Pierre-Louis Biojout
@plbiojout X
A YC founder on X: startup numbers first, then France vs America, 10K in eight months
Pierre-Louis Biojout is French, a YC alum, and lives in San Francisco. He had barely posted for half a year when his startup NanoCorp launched on Mar 5, 2026. He posted its numbers, "$193k ARR in 3 days", "$1M ARR in 55 days", then more and more long posts comparing France and the US. A post about his visit to an American emergency room reached 2.35M views. He says he hit 10K on Nov 2, posting about 1.3 times a day.
- Report
- v1
- Data as of
- 2026-11-08
- Sample
- 311 days of posting counts
Pierre-Louis Biojout@plbiojoutArmed guards at the door. Opioids offered on repeat. Apple Pay at my bedside. Welcome to the American Emergency Room.
View on X →At a glance
- What it is
- A French founder in San Francisco posting his startup's numbers and France-vs-US comparisons.
- Who it's for
- Founders, engineers and French tech readers.
- How it earns
- His startup NanoCorp; X payouts since Nov 2026.
- How it took off
- Launch numbers, then long comparison posts; one ER story at 2.35M views.
X followers Fact
10.6K
Nov 8, 2026
To 10K Self-reported
~8 months
Mar 5 → Nov 2, 2026
ER post Derived
2.35M
views, 1,495× his launch-fortnight median
Posts a day Derived
1.3
main posts, Mar 5 – Nov 7, 2026
Summary
The play
Post every real milestone of what you're building, number first; then write long, sectioned comparisons from the two worlds you know.
Can you copy it? Our read
What you can copy is the method: number-first milestone posts while you build, and long comparisons from two places you know. What you can't copy is the startup and the two countries. Fits a founder or expat with a real project and a strong point of view.
- What it takes
- A project with numbers worth sharing, and a perspective from somewhere your readers aren't.
- Startup cost
- Time only; about one post a day.
- Time to a verdict
- Judge it over months: his launch posts reached tens of thousands, his first million-view post came seven months later.
- Window
- Founder ARR posts are crowded; the comparisons are his own.
Key findings
The launch numbers got him started
His launch fortnight had a median of 1,574 views; "$193k ARR in 3 days" drew 32,822 and "$1M ARR in 55 days" 86,156. See play 2.1 (subscribers)
Comparisons went further
The five best-viewed posts in the sample are about France or France vs the US, from 109K to 2.35M views. No NanoCorp post passed 86K. See play 2.2 (subscribers)
Few posts, almost no replies
1.3 main posts and 2.3 replies a day. He grew on what he posted, not on time spent in other people's threads. See play 2.4 (subscribers)
"A few hundred views" doesn't fit the launch
He says his posts hit a few hundred views eight months ago. His launch fortnight's median was 1,574, with one at 32,822.
What this channel is
- Platform
- X
- Format
- Long text posts and quote posts, in English and French
- Who
- Founder of NanoCorp, YC alum, Polytechnique 2019 (self-reported)
- Started
- Mar 5, 2026, NanoCorp's launch; account opened Nov 2022
- Pace
- 1.3 main posts and 2.3 replies a day
- Location
- San Francisco (self-reported)
Every number is tagged
- Fact straight from public data
- Derived calculated from facts
- Estimate from published pay ranges
- Self-reported what the creator says
- Our read our judgement
01How it happened
How the X following grew
- X 10.6K
- Fact
- Self-reported
Hollow dots: self-reported (the creator's own milestone posts) or derived. Solid dots: measured.
- under 1×
- 1–3×
- 3–10×
- 10× and up
Each bar is one day, in date order; its height is how many main posts (originals, quotes and articles; not replies) went out that day. This chart counts posts per day rather than listing each post. May 2–3, 2026 read zero for every account we track: a gap in the data.
| When | X followers | What happened |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 2022 | 0 (account opened) | |
| Jan–Jun 2025 | — | 18–28 main posts a month |
| Jul 2025–Feb 2026 | — | 1–9 main posts a month |
| Mar 2026 | "almost no followers" (self-reported) | His words, eight months later |
| Mar 5–18, 2026 | — | NanoCorp launches. 16 main posts, median 1,574 views; "$193k ARR in 3 days" 32,822 |
| Apr 2026 | — | "$740k ARR in 33 days" (28,702); "Publicly committing: $1M ARR by Sunday" (19,357) |
| May 28–Jun 5, 2026 | — | "$1,000+ earned by companies with no employees" (59,817); "I hit $1M ARR in 55 days" (86,156) |
| Jun 2026 | — | 58 main posts, his busiest month. A French post on air conditioning in France: 153,790 |
| Aug 2026 | — | A French post replying to a public figure on Hugging Face's CEO: 108,521 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | — | "I stopped trying to write good tweets … Welcome to all the new followers!" |
| Oct 27, 2026 | — | ER post: 2,352,769 views |
| Nov 2, 2026 | 10,000 (self-reported) | "Just got access to monetization on X!" |
| Nov 5, 2026 | — | A French quote post on two classmates protesting in uniform: 496,503 |
| Nov 8, 2026 | 10,642 (fact) |
Views are as of Nov 8, 2026. Dates are UTC. Follower counts before today are his own posts (self-reported); X does not publish follower history. Views cover part of his posts, not every one; the post counts per day are complete.
Their own numbers, checked
His Nov 2 post summed up his eight months. We checked what can be checked against the public posts and daily post counts:
| What he said (self-reported) | What the data shows (fact) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| "8 months ago … posts were hitting a few hundred views at best" | All 16 posts of his launch fortnight (Mar 5–18): median 1,574, best 32,822 | Does not hold for the launch weeks; posts before March are not in our data |
| "Now posts hit sometimes millions of views" | ER post, Oct 27: 2,352,769 | Holds |
| "Now some of them do millions of views" (Oct 7) | At that date the best post in our sample was 153,790 (Jun 24); September and early October are not in our sample | Can't check |
| "I have 10k followers" (Nov 2) | 10,642 on Nov 8 | Holds |
| "$193k ARR in 3 days", "$1M ARR in 55 days" | Only his posts | Can't check |
| "launched March 5, 20k users since" | His daily posting restarts on Mar 5 | Launch date holds; users can't be checked |
Reading the numbers
Fact
1,574 → 2,352,769
Views: launch-fortnight median → the ER post
Seven months apart, same account.
Fact
86,156
His best NanoCorp post
"I hit $1M ARR in 55 days", Jun 5, 2026.
Derived
0.52%
Engagement
Median of (likes + replies + reposts) ÷ views over the 106 posts in the sample.
In the creator’s words Self-reported
I stopped trying to write good tweets. Now some of them do millions of views.
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