Mary Ann Azevedo ✓

@bayareawriter · Austin - before that, San Jose · joined 17 Feb 2011

Freelance writer @CrunchbaseNews, @ThisWeekinFintech, Ex-@TechCrunch. Believer in the power of kindness. maryannazev@gmail.com.

42 988Followers

6 934Following

17 022Posts total

508KViews on collected posts

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Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter4 Sep

@bayareawriter @IlyaLevtov technical founder bias gets overrated sometimes 14 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter3 Sep

Global proptech funding has reached $8.7 billion so far in 2026, putting the sector on pace to match or slightly exceed last year. But investors are making fewer, larger bets: Deal count is down sharply, four of the five biggest rounds were raised outside the U.S., and M&A is 728 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter2 Sep

@IlyaLevtov https://t.co/scMT5LYYwg 153 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter2 Sep

By conventional Silicon Valley standards, @IlyaLevtov had some of the credentials one might expect of a startup founder: Stanford Business School, experience as a VC on Sand Hill Road, and time working inside a fast-growing venture-backed startup. One thing he decidedly lacked h

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Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter2 Sep

NEW from me: Former Apple Engineers’ Physical AI Startup Lyte Raises $165M At $1.6B Valuation Lyte, a physical AI startup building sensing and perception technology for robots, has raised $165 million in Series C funding at a $1.6 billion post-money valuation. The financing, ht

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Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter1 Sep

WhatsApp Remittance Startup Félix Secures $200M Series C Led By A16z, General Catalyst https://t.co/zwYo5davZx https://t.co/1ogZBH0Eni

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Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter1 Sep

I have no problem with someone standing at a concert if they’re in an area where standing isn’t blocking many people’s view. Maybe they should have bought floor seats or the back row of this section instead of the front. If they had bothered to turn around once they would have 1.4K views · 7 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter31 Aug

And for all the people saying I’m unreasonable/demanding/crazy/a Karen for wanting to be able to see the concert I paid for, here are what are considered violations at the venue: https://t.co/OTS7nS5ZYw

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Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter31 Aug

@bayareawriter Seems to me that you don’t go to many concerts because people usually do stand even if they are at seats 36.3K views · 471 likes · 0 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →

Mary Ann Azevedo ✓@bayareawriter31 Aug

To the two young ladies who thought it was okay to stand for 95% of the Jack Johnson concert in Austin last night in the front row of an all-seated section, I don’t think you realize how much your behavior negatively impacted the experience for those of us sitting behind you. You

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

Median views1 133this account1 088median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.64%this account3.86%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.72%this account1.66%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 133	1 088	1.04×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.64%	3.86%	0.68×
Engagement rate	0.72%	1.66%	0.43×

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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

415.1K31 Aug

36.3K

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1.4K1 Sep

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7472 Sep

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Engagement rate per post

0.77%31 Aug

1.36%

0.75%

0.72%1 Sep

0.72%

0.54%2 Sep

0.35%

0.65%

1.10%3 Sep

0.00%4 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.66%.

What the audience does

Likes73.3%3 094 in total

Reposts3.3%138 in total

Replies19.7%832 in total

Quotes1.5%65 in total

Bookmarks2.2%91 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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