Saba Karim ✓

@sabakarimm · Los Angeles, CA · joined 20 May 2009

4x founder and former VC. posts about startups, growth, fundraising. follow for hinged content and genuine advice to help you grow. @stanford @deakin

50 784Followers

1 219Following

16 660Posts total

7.7KViews on collected posts

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Saba Karim ✓@sabakarimm5 Sep

@sabakarimm That conversation happening every year and still choosing to keep going says more than any pitch deck could. 10 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Saba Karim ✓@sabakarimm5 Sep

@sabakarimm Automate it with AI: Agent that talks them through it. 31 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Saba Karim ✓@sabakarimm5 Sep

Explaining to your family for another year that no, it is not profitable yet, and yes, you are still doing it. That conversation is not a failure signal. It is the job description. 1.7K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Saba Karim ✓@sabakarimm5 Sep

I used to think I needed more discipline. I needed fewer steps between the thought and a place it could live. 1.6K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Saba Karim ✓@sabakarimm5 Sep

Question for my @bot friends... Does splitting agents for roles make it more expensive? The first app I made with one agent seemed to have worked fast and fine. Then my second app, which I tried to do with a front-end agent, backend agent, and a CTO agent overlooking -- it 1.3K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Saba Karim ✓@sabakarimm5 Sep

People sometimes ask why I’m so quiet in person. I used to think I owed them an answer. Now I know what it is. It’s the opposite of depressed. It’s what peace looks like from the outside 1.4K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Saba Karim ✓@sabakarimm5 Sep

@sabakarimm True! 20 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Saba Karim ✓@sabakarimm5 Sep

@sabakarimm “Unfortunately you’re outside our thesis.” Anyway, welcome to our weekly newsletter about companies exactly like yours. 60 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Saba Karim ✓@sabakarimm4 Sep

I'm convinced investors have a vague thesis on their website so they can send you a pass then add you to their newsletter 1.6K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views1 342this account892median for 10K–100K

Reach, %2.64%this account3.39%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.68%this account1.97%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 342	892	1.50×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	2.64%	3.39%	0.78×
Engagement rate	0.68%	1.97%	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

1.6K4 Sep

605 Sep

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Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.68%4 Sep

3.33%5 Sep

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0.22%

0.30%

0.68%

0.78%

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10.00%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.97%.

What the audience does

Likes85.1%40 in total

Replies10.6%5 in total

Bookmarks4.3%2 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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