200M | “two hundred million” | Palicha: Zepto ad revenue ARR surged from $40M to over $200M | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Palicha: Generative AI dynamically resolves over 50% of Zepto support tickets | Aadit Palicha | Apr 18, 2025 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Thompson: Today's scientists spend 40% of their time on grant paperwork | Derek Thompson | Apr 4, 2025 | Supported |
| 90% | “90%” | Garry Tan: Up to 90% of Current Y Combinator Startups Are AI | Garry Tan | Apr 4, 2025 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Garry Tan: Up to 90% of Current Y Combinator Startups Are AI | Garry Tan | Apr 4, 2025 | — |
| 60% | “sixty percent” | Tan: DoorDash holds mid-sixty percent of US food delivery market | Garry Tan | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 7M | “seven million” | Xu: DoorDash has over 7 million drivers; nearly 60% are women | Tony Xu | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 60% | “60%” | Xu: DoorDash has over 7 million drivers; nearly 60% are women | Tony Xu | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Xu: Founders blew 40% of remaining cash refunding late orders | Tony Xu | Mar 26, 2025 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Xu: Cutting pandemic merchant commissions in half cost DoorDash over $100M | Tony Xu | Mar 26, 2025 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Reeves: 40% of US companies faced annual penalties for payroll mistakes | Josh Reeves | Mar 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 6M | “six million” | Reeves: There are about six million US employers across industries | Josh Reeves | Mar 18, 2025 | Supported |
| $100B | “a hundred billion dollars” | Reeves: $100B incumbents ADP and Paychex served under 30% of small businesses | Josh Reeves | Mar 18, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Reeves: $100B incumbents ADP and Paychex served under 30% of small businesses | Josh Reeves | Mar 18, 2025 | Partly supported |
| 52% | “52%” | Reeves: ~550k US Employers Form Yearly; 52% Reach Year Five | Josh Reeves | Mar 18, 2025 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Field: Over 80% of Figma users are outside the United States | Dylan Field | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Field: Figma's original seed pitch was murky and unfocused | Dylan Field | Mar 13, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Friedman: Cheap AI makes developers rewrite code rather than debug it | Jared Friedman | Mar 5, 2025 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Friedman: 25% of YC founders report over 95% AI-generated codebases | Jared Friedman | Mar 5, 2025 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Hu: Top 1% engineers will still require deliberate practice despite AI | Diana Hu | Mar 5, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Schaad: Voice AI can automate 50% of calls before human handoff | Raphael Schaad | Feb 27, 2025 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | McGrew: OpenAI succeeded by balancing startup agility with opinionated scaling bets | Bob McGrew | Jan 31, 2025 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | McGrew: Adding a 'nine' of AI reliability requires 10x more compute | Bob McGrew | Jan 31, 2025 | — |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | McGrew: Adding a 'nine' of AI reliability requires 10x more compute | Bob McGrew | Jan 31, 2025 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Conrad raised a $2.5M seed round on a pitch deck alone | Parker Conrad | Jan 10, 2025 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Public software firms spend 50% more on sales for less new ARR | Parker Conrad | Jan 10, 2025 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Public software firms spend 50% more on sales for less new ARR | Parker Conrad | Jan 10, 2025 | Supported |
| $370M | “three hundred seventy million dollars” | Zaparde: Zip reaches 350 employees and $2.2B valuation after Series D | Rujul Zaparde | Jan 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 2.2B | “2.2 billion” | Zaparde: Zip reaches 350 employees and $2.2B valuation after Series D | Rujul Zaparde | Jan 8, 2025 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Zaparde: Airbnb revenue dropped ~95% during initial March 2020 lockdowns | Rujul Zaparde | Jan 8, 2025 | Supported |
| $10M | “ten million dollars” | Bump Burned Up to $15 Million Before Pivoting to Photo Sharing | David Lieb | Dec 18, 2024 | — |
| $15M | “fifteen million dollars” | Bump Burned Up to $15 Million Before Pivoting to Photo Sharing | David Lieb | Dec 18, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Bump Reached 150 Million Users | David Lieb | Dec 18, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Google Photos Reached One Billion Users in Under Four Years | David Lieb | Dec 18, 2024 | Partly supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Half of all Y Combinator startups eventually pivot from their first idea | Nicolas Dessaigne | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| 74% | “74%” | 74% of YC dev tool startups have exclusively technical co-founders | Nicolas Dessaigne | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| 45% | “45%” | 74% of YC dev tool startups have exclusively technical co-founders | Nicolas Dessaigne | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Founders should expect to throw away 90% of their early startup code | Nicolas Dessaigne | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Founders should expect to throw away 90% of their early startup code | Nicolas Dessaigne | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “one million” | Dev tool founders should reach $1M ARR before hiring their first salesperson | Nicolas Dessaigne | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Algolia scaled to $10M ARR without ever using a sales deck | Nicolas Dessaigne | Nov 26, 2024 | — |
| $1T | “a trillion dollars” | Tan: Sam Altman aims to scale AI compute to $1 trillion spend | Garry Tan | Nov 14, 2024 | — |
| 5B | “five billion” | Hu: Leading frontier AI models operate around 500 billion parameters | Diana Hu | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 500B | “five hundred billion” | Hu: Leading frontier AI models operate around 500 billion parameters | Diana Hu | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 1B | “one billion” | Hu: 10T parameter models will spark a GPT-3 level innovation leap | Diana Hu | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Tan: AGI is effectively already here for most knowledge worker tasks | Garry Tan | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 5% | “five percent” | Taggar: Claude jumped from 5% to 25% market share in YC startups | Harj Taggar | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Taggar: Claude jumped from 5% to 25% market share in YC startups | Harj Taggar | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 8% | “eight percent” | Taggar: Llama market share in YC startups grew from 0% to 8% | Harj Taggar | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 15% | “15%” | Taggar: 15% of the YC batch adopted OpenAI's o1 before public release | Harj Taggar | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Taggar: 100% AI accuracy will create winner-take-all software markets | Harj Taggar | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Hu: YC startup DryMerge reached near-100% accuracy by adopting OpenAI's o1 | Diana Hu | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Hu: YC startup DryMerge reached near-100% accuracy by adopting OpenAI's o1 | Diana Hu | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Tan: $50M ARR YC company automated 60% of support to reach profitability | Garry Tan | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Tan: $50M ARR YC company automated 60% of support to reach profitability | Garry Tan | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 12% | “12%” | Friedman: 50% of YC startups use Cursor while only 12% use GitHub Copilot | Jared Friedman | Nov 1, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Redesigning Stripe's post-signup onboarding email increased product conversion by 20 percent | Katie Dill | Oct 16, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | The best founders exhibit complete commitment to their current idea | Harj Taggar | Oct 11, 2024 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | The best founders exhibit complete commitment to their current idea | Harj Taggar | Oct 11, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Taggar: 90% of prospective founders should prioritize finding a co-founder over starting solo | Harj Taggar | Sep 27, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Epstein: Warm Intros Yield 2x to 3x Cold Email Conversion Rates | Aaron Epstein | Sep 12, 2024 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Pei: Building a smartphone startup requires at least $100M in capital | Carl Pei | Aug 13, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Pei: 90% of Nothing's first 5,000 Ear (1) units had charging defects | Carl Pei | Aug 13, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Pei: Early hardware founders must act like Tim Cook, not Jony Ive | Carl Pei | Aug 13, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Blomfield: Price B2B software at 25% to 50% of value delivered | Tom Blomfield | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Blomfield: The value equation gets 80% to 90% of pricing right | Tom Blomfield | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Blomfield: Software startups should target 80% to 90% gross margins | Tom Blomfield | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Blomfield: Enterprise compliance features enable up to 10x higher pricing | Tom Blomfield | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Blomfield: Startups are priced correctly when they lose 25% of deals | Tom Blomfield | Jul 25, 2024 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Garry Tan: Airbnb Launched Three Times Before Getting Attention | Garry Tan | Jul 12, 2024 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Hu: Startups do not die from crashes caused by excessive product demand | Diana Hu | May 30, 2024 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Caldwell: Founders avoid launching because they fear capping out at $50M ARR | Dalton Caldwell | Mar 21, 2024 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Friedman: Close to 50% of YC Summer 23 Batch Used LLMs | Jared Friedman | Feb 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 6B | “six billion” | Hu: Seven 'Attention' authors founded startups collectively valued over $6B | Diana Hu | Feb 8, 2024 | Supported |
| 8M | “eight million” | Blomfield: Monzo has grown to about eight million UK customers | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 15% | “15%” | Blomfield: 5% monthly growth is unlikely to yield breakout consumer success | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Blomfield: 5% monthly growth is unlikely to yield breakout consumer success | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | — |
| 5% | “Five percent” | Blomfield: 5% monthly growth is unlikely to yield breakout consumer success | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Blomfield: 5% monthly growth is unlikely to yield breakout consumer success | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Blomfield: Monzo Reached 1M Customers Before Spending on Direct Marketing | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Blomfield: Monzo killed a cheap acquisition channel due to negative customer LTV | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Blomfield: Top consumer startups get over 80% of growth organically | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Blomfield: Top consumer startups get over 80% of growth organically | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Monzo scaled to 500k users with unit economics of -£30 to -£40 | Tom Blomfield | Jan 6, 2024 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Blomfield: Retention flattening at 20% beats higher retention decaying to zero | Tom Blomfield | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Blomfield: Early-stage B2B SaaS startups should target 125% to 150%+ NDR | Tom Blomfield | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 125% | “125%” | Blomfield: Early-stage B2B SaaS startups should target 125% to 150%+ NDR | Tom Blomfield | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 150% | “150%” | Blomfield: Early-stage B2B SaaS startups should target 125% to 150%+ NDR | Tom Blomfield | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 110% | “110%” | Blomfield: 110% to 120% NDR is a good benchmark for mature SaaS companies | Tom Blomfield | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 120% | “120%” | Blomfield: 110% to 120% NDR is a good benchmark for mature SaaS companies | Tom Blomfield | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Blomfield: Sub-100% NDR means fixing churn before increasing sales spend | Tom Blomfield | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Blomfield: Monzo lost £30–£40 per user initially before turning profitable | Tom Blomfield | Dec 15, 2023 | — |
| 1% | “one percent” | Caldwell says early technical employees doing co-founder work get hosed with 1%. | Dalton Caldwell | Nov 1, 2023 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Seibel argues grinding 100-hour weeks in big tech is a bad deal. | Michael Seibel | Nov 1, 2023 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Seibel: High valuations mislead founders into thinking unproven startups are working | Michael Seibel | Jun 30, 2023 | — |
| $1.5M | “half a million dollars” | Caldwell: YC accepts startups with $500K ARR or $1M+ raised | Dalton Caldwell | May 12, 2023 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Caldwell: YC accepts startups with $500K ARR or $1M+ raised | Dalton Caldwell | May 12, 2023 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Caldwell: Most founders in recent YC batches are repeat applicants | Dalton Caldwell | May 12, 2023 | — |
| 6× | “six times” | Caldwell: Most founders in recent YC batches are repeat applicants | Dalton Caldwell | May 12, 2023 | — |
| 7× | “seven times” | Caldwell: Most founders in recent YC batches are repeat applicants | Dalton Caldwell | May 12, 2023 | — |
| 5× | “five X” | Caldwell: Technical founding teams have 5x higher odds of a YC interview | Dalton Caldwell | May 12, 2023 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Technical founders stop coding once engineering teams exceed 10 people | Diana Hu | Apr 21, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Seibel: Delaying startup creation to upskill makes founders ten times stronger | Michael Seibel | Apr 14, 2023 | — |
| $1.6M | “1.6 million dollars” | Flora: Freshpaint met 160 investors over 4.5 months to raise $1.6M | Brad Flora | Mar 29, 2023 | Supported |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Flora: Asher Bio raised its first $1M on SAFEs with an idea | Brad Flora | Mar 29, 2023 | Supported |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Flora: Zapier reached $100M in revenue having raised money only once | Brad Flora | Mar 29, 2023 | Supported |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Flora: Scarcity of giant bootstrapped startups proves bootstrapping forever is suboptimal | Brad Flora | Mar 29, 2023 | — |
| 50× | “50 times” | Flora: nVision founder Surbhi Sarna faced over 50 investor rejections initially | Brad Flora | Mar 29, 2023 | — |
| 2B | “two billion” | Habib: OpenAI's 1.3B InstructGPT beat the 100x larger GPT-3 via RLHF | Raza Habib | Feb 28, 2023 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred times” | Habib: OpenAI's 1.3B InstructGPT beat the 100x larger GPT-3 via RLHF | Raza Habib | Feb 28, 2023 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Seibel: Most YC office hours diverge entirely from founders' initial questions | Michael Seibel | Feb 23, 2023 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Mañalac: Airbnb launched three times before getting traction | Kat Mignalek | Feb 9, 2023 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Mañalac: US startups raising under $1M struggle to get press | Kat Mignalek | Feb 9, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Seibel: Monetizing startups should track revenue rather than registered users | Michael Seibel | Jan 11, 2023 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Caldwell: Founders must acknowledge failure instead of weaving victim narratives | Dalton Caldwell | Jan 11, 2023 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Seibel: Maximizing fundraising leads to lost control and impossible pivots | Michael Seibel | Jan 11, 2023 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Alströmer: Outsourcing prospecting works only if founders know exactly what to outsource | Gustaf Alströmer | Dec 29, 2022 | — |
| 31% | “31%” | Epstein: SaaS, transactional, and marketplaces make up 67% of top YC startups | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 22% | “22%” | Epstein: SaaS, transactional, and marketplaces make up 67% of top YC startups | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 14% | “14%” | Epstein: SaaS, transactional, and marketplaces make up 67% of top YC startups | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 67% | “67%” | Epstein: SaaS, transactional, and marketplaces make up 67% of top YC startups | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Epstein: Top 10 YC companies generate 50% of top 100 overall value | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 14% | “14%” | Epstein: Marketplaces make up 14% of top YC companies, 30% of value | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Epstein: Marketplaces make up 14% of top YC companies, 30% of value | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 3% | “three percent” | Epstein: Only 3% of top 100 YC companies rely primarily on ads | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Epstein: A 5% difference in monthly retention determines startup survival | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Epstein: Stripe initially tested value by charging 5% per transaction | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Epstein: Stripe initially tested value by charging 5% per transaction | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Epstein: Raising prices is the easiest way for startups to grow revenue | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | — |
| 21M | “twenty one million” | Epstein: Netflix relies on price increases as the easiest revenue growth lever | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 150× | “150 times” | Epstein: Segment increased contract values 150x by anchoring quotes at $120,000 | Aaron Epstein | Dec 15, 2022 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Fintech and vertical SaaS have drastically higher unicorn hit rates than consumer | Jared Friedman | Nov 17, 2022 | Supported |
| 70% | “70%” | Over 70% of the top 100 YC companies generated their ideas organically | Jared Friedman | Nov 17, 2022 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Taggar: One passionate prototype user beats a million waitlist signups | Harj Taggar | Nov 1, 2022 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Seibel says 40% of the Summer 2022 batch applied with only ideas | Michael Seibel | Oct 28, 2022 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Seibel: Investors who only attack competitors are just selling fear | Michael Seibel | Oct 28, 2022 | — |
| 2% | “Two percent” | Seibel: A fake advisor took 2% equity and failed to raise our round | Michael Seibel | Oct 28, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Seibel: Second-time founders default to expert advice over talking to users | Michael Seibel | Sep 15, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Seibel: Downturns reveal the tiny group of smart players extracting capital | Michael Seibel | Sep 1, 2022 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Seibel: 5% to 10% founder salary bumps are almost always worth it | Michael Seibel | Jul 22, 2022 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Seibel: The best startup founders choose no action 40% of the time | Michael Seibel | Jul 22, 2022 | — |
| 100M | “a hundred million” | Caldwell: Fast raised $100M and burned it in 10 months | Dalton Caldwell | May 6, 2022 | Supported |
| 11M | “a ten million” | Caldwell: Fast raised $100M and burned it in 10 months | Dalton Caldwell | May 6, 2022 | Supported |
| $8M | “eight million dollars” | Seibel: Justin.tv faced imminent death with $500K cash and $250K burn | Michael Seibel | May 6, 2022 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Seibel: Justin.tv faced imminent death with $500K cash and $250K burn | Michael Seibel | May 6, 2022 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Seibel: Justin.tv faced imminent death with $500K cash and $250K burn | Michael Seibel | May 6, 2022 | — |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Seibel: Justin.tv faced imminent death with $500K cash and $250K burn | Michael Seibel | May 6, 2022 | — |
| $1.2M | “1.2 million dollars” | Seibel: Justin.tv hit breakeven in two months and generated $1.2M profit | Michael Seibel | May 6, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Seibel: Operationally intensive startup founders must know numbers 10x better | Michael Seibel | May 6, 2022 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Taggar: VCs lack deep insights and know enough to be dangerous | Harj Taggar | Apr 29, 2022 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Seibel: 60% of Y Combinator companies were previously rejected by YC | Michael Seibel | Apr 29, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Seibel: Google's beta release standard is 10x higher than a startup MVP | Michael Seibel | Apr 20, 2022 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Seibel: FAANG retention relies on unvested equity being 3x your savings | Michael Seibel | Apr 20, 2022 | — |
| $8M | “eight million dollars” | Seibel says Justin.tv made $8 million in its first monetization year | Michael Seibel | Feb 23, 2022 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 10× | “10 X” | Seibel: Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe beat dominant incumbents by being 10x better | Michael Seibel | Jan 19, 2022 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Seibel: Portable digital gold like Bitcoin is 10x better than physical gold | Michael Seibel | Jan 19, 2022 | — |
| 30M | “thirty million” | Seibel: Justin.tv reached 30 million monthly visitors while struggling financially | Michael Seibel | Jan 5, 2022 | Supported |
| 95% | “95%” | Seibel: 95% of extrinsically motivated startups die within three years | Michael Seibel | Jan 5, 2022 | — |
| $80B | “eighty billion dollars” | Saez-Gil: Less than 2% of $80B carbon market funds forestry | Diego Saez-Gil | Jan 28, 2020 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Saez-Gil: Less than 2% of $80B carbon market funds forestry | Diego Saez-Gil | Jan 28, 2020 | Supported |
| 1B | “one billion” | Saez-Gil: A trillion trees could draw down 200 gigatons of carbon | Diego Saez-Gil | Jan 28, 2020 | Supported |
| 1T | “a trillion” | Saez-Gil: A trillion trees could draw down 200 gigatons of carbon | Diego Saez-Gil | Jan 28, 2020 | Supported |
| 50% | “50%” | Saez-Gil: Carbon market capital flow is growing 50% year-over-year | Diego Saez-Gil | Jan 28, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 161M | “a 160 million” | Saez-Gil: New airline regulations demand 160M tons of carbon offsets annually | Diego Saez-Gil | Jan 28, 2020 | Held up |
| 1.5% | “1.5%” | Pachama's ML model predicts New England forest carbon under 1.5% error | Diego Saez-Gil | Jan 28, 2020 | Contradicted |
| 1B | “a billion” | Seibel: Digitizing paper workflows alone does not guarantee a billion-dollar company | Michael Seibel | Jan 24, 2020 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Seibel: Subsidizing unit economics creates artificial demand that vanishes when prices rise | Michael Seibel | Jan 24, 2020 | — |
| 2.8M | “2.8 million” | Masood: TARA raised $2.8M after pivot for a $3M seed round | Iba Masood | Dec 18, 2019 | — |
| 4M | “a three million” | Masood: TARA raised $2.8M after pivot for a $3M seed round | Iba Masood | Dec 18, 2019 | — |
| 4M | “four million” | Atherton: Forerunner Ventures led Zyper's $4M seed pre-Demo Day | Amber Atherton | Dec 18, 2019 | Contradicted |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Atherton: Female founders pitch market sizes less aggressively than male peers | Amber Atherton | Dec 18, 2019 | — |
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