Lol, Jez is such a clown. While looking for the most recent Gamepass numbers before now, I found a Jez written Window's Central article about the "over 30m" on the Xbox employee's LinkedIn profile, and in that article Jez claimed that Xbox Live Gold had 60m subs, some of which would convert to Gamepass Core. Xbox never had that many Gold subs afaik, the most I can remember is 40m back in late 360 life, Xbox said they had 60m total Xbox Live users on console at one point, but that was free + Gold Xbox Live accounts, not just Gold.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-game-pass-has-over-30-million-subscribers-according-to-linkedin
"Yesterday, Microsoft officially rebranded Xbox Live Gold to Xbox Game Pass Core. Xbox Live Gold has roughly 60 million members, although again, exact figures can be hard to lock down. If Microsoft now considers these 60 million users as being part of Xbox Game Pass, the total footprint of the service will utterly swell. Xbox Game Pass Core only features 25 games from the wider Xbox Game Pass library, designed to be more of a taster for potential converts. However, for most users, it will be more cost-effective potentially to move to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, which includes Xbox Live Gold's legacy multiplayer service as well as hundreds of games across Windows, Xbox, and cloud endpoints."
