Dan Gray ✓

@credistick

Research Lead at @joinodin | Writing about VC at https://t.co/VOOsj1Q7cI and https://t.co/mlaeDB0Em9 | “The future is not in the training data.” - @cyantist

8 981Followers

300Following

18 428Posts total

55.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views510this account2 072median for under 10K

Reach, %5.68%this account153.47%median for under 10K

Engagement, %0.89%this account1.63%median for under 10K

Metric	This account	Median for under 10K	Ratio
Median views per post	510	2 072	0.25×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	5.68%	153.47%	0.04×
Engagement rate	0.89%	1.63%	0.54×

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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

10K1 Sep

328

146

1792 Sep

43.2K3 Sep

656

942

364

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

0.87%1 Sep

0.91%

1.37%

1.68%2 Sep

0.28%3 Sep

1.07%

0.74%

0.55%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for under 10K accounts is 1.63%.

What the audience does

Likes66.8%197 in total

Reposts3.7%11 in total

Replies5.4%16 in total

Quotes3.1%9 in total

Bookmarks21.0%62 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

@credistick @ycombinator You just described YC’s moat and mistook it for anti-consensus. It doesn’t stop investors herding on legible signals; it replaces “Stanford/Meta” with “YC.” The batch becomes the credential, Demo Day the coordination point, and everyone gets to call the s 364 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

N.B. YC backed 16 space startups between 2021 and 2022, when most investors were chasing e-scooters and NFTs. 942 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@ycombinator (Yes, that's a real quote.) 656 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Overheard at YC's 2012 Demo Day: "I really liked 2008. It was a great year. People weren't trying to make money. They were trying to do something." PG is right that @ycombinator has a surprising legacy of critics, going back as far as 2007. The best batch was always the 43.2K views · 102 likes · 7 reposts · 7 replies 03 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@credistick https://t.co/adCpWzMvKv 179 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@credistick https://t.co/E1dyHaSOwg 146 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

@credistick Please stop subtweeting me 😉 328 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

"Man, this market is crazy consensus oriented. You better be hot or just not raise money I guess?" "It's about being legible to capital. It's this new thing." "For sure, VCs still invest in crazy frontier stuff. Everyone we know is on the frontier. AI, Robotics, you know. https 10K views · 74 likes · 3 reposts · 7 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →