Austin

bldg "cursor" for content mktg (stealth, vc-backed)

prev growth/ceo @anjahealth (acq’d)

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@16vchq https://t.co/SHE7bwWgDZ

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@sridharfyi @16vchq 16

[Sridhar A @sridharfyi]

🚀 sf26 cohort is locked in.

founders are ready to build the future.

can you guess how many founders made it? 👀

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@rishabnayak am i a software engineer now lol

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Clever concept

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@Blake_Saari burn unlimited tokens

[Austin @geinyuhs]

how is this not the greatest time to be alive

[Blake @Blake_Saari]

@geinyuhs Make no mistakes.

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@FarzaTV @FarzaTV think i found a bug. clicky doesn’t respond when on facetime + screenshare

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@boardyai 🫡🫡

[Tim Soulo 🇺🇦 @timsoulo]

In the last 6 months at @Ahrefs, we analyzed over 1 billion data points across 14 studies. Here's what we learned about AI search optimization:

1) "Best X" blog listicles are the single most prominent content format cited by AI chatbots. They make up 43.8% of all page types cited by ChatGPT specifically.

2) 67% of ChatGPT's top 1,000 citations come from sources marketers can't influence: Wikipedia (29.7%), homepages (23.8%), app stores (6.6%). Only 32.3% are influenceable content like educational pages, reviews, news, and blog posts.

3) 28.3% of ChatGPT's most-cited pages have zero Google organic visibility. These pages get cited repeatedly by ChatGPT despite not ranking in Google at all. A completely separate discovery layer.

4) ChatGPT only cites about 50% of the URLs it retrieves. It fetches dozens of pages per query but uses half as background context without attribution. This means that being retrieved and being cited are very different things.

5) Adding schema markup had zero meaningful impact on AI citations. AI Overviews actually dipped −4.6%, while AI Mode (+2.4%) and ChatGPT (+2.2%) showed changes indistinguishable from zero.

6) YouTube mentions have the highest correlation (0.737) with AI brand visibility out of all the factors we studied (including all the conventional SEO metrics like backlinks, page count, DR, etc). This held true for both Google-owned and OpenAI products.

7) AI Overviews reduce clicks to the #1 result by 58%. That’s up from 34.5% just 10 months earlier. The trend is accelerating.

8) 99.9% of AI Overviews appear on informational intent queries. Transactional, navigational, and local searches are almost entirely AIO-free. Shopping triggers AIOs just 3.2% of the time.

9) For a given search query, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews reach the same conclusions 86% of the time — but cite almost entirely different sources (only 13.7% citation overlap).

10) AI Overviews change every 2.15 days on average, with 70% of content differing between consecutive observations. But semantic similarity stays at 0.95. The words, sources, and entities constantly shuffle, but the actual meaning barely moves.

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@amiyoshimura_ @vercinyc @descopeinc @vercel @stanforcreators @ElevenLabs @tiktok_us @awscloud @adapty @baseten see u there!! 🔥

[ami @amiyoshimura_]

super excited to be hosting over 12 events with some incredible companies for new york tech week at @vercinyc

our space will be transforming into a free cafe for the week, host some amazing speakers, turn into a jazz speakeasy for the night, bring together creatives, and so much more...

link in comments with all events

if you’re in NYC for the week, comment below or shoot me a message!

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@MichaelHawaii @kathrynjc7 🫶🏽🫡

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@kathrynjc7 grateful to have been apart 🫶🏽🫡

[Kathryn Cross @kathrynjc7]

https://t.co/I2f98yQLIG

[Austin @geinyuhs]

seen in SF today 🫪

[Austin @geinyuhs]

@vparv3 @kobyjconrad 👀

[James Deacon @jamesdeacon_]

hosted another founder's dinner last night, super fun evening with a great group

if you're interested in joining future events we're hosting, drop your info in the form below

[Austin @geinyuhs]

things me & @WhiteHouse have in common….being banned from anthropic

@AnthropicAI sos