Michael Bloch ✓

@michaelxbloch · New York, NY · joined 29 Apr 2014

Partner @QuietCapital. Previously founded Pillar (acquired by @Acorns) + early @DoorDash. Tweets about startups, tech, AI, and investing.

12 061Followers

3 672Following

1 659Posts total

772.2KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Michael Bloch ✓@michaelxbloch31 Aug

No one alive has done more for human productivity than @elonmusk. Right now I'm sitting in my Tesla. I haven't touched the wheel since I got in. FSD is driving me home. I'm having a voice discussion with Grok about quantum tech as it drives me. It’s seamless and near zero 4.3K views · 72 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Michael Bloch ✓@michaelxbloch30 Aug

Disagree with Auren here. Moats are alive and well. There are just fewer moats than before. These are the ones that matter in this new age https://t.co/WFMPQ95Z3J 6.9K views · 26 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Michael Bloch ✓@michaelxbloch18 Aug

The AI Talent Paradox: AI was supposed to replace talent. Instead, it has made talent scarcer 2.3K views · 17 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Michael Bloch ✓@michaelxbloch18 Aug

It’s ironic that in this post AI world, when I talk to any early stage founder and ask them what the bottleneck is in their business, the response nearly 100% of the time is great people. 29.4K views · 156 likes · 5 reposts · 30 replies Open on X →

Michael Bloch ✓@michaelxbloch6 Aug

Huge congrats to Taalas on joining AMD!! @taalas_inc built silicon around the model to make AI inference dramatically faster, cheaper, and more efficient. Bringing that approach inside AMD will be a massive unlock for the next era of AI compute. Proud that @QuietCapital has 9.7K views · 49 likes · 0 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Michael Bloch ✓@michaelxbloch31 Mar

@michaelxbloch agree, great post and points. I do also wonder if reputation/brand is a moat - as it cannot be built/rushed with AI. 5.1K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Michael Bloch ✓@michaelxbloch31 Mar

TLDR: AI is about to make everything that's hard to do easy. The only defensible companies will be the ones built on things that are hard to get. I think every durable company will need at least one of these five characteristics: - network effects (every user makes it better for 14.8K views · 115 likes · 10 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Michael Bloch ✓@michaelxbloch30 Mar

https://t.co/Sbr574u8fu 699.8K views · 1.6K likes · 165 reposts · 90 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views5 588this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %46.33%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.77%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	5 588	924	6.05×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	46.33%	3.62%	12.8×
Engagement rate	0.77%	1.52%	0.50×

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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

699.8K30 Mar

14.8K31 Mar

5.1K

9.7K6 Aug

29.4K18 Aug

2.3K

6.9K30 Aug

4.3K31 Aug

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

0.27%30 Mar

0.93%31 Mar

0.43%

0.57%6 Aug

0.67%18 Aug

0.86%

0.42%30 Aug

1.83%31 Aug

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

What the audience does

Likes27.5%2 011 in total

Reposts2.5%182 in total

Replies2.0%149 in total

Quotes1.5%111 in total

Bookmarks66.5%4 859 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.