Lee Hower ✓

@leehower · Boston / SF · joined 16 Mar 2008

Co-founder & Partner NextView Ventures, previously LinkedIn co-founder and foot soldier in PayPal Mafia. Obsessed with the big picture.

20 567Followers

855Following

5 354Posts total

4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Lee Hower ✓@leehower16 Sep

A thoughtful, nuanced perspective. 527 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lee Hower ✓@leehower9 Sep

We are grateful for all of your contributions as an investor and firm-building collaborator over the last 4 years, and wish you well in whatever's next. Thanks Stephanie. 1.4K views · 10 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Lee Hower ✓@leehower9 Sep

I was worried for a minute there about AI risk to humanity. But someone put in context here so I’m less concerned… 792 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Lee Hower ✓@leehower3 Sep

Had to chuckle when CNBC questioned how NVIDIA would justify $13B acquisition price of Hugging Face. NVIDIA generated $59B in net income last quarter. So we’re talking ~3 weeks of profit here folks…. 627 views · 15 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Lee Hower ✓@leehower1 Sep

Fambot has come out of stealth and announced it's pre-seed round today. Living in a household with two working parents and a fifth grader, an agentic "family chief of staff" is something near and dear to my daily life. Excited for the Fambot team continuing to build here and 654 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

5 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.

Median views654this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.18%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.88%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	654	924	0.71×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.18%	3.62%	0.88×
Engagement rate	0.88%	1.52%	0.58×

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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

6541 Sep

6273 Sep

7929 Sep

1.4K

52716 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.38%1 Sep

2.55%3 Sep

0.88%9 Sep

0.85%

0.19%16 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes83.7%41 in total

Reposts4.1%2 in total

Replies4.1%2 in total

Bookmarks8.2%4 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.