Rene is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Self.xyz and previously co-founded Celo, a cryptocurrency protocol. Rene's Twitter Score is 153 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #3,657 (top 1%) among 498,181 tracked accounts.
Rene also founded Locu, a local business data company that was acquired by GoDaddy in August 2013 for $70 million. Following that acquisition, Rene was formerly affiliated with GoDaddy before going on to co-found Celo, which is associated with the CELO token, and later Self.xyz. Rene is also an MIT alumnus.
Rene has published 6,900 posts on the platform and has 22,545 followers as of October 2026. Rene has been mentioned by 74 accounts, with 226 total mentions.
As an angel investor, Rene has backed Values Network, Kresko, Para, Ika, ethermail.moltmail, Canza Finance, Predicate and Fountain.
Who follows Rene on X?
The accounts that follow Rene include 544 founders, 182 angel investors, 127 influencers and 19 VCs. Among them are Chris Dixon, Toly, Marc Andreessen, Laura Shin, Chris Burniske and Kyle Samani.