Jeff Kauflin ✓

@JeffKauflin · United States · joined 30 Jan 2012

Senior editor @forbes focused on fintech and financial services. Send tips to jeff.273 on Signal, jkauflin@forbes.com or DM for phone # (DMs open).

13 401Followers

1 513Following

2 678Posts total

104.5KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Jeff Kauflin ✓@JeffKauflin1 Sep

New: Once largely unknown to judges and lawyers, rebates paid to class action claims administrators by fintechs and banks are spilling into public view–and prompting the administrators to forgo them in major settlements: https://t.co/MsBGjN2SUO https://t.co/o2Nn6EuED3 7.4K views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Kauflin ✓@JeffKauflin26 Aug

Vanguard's $4-$5bn acquisition of fintech company Altruist is only the second ever for the 51-year-old company as it tries to expand beyond index-fund fees: https://t.co/po8mS90Tax 249 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Kauflin ✓@JeffKauflin19 Aug

1) NEW: During Affirm’s early years, cofounder and CEO Max Levchin wondered, “Holy crap! Are we ever going to be profitable?” Inside the fintech’s slow-and-steady path to profitability: https://t.co/yWt8zrrOn3 6.9K views · 4 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jeff Kauflin ✓@JeffKauflin30 Jul

@JeffKauflin @Forbes It's all super woooo 31 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Kauflin ✓@JeffKauflin30 Jul

@JeffKauflin @Forbes .;:- 85 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Jeff Kauflin ✓@JeffKauflin30 Jul

Two years ago, Ryan Williams sold Cadre for more than $300 million, according to a person familiar with the deal. His new startup Ellis is using AI to try to fix private credit's data mess: https://t.co/XC5TWvmMrU 9.9K views · 10 likes · 4 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Jeff Kauflin ✓@JeffKauflin30 Jul

Did they graduate?😭 https://t.co/m0vR3QHAsC 79.6K views · 48 likes · 15 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Jeff Kauflin ✓@JeffKauflin22 Jul

One year later, Capital One's $51 billion Discover takeover is starting to pay off: https://t.co/w0BQxgjEE6 309 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 588this account1 095median for 10K–100K

Reach, %26.78%this account3.94%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.10%this account1.68%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 588	1 095	3.28×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	26.78%	3.94%	6.80×
Engagement rate	0.10%	1.68%	0.06×

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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

30922 Jul

79.6K30 Jul

9.9K

6.9K19 Aug

24926 Aug

7.4K1 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.65%22 Jul

0.09%30 Jul

0.16%

0.00%

0.12%19 Aug

0.00%26 Aug

0.13%1 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.68%.

What the audience does

Likes45.1%69 in total

Reposts16.3%25 in total

Replies9.8%15 in total

Quotes1.3%2 in total

Bookmarks27.5%42 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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