Rich ✓

@richzou · us-west-2 · joined 14 Dec 2015

startup helper / investor 🤓

11 163Followers

2 028Following

3 940Posts total

236.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

Rich ✓@richzou22 Sep

Big fan of this 1.6K views · 14 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Rich ✓@richzou30 Aug

One of the biggest things I look for in a founder is an amazing underdog story. People who came from nothing (like actually), small town, poor family, and somehow ended up in the Bay are already an edge case, and for those who have proven exceptional achievements it's an epochal 11.2K views · 218 likes · 7 reposts · 25 replies Open on X →

Rich ✓@richzou10 Jul

High talent density companies in no particular order / not including stealth. Cognition, Cursor, Thinky, OpenAI, Anthropic, Modal, Applied Compute, Flappy, Mercor, Standard Intelligence, Etched, Fireworks, Decagon. Source: my friend group 130.6K views · 484 likes · 7 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Rich ✓@richzou13 May

I turn 21 today. I think this is the best time in history to be in your 20s and in the Bay. The past year I've been fortunate to be surrounded by many incredible founders and operators, and lucky enough to call them friends. So I'm starting a fund. It's called Bo Le Capital. 92.9K views · 401 likes · 5 reposts · 101 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

2 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views6 398this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %57.31%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.63%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	6 398	924	6.92×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	57.31%	3.62%	15.8×
Engagement rate	1.63%	1.52%	1.07×

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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

92.9K13 May

130.6K10 Jul

11.2K30 Aug

1.6K22 Sep

Last 4 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.55%13 May

0.39%10 Jul

2.24%30 Aug

1.03%22 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes56.8%1 117 in total

Reposts1.0%19 in total

Replies7.3%143 in total

Quotes0.5%9 in total

Bookmarks34.6%680 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.