Vijay Pande ✓

@vijaypande · Menlo Park, CA · joined 30 Jun 2008

Co-Founder at @VZVCfund. Investing in companies solving humanity’s biggest problems, led by founders hell bent on bending the curve.

35 900Followers

1 332Following

5 678Posts total

94.8KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

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

Median views3 670this account942median for 10K–100K

Reach, %10.22%this account3.24%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.19%this account1.99%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 670	942	3.90×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	10.22%	3.24%	3.16×
Engagement rate	0.19%	1.99%	0.10×

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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

3.3K5 Aug

43.4K25 Aug

189

6.2K27 Aug

3.7K

34.3K1 Sep

3.7K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.66%5 Aug

0.06%25 Aug

0.00%

0.42%27 Aug

0.19%

0.12%1 Sep

0.52%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.99%.

What the audience does

Likes59.6%115 in total

Reposts5.7%11 in total

Replies5.7%11 in total

Quotes1.6%3 in total

Bookmarks27.5%53 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.

Latest posts

Bio latencies are an issue. Folding@home had analogous latency issues and they’re hard to fix for sure, but massively parallel + pipelining can go a long way to hiding latencies. And AI is great for designing the plan. 3.7K views · 15 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

Why do the worst people keep winning? The problem isn't simply that THEY are winning. The wrong *strategies* keep winning, and we built the market that pays them. You cannot therapy a civilization, but a selection effect has levers, a fix. New trilogy: https://t.co/6NJ13A8aMb 34.3K views · 34 likes · 4 reposts · 1 replies 01 Sep 2026 · Open on X →

I would argue that a Dyson sphere would be way more expensive to buy than a galaxy. I currently own M31 and would be willing to part with it for a mere $25B––way way less than a penny per star–– or highest offer. 3.7K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

I would keep the offering much more modest, like a Dyson sphere. 6.2K views · 21 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies 27 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

@vijaypande Machinery without the renaissance. So just machinery. 189 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

Nine essays. Three pages. One argument. It hasn't escaped me that's been a lot of civilizational collapse, economic rage, and God for one summer. The whole story now fits in three pages. If you joined in the middle, you are not behind. https://t.co/Hkum00RAEn 43.4K views · 22 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies 25 Aug 2026 · Open on X →

What should we build as AI, biology, and robotics reshape the world? There is a tremendous opportunity in front of us. AI allows us to rebuild and fix society's greatest problems. Or gives opportunities for others to lock in what we hate. For the past few years I've been 3.3K views · 16 likes · 2 reposts · 4 replies 05 Aug 2026 · Open on X →