Derek Andersen ✓

@DerekjAndersen · Palo Alto, CA · joined 27 Feb 2008

Co-Founder @StartupGrind/@bevyhq Labs, host @Divotdotorg. Posting about: tech, startups, AI, community, Silicon Valley, 4 kids, BYU, Believer. Still grinding.

29 698Followers

936Following

18 826Posts total

17.8KViews on collected posts

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Derek Andersen ✓@DerekjAndersen20 Sep

The biggest story in AI is this: Anthropic and OpenAI scream about regulation but they must hit massive revenue targets this year or the CapEx spend commitments disconnect from the realities on the ground, all the while getting quickly replaced by open source alternatives... htt

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Derek Andersen ✓@DerekjAndersen19 Sep

Astro Teller used to give one-hour lectures on innovation. He stopped. Now he does it in 60 seconds. "Choice A, $1M guaranteed. Choice B, $1B, one chance in a hundred." "Everyone raises their hand for choice B. Big smile on their face because they've all passed the math test."

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Derek Andersen ✓@DerekjAndersen18 Sep

When someone I don't know tries to critique my parenting skills. https://t.co/uhhyiqLOF3

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Derek Andersen ✓@DerekjAndersen18 Sep

My day-to-day AI usage on the different tools: Claude = slides, docs, drafting emails, building lessons I'm teaching, meeting analysis/follow up. Chat = images, family projects, creative work. Grok Bot = anything fast and contextual, research, finance, small repeatable tasks. 1.7K views · 26 likes · 1 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Derek Andersen ✓@DerekjAndersen9 Sep

"The best thing that's ever happened to me was free." Zachery Dereniowski (MD Motivator) left medical school after hitting rock bottom. Two strangers saved his life by sitting with him in the rain for 30 minutes. Now 50M+ people follow his work. This is what he said that most h

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Derek Andersen ✓@DerekjAndersen3 Sep

@DerekjAndersen @ericries Build, Measure, Learn still matters in the age of AI—building may be faster, but learning isn’t. Loved his ideas around purpose, coherence and integrity, having the courage to say no, and why every company needs a “mission guardian.” Be principled from t 10 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Derek Andersen ✓@DerekjAndersen3 Sep

@DerekjAndersen @ericries Build, measure, learn works on your own body too. A chiropractor in Hue told me my back wasn't the actual problem, tight glutes pulling on the spine were. I do a daily side exercise to failure now instead of treating the symptom I could feel. 17 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Derek Andersen ✓@DerekjAndersen2 Sep

Interview this week is with @ericries New York Times bestseller author of "The Lean Startup" and now "Incorruptible." He taught a generation of builders about the MVP, build, measure, learn. We talk about how it applies in the age of AI and why your company mission is all wrong.

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Rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione

8 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. esattamente sulla mediana della sua fascia di follower.

Visualizzazioni mediane1 104questo account924mediana per 10K–100K

Copertura, %3.72%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K

Interazione, %1.64%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 10K–100K	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	1 104	924	1.19×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	3.72%	3.62%	1.03×
Tasso di interazione	1.64%	1.52%	1.08×

Altri account di questa fascia → Confronta con un altro account → Come sono costruiti questi parametri →

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

11.5K2 Sep

173 Sep

1.5K9 Sep

1.7K18 Sep

1.2K

1.1K19 Sep

86320 Sep

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.30%2 Sep

0.00%3 Sep

10.00%

1.65%9 Sep

1.77%18 Sep

0.86%

1.81%19 Sep

1.62%20 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes65.6%105 in total

Reposts9.4%15 in total

Replies6.9%11 in total

Quotes1.2%2 in total

Bookmarks16.9%27 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.