Alfred Lin ✓
@Alfred_Lin · San Francisco, CA, USA · joined 08 Mar 2008
Partner @sequoia. Working w/ founders from idea to IPO & beyond: @airbnb @doordash @citsecurities @kalshi @clay @foundforbiz @Nominal_io @zipline
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Two things early founders often get wrong, and should remember:
1) Building culture can feel like it's just fluff at the start. Until you start to raise capital or hire teams, and then you see how it shapes everything you do moving forward.
2) You should build a team so
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Say what you will about non-founder CEOs, but they have delivered for shareholders. https://t.co/2oPcK9Jqp8
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@Alfred_Lin Cool! Some perspectives for long term predictions
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@Alfred_Lin @Konstantine is thee man. Already read twice :)
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Great piece by my partner Konstantine, on how AI is a cognition revolution and how it compares to what we saw with the industrial revolution.
"Over the course of about two centuries, physical work went from 99% biological to 99.9% machine. [...] A century ago, 99% of cognitive h
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Tim Cook disproved his skeptics by focusing on Apple’s core competencies. Know your own differentiated competencies that let you become a long-term winner. https://t.co/2DVuKEj8yv
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Everyone knows Doug is the GOAT. Internally though, he still calls himself the new associate. It's always Day 1 for him. Great interview with David on many of the lessons he's learned through his storied career.
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@Alfred_Lin Or you could join Amplitude and take over the world with me
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@Alfred_Lin Early in your career, proximity to exceptional people is probably more valuable than almost any title or ownership percentage.
You’re learning what great looks like while building a network of people who may go on to build the next generation of companies.
Those rel
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@Alfred_Lin One should either start their own company immediately OR join a rocketship. Being a non-founder / early employee at a non-rocketship is the worst asymmetry both financially and experentially
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A common failure pattern I see with young people is joining a smaller startup because "they'll get more ownership" (or some similar iteration).
When you're young, you should optimize for learning. Sometimes the smaller startup is the right choice. But it's often better to join
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Gritty people have passion and perseverance because their interests absorb them, their work leads them to experience flow, and they believe their work has a purpose.
However, their path to excellence is more than just logging more hours of practice. They log more hours of
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@Alfred_Lin One of my favorite things is finding modern frameworks hiding in our Jewish ancient texts - and there's a very fundamental story we tell kids in kindergarten about Rabbi Akiva.
Rabbi Akiva was one of our greatest scholars, but he wasn't always like that. He was a sim
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@Alfred_Lin Will preface this with I myself tend towards a grittier, higher urgency culture within my co - but honestly, is it really even necessary?
There have been numerous examples of companies with non-gritty conditions that have succeeded. It really feels like tenacity is a
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If you want your company to be gritty: create a gritty culture, hire gritty people, and celebrate gritty achievements. https://t.co/KLN7iC7zlK
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Against accounts of the same size
17 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views4 951this account5 983median for 100K–1M
Reach, %3.30%this account1.49%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.57%this account0.93%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 4 951 | 5 983 | 0.83× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.30% | 1.49% | 2.21× |
| Engagement rate | 0.57% | 0.93% | 0.61× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
2625 Aug
28.2K26 Aug
93K28 Aug
3.5K
3.9K
5K
32.1K30 Aug
69.6K1 Sep
56.3K2 Sep
523
141
66
45.1K3 Sep
188.2K4 Sep
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.00%25 Aug
0.83%26 Aug
1.29%28 Aug
1.56%
0.86%
0.57%
0.88%30 Aug
0.26%1 Sep
0.56%2 Sep
0.19%
2.13%
0.00%
0.33%3 Sep
0.74%4 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.93%.
What the audience does
Likes57.4%3 848 in total
Reposts3.5%237 in total
Replies3.1%209 in total
Quotes1.2%79 in total
Bookmarks34.8%2 330 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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