Pete Koomen ✓

@koomen · joined 08 May 2008

GP @ycombinator, cofounded @optimizely https://t.co/5hkCw4y95d

15 348Followers

1 950Following

1 815Posts total

1.9MViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Pete Koomen ✓@koomen26 Aug

Now that building software is so cheap I am surprised on a ~daily basis at how many opportunities there are to make something at YC better with more of it. 18.3K views · 186 likes · 7 reposts · 22 replies Open on X →

Pete Koomen ✓@koomen26 Aug

@clairevo is absolutely formidable. She's one of the few people I've met who is just as comfortable and effective building a product as she is building a large team. 4.3K views · 32 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Pete Koomen ✓@koomen25 Aug

I am having the most fun of my life building with AI, and I think every company should, too so i'm starting something new: https://t.co/gP7DHXddec AI transformation consulting for AI-pilled leaders (by builders, not consultants) why I had to do it 👇 https://t.co/SU7oH5vbLP 398.6K views · 903 likes · 40 reposts · 90 replies Open on X →

Pete Koomen ✓@koomen16 Aug

Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC in 1979 and got a glimpse of the future. John Ternus can do this today without leaving his office: 20.4K views · 74 likes · 3 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Pete Koomen ✓@koomen4 Aug

@koomen Hi Pete, we are about to release OpenSaaS, an open source suite (accounts, HR, docs, expense, email) that runs on Cloud Engines (https://t.co/UZjjSFQ8YJ). Same category as Salesforce / Oracle / SAP, but free, tamperproof, and AI-native (full agentic data intelligence with 8.6K views · 394 likes · 89 reposts · 19 replies Open on X →

Pete Koomen ✓@koomen3 Aug

@koomen I have tons of experience doing this... it almost always ends up a complete catastrophe. The better play is to negotiate with the vendors. Hard. 5.1K views · 206 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Pete Koomen ✓@koomen3 Aug

@koomen i have enough experience to not touch this with a 10 foot pole 🫡 23.6K views · 654 likes · 7 reposts · 8 replies Open on X →

Pete Koomen ✓@koomen2 Aug

I just spoke with a founder who is buying several factories. The first thing he wants to do is rip out Salesforce, Oracle and SAP, for which they’re paying a combined $1m per month. If you have experience with this please DM! 1.2M views · 4.1K likes · 141 reposts · 686 replies Open on X →

Pete Koomen ✓@koomen1 Aug

The percentage of YC applications containing the word "wedge" went from <1% in spring 25 to >20% in summer 26 https://t.co/6Ly1Z8Y6uW 202.6K views · 1.2K likes · 18 reposts · 112 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views20 445this account954median for 10K–100K

Reach, %133.21%this account3.34%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.77%this account1.90%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	20 445	954	21.4×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	133.21%	3.34%	39.9×
Engagement rate	0.77%	1.90%	0.41×

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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

202.6K1 Aug

1.2M2 Aug

23.6K3 Aug

5.1K

8.6K4 Aug

20.4K16 Aug

398.6K25 Aug

4.3K26 Aug

18.3K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.66%1 Aug

0.43%2 Aug

2.84%3 Aug

4.08%

5.89%4 Aug

0.40%16 Aug

0.27%25 Aug

0.77%26 Aug

1.18%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.90%.

What the audience does

Likes66.2%7 773 in total

Reposts2.6%306 in total

Replies8.0%943 in total

Quotes1.6%193 in total

Bookmarks21.5%2 521 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.