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X bio ideas for founders
Example X bios for founders, then a generator that builds yours from four short answers. Everything fits the 160-character limit, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Examples
All made up, all under 160 characters. Steal the shape, not the words.
Building Ledgerline, payroll for small restaurants. Writing about pricing and the slow parts of B2B sales. Ex-line cook.
120 / 160Founder @Tidewell (bootstrapped, profitable). Posting the numbers and the decisions behind them.
96 / 160Making clinic scheduling less painful. 14 people, 2 offices, 0 investors. Ask me about selling to doctors.
106 / 160Second-time founder. First one failed, this one has 600 customers. Notes on what I do differently.
98 / 160CEO of a small logistics startup. I write about hiring, cash and saying no to customers.
88 / 160Building in public: an invoicing app for freelancers. Weekly revenue every Friday.
82 / 160
Write yours
- What you do, what you post80 / 160
Building a scheduling tool for clinics. Posting about pricing, sales and hiring.
- Proof first105 / 160
Bootstrapped to $40k MRR. Now building a scheduling tool for clinics. Notes on pricing, sales and hiring.
- Dot list115 / 160
Founder · Building a scheduling tool for clinics · Bootstrapped to $40k MRR · Two kids, one cofounder, no investors
- Learning in public106 / 160
Building a scheduling tool for clinics. Writing down what I learn about pricing, sales and hiring as I go.
- With a human detail114 / 160
Building a scheduling tool for clinics. Two kids, one cofounder, no investors. Posts on pricing, sales and hiring.
- Topic-led102 / 160
Pricing, sales and hiring. Bootstrapped to $40k MRR. Currently building a scheduling tool for clinics.
What a bio for founders has to do
A founder bio has to answer two questions in one breath: what the company does and why your posts are worth reading. Name the product and who it is for, then give one piece of proof (customers, revenue, years) and one thing you post about. “Founder & CEO” alone tells people nothing they can follow you for.
Once the bio is set, the posts have to match it. The tweet ideas for founders page has prompts and opening lines to start from.
Questions
Should a founder bio link to the product or to a personal site?
The product, in most cases. People who like your posts will want to see what you build, and the link field is the one place in the bio that can send them there.
How long can an X bio be?
Up to 160 characters. Links in the bio are shortened, and the profile also has separate fields for a website and a location, so you don’t need to spend bio space on either.
Does this tool use AI?
No. It arranges your own answers into common bio shapes, so every word is yours. That’s on purpose: a bio written by a model tends to sound like everyone else’s.
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