Alex Rampell ✓

@arampell · Palo Alto, CA · joined 24 Oct 2010

Silicon Valley entrepreneur (cofounder@ TrialPay, Yub, Affirm, Point, TXN), investor (General Partner @a16z), husband, father and sarcast (one who is sarcastic)

57 485Followers

1 506Following

11 062Posts total

133KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views2 947this account2 578median for 10K–100K

Reach, %5.13%this account7.77%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.41%this account1.47%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	2 947	2 578	1.14×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.13%	7.77%	0.66×
Engagement rate	0.41%	1.47%	0.28×

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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

16.2K10 Aug

29K11 Aug

212

8112 Aug

2.9K20 Aug

3.1K2 Sep

71.5K3 Sep

4.3K

2.7K

2.9K

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.18%10 Aug

0.56%11 Aug

5.88%

0.47%

1.23%12 Aug

0.27%20 Aug

0.65%2 Sep

0.22%3 Sep

0.35%

0.41%

0.28%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.47%.

What the audience does

Likes62.2%341 in total

Reposts2.9%16 in total

Replies9.3%51 in total

Quotes1.8%10 in total

Bookmarks23.7%130 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

@arampell @rubenharris Inscrutable tweet to Swifties. How can karma be both a bitch…and my boyfriend? 2.9K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 @arampell Paired with @dhaber's tweet, there is 🫖 2.7K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 @arampell https://t.co/8wenOO8nqZ 4.3K views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 Karma is a bitch 71.5K views · 143 likes · 4 reposts · 11 replies 03 Sep 2026 Previously, there were three different layers of "fraud" (and its corollary, validation) on the Internet. These are important in case a transaction is litigated: 1. Is this a real identity/user Think: this is a valid government document, the profile is real and maps to a 3.1K views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 2 replies 02 Sep 2026 @AppleClassical bug in this album listing…not Brahms! Second track is mislabeled. https://t.co/mJyY9vfFE4 2.9K views · 5 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 20 Aug 2026 @arampell increased productivity also puts pressure on coordination few companies are set up in a way to be able to absorb 10x more productivity on individual-contributor level let alone 100x 81 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 12 Aug 2026 @arampell Great post. AI growing the pie for the customer while also making growing human lazy agents is super unclear at this stage. One conclusion takes it to UBI path, other possibilities needs to be figured out. 212 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 11 Aug 2026 @arampell The missing layer is incentive design: AI gains must become legible to the principal without making employees worse off. Otherwise the rational equilibrium is “automate privately, report baseline output,” turning hidden productivity into an equilibrium—not a bug. 17 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 11 Aug 2026 The Principal-Agent vs. Agents Problem Every human in the workforce has two crude goals: 1. Be richer. 2. Be lazier. Get paid 2x more, or keep salary flat? Get paid more! Go home at 11:01 PM, or stay up until 5 AM? Go home at 11:01 PM! This isn’t a moral judgment. It’s 29K views · 120 likes · 7 reposts · 30 replies 11 Aug 2026 Sometimes the user is not the customer User = person who actually uses the product Customer = person who actually pays for the product If they are one and the same, then the product, sign-up flow, etc have to be great You know they’re not when you see something like this: https 16.2K views · 22 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies 10 Aug 2026 “Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” -Richard Feynman (1966) https://t.co/wRxMj7kd7b 0 views · 965 likes · 198 reposts · 77 replies 22 Feb 2021