How 8090 announced its Series A on X
1.1M views, ranked 726 of the 1981 launches we track. Reach and saves both sit close to where the rest of this list sits.
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We raised a $135M Series A! 8090’s Series A was led by Salesforce Ventures and joined by WNDR, Craft Ventures, The Production Board, and LAUNCH. We also had the support of a group of esteemed angels including Nikesh Arora, Cliff Robbins, Adam D’Angelo, Shyam Ravindran, Abhi
How it compares
A launch means nothing against no one. These are the launches it is actually comparable to, and where this one sits among them.
| Compared with | Launches | Median views | This one | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funding announcement the same kind of announcement | 247 | 419K | 2.6x | 71 |
| over 100K followers accounts of a similar size | 611 | 1.4M | 0.8x | 344 |
| Every launch all of them, for scale | 1981 | 688K | 1.6x | 726 |
What this launch shows
The post went out from an account with 2.4M followers and was seen by fewer people than follow the account. For over 100K followers the usual multiple is 2.4, so the ranking model showed this to fewer strangers than it shows most launches.
It ranks 344 of 611 launches from accounts that size. Against every launch in the directory it sits at 1.6 times the median of 688K views.
Replies led. 327 of them, 2.9 per 10,000 views against a median of 2.3.
The post started a conversation, and the ranking model pays for conversation with reach in the hours after. Bookmarks came in at 951, reposts at 157.
It starts “We raised a $135M Series A”. It carries a 51-second video against a directory median of 65 seconds.
Videos between 30 and 90 seconds have a median of 603K views in the directory. The copy runs 47 words, about the usual length for a launch post here, where the median is 41.
The body carries a link, so the post had somewhere to send the reader and paid a little reach for it. It went out on a Monday. Launches posted on a Monday have a median of 618K views in the directory, and Friday is the strongest day at 880K.
How to announce a funding round covers this: the round is the news and the post has to turn it into customers and hires.
For the next one, read why posts from large accounts under-reach: a post seen by fewer people than follow the account was held back by the ranking model. X analytics explained is the guide for it: what each of these numbers means, with benchmarks by account size.
Questions about this launch
When did 8090 launch?
8090 posted the launch on X on 29 June 2026.
How many views did the 8090 launch post get?
1,109,177 views at the last read, ranked 726 of the 1981 AI launches Doomers tracks, 0 times the account's following.
Who posted the 8090 launch?
@chamath, which has 2.4M followers.
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