Paige Finn DohertyFounding Partner, Behind Genius · Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures

How has Tech & VC Producer & Researcher Rachel Braun's experience been being very active on Twitter?

13 May 2023 · 1 min

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Rachel Braun started tweeting seriously in 2021 after graduating college, working remotely from her parents' house in a Baltimore suburb. Isolated from the local tech scene, she used Twitter to find peers, ask people about their work, and build friendships in the industry.

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So I'd love to hear more about like, what's your experience been being extremely online, active on Twitter in those circles? Any like fun stories that you wanna share? Ooh, I mean, I'm sure there's like a ton of fun stories. I feel like now I, when honestly before the pandemic, I wasn't super on Twitter. I wasn't really on Twitter until 2021. So a year after college, I mean, I had an account, but I wasn't really tweeting actively as much. And then 2021, I started tweeting more and making those like online friends because I worked remote And I was living with my parents in a suburb of Baltimore, and I was like, okay, there aren't as many people in tech right now living in Baltimore that at least I have access to. So where are they hiding, basically? And that's kind of why I started going to Twitter more and like interacting with people and being like, hey, like, what are you guys up to? Like, what do you do for work? Like, where are you located? Like, I really want to meet friends in my industry.