Network Engagement Analysis
Gallium
Gallium
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Who’s engaging with
Gallium

974 founders, marketers, engineers and students engaged with Gallium’s page and its founders’ feeds across 29 posts in 2026. This is who they are — names, titles, and what they build.

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Data collected September 10, 2026 · 974 engagers from 29 posts · 2026 window (Jan 1 – Sep 10, 2026) · Analysis by Koka Sexton
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Engagers
974
Posts
29
Reactions
1273
TOP ENGAGERS
RKRajul Kothari
Rajul Kothari, Partner, Capital League, Private Wealth Management Firm
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Sakshi Tiwari, Turbo AI | Ex-McKinsey
ANAlijan Nurgazy
Alijan Nurgazy, Building something new | prev. growth lead at VC-backed…
HAHarshal Agarwal
Harshal Agarwal, UC Berkeley
ACAaliya Choudhary
Aaliya Choudhary, Interior Architecture @ IIAD
The Voices

Gallium doesn’t post. Its founders do.

Gallium’s company page posts almost nothing of its own — every post it carried in this window was a repost of a founder’s or teammate’s post. So the audience you see here is the audience three personal brands built together.

Output in the window — posts, likes, best post
ASAkshat Sharma
Akshat Sharma
Co-founder, Gallium (CS/DS, UC Berkeley)
12 posts · 1147 likes · top: 218 likes
Akshat ships the most: YC-batch shout-outs, SF-demo-day notes and his own founder story. The volume voice.
JKJaisal Kothari
Jaisal Kothari
CEO, Gallium (ex-Wispr Flow; Stanford CS/AI)
6 posts · 792 likes · top: 381 likes
Jaisal’s fewer posts pull the biggest own-content numbers — the “flew out a 19-year-old” post was the window’s top original at 381 likes.
ATAidan Nguyen-Tran
Aidan Nguyen-Tran
Head of Growth, Gallium (2x founder, ex-Cluely)
8 posts · 1088 likes · top: 313 likes
Aidan’s dropout-and-build-in-public arc carries the GTM/advice beat — 8 posts, 1,088 likes, the most-commented original in the feed.
One voice ships, one voice converts, one voice teaches. Akshat posts most often; Jaisal’s single founder story out-pulled every tactical post; Aidan’s build-in-public arc owns the comment layer. That is a functioning three-voice engine — running by instinct, not on a schedule.
The Network

974 people who showed up

Real names and titles from everyone who reacted to or commented on Gallium’s page and its founders’ feeds. Click any card to open their LinkedIn profile. Search, filter by reaction, market-fit or seniority, and sort.

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974 people match
The Inner Circle

52 people who never miss a post

These engagers showed up on 3 or more of the 29 posts — founders, operators, engineers and students who track Gallium closely enough to engage again and again. The highest-trust relationships in the dataset.

Most consistent engagers — ranked by posts engaged
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Sakshi Tiwari
Turbo AI | Ex-McKinsey · 15 posts
RKRajul Kothari
Rajul Kothari
Partner, Capital League, Private Wealth Management Firm · 14 posts
ANAlijan Nurgazy
Alijan Nurgazy
Building something new | prev. growth lead at VC-backed startup (EF W24) | enactus alumni · 13 posts
HAHarshal Agarwal
Harshal Agarwal
UC Berkeley · 9 posts
CLCarlos Eduardo Libardo
Carlos Eduardo Libardo
CEO & Founder @ Shippit — AI-native software consultancy. Production software in days,… · 8 posts
ABAarav Bedi
Aarav Bedi
Lumentum | MechEng Alum @ UC Berkeley · 8 posts
ACAaliya Choudhary
Aaliya Choudhary
Interior Architecture @ IIAD · 7 posts
VJVidhi Joshi
Vidhi Joshi
Computer Science & Visual Arts Student @ UWO | Research Assistant | Aspiring Systems… · 7 posts
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Naman Katyal
Student at Amity International School, Saket | Headboy 2026-27 · 7 posts
ABAbir Balia
Abir Balia
Senior Member, ADRC & Executive Editor, TL&D · 6 posts
ASAditya Sharma
Aditya Sharma
Berkeley ‘26 · 6 posts
SMSatyam Mehta
Satyam Mehta
Strategy & Ops @ E2B | UC Berkeley · 6 posts
DDDivik Dodeja
Divik Dodeja
Mercor · 5 posts
YBYuvraj Baheti
Yuvraj Baheti
Economics & CS at Stanford University · 5 posts
JYJ Yim
J Yim
a16z SR007 | Stanford CS + TAPS + MS&E · 5 posts
SPShiv Punjabi
Shiv Punjabi
Economics @ UCSD | Prev. Intern @ EY | At the intersection of strategy, investing &… · 5 posts
ASAryan Shrivastav
Aryan Shrivastav
Software engineer intern @ Parul University | making user friendly solutions for a living… · 5 posts
CNCecilia Ng
Cecilia Ng
Partner, Talent & People · 4 posts
The top three engagers — Sakshi Tiwari (15 posts), Rajul Kothari (14) and Alijan Nurgazy (13) — reacted to roughly half of everything Gallium published this year. This is a nucleus, not traffic.
Where They Work — And Study

The clusters in this audience

492 of 974 engagers (51%) name an employer or school in their headline. The picture is unusual for a B2B agency: the biggest clusters are universities, not enterprises.

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Top organizations by engager count
UC Berkeley ↗
14 engagers
UC San Diego ↗
8 engagers
MIT ↗
6 engagers
Amazon ↗
6 engagers
Google ↗
5 engagers
Microsoft ↗
4 engagers
USC ↗
4 engagers
Corgi ↗
3 engagers
SpaceXAI ↗
3 engagers
Stanford University ↗
2 engagers
Berkeley (14), UC San Diego (8), MIT (6) and Stanford (2) out-number any corporate cluster. Gallium’s LinkedIn reach is an aspirational, early-career builder audience that follows the founders’ journey — with a thinner layer of working operators at Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Signals In The Network

The people worth knowing here

Founders, operators and investors who engage with Gallium repeatedly — the named relationships already forming in public. Ranked by how often they show up.

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Repeat engagers with founder / operator / investor titles
Rajul Kothari14 posts · 16 reactions
Partner, Capital League, Private Wealth Management Firm
Alijan Nurgazy13 posts · 13 reactions
Building something new | prev. growth lead at VC-backed startup (EF W24) | enactus alumni
Carlos Eduardo Libardo8 posts · 8 reactions
CEO & Founder @ Shippit — AI-native software consultancy. Production software in days, not quarters | Founder @ VoltBras (EV charging, 7…
Anant Mishra4 posts · 4 reactions
Berkeley Haas | 3X 0-1 | @Founder’s Office | Ex- Deloitte
Suyash Sharma4 posts · 4 reactions
Building @Orbit | Growth Marketer | Content creator (350k+ views)
Nilesh Kothari4 posts · 4 reactions
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Trifecta Capital, BITS (Pilani)
Faizan Ahmed4 posts · 4 reactions
Bridging Theoretical Sciences & System Architecture to Engineer the Future | Chief Research Officer @ Exovian | Chief Scientific Officer @…
Moe Katib4 posts · 4 reactions
CEO · One
These are the people who would take a call today. They are also a fraction of the audience — the majority of 974 engagers are earlier-career. That gap between who engages and who buys is the most useful thing on this page.
Content Appetite

What this audience actually rewards

Founder stories, tactical LinkedIn advice, industry takes, company news — and the two posts Gallium amplified from other founders. The audience’s preference is unusually clear.

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The feed by content type
Founder story
9 · 167/post
Tactical
9 · 100/post
Industry take
6 · 83/post
Company
2 · 62/post
Team story
1 · 34/post

Founder stories are the single best-performing owned format — 1504 likes across 9 posts (avg 167), ahead of tactical advice at 100 and industry takes at 83.

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Likes per owned post

Gallium-authored posts only (27 of 29). Longest bar wins: Jaisal’s “flew out a 19-year-old” story at 381.

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03-17
Foun
34
03-26
Comp
32
03-31
Indu
89
03-31
Comp
50
04-02
Foun
42
04-07
Tact
313
04-07
Foun
177
04-09
Indu
99
04-10
Foun
36
04-10
Indu
381
04-14
Foun
75
04-15
Tact
204
04-15
Foun
48
04-16
Indu
218
04-16
Tact
145
04-23
Indu
49
04-23
Tact
59
04-28
Indu
205
05-07
Tact
119
05-20
Tact
158
05-26
Foun
65
05-27
Tact
69
06-02
Tact
61
06-13
Tact
170
06-30
Foun
48
07-30
Foun
34
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Team
The two posts Gallium amplified from other founders — Tanay Kothari’s $280M Series B (4,795 likes) and Arya Marwaha’s Contrario launch (1,521) — beat every owned post by an order of magnitude. Borrowed proof out-performs owned advice. That is either the strategy or the leak; today it’s neither, it’s luck.
What They’re Saying

The comment layer is thin — and that’s the opening

69 comments captured across 29 posts, from 59 distinct outside voices. Engagement here is reaction-led: people like and love far more than they write.

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Most active voices
Rajul Kothari
2 comments
Aaliya Choudhary
2 comments
Daniel McGlynn
1 comment
Julia Yu
1 comment
Gustavo Leopoldino Pinto Yamagata
1 comment
Kristine Zhou
1 comment

Excludes Gallium team members.

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Four kinds of comment
Congratulations & welcomes“Welcome to the team, Alex!” / “Congratulations Akshat” — graduations, hires and milestones pull a wave of congrats from the same people who react.
The message lands“Love the message: ‘Grateful for every failure’. This is so profound!” — Rajul Kothari. The founder-story posts earn real replies, not just likes.
One-word reactions“Fire”. “Wilddd”. “crazyy”. “Ok”. Roughly a third of comments are pure reaction — the audience feels it faster than it can articulate it.
Partners & peers“Really looking forward to working together, Alex” — Daniel McGlynn. A handful of comments come from the ecosystem around Gallium, not just its audience.
Gallium’s audience reacts enthusiastically and comments sparingly — 69 comments against 1212 reactions. Questions, polls and prompts that ask for a reply are the cheapest untapped lever in this feed.
Network Composition

Who is this network — and does it fit your ICP?

Gallium sells AI-native growth to seed-to-Series-C founders. Its LinkedIn feed reaches 974 people, but the composition is broader than that brief: a large early-career layer, a solid founder/operator core, and a working marketer segment. Roles and seniority come from LinkedIn headlines; many people don’t state a title, so “Manager / IC” and “Other” absorb the unlabelled.

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Seniority Breakdown
Manager / IC
76%
Founder / CEO
18%
C-Suite / GP
3%
VP / Director
3%
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Role Focus
Students & Early Career
21%
Founders & Operators
19%
Engineering & AI
15%
GTM & Content
14%
Investing & Finance
5%
Product & Design
1%
Other / Unspecified
25%
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Where They Work
UC Berkeley
14
UC San Diego
8
MIT
6
Amazon
6
Google
5
Microsoft
4

Counts among the 492 engagers who name an employer or school.

317 of 974 engagers (33%) hold buyer-side profiles — founders/operators or GTM. The single biggest cohort is students and early-career (206), who follow the founders’ story far more than the agency’s offer. Both are real audiences; they need different content.
Engagement Depth

How the network engages

The reaction mix tells you what kind of attention Gallium’s content earns. The repeat rate tells you who is actually paying attention. (1212 reactions captured, plus 17 “entertained”.)

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LIKE
1056
87.1% of reactions
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EMPATHY
87
7.2% of reactions
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PRAISE
30
2.5% of reactions
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INSIGHTFUL
22
1.8% of reactions
Engagement pattern — depth of relationship
Single post
86%
2–3 posts
11%
4+ posts
3%
What Drew Them In

The content that built this network

29 posts analyzed across Gallium’s page and its founders’ feeds (Jan 1 – Sep 10, 2026): 9,377 likes, 1,405 comments, 237 shares. Founder stories carry the feed; two amplified posts carry the reach.

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“Today we're announcing $280M in Series B funding at a $2B valuation, led by our long-time investor and partner, Menlo Ve…”
Tanay Kothari2026-08-17
4795 likes · 412 comments · 61 shares
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likes
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“Today, we’re officially launching Contrario after reaching $6M annualized revenue in under 6 months. In the early days o…”
Arya Marwaha2026-05-20
1521 likes · 571 comments · 130 shares
1521
likes
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“I just flew out a 19-yr-old to SF and gave him keys to his new apartment. He's a 2x-founder, ex-Cluely, who just dropped…”
Jaisal Kothari2026-04-14
381 likes · 22 comments · 4 shares
381
likes
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“I'm dropping out of UC San Diego And moving to SF (with 2 total strangers) to lead growth at Gallium I'm a 2x Founder, e…”
Aidan Nguyen-Tran2026-04-07
313 likes · 85 comments · 6 shares
313
likes
5
“YC P26 just started. If you are on LinkedIn, you need to follow these 4 YC founders from last batch: 1. Brianna L. - Cop…”
Akshat Sharma2026-04-16
218 likes · 16 comments · 0 shares
218
likes
6
“YC P26 is RAISING the bar for startups. If you're on LinkedIn, you need to follow these 4 YC founders: Tony (Yaowen) Cha…”
Akshat Sharma2026-05-07
205 likes · 29 comments · 3 shares
205
likes
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“It's been 1 week since I dropped out of UCSD. 19 years old. No apartment. No backup plan. I flew to SF to build Gallium …”
Aidan Nguyen-Tran2026-04-15
204 likes · 31 comments · 1 shares
204
likes
8
“Obsidian is worth $350M with 8 employees and a cat. This isn't a fun fact. It's a preview of what every company will loo…”
Jaisal Kothari2026-04-09
177 likes · 18 comments · 1 shares
177
likes
What This Data Tells You

Four angles worth acting on

This isn’t a list of likes. It’s a map of the audience Gallium’s LinkedIn presence actually reaches — and the relationships already forming in public.

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A founder-led audience, built by founder content
974 verified engagers · 1273 reactions & comments · 29 posts across the page and two founders’ feeds in 2026. Gallium’s page is essentially a repost channel — its reach is the founders’ personal brands, and this is the audience those brands assembled.
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Founder stories beat tactical advice
Founder-story posts averaged 167 likes vs 100 for tactical posts and 83 for industry takes. The audience comes for the journey, not the playbook — which is worth knowing before writing next month’s calendar.
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52 people never miss a post
135 people engaged 2+ times and 52 engaged 3+ times, including three who reacted to 13 or more posts. 88 engaged more than one Gallium surface. That is a nucleus worth naming and rewarding.
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The audience is bigger than the ICP
317 of 974 engagers (33%) hold founder/operator or GTM profiles; the largest single cohort is students and early-career builders. 180 engagers carry founder/CEO titles. The reach is real — the fit is partial.

Gallium has already built the hard part: an audience that shows up for its founders. The next step is a content system that knows who that audience is, routes it deliberately, and turns repeat attention into pipeline.

So What

What you’d actually do with this

Data is only as good as the decision it changes. Here’s the same analysis read two ways.

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If you run growth at Gallium

This is a live map of who your LinkedIn presence actually reaches: 974 named people across the page and two founder feeds, including 180 founders/CEOs and 52 people who engage again and again. 88 engaged more than one Gallium surface — multi-touch attention no CRM is scoring.

The relationships are already forming in public, and the content that builds them is founder-story-led. The gap is that 67% of the audience isn’t a buyer, and nothing in the current feed is aimed at converting the 33% who are.

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What a content system would do with this

Name the 52. Turn the repeat core into a real circle: early access, behind-the-scenes, a founders’ list. They already act like a community; treat them like one.

Schedule the story beat. Founder stories out-perform tactical posts. A calendar that leads with the human narrative — and uses tactical posts as support — matches how this audience actually behaves.

Ask for the comment. 69 comments against 1212 reactions is an untapped layer. Questions and prompts turn silent applause into names.

Separate the two audiences. Founders/operators get the offer; students and early-career get the craft content they clearly want. One feed, two tracks, measured separately.

Want this analysis of your own audience?

This report is a working sample. Every number on this page comes from Gallium’s own public LinkedIn activity — the names, titles and engagement were already visible; the system for reading them was not. The same read can be run on any company page and its leadership team.

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