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Creators worth following for Founder: 15 accounts, ranked by their posts

130 accounts write about Founder often enough to count. The 15 whose Founder posts travelled furthest, each with their best post — and how to turn the list into a board you can write from.

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130 accounts in the library write about Founder often enough for it to be a real share of their work. These are the 15 whose Founder posts travelled furthest — ranked by what those posts did, not by how many people follow them, which is the difference between a list you can check and a list of famous names.

The 15

  1. jack (@jack) — 2 posts in the library, 364.9K likes, a typical post reaching 182.5K. Best: “I’m moving $1B of my Square equity (~28% of my wealth) to #startsmall LLC to fund global COVID-19 relief. After we disa…” (open)
  2. Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) — 3 posts in the library, 80.1K likes, a typical post reaching 15.4K. Best: “I cannot believe I am writing this.” (open)
  3. Garry Tan (@garrytan) — 236 posts in the library, 191.7K likes, a typical post reaching 395. Best: “My best career advice:” (open)
  4. Paul Graham (@paulg) — 21 posts in the library, 94.7K likes, a typical post reaching 2.1K. Best: “A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final…” (open)
  5. Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) — 173 posts in the library, 90.8K likes, a typical post reaching 342. Best: “There should be something like a Wikipedia for careers:” (open)
  6. Jack Zhang (@awxjack) — 2 posts in the library, 30.2K likes, a typical post reaching 15.1K. Best: “Stripe offered to acquire us for $1.2 billion when we had $2M in revenue.” (open)
  7. Suhail (@Suhail) — 12 posts in the library, 28.1K likes, a typical post reaching 686. Best: “1/ The first 18 months of a startup:” (open)
  8. Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) — 4 posts in the library, 93K likes, a typical post reaching 21.5K. Best: “Disney will waive arbitration in its wrongful death suit” (open)
  9. Sheel Mohnot (@pitdesi) — 63 posts in the library, 48K likes, a typical post reaching 486. Best: “Midjourney is opening a health spa in downtown San Francisco with hot tubs, saunas, cold plunges and a new form of medi…” (open)
  10. litquidity (@litcapital) — 4 posts in the library, 19.7K likes, a typical post reaching 2K. Best: “Google is raising $80 billion of equity a week before SpaceX is trying to raise $75 billion a few months before Anthrop…” (open)
  11. Etched (@Etched) — 4 posts in the library, 17.7K likes, a typical post reaching 3.7K. Best: “We're coming out of stealth.” (open)
  12. SpaceXAI (@SpaceXAI) — 5 posts in the library, 57.7K likes, a typical post reaching 12.7K. Best: “We've open-sourced Grok Build and have reset usage limits for all users.” (open)
  13. Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) — 129 posts in the library, 50.9K likes, a typical post reaching 260. Best: “Founders notice everything.” (open)
  14. Sahil Bloom (@SahilBloom) — 2 posts in the library, 11.8K likes, a typical post reaching 5.9K. Best: “In his final Amazon shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos shared a powerful mental model on maintaining your distinctiveness.” (open)
  15. delian (@zebulgar) — 3 posts in the library, 9.8K likes, a typical post reaching 1.1K. Best: “Columbia kicks this kid out” (open)

How the ranking works

A creator is on this list only when Founder is at least a fifth of what they publish in the library, and the order is the reach of their Founder posts specifically — an account that is enormous on another subject and posts about Founder twice does not lead a list about Founder. Every number above is a post you can open, and every name opens to their page: what else they write about, how they open, and every post of theirs the library holds.

How to use a list like this

A list of people is the beginning of a board, not the end of one.

  1. Open a name that interests you and press Save their best — their five strongest posts go into a board of yours in one step.
  2. Do that for two or three of them. You now have a board of Founder posts with a point of view: this is the kind of Founder writing I want to make.
  3. On each post, write one line about what you want from it — the opening, the way it turns, the ending. Point at the part with the Take chips.
  4. When you have something to say about Founder, open the board and Remix. Your product, their moves, none of their words.

Or start from the Founder posts themselves, ordered by likes.

See it in the posts

Every number above is a post in the library, with the mechanics named beside it.

Open the library

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