steve chen ✓

@stevechen · San Francisco, CA · joined 13 Apr 2007

Co-Founder, @YouTube.

55 250Followers

1 494Following

539Posts total

32.4KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

steve chen ✓@stevechen31 Aug

Starting to prepare for my talk at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 this week. Who else is going to be attending?? 4.4K views · 46 likes · 6 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →

steve chen ✓@stevechen26 Jul

Incredible for Silicon Valley. This is what sets @ycombinator apart -- giving founders access to one another and to people who have actually done this before! This bridge to leaders who have founded companies, raised capital, and scaled is so essential. Thanks @garrytan. 13.3K views · 46 likes · 7 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

steve chen ✓@stevechen24 Jun

Behind many of the platforms that shape modern life are Asian American innovators whose stories have too often gone untold. "The United States of Asian+America," a digital documentary series from TAAF @taaforg in partnership with Wong Fu Productions @wongfupro, highlights AAPI h

3K views · 29 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

steve chen ✓@stevechen4 May

Great catching up with @abc7kristensze! It’s astonishing to look back at the last 21 years of YouTube’s growth. From a simple idea to a truly global community, YouTube has come a long way. Check out the interview here: https://t.co/e4yUJ5weQp 5.4K views · 50 likes · 4 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

steve chen ✓@stevechen26 Jan

I just installed the Clawdbot gateway on my Mac mini and i have two other machines talking to it. Clawdbot is all I’ve been playing with this last week. This month’s bill for Claude is going to reach a peak. Clawdbot is the future! 6.3K views · 43 likes · 1 reposts · 14 replies Open on X →

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views4 438this account1 098median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.03%this account3.91%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.18%this account1.66%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 438	1 098	4.04×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.03%	3.91%	2.05×
Engagement rate	1.18%	1.66%	0.71×

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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

6.3K26 Jan

5.4K4 May

3K24 Jun

13.3K26 Jul

4.4K31 Aug

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.92%26 Jan

1.18%4 May

1.18%24 Jun

0.44%26 Jul

1.44%31 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.66%.

What the audience does

Likes72.8%214 in total

Reposts6.8%20 in total

Replies15.6%46 in total

Bookmarks4.8%14 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.