Leo Polovets ✓

@lpolovets · joined 08 May 2009

GP @HumbaVC ($250k-$1m checks in deep tech + critical sectors). Co-founder @SusaVentures. 🦍 Prev: Caltech; 2nd engineer at LinkedIn; Google

70 114Followers

1 128Following

30 442Posts total

569.2KViews on collected posts

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Leo Polovets ✓@lpolovets10 Sep

Organoids are so cool. They are tiny 3D tissues that mimic features of human organs. E.g. cardiac organoids beat spontaneously and immune organoids can produce antibody responses. Great post by @annasofialesiv on their potential to transform drug development. 2.6K views · 11 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Leo Polovets ✓@lpolovets10 Sep

what if the cost of drug development followed the cost curve of mass to orbit? what might it take to flip the success rate of successful trials from 5% to 95% I wrote about organoids and how they might help us tackle the biggest cost center in getting drugs to market. https://t.c

5.2K views · 39 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Leo Polovets ✓@lpolovets9 Sep

I've coded up lots of personal tools over the last few months: * it's so fun! * so easy to get to 80% done, so hard to hit 100% * I wish latency was lower * main impact on my investing: seeing what I can do with Claude in 10hrs/wk has recalibrated my expectations for sw teams. 5.8K views · 58 likes · 1 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

Leo Polovets ✓@lpolovets26 Aug

The DoE announced participants for its Nuclear Energy Launch Pad initiative, and almost 20% are backed by @humbavc! It's great to see https://t.co/PBEx3YDk8a and @AntaresNuclear on the list, and I'm very bullish on nuclear energy in the US in coming years. https://t.co/wdhp4MA21D 1.7K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Leo Polovets ✓@lpolovets25 Aug

This is one of the best company manifestos I've read: an incredibly clear, cogent, and inspiring for the future of ̶l̶o̶g̶i̶s̶t̶i̶c̶s̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶t̶r̶a̶n̶s̶p̶o̶r̶t̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ movement. @Airbound_Aero is a company to watch. Link: https://t.co/uZgvUNiELh 15K views · 59 likes · 7 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Leo Polovets ✓@lpolovets21 Nov 2023

@lpolovets @humbavc Nice to see the structural case laid out so cleanly - esp on misconceptions around relative capital intensity. I wrote to our LPs earlier this year re: subsurface startups and we continue to see similar dynamics across other deep tech areas https://t.co/NF05jf

5.4K views · 25 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Leo Polovets ✓@lpolovets21 Nov 2023

@humbavc Thank you to @julian, @hberkman, @nunzi46, @MrExits, @jaimalik, @IanRountree, @seegoddard, and Josh Manchester for feedback on this post. Josh is the smartest of all of us because he doesn't use Twitter. 😂 10.6K views · 42 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Leo Polovets ✓@lpolovets21 Nov 2023

Since I'm investing in deep tech & critical national sectors via our fund @humbavc, I wanted to better understand if deep tech is VC-fundable. So, I did what any engineer would: I analyzed data! TLDR: deep tech is probably the best place to invest today. https://t.co/0IxifARTPl 522.8K views · 955 likes · 132 reposts · 92 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 views5 165this account981median for 10K–100K

Reach, %7.37%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.54%this account1.61%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 165	981	5.27×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	7.37%	3.62%	2.03×
Engagement rate	0.54%	1.61%	0.34×

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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

522.8K21 Nov

10.6K

5.4K

15K25 Aug

1.7K26 Aug

5.8K9 Sep

5.2K10 Sep

2.6K

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

0.23%21 Nov

0.41%

0.50%

0.44%25 Aug

0.29%26 Aug

1.21%9 Sep

0.83%10 Sep

0.54%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.61%.

What the audience does

Likes54.6%1 193 in total

Reposts6.7%146 in total

Replies5.0%110 in total

Bookmarks33.6%734 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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