Aaron Epstein ✓

@aaron_epstein · San Francisco · joined 03 Apr 2009

General Partner @YCombinator. Previously co-founder @CreativeMarket.

110 251Followers

630Following

5 690Posts total

202.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Aaron Epstein ✓@aaron_epstein3 Sep

"Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." –Teller True in magic, and amazing products too. 14.5K views · 334 likes · 40 reposts · 16 replies Open on X →

Aaron Epstein ✓@aaron_epstein2 Sep

Just a few years ago these were renderings during the YC batch, so cool to see the Seaglider come to life and fly! Incredible work @billythalheimer and @regentcraft team! 8.6K views · 48 likes · 4 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Aaron Epstein ✓@aaron_epstein20 Aug

Thunder Compute built crazy tech to turn idle GPUs into extra capacity. Congrats @carlpeterson and @brain_model on the series A! 7.3K views · 22 likes · 5 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Aaron Epstein ✓@aaron_epstein7 Aug

This is the frontier of how designers are using agents today, with @stephenhaney @paper 24.8K views · 84 likes · 11 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Aaron Epstein ✓@aaron_epstein7 Aug

AI isn't just changing the tools designers use. It's changing how they build, ship, and stand out. In this episode of Design Review, @stephenhaney, founder of AI-native design tool @paper, joins YC's @aaron_epstein to demo the agent-first workflow that's making Paper one of the

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117.8K views · 394 likes · 43 reposts · 38 replies Open on X →

Aaron Epstein ✓@aaron_epstein1 Aug

Join the rocketship 13.5K views · 45 likes · 2 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Aaron Epstein ✓@aaron_epstein1 Aug

We are hiring a founding product designer in SF. Comp is at least 180K + equity! 15.7K views · 18 likes · 1 reposts · 9 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views14 480this account4 981median for 100K–1M

Reach, %13.13%this account1.73%median for 100K–1M

Engagement, %0.41%this account1.22%median for 100K–1M

Metric	This account	Median for 100K–1M	Ratio
Median views per post	14 480	4 981	2.91×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	13.13%	1.73%	7.59×
Engagement rate	0.41%	1.22%	0.34×

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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

15.7K1 Aug

13.5K

117.8K7 Aug

24.8K

7.3K20 Aug

8.6K2 Sep

14.5K3 Sep

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.19%1 Aug

0.37%

0.42%7 Aug

0.42%

0.40%20 Aug

0.64%2 Sep

2.72%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.22%.

What the audience does

Likes73.7%945 in total

Reposts8.3%106 in total

Replies6.2%79 in total

Quotes1.6%21 in total

Bookmarks10.2%131 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.