Rene is a serial entrepreneur who co-founded Self.xyz and previously co-founded Celo, a cryptocurrency protocol. Rene's Twitter Score is 138 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of July 2026, ranking #4,739 (top 1%) among 531,432 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 6,667 posts on the platform and has 22,575 followers as of July 2026. Rene has been mentioned by 65 accounts, with 206 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 512 founders, 159 angel investors, 144 influencers and 19 VCs. Among them are Chris Dixon, Toly, Laura Shin, Chris Burniske, Kyle Samani and Nic Carter.