From 5K to 50K LinkedIn Followers in a Year

From 5K to 50K LinkedIn Followers in a Year

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Peter Walker

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October 9, 2023

Thank you to the community built around startup data insights—and encouragement for anyone building original content to keep at it, because the early work...

LinkedIn: From 5K to 50K LinkedIn Followers in a Year

From 5K to 50K in 2023.

Deeply appreciate everyone who has followed along this year as we built this insights generation system for startups.

So many parts of the founder (and investor) journey remain opaque. This lack of transparency favors insiders and those who have done it before.

Hopefully this space is one where we can level the playing field, if only slightly, for those first-time founders and emerging managers.

As always, taking requests for the kinds of insights you'd like to see next. Answering your questions is the main reason this practice exists!

Onwards, and take care of each other out there.

#cartadata #startups #insights

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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