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Followers
168.1K
Posts
23.5K
Following
3.3K
Account age
19 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$941 – $1.5K / sponsored post
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📊 Post performance
95.2K
Avg views / post
56.7%
Reach vs followers
Mar 2007
On X since
🔥 Top post: 1/ I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining @a16z as a partner · 568K views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.06 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 1 image · 17 text.
Follower / following
51×
Follows 3.3K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Verification
✓ X Premium
A paid X Premium (Blue) verified account.
Recent posts
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A quote that has stuck with me from a breakfast 18 years ago:
There are few opportunities in your career to work on something transformative, and many to work on something iterative. The first feels like a mission, the second feels like a…
Founders of Airbnb and Box from January. They said it well.
This evening I was again reminded how many startups have tried to solve the problem
“what is going on in my area this weekend that might enjoy?”
and… how unsolved that problem still is.
“It’s not you, it’s the stage of the company.”
I have had this same conversation recently with a number of friends who joined a startup very early, did amazing work, saw huge scale of the company, and were now feeling stuck, unwanted, som…
Microsoft can buy all the game studios they want. Minesweeper for Windows is still the best game they will ever make. Except maybe Excel.
People often say the most important attribute of a startup is speed. But I think speed is overrated.
The most important attribute is purpose.
I wrote down some advice I often give people when evaluating startup offers and thought I would offer it here.
Massive blockbuster public offerings are the flagstones of an era.
1986 - Microsoft - software
1995 - Netscape - internet access
2004 - Google - internet services
2012 - Facebook - social
2014 - Alibaba - Chinese internet
2019 - Uber - m…
Imagine designing something that won’t launch for 7 years, will take almost 7 months to get to its destination, and then has to work on the first try no second chances or bug fixes.
Think you’d get it right on one shot?
Congrats Team NA…
OH:
Remote work is great for getting work done.
Remote work is much worse for figuring out the work to get done.
Heard a crazy story about someone secretly working two jobs full time remotely and no one has noticed for 5 months.
Microsoft can buy all the game studios they want. Minesweeper for Windows is still the best game they will ever make. Except maybe Excel.
People often say the most important attribute of a startup is speed. But I think speed is overrated.
The most important attribute is purpose.
I wrote down some advice I often give people when evaluating startup offers and thought I would offer it here.
Massive blockbuster public offerings are the flagstones of an era.
1986 - Microsoft - software
1995 - Netscape - internet access
2004 - Google - internet services
2012 - Facebook - social
2014 - Alibaba - Chinese internet
2019 - Uber - m…
Imagine designing something that won’t launch for 7 years, will take almost 7 months to get to its destination, and then has to work on the first try no second chances or bug fixes.
Think you’d get it right on one shot?
Congrats Team NA…
OH:
Remote work is great for getting work done.
Remote work is much worse for figuring out the work to get done.
Heard a crazy story about someone secretly working two jobs full time remotely and no one has noticed for 5 months.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2007 — 19 years ago.
👁️Averages 95.2K views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬0.93% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated46/100
Fair
Credibility score
69%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 69% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.6× of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (19+ years old).
- 0.93% engagement — below the ~14.4% typical for this size.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
I have been very lucky to work on or invest in many products I use every day including this. Now finding and helping the next great consumer companies at @a16z
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