Ben Bergman

@thebenbergman · Venice Beach, Los Angeles · joined 10 Aug 2009

Senior Correspondent @BusinessInsider, investigating VC/startups. Big into tennis, skiing and poker. Got a tip? Message me securely on Signal: BenBergman.11

10 691Followers

887Following

21 067Posts total

365.5KViews on collected posts

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Ben Bergman@thebenbergman2 Sep

The mystery of a 'little red book' about @UseCorgi... "All the best athletes, warriors, and chess grandmasters are 19-30 years old," the book says. "We need young energy! Boomers are slow and bad." https://t.co/2n8oVNZbGu 343 views · 1 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman1 Sep

It was a pleasure to moderate a VC panel with some of the top venture firms represented (which happened to be all women!) at Step SF with @KanuGulati @cheryltamcheng @emilybenn12. We discussed "What VCs Look for When Your MVP Took 72 Hours." https://t.co/hzxjERjNxx 688 views · 14 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman31 Aug

I've lived in LA for two decades and can't ever remember a stretch with the kind of sweltering heat and humidity we've been experiencing. Normally, even when it's hot during the day, it cools off at night, especially at the beach. Not lately. 523 views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman31 Aug

I went to a private longevity night hosted by @bryan_johnson in San Francisco. I needed a cookie afterward. https://t.co/fYYIwQW9Vf 1.2K views · 8 likes · 2 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman13 Jun

I joined @Elex_Michaelson to talk about @elonmusk becoming the world’s first trillionaire. https://t.co/nFmjDwVwA1 2.6K views · 31 likes · 1 reposts · 10 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman17 Jun 2025

@thebenbergman @ArfurRock Why are people trying to doxx it? Who cares. The data is what’s important. The humor too. 419 views · 1 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman9 Jun 2025

@thebenbergman @ArfurRock @RileyFinch13 1.1K views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman9 Jun 2025

Some question whether Rock is providing as much of a public service as claimed. @patrickc recently asked on X: "Do the companies consent to the leaks?" (@ArfurRock replied that people "are often surprised how much of what I share is green‑lit by the insiders themselves.") 2.8K views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman9 Jun 2025

@ArfurRock sees anonymity as a feature, not a bug, and seems to relish being a topic of conversation and intrigue. "I think the ecosystem wins on balance when more insiders can share alpha and ideas freely, untethered from their public identities," they said. 3.2K views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman9 Jun 2025

@srcasm says he finds @ArfurRock's account "fascinating" but takes the information with a grain of salt. "There's no clarity on who's running the account (and no, I don't know), how reliable the data is, or whether there's any inherent bias," Middleton said. 5.3K views · 4 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Ben Bergman@thebenbergman9 Jun 2025

VC's new favorite guessing game: Who is @ArfurRock Rock, the 'Gossip Girl of Silicon Valley?' Cloaked in anonymity, Rock is on a mission to bring more transparency to tech, as long it's good news. https://t.co/Ha2M45iQbS 347.4K views · 137 likes · 7 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

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4 post degli ultimi 90 giorni, accanto alla fascia di 10K–100K follower. arriva a più persone rispetto ad account della stessa dimensione.

Visualizzazioni mediane606questo account924mediana per 10K–100K

Copertura, %5.66%questo account3.62%mediana per 10K–100K

Interazione, %1.35%questo account1.52%mediana per 10K–100K

Metrica	Questo account	Mediana per 10K–100K	Rapporto
Visualizzazioni mediane per post	606	924	0.66×
Copertura (visualizzazioni ÷ follower)	5.66%	3.62%	1.56×
Tasso di interazione	1.35%	1.52%	0.88×

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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

347.4K9 Jun

5.3K

3.2K

2.8K

1.1K

41917 Jun

2.6K13 Jun

1.2K31 Aug

523

6881 Sep

3432 Sep

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.04%9 Jun

0.09%

0.22%

0.36%

0.18%

0.24%17 Jun

1.61%13 Jun

0.97%31 Aug

1.72%

2.33%1 Sep

0.87%2 Sep

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

What the audience does

Likes70.9%219 in total

Reposts4.5%14 in total

Replies7.8%24 in total

Quotes1.0%3 in total

Bookmarks15.9%49 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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