Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) ✓

@MartinGTobias · joined 13 Jun 2007

Entrepreneur, Investor, girldad, cyclist, surfer, poker player. Pre-seed up to $500K. Chat with me https://t.co/96wsMImeiy. Get $$ https://t.co/d7utyst2XW

60 187Followers

9 627Following

19 930Posts total

13.2KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

8 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. below its peers on both reach and engagement.

Median views1 576this account2 043median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.62%this account6.16%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.88%this account1.59%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 576	2 043	0.77×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.62%	6.16%	0.43×
Engagement rate	0.88%	1.59%	0.55×

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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

1.9K4 Sep

4K

78

143

90

1.2K

3.8K

1.9K

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

1.46%4 Sep

0.92%

0.00%

2.10%

0.00%

0.56%

0.84%

2.10%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.59%.

What the audience does

Likes57.8%96 in total

Reposts1.2%2 in total

Replies25.9%43 in total

Quotes3.6%6 in total

Bookmarks11.4%19 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.

Latest posts

Stop calling it bad luck. The churned logo. The failed hire. The term sheet that got pulled. Every one of them showed you something a good year never would. You don't find your ceiling in the win. You find it in the recovery. 1.9K views · 32 likes · 0 reposts · 7 replies 04 Sep 2026 The more important number is what % of each batch does a down or flat round next? In my experience it is a majority. To be sure I have invested in companies that kept going, but the premium is not earned across the board. 3.8K views · 25 likes · 1 reposts · 5 replies 04 Sep 2026 The AI doomers have it wrong. I have been saying for some time that AI will be a net job creator. Some data is starting to come in. GE Appliance has implemented tons of AI in their manufacturing and are adding 600 people to their plant to make more stuff because AI makes them h 1.2K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 @MartinGTobias I agree... Had a lead investor beg me to let him take the full allocation and give him a month more to close. I agreed because he invested in my last company and we had a good relationship... That month dragged out to three months. I eventually had to cut him loose 90 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 @MartinGTobias My worst story is of an investor that rug pulled me ON THE DAY we were meeting to sign and wire! Dude, I paid for that meal, and afterwards he drops the news that he’s not investing. Like WTF!? 😳 That put me in a bad position. However we’ve signed our first cus 143 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 04 Sep 2026 @MartinGTobias getting wrecked first is the fastest education in cap tables 78 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 Everyone wants the clean cap table and the fast round. The founders who compound got wrecked first. Missed payroll. Sued. Ghosted by a lead investor at the eleventh hour. Then they knew exactly what they'd do next time. Comfort teaches you nothing you can use. 4K views · 26 likes · 1 reposts · 9 replies 04 Sep 2026 After dozens of A/B tests I have got to say I like Opus for writing better than Fable. Anyone else have model preferences for different tasks that may not be frontier ? 1.9K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 18 replies 04 Sep 2026

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