100000 LinkedIn Followers and What That Means

100000 LinkedIn Followers and What That Means

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Peter Walker

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October 23, 2024

A reflection on reaching 100,000 followers by sharing real data from 45,000+ startups—and the mission of making opaque parts of the venture world more...

LinkedIn: 100000 LinkedIn Followers and What That Means

100,000 followers is pretty wild.

I deeply appreciate everyone who has found this insights content useful or fascinating or just a little curious over the past few years.

There are so many parts of venture-backed companies that remain shrouded in unnecessary mystery.

The goal of this feed has always been to illuminate some of those dark corners with real evidence. Hopefully we have helped founders and VCs make better, more data-driven decisions along the way.

So much more to build 🙏

Peter Walker
Author: Peter Walker
Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project.

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