Nikunj Kothari ✓
@nikunj · San Francisco · joined 11 Apr 2009
partner @fpvventures - investing in seed/A. previous: early hire @meter, @opendoor, @atlassian & others. love @shimoleejhaveri + 👦👧
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Adding “sovereign” to this list based on the last few weeks
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@nikunj Fixing that with Halo.
https://t.co/xAbiTpTcgE
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The Collective, a short film.
I still think a lot of people don't understand the gravity and the details about the @OpenAI x @huggingface incident..
Primarily, because it's so complex to understand the technical reasons, and partly because it reads like a science fiction book.
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@nikunj 100%. Apple is the sleeping giant here.
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@nikunj until there is a broader embedding into native OS, the idea of a chief of staff as a point solution for the masses is unlikely. For now they are destined for a small niche market.
It's not quite 3D tv from 15 years ago, but it has that same tell for me.
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None of these chief of staff products work for busy people because they are missing more than half the knowledge that is currently stored in a walled garden (aka your phone)..
Only when you are able to combine it, get folks to train it to teach what’s important, give it
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PSA: that irrational fear of opening the microwave one second before it beeps loudly so that your infant doesn’t wake up.. doesn’t leave you even when your kids grow up 😅 https://t.co/VUILoORIUC
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@nikunj Very well written, but I think there is a 5th alternative enabled by AI
We are seeing multiple companies growing 3-5x and doing so with stellar metrics and profitability. Many of these companies can be invested in for 5-10x which is substantially lower than any public ma
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@nikunj love the generosity and care shown in your writing, shared with the rest of our team
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@nikunj Great piece- how do you keep spitting out banger after banger
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@nikunj All it takes is one yes… which can changes 49 minds.
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@nikunj I think you perhaps may be conflating company success with fundraising
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@nikunj @WillManidis wrote this essay already
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These are the words that AI tech people will use a LOT more in the next 6-9 months..
> out of distribution
> control plane
> unverifiable fields
> rails
> intelligence per watt
> cope
> angst
Some are already in rotation obviously, but expect the frequency to increase!
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Introducing Halo, an AI agent for iPhone I've been working on for over a year. A few things that sets it apart from any other personal agent:
- Runs on your iPhone, no server required
- Supports any LLM provider
- Custom agent harness that runs on-device
- Support for MCPs, http
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Against accounts of the same size
16 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, weaker reaction than most.
Median views1 898this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %4.44%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.64%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 898 | 924 | 2.05× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.44% | 3.62% | 1.23× |
| Engagement rate | 0.64% | 1.52% | 0.42× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
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
2K27 Aug
1.8K
1K
91.3K31 Aug
957
3751 Sep
541
4.8K2 Sep
22.3K3 Sep
704
403
11.8K
4294 Sep
3.4K
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.79%27 Aug
0.28%
1.00%
0.37%31 Aug
0.42%
0.80%1 Sep
2.59%
0.85%2 Sep
0.59%3 Sep
0.28%
0.50%
1.18%
0.70%4 Sep
0.30%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes56.8%3 670 in total
Reposts2.3%146 in total
Replies4.1%268 in total
Quotes1.2%80 in total
Bookmarks35.6%2 297 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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