Brad Lightcap ✓

@bradlightcap · San Francisco · joined 11 May 2011

@OpenAI

41 261Followers

997Following

238Posts total

2.9MViews on collected posts

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Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap11 Aug

@bradlightcap thank you for everything! i very fondly remember our earliest conversations about openai, when it sounded totally crazy and you were one of the few people that got it. since then, you have taken on any function and challenge openai has needed; we would not be wher 103.7K views · 1.5K likes · 28 reposts · 66 replies Open on X →

Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap11 Aug

@bradlightcap Congrats on an amazing run my friend! Thank you for everything you did for OpenAI. 9.2K views · 72 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap11 Aug

@bradlightcap All the best and good fortune to your new project. 9.1K views · 66 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap11 Aug

i shared the message below with the openai team this morning. these decisions are never easy, but the talent and mission orientation of the openai team make me more optimistic than ever. 🤍 ### Team, it is bittersweet to share that I’ll be moving on from OpenAI to start 1.9M views · 3.6K likes · 138 reposts · 300 replies Open on X →

Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap7 Aug

with love from prototown, tx 🫶🇺🇸 44.4K views · 59 likes · 2 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap11 May

the OpenAI Deployment Company is a new company built to help businesses deploy frontier AI into the most critical work they do every day 32.2K views · 163 likes · 8 reposts · 20 replies Open on X →

Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap9 Mar

💡 31.8K views · 85 likes · 2 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap9 Mar

If you want AI Code Review, but don't want to pay $25 per review (not a typo), check out Codex Review! It leverages frontier Codex models, finds complex issues, and 100% usage based. Most runs should cost ~$1 or less https://t.co/43iF6rq8Xa 196.8K views · 1.4K likes · 69 reposts · 84 replies Open on X →

Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap5 Mar

ryan and team worked extremely hard to make gpt-5.4 great for finance it's much improved for financial modeling and analysis, integrates directly into excel, and connects to factiva, daloopa, s&p global, and many more it does feel like a codex moment is coming here https://t.co 202.3K views · 806 likes · 48 reposts · 32 replies Open on X →

Brad Lightcap ✓@bradlightcap5 Mar

Excited to share that I’ve joined OpenAI to help build the future of financial intelligence. My focus is connecting models directly to the data sources, tools, and workflows analysts use every day. My team’s first product is the Excel plugin. After software engineering, finance 366.6K views · 994 likes · 48 reposts · 60 replies Open on X →

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

Median views44 368this account972median for 10K–100K

Reach, %107.53%this account3.80%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.72%this account1.53%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	44 368	972	45.6×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	107.53%	3.80%	28.3×
Engagement rate	0.72%	1.53%	0.47×

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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

366.6K5 Mar

202.3K

196.8K9 Mar

31.8K

32.2K11 May

44.4K7 Aug

1.9M11 Aug

9.1K

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103.7K

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.30%5 Mar

0.44%

0.79%9 Mar

0.30%

0.60%11 May

0.16%7 Aug

0.22%11 Aug

0.72%

0.78%

1.53%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.53%.

What the audience does

Likes77.8%8 735 in total

Reposts3.1%343 in total

Replies5.2%581 in total

Quotes1.7%191 in total

Bookmarks12.2%1 374 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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