Rene is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Self.xyz and previously co-founded Celo, a cryptocurrency protocol. Rene's Twitter Score is 155 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of September 2026, ranking #3,565 (top 1%) among 486,860 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 6,730 posts on the platform and has 22,530 followers as of September 2026. Rene has been mentioned by 73 accounts, with 221 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 539 founders, 182 angel investors, 127 influencers and 19 VCs. Among them are Chris Dixon, Toly, Marc Andreessen, Laura Shin, Chris Burniske and Kyle Samani.