About Me:
Background: Chemical engineer turned creator.
Audience: Engineers, investors, and general enthusiasts interested in startups and the future. I asked my audience to tell me about themselves here. The most common responses were biotech and aerospace engineers, as well as high school students interested in engineering.
Main Content Focus: Startups and future tech, especially hardtech in space, biotech, and energy. Anything that makes a tangible improvement to the real world.
Thesis: Most media is pessimistic regarding tech and the future. There needs to be a content creator creating optimistic content about the future and how technology is making it better.
Stats:
Tiktok: 800k+ followers, 10M+ average monthly views
Youtube: 8.3k+ subscribers
Insta: 9k followers
Twitter: 6k followers
Pitch:
What makes working with me genuinely unique is that my sponsored posts perform as well as my normal content. I’ve had multiple sponsored posts hit over a million cumulative views. I think this is for a few reasons. First, I’m extremely discerning when it comes to sponsored posts. I only make content about companies I find compelling and that I think my audience will love. Second, my audience can’t interact with a lot of my normal content because it’s about deep tech or research. When I post sponsored content, they can either buy the product or apply to work at the company. This extra layer of interaction tends to increase shares and rewatches. Lastly, I take sponsored content really seriously! I spend hours and hours getting the narrative right so that my content represents the company well and so that my audience loves it. That also means, unlike other creators who usually delete sponsored posts 24hrs later, my posts stay on my main content page and continue gaining engagement (10%+) for months.
Content I’m Proud of:
Tiktoks
Ideas / FUTURISM
Here’s what happened in space this week 4.1m, 800k likes
Why we won’t use domes on mars 2.7M views, 510k likes
Ocean fertilization projects 1.3M views, 211k likes
Here’s what happened in hardtech this week, 800k+, 116k likes
Bio-electricity and synthetic organisms 540k views, 112k likes
Open AI GPT-3 500k views, 82k likes
Reversing Aging 240k views, 64k likes
STARTUPS
ATOM LIMBS: Robotic Prosthetics 709k views, 152k likes (case study here)
COVER: Manufacturing Homes 1.2M views, 255k likes (made for Delian at Founders Fund)
AXOSIM: Growing Human Nerves-on-a-Chip (Lab Tour) 216k views, 38k likes
TEAM PLANET: Plastic Collection System (Brand Deal) 1.6M views, 448k likes
CTRL-LABS: Neural Interface (LUX Capital Co) 513k views, 119.6k likes
ADVANOTECH: Silicon Anodes for Batteries (old) 630k views, 120.5k likes (Tony Fadell ended up seeing this one)
VARIANT BIO: Creating Genetic Superhumans (old) 313k views, 66.7k likes
These aren’t all the startups I’ve made videos on, just my favorite ones.
Youtube
The Future of Bio-electricity 5k views, 380 likes
On twitter this video somewhat blew up
Balaji watched it, DM’d me to say he really enjoyed it and ended up tweeting this clip from the video.
Brand Case Studies
Atom LIMBS
You can read my case study on Atom Limbs here.
DeepGREEN
Videos: I’ve had a great relationship with Deep green and we’ve continued to add value to each other. So far we’ve made 6 videos together and have a few more in the works. Here they are: Overview, Unboxing, nodule formation, ecosystem impact, battery production, CEO conversation
Overview: DeepGreen is a company collecting polymetallic nodules from the ocean floor as battery materials. DeepGreen needed help explaining why ocean mining shouldn’t be demonized. It must’ve worked because viewers had enthuasitic things to say: “how can I invest”, “how can I help”, “how can I work there”…etc.
Full social media stats from the video series:
Tiktok: 1m views, 150k likes, 2000 comments
Instagram: 5,400 views, 1,111 likes, 27 comments, 133 bookmarks
Youtube: Full interview with the CEO, 1,272 views, 77 likes, 50 comments
Other: they received many emails from people looking for hiring or investment opportunities. And they grew their social accounts as well (although I didn’t track the specific growth)
SOLgaard <> Team Planet
Solgaard is a company making consumer products from recycled plastic. They launched a project/petition to build a massive plastic collection system in the Yangtze river. Their main goal was to demonstrate support for this project to multiple governments so they could move forward with the project. My objective was to explain how the project would be built using existing technology, just at a much larger scale (showing that this is possible, just ambitious)
Stats: On Tiktok this video gained 1.6M views and 448k likes and 2,158 comments.