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Reddit · 30 entries · platform-specific

Reddit, 30 voices.

~30 business, PE, SaaS, and finance communities where corp-dev and operator buyers actually read.

Marcus is thinner on Reddit than on X, and he is NOT in the dev subs the old avatar lived in. This is the buy-side neighborhood, PE, venture, corp-dev/finance, SaaS-business, and the sectors he evaluates. Engagement is comment-only and rare: the finance and VC subs auto-remove anything that names a product, so we comment with a translated data point on a real question or we just read.

Cadence

Comment-only on the engage subs (r/PrivateEquity, r/venturecapital, r/SaaS), and only when a translated data point answers a real question. 40-55 words, no URL in the first comment, ceiling of two comments a week. Everything else is read/watch.

Platform rule

Never main-post on the finance/VC subs, auto-mod removes it and shadowbans the account. No raw commits or quant jargon anywhere. Honest scope: this roster is intentionally short, Marcus's real Reddit footprint is small.

Engagement status · 30 entries

  • 3

    Engage

    Active engagement layer, we reply with a translated data point or pitch a complementary data angle.

  • 7

    Watch

    Monitoring, we read the signal and reply only when one translated data point genuinely fits.

  • 0

    Hold

    Engagement paused. Listed for transparency.

  • 20

    Read

    Read-only consumption. Awareness and ground-truth, no engagement layer.

  • 0

    Blocked

    Cannot engage, platform constraint, anonymity rule, or policy.

The literal roster

30 entries, numbered, status-flagged, linked.

Sorted by attention priority (top of list = most active surface). Engage-tagged entries are where the Tue / Fri cycle lives.

  1. 1.

    Marcus's literal professional neighborhood, PE/operating-partner buyers. Comment-only.

    Comment-only. Product names auto-removed.

  2. 2.

    What's getting funded and valued. Comment-only on data-question threads.

    Comment-only. Hero posts auto-removed.

  3. 3.

    r/SaaS

    Engage

    SaaS-business reality, traction-vs-hype, ARR, churn threads. Comment-only.

  4. 4.

    M&A / deal-side diligence crowd. Adjacent to corp-dev buyers.

  5. 5.

    Corp-dev / FP&A / finance professionals, Marcus's coworkers.

    Handle unverified, confirm before outreach.

  6. 6.

    Buy-side diligence discipline. Pattern memory for 'is this real traction.'

  7. 7.

    The companies Marcus evaluates, in their own words.

  8. 8.

    Cohort + 'who's hot' signal. Adjacent to our pattern memory.

  9. 9.

    A sector Marcus actively evaluates. News + traction threads.

  10. 10.

    Solo-angel buyers (the small-cheque end of the avatar).

  11. 11.

    Broad markets. Awareness + tone calibration.

  12. 12.

    Valuation discipline. Buy-side pattern memory.

  13. 13.

    Public-markets awareness. What names are in the conversation.

  14. 14.

    Finance/IB/PE professional audience. Avatar concentration.

  15. 15.

    Generalist founder/operator community. Awareness only.

  16. 16.

    Broad business audience. Awareness.

  17. 17.

    Macro context for the deal environment.

  18. 18.

    r/MBA

    Read

    Business-decision-maker audience. Corp-dev / consulting adjacency.

  19. 19.

    Strategy / corp-dev adjacency. Buyer-archetype reads.

  20. 20.

    Mass-tech sector awareness, what's breaking into the mainstream.

  21. 21.

    AI-sector heat. Which names are 'worth a meeting' this quarter.

  22. 22.

    AI/ML sector awareness (read-only, not an engagement sub for Marcus).

  23. 23.

    A sector Marcus evaluates. SecOps-company awareness.

  24. 24.

    Enterprise-buyer adjacency. What budget-holders actually adopt.

  25. 25.

    Operator adjacency. Tool-adoption signal.

  26. 26.

    Bootstrap / outside-VC counterweight. Awareness.

  27. 27.

    Build-in-public threads. Useful traction-vs-hype reads.

  28. 28.

    Personal-finance / angel-investor crossover.

  29. 29.

    GTM/SaaS-business audience. Awareness of go-to-market signal.

    Handle unverified, confirm before outreach.

  30. 30.

    Founder/operator audience. Awareness, low engagement.

    Handle unverified, confirm before outreach.

How to use this roster

Mirror the cadence. Read three of these regularly. Comment on one once a week.

We don’t guard our infiltration plan because it doesn’t scale by secrecy, it scales by repetition. If you want to mirror the same Redditattention map, that’s net positive: the conversation gets denser, the dataset gets cleaner, and the answer to the same question on each platform converges. We’ll still ship the free Acceleration Watch on Mondays.

The Reddit roster is regenerated quarterly. Status flags update weekly when engagement state changes. Companion mixed list at /target-list.

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