| 10M | “ten million” | Cannon: Startup content competes with Elon Musk smoking weed on Joe Rogan | Craig Cannon | Sep 19, 2018 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Cannon: Startup content competes with Elon Musk smoking weed on Joe Rogan | Craig Cannon | Sep 19, 2018 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Mixpanel nears $100M ARR with 7,000 paying customers | Suhail Doshi | Sep 12, 2018 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Doshi: Email and text verifications lose 60% to 70% of onboarding users | Suhail Doshi | Sep 12, 2018 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Doshi: Email and text verifications lose 60% to 70% of onboarding users | Suhail Doshi | Sep 12, 2018 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Doshi: Email and text verifications lose 60% to 70% of onboarding users | Suhail Doshi | Sep 12, 2018 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Doshi: Having ~1.4 DAUs per account reduced Mixpanel's dollar churn below 10% | Suhail Doshi | Sep 12, 2018 | — |
| 7% | “seven percent” | A 7% monthly churn rate compounds to a 58% annual revenue loss | Suhail Doshi | Sep 12, 2018 | Supported |
| 93% | “93%” | A 7% monthly churn rate compounds to a 58% annual revenue loss | Suhail Doshi | Sep 12, 2018 | Supported |
| 58% | “58%” | A 7% monthly churn rate compounds to a 58% annual revenue loss | Suhail Doshi | Sep 12, 2018 | Supported |
| 5% | “five percent” | Mixpanel and Slack both converted 4-5% of landing page visits to signups | Suhail Doshi | Sep 12, 2018 | — |
| 75% | “75%” | Garg: Gobble had 75% enterprise revenue when raising Series A | Ooshma Garg | Sep 8, 2018 | — |
| 2M | “two million” | Garg: Gobble shut down previous business model at $1.5M to $2M ARR | Ooshma Garg | Sep 8, 2018 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Reinhardt: 80% of students ignored Segment's first product to browse Facebook | Peter Reinhardt | Sep 6, 2018 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Reinhardt: 80% of students ignored Segment's first product to browse Facebook | Peter Reinhardt | Sep 6, 2018 | — |
| 1.5M | “a half million” | Segment's revenue grew from $2.5M to $10M after launching its Redshift connector | Peter Reinhardt | Sep 6, 2018 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Reinhardt: Direct customer conversations teach a thousand times more than landing pages | Peter Reinhardt | Sep 6, 2018 | — |
| 1M | “a million” | Segment hired a part-time CFO around its $15M Series A | Peter Reinhardt | Sep 6, 2018 | — |
| 16M | “a fifteen million” | Segment hired a part-time CFO around its $15M Series A | Peter Reinhardt | Sep 6, 2018 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Reinhardt: Waiting until $10M in revenue to hire experienced executives is disastrous | Peter Reinhardt | Sep 6, 2018 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Rusenko: Weebly reached 50M users and sold to Square for $365M | David Rusenko | Sep 5, 2018 | Supported |
| 365M | “three hundred sixty five million” | Rusenko: Weebly reached 50M users and sold to Square for $365M | David Rusenko | Sep 5, 2018 | Supported |
| 3M | “a two million” | Rusenko: Weebly raised $650K Series A at $2M pre-money in 2007 | David Rusenko | Sep 5, 2018 | — |
| 6M | “a five million” | Rusenko: Weebly raised $650K Series A at $2M pre-money in 2007 | David Rusenko | Sep 5, 2018 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Meetup founder Scott Heiferman called Weebly the stupidest idea in 2006 | David Rusenko | Sep 5, 2018 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 80% | “80%” | Rusenko: Weebly achieved an 80% NPS in its early days | David Rusenko | Sep 5, 2018 | — |
| 40M | “forty million” | A South African competitor raised $40M and blatantly cloned Weebly's UI | David Rusenko | Sep 5, 2018 | — |
| 100% | “100%” | Seibel: Founders should ignore product feedback from investors and friends | Michael Seibel | Sep 5, 2018 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Seibel: Gamers were 20% of Justin.tv traffic for years before Twitch launched | Michael Seibel | Sep 5, 2018 | — |
| $24M | “twenty four million dollars” | Seibel: Justin.tv reached $24M in five years, then $1B in three | Michael Seibel | Sep 5, 2018 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Seibel: Justin.tv reached $24M in five years, then $1B in three | Michael Seibel | Sep 5, 2018 | Supported |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Graham: Morris voted for lowball ViaWeb acquisition offers to quit | Paul Graham | Sep 1, 2018 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Graham: Better to have 10% of Robert Morris than average full-time founders | Paul Graham | Sep 1, 2018 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Graham: Better to have 10% of Robert Morris than average full-time founders | Paul Graham | Sep 1, 2018 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Graham: Better to have 10% of Robert Morris than average full-time founders | Paul Graham | Sep 1, 2018 | — |
| 51% | “51%” | Ralston: Unequal equity splits like 51/49 are better to maintain control | Geoff Ralston | Sep 1, 2018 | — |
| 49% | “49%” | Ralston: Unequal equity splits like 51/49 are better to maintain control | Geoff Ralston | Sep 1, 2018 | — |
| $2.3B | “2.3 billion dollars” | Ralston: Magic Leap raised $2.3B but seems to have almost nothing | Geoff Ralston | Sep 1, 2018 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Petersen: About 10% of Flexport shipments go to Amazon warehouses | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Petersen sold his Amazon stock right before it 4x'd to buy a house | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | — |
| 4× | “four X” | Petersen sold his Amazon stock right before it 4x'd to buy a house | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | — |
| 12% | “12%” | Global logistics accounts for roughly 12% of the world's GDP | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Limit industry veterans to one per team to prevent anti-innovation coalitions | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Petersen: Only 2% of Flexport Shipments Were Hit by First China Tariffs | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Half of all global air cargo moves on passenger planes | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | Supported |
| 5× | “five times” | Petersen: Air Freight Is on Average 5x More Expensive Than Ocean Freight | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | Contradicted |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Flexport reached $200 million in revenue without a marketing team | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Petersen: Flexport is 95% to 98% outbound sales | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Petersen: Flexport is 95% to 98% outbound sales | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Petersen: The largest global freight forwarder has only 2% market share | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 40% | “40%” | Capturing 20% of global freight makes a company bigger than Saudi Aramco | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 99% | “99%” | Petersen: Academic research ranked freight forwarding as most susceptible to automation | Ryan Petersen | Aug 30, 2018 | Supported |
| 80% | “80%” | Altman: Building a product users spontaneously recommend is 80% of startup success | Sam Altman | Aug 29, 2018 | — |
| $50B | “fifty billion dollars” | Zeevi: Diabetes-related costs in the U.S. totaled $250 billion in 2012 | David Zeevi | Aug 22, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 3M | “three million” | Zeevi: Gut Microbes Carry 3 Million Genes, 150x the Human Genome | David Zeevi | Aug 22, 2018 | Supported |
| 150× | “150 times” | Zeevi: Gut Microbes Carry 3 Million Genes, 150x the Human Genome | David Zeevi | Aug 22, 2018 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Zeevi: Tripling bread intake did not significantly change gut microbiomes | David Zeevi | Aug 22, 2018 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Zeevi: Tripling bread intake did not significantly change gut microbiomes | David Zeevi | Aug 22, 2018 | Supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Ralston: Y Combinator's admission rate is between 1% and 2% | Geoff Ralston | Aug 7, 2018 | Supported |
| 5% | “Five percent” | Ralston: Standard MOOC completion rate is five percent | Geoff Ralston | Aug 7, 2018 | Supported |
| 56% | “56%” | Ralston: 56% of companies finished Startup School last year | Geoff Ralston | Aug 7, 2018 | Supported |
| 100B | “a hundred billion” | Gil: Didi will become a company worth over $100 billion | Elad Gil | Jul 27, 2018 | Open |
| 20% | “20%” | Gil: Didi will become a company worth over $100 billion | Elad Gil | Jul 27, 2018 | Open |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Gil: Best startup entry point is 40-50 employees and $50M-$500M valuation | Elad Gil | Jul 27, 2018 | — |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Gil: Best startup entry point is 40-50 employees and $50M-$500M valuation | Elad Gil | Jul 27, 2018 | — |
| 99.9% | “99.9%” | Jocko Willink: Frontline operators out-decision distant commanders 99.9% of the time | Jocko Willink | Jul 20, 2018 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Friedman: Y Combinator has grown 10x in size since 2010 | Jared Friedman | Jun 22, 2018 | — |
| $9M | “nine million dollars” | Wessel: WayUp raised $9 million before hiring its first VP | Liz Wessel | May 31, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 9% | “Nine percent” | Wessel: Under 9% of internships on WayUp are unpaid | Liz Wessel | May 31, 2018 | — |
| 99% | “99%” | Benjamin: Quantum error-correction threshold is now around 99% fidelity | Simon Benjamin | May 25, 2018 | Supported |
| 10× | “10 times” | Benjamin: Oxford quantum researchers achieve 99.9% gate fidelity | Simon Benjamin | May 25, 2018 | Supported |
| 99% | “99%” | Benjamin: Topological codes brought quantum fault tolerance down to 99% threshold | Simon Benjamin | May 25, 2018 | Supported |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Preskill: Current quantum tech achieves gate error rates around a few parts per thousand | John Preskill | May 16, 2018 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Mitchell: Rezi risked 40% of its available capital on its first deal | Sean Mitchell | May 4, 2018 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Mitchell: Rezi screens tenants better than independent landlords in 90% of cases | Sean Mitchell | May 4, 2018 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Xie (2018): 60% of token sale funds are raised in presales | Linda Xie | May 2, 2018 | Supported |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Mobile game studios must reserve at least $5 million for user acquisition | Holly Liu | Apr 27, 2018 | — |
| 1% | “1%” | Brundage: Reducing AI existential risk by 0.1% preserves massive expected value | Miles Brundage | Apr 25, 2018 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Brundage: AI will achieve superhuman performance in StarCraft within three years | Miles Brundage | Apr 25, 2018 | Held up |
| 70% | “70%” | Brundage: AI will achieve superhuman performance in StarCraft within three years | Miles Brundage | Apr 25, 2018 | Held up |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Manalac: YC ran Female Founders Conference for years without a mother's room | Kat Manalac | Apr 20, 2018 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Wojcicki: 1969 JAMA study found 90% of doctors withheld cancer diagnoses | Anne Wojcicki | Apr 13, 2018 | Supported |
| 1B | “a billion” | Garg: US edtech growth ramps pale compared to Chinese counterparts | Avichal Garg | Apr 6, 2018 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Garg: $50M to $100M edtech businesses are worthwhile despite VC scale bias | Avichal Garg | Apr 6, 2018 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Garg: $50M to $100M edtech businesses are worthwhile despite VC scale bias | Avichal Garg | Apr 6, 2018 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Garg: $50M to $100M edtech businesses are worthwhile despite VC scale bias | Avichal Garg | Apr 6, 2018 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Garg: $50M to $100M edtech businesses are worthwhile despite VC scale bias | Avichal Garg | Apr 6, 2018 | — |
| $1.5B | “half a billion dollars” | A major humanitarian group raised $500M but built only six houses | Brett Hagler | Apr 4, 2018 | Supported |
| 100% | “100%” | New Story uses 100% of public donations directly for home construction | Brett Hagler | Apr 4, 2018 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | A 3D-printed house tested three times stronger than cinder block homes | Brett Hagler | Apr 4, 2018 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 6M | “six million” | New Story's 3D-printed home launch reached six million views | Brett Hagler | Apr 4, 2018 | — |
| 1.3M | “1.3 million” | New Story raised $1.3M within a week of its 3D-home launch | Brett Hagler | Apr 4, 2018 | — |
| 3.4M | “3.4 million” | Ravisankar: HackerRank has 3.4M developers, over 10% of global total | Vivek Ravisankar | Mar 30, 2018 | — |
| 10% | “10%” | Ravisankar: HackerRank has 3.4M developers, over 10% of global total | Vivek Ravisankar | Mar 30, 2018 | — |
| 28% | “28%” | Ravisankar: Over 40% of HackerRank's developer base is in Asia-Pacific | Vivek Ravisankar | Mar 30, 2018 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Ravisankar: Over 40% of HackerRank's developer base is in Asia-Pacific | Vivek Ravisankar | Mar 30, 2018 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Ravisankar: Top '10x' developers are distinguished by strong business acumen | Vivek Ravisankar | Mar 30, 2018 | — |
| 44M | “forty four million” | Braswell: 44M underrepresented minority professionals and students exist in workforce | Porter Braswell | Mar 21, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 2% | “two percent” | Braswell: Low baseline diversity means underrepresented applicants lack internal job champions | Porter Braswell | Mar 21, 2018 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Braswell: Low baseline diversity means underrepresented applicants lack internal job champions | Porter Braswell | Mar 21, 2018 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Braswell: Low diversity in non-technical tech roles disproves the pipeline excuse | Porter Braswell | Mar 21, 2018 | — |
| 3% | “three percent” | Braswell: Low diversity in non-technical tech roles disproves the pipeline excuse | Porter Braswell | Mar 21, 2018 | — |
| $1.5M | “a half million dollars” | Braswell: Jopwell Raised $3.5M on Demo Day with Real Traction | Porter Braswell | Mar 21, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 64.7M | “64.7 million” | Watts: UK reached 64.7 million antidepressant prescriptions last year | Dr. Rosalind Watts | Mar 15, 2018 | Supported |
| 500× | “500 X” | Bromberg: ARDC returned 500x on DEC over 11 years | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Supported |
| 6M | “a five million” | Bromberg: CRV launched at $5M and Kleiner Perkins at $7M in the 1970s | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Supported |
| 8M | “a seven million” | Bromberg: CRV launched at $5M and Kleiner Perkins at $7M in the 1970s | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Supported |
| $12B | “twelve billion dollars” | Bromberg: VC had $12B AUM in 1996, but saw $120B invested in 2000 | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Partly supported |
| $20B | “twenty billion dollars” | Bromberg: VC had $12B AUM in 1996, but saw $120B invested in 2000 | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Bromberg: Dot-com era VC funds commanded 30% to 40% carried interest | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 5B | “five billion” | Bromberg: Between 2002 and 2009, VC returned just $220B on $205B invested | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Supported |
| 20B | “twenty billion” | Bromberg: Between 2002 and 2009, VC returned just $220B on $205B invested | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Supported |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Bromberg: Startup seed rounds crested $1M for the first time around 2010 | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Contradicted |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Bromberg: ICOs raise $10M to $200M via SAFTs | Andy Bromberg | Mar 9, 2018 | Contradicted |
| 91M | “a ninety million” | Gil says passing on Lyft's $90M Series C was a major mistake | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 9B | “nine billion” | Gil says passing on Lyft's $90M Series C was a major mistake | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Gil says passing on Lyft's $90M Series C was a major mistake | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 50× | “50 X” | Gil says passing on Lyft's $90M Series C was a major mistake | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 300M | “a two hundred million” | Gil: Most angel investors care too little about valuation | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 20M | “twenty million” | Gil: Most angel investors care too little about valuation | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 3× | “three X” | Gil: Most angel investors care too little about valuation | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| $5M | “five million dollars” | Gil: Startup founder structured Jawbone exit leaving investors with severe losses | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Gil: Startup founder structured Jawbone exit leaving investors with severe losses | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Gil: Startup founder structured Jawbone exit leaving investors with severe losses | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Gil: Startup founder structured Jawbone exit leaving investors with severe losses | Elad Gil | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| $500M | “five hundred million dollars” | Nozad made the introduction to SoftBank for DoorDash's $500 million round | Pejman Nozad | Mar 8, 2018 | — |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Buchheit: Great startup ideas must initially appear bad to big companies | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Buchheit: Google founders tried to sell for $1M to Yahoo and Excite | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | Supported |
| 44× | “44 X” | Buchheit: Wufoo angel investment returned ~44x on SurveyMonkey acquisition | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 10× | “10 times” | Buchheit: Bret Taylor rewrote Google Maps' JS frontend in one weekend | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 1% | “a percent” | Buchheit: FriendFeed sold to Facebook for about 0.5% equity | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Buchheit: Juicero spent $100M before ever talking to a customer | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 1.2B | “1.2 billion” | Buchheit: Cisco Bought Meraki for $1.2B, a 73x Return | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | Supported |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Buchheit: Startup Founders Always Sell Their Companies Too Early | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Buchheit: GM Acquired Cruise for ~$1 Billion, Generating a 50x Return | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | Supported |
| $1.5M | “half a million dollars” | Buchheit: Vast majority of ICOs are scams and going to zero | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Buchheit: Vast majority of ICOs are scams and going to zero | Paul Buchheit | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Seibel: His 4.5-year angel record includes 50 deals and one billion-dollar exit | Michael Seibel | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 51M | “a fifty million” | Seibel: His 4.5-year angel record includes 50 deals and one billion-dollar exit | Michael Seibel | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Seibel: Write a Check if a Friend's Startup Would Cause Billion-Dollar FOMO | Michael Seibel | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 30% | “30%” | Seibel: Only 20% to 30% of YC startups raise follow-on funding | Michael Seibel | Mar 7, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 35% | “35%” | Seibel: Founders with under 20% equity post-Series B lack exit motivation | Michael Seibel | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Seibel: Founders with under 20% equity post-Series B lack exit motivation | Michael Seibel | Mar 7, 2018 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Levy: Typical startup SAFE discount rates range between 10% and 20% | Carolynn Levy | Mar 6, 2018 | Supported |
| 10% | “10%” | Nathoo: Closing Option Pools in Priced Rounds Are Usually Around 10% | Kirsty Nathoo | Mar 6, 2018 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Levy: Angel Investors Waste Time Negotiating Downside Protection | Carolynn Levy | Mar 6, 2018 | — |
| 20% | “20%” | Nathoo: Series A leads push pre-money SAFE conversion targeting 20% ownership | Kirsty Nathoo | Mar 6, 2018 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | Altman: Startup investing resembles addictive slot machines with rare 1000x returns | Sam Altman | Mar 6, 2018 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Altman: 80% of investors outsource 80% of decisions to other investors | Sam Altman | Mar 6, 2018 | — |
| 11B | “a ten billion” | Sam Altman: Only criterion for investing is potential to reach $10 billion | Sam Altman | Mar 6, 2018 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Altman: Seed investors must evaluate founder growth rate, not current polish | Sam Altman | Mar 6, 2018 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Altman: Ninety percent of angel capital goes into bad ideas disguised as good | Sam Altman | Mar 6, 2018 | — |
| 25% | “25%” | Altman: Humans lack evolutionary intuition for exponential startup growth | Sam Altman | Mar 6, 2018 | — |
| 40% | “40%” | Thompson: In 2011 Shanghai, 40% corporate growth felt like sandbagging | Avni Patel Thompson | Mar 2, 2018 | — |
| 2% | “two percent” | Thompson: In 2011 Shanghai, 40% corporate growth felt like sandbagging | Avni Patel Thompson | Mar 2, 2018 | — |
| 3× | “three times” | Thompson applied to Y Combinator three times before being accepted | Avni Patel Thompson | Mar 2, 2018 | — |
| 100% | “hundred percent” | Thompson and her spouse use a strict alternating primary parent schedule | Avni Patel Thompson | Mar 2, 2018 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Cannon: Raising VC for a $10M-ceiling business is the wrong game | Craig Cannon | Mar 2, 2018 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Altman: Top YC startups almost universally acquire early users manually | Sam Altman | Feb 23, 2018 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Altman leaves 50% to 60% of his schedule open for YC founders | Sam Altman | Feb 23, 2018 | — |
| 7.6% | “7.6%” | Ralston: Angel Investing Is a Game of Big Wins, Not 7.6% Returns | Geoff Ralston | Feb 7, 2018 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Ralston: Mistreating Failing Founders Destroys Deal Flow and Returns | Geoff Ralston | Feb 7, 2018 | — |
| $1M | “a million dollars” | Ralston: Conditioning angel checks on round completion makes investors useless | Geoff Ralston | Feb 7, 2018 | — |
| 15M | “fifteen million” | Chaudhary: ClassDojo growth mindset series reached about 15 million kids | Sam Chaudhary | Jan 24, 2018 | — |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Chaudhary: 50 million kids have learned growth mindset via ClassDojo | Sam Chaudhary | Jan 24, 2018 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Chaudhary: ClassDojo is in 90% of US K-8 schools | Sam Chaudhary | Jan 24, 2018 | Supported |
| 40% | “40%” | Alex Blumberg estimates 30% to 40% of NPR listeners identify as conservative | Alex Blumberg | Jan 17, 2018 | Partly supported |
| 50M | “fifty million” | Cannon: Annual Podcast Ad Revenue Is Roughly $250 Million | Craig Cannon | Jan 5, 2018 | Supported |
| 100× | “hundred X” | Culver: Producing a TV show is roughly 100x more expensive than a quality podcast | Leah Culver | Jan 5, 2018 | — |
| $50M | “fifty million dollars” | Engineering-driven paid search rarely works as a deterministic growth engine | Des Traynor | Dec 13, 2017 | — |
| $100M | “a hundred million dollars” | Engineering-driven paid search rarely works as a deterministic growth engine | Des Traynor | Dec 13, 2017 | — |
| 98% | “98%” | Slavin Predicts 98% of Americans Will Own Smartphones by 2019 | Kevin Slavin | Dec 6, 2017 | Didn’t hold up |
| 3× | “three times” | Brockman: OpenAI's hybrid bot defeated pro player Arteezy 3-0 | Greg Brockman | Nov 8, 2017 | Supported |
| 1.5M | “half a million” | Neistat: Gary Vaynerchuk invested $500K in Beme without understanding the product | Casey Neistat | Nov 1, 2017 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Hackett: Startups cannot get acquired with only one month of runway | Matt Hackett | Nov 1, 2017 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Choksi: Great content is 80% about killing bad ideas | Sonal Choksi | Oct 13, 2017 | — |
| 50% | “50%” | Hoover: Product Hunt grew user visits 50% MoM in early months | Ryan Hoover | Oct 4, 2017 | — |
| 80% | “80%” | Hoover: Manual Twitter outreach converted 80% of makers to join Product Hunt | Ryan Hoover | Oct 4, 2017 | — |
| 3M | “three million” | Hoover: Raised $3M Weekend Fund writing $50k to $200k checks | Ryan Hoover | Oct 4, 2017 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Mr. Money Mustache: US car usage should be cut by 90% | Mr. Money Mustache | Sep 27, 2017 | — |
| 60% | “60%” | Allen: About 60% of Indie Hackers traffic is outside the US | Courtland Allen | Sep 25, 2017 | — |
| 90% | “90%” | Allen: VCs Prefer Most of Their Portfolio Companies to Fail | Courtland Allen | Sep 25, 2017 | — |
| $4M | “four million dollars” | Allen: Scott's Cheap Flights is generating $4M per year | Courtland Allen | Sep 25, 2017 | Supported |
| 1M | “a million” | Allen: Mike Perham makes over $1M annually from Sidekiq | Courtland Allen | Sep 25, 2017 | Supported |
| 20% | “20%” | Thompson: Poppy grew weekly bookings from four to ten across four weeks | Avni Patel Thompson | Sep 21, 2017 | — |
| $2M | “two million dollars” | Poppy raised over $2 million seed round after YC Demo Day | Avni Patel Thompson | Sep 21, 2017 | Not publicly verifiable |
| 3× | “three times” | Avni Patel Thompson applied to Y Combinator three times before being accepted | Avni Patel Thompson | Sep 21, 2017 | — |
| 10M | “ten million” | Adhikari: LIGO stabilizes lasers ten million times beyond commercial models | Rana Adhikari | Sep 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 10,000× | “10,000 times” | Adhikari: LIGO mirrors store vibrational energy 10,000 times longer than glass | Rana Adhikari | Sep 15, 2017 | Supported |
| 10B | “ten billion” | Adhikari: Upgraded LIGO could detect signals from ten billion years ago | Rana Adhikari | Sep 15, 2017 | — |
| 100M | “hundred million” | Adhikari: An Alpha Centauri black hole merger would overwhelm LIGO electronics | Rana Adhikari | Sep 15, 2017 | Supported |
| $200M | “two hundred million dollars” | Iorns: YC biotech companies had raised over $200M by 2017 | Elizabeth Iorns | Sep 13, 2017 | Supported |
| 3M | “a two million” | Bernstam: Major investors passed on Dropbox at a $2 million valuation | Tikhon Bernstam | Sep 8, 2017 | — |
| 10× | “10 X” | Bernstam: Auditing daily software that annoys you reveals prime startup opportunities | Tikhon Bernstam | Sep 8, 2017 | — |
| 1K | “a thousand” | McCarthy: Livestreamed browsing social media of 1,000 backers for art project | Lauren McCarthy | Sep 4, 2017 | Supported |
| 30% | “30%” | Zapier saw a 30% applicant surge after announcing its delocation package | Wade Foster | Aug 18, 2017 | — |
| 95% | “95%” | Zapier adopted the Manager Tools podcast framework for internal company management | Wade Foster | Aug 18, 2017 | — |
| $1B | “a billion dollars” | Local talent shortage is the top scaling bottleneck in smaller cities | Wade Foster | Aug 18, 2017 | — |
| 1B | “a billion” | Local talent shortage is the top scaling bottleneck in smaller cities | Wade Foster | Aug 18, 2017 | — |
| 97% | “97%” | Zapier achieved 97% employee retention over a 12-month period | Wade Foster | Aug 18, 2017 | — |
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