Devon is a startup-cities founder who leads Esmeralda Institute and the Esmeralda Land Company, a Chautauqua-style town development project targeting planning approvals in 2026. Devon's Twitter Score is 228 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,831 (top 0.5%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Devon founded both Esmeralda Institute and Esmeralda Land Company, driving an ambitious project to build a new community from the ground up, with active public updates continuing through 2025 and 2026. She previously worked at Affirm as a software engineer on the Identity team, and was formerly Editor in Chief at The Stanford Review. She was also formerly affiliated with Andreessen Horowitz, where she hosted a show focused on crypto, and previously worked at Pronomos, with a continuing affiliation with Pronomos Capital. Her earlier work included open-source community tooling and identity attestation projects, reflecting a career that spans software engineering, media, and urban development.
Devon has accumulated 59,237 followers as of August 2026 and has published 18,213 posts on the platform since 2012. She has been mentioned by 144 accounts, with 255 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Devon include 930 founders, 301 angel investors, 158 influencers and 8 VCs. Among them are Balaji, vitalik.eth, Marc Andreessen, jesse.base.eth, Erik Voorhees and Stani.