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Week-over-week change in combined followers (Instagram, X, TikTok). Current reading: +2.6%
Recent Stories
- Video game speedrunning might be the largest misallocation of human capital of all time
Deliberately picked fight with speedrunning Twitter fueled his sixth straight week atop the Established chart.
Week of Sep 6, 2026
- Global Capital Atlas
Jaffee built an interactive atlas of every public and private company on earth worth more than $10B, placed at real headquarters and color-coded by industry, using Codex.
Week of Aug 30, 2026
- 8/20: Waymo's Chip
Jaffe's daily MTS brief, alongside his viral X post calling the anti-data-center backlash the worst mass movement of his lifetime — 252K views.
Week of Aug 23, 2026
- 6/11: Paleolabs and Neolabs
His June 11 MTS briefing rode a loaded AI news week — Bezos surfacing his $12B "neolab" Prometheus and the emerging OpenAI–Anthropic price war — under a shareable "paleolabs vs. neolabs" framing.
Week of Jun 14, 2026
- Introducing MTS: The First Timeline-Native News Network
Jaffe is a founding host of MTS, the a16z-backed live news network that launched on X in April 2026 — his daily tech segments and a roster of high-profile guests this week continued to compound his follower growth.
Week of May 24, 2026