Meanings
noun10Xer (plural 10Xers)
plural 10Xers · alternative 10xer
- businessA particularly talented and productive engineer, thought to be capable of doing the work of ten typical engineers.
Richard's a 10Xer, I'm, like, barely an Xer. I kinda suck.
2014 April 13, “The Cap Table”, in Silicon Valley, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Nelson Bighetti (Josh Brener)1 more example
He started regarding himself as the coding superstar of the firm, the 10Xer towering over all the mere mortals. Convinced that his skills were crucial to everything, he took over more and more tasks, more and more pieces of code.
2019, Clive Thompson, Coders, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 164
Origin
From 10 + x + -er, where x represents the multiplication symbol ×.
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10Xer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/10Xer
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