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a16z
@a16z · 1.1M followers
Best of 2025 · 45.5K likes
“Why are hyperlinks blue?”
47 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2025. That is the most recent full year. The account is at its peak, or has not reached it yet.
andrew chen
@andrewchen · 442.8K followers
@a16z
Biggest post of 2026 · 15.3K likes · Jan 9, 2026
It's time to build.
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@andrewchen
@a16z
$300M
the earned figure that got the most attention in the last year · Sep 4, 2026 · 355 likes
We're thrilled to lead a $300M investment in Gimlet Labs. AI inference is one of the fastest-growing markets in the history of capitalism, and we are running out of nearly every physical input requir…
Read the postAffirm co-founders, CEO Max Levchin and a16z's Alex Rampell, on 25 years inside payments, from PayPal to agentic commerce: Payments is the biggest market on earth. No niche in it is smaller than $100…
Read the postBen Horowitz on the oldest law in startups, and why the industry no longer has to obey it: "The one thing we all knew in startup world is that if I have a two-year lead on you and you try to catch me…
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top posts point at @andrewchen · 3 mentions · 3K likes
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of 100 top posts point at @a16z
One way. @a16z’s best posts point at @andrewchen; none of @andrewchen’s top posts point at @a16z. Counted from each account’s top posts, where a quote, a reply, or a mention each count one post. Likes, follows, and replies received are not visible in this data and are not claimed.
| Measure | @a16z | @andrewchen |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 and the GitHub side | ||
| Top posts from 2026 so far | 72 | 42 |
| Likes on 2026’s ten best | 63.7K | — |
| GitHub days in 2026 | — | 0 |
| GitHub days · last 90 | — | 0 |
| GitHub streak · days in a row | — | 0 |
| Ships · share of the last 365 days | — | 0% |
Best of 2019 · 12.4K likes
“American kids want to be youtubers, and the Chinese kids want to be astronauts.”
Peak year 2019, seven years ago. 17 of the 100 best posts X exposes came from 2019. 2025 produced 14. Holding, not climbing.
Biggest post of 2026 · 34 likes · Sep 4, 2026
at work, makes sense you have agents effectively represent your CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, etc. -- then supervised by a COO agent What's the equiv for your personal? - family - personal finance - health - leisure/travel ... wh…
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This year is shown, not ranked: likes accumulate with age, so 2026 is always undercounted against completed years. The GitHub side counts days with any activity, public or private, from the contribution calendar.
Introducing the Machine Age Fund, $1.1 billion for the physical buildout of the AI stack: Ben Horowitz: "What's happened is we have a whole new technology that's the most important technology ever."…
Read the postToday, a16z is announcing the Machine Age Fund, a new $1.1 billion fund for founders rebuilding what intelligence runs on: chips, memory, networking, systems software, power, and the machines that br…
Read the post$1.1B for the Machine Age.
Read the postA $100K/year customer gets white-glove treatment while a $10/year customer gets a help center. @DecagonAI's bet is that AI closes that gap, and enterprise is buying it. Co-founders Jesse Zhang and As…
Read the postNYC's government-run grocery store is expected to open in 2029 at a $30M cost to taxpayers More charts:
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No post framed as earnings among the 14 posts read.
TIL that craigslist is generating $1B in annual revenue, employs 50 people, and is wholly owned by two people. Insane. (And yes, it's a for-profit even with the .org domain name) Who would have thoug…
Read the postEvery line is a post by the account itself that names a dollar figure, newest first, linked so you can read it in place. ShipRatio checks that the post exists, not the number. A figure framed as revenue, MRR, profit, or sales is marked earned; a price, a raise, or someone else’s number is a mention.
| Private share of that activity | — | 0% |
| The record |
| Peak year | 2025 | 2019 |
| Top posts from the peak | 47 | 17 |
| Top posts counted | 100 | 100 |
| Likes across the sample | 144.5K | 212.2K |
| Best post | 45.5K | 31.2K |
| Median likes | 513 | 1.3K |
| Years in a row with a top post | 7 | 9 |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | ×8.4 | ×3.6 |
| Followers | 1.1M | 442.8K |