People the speaker encountered said they followed developments on Twitter and LinkedIn but struggled to distinguish marketing claims from genuine developments.

“of project that they want built for some use case and I'm going to understand what they want I'm going to make trade-offs and I'm going to help them build that so yeah I just felt like a natural extension of what I was doing and so back in January we started working with a couple private equity firms and a lot of people were just like hey like I'm following on what's going on on Twitter what's going on LinkedIn I don't know what's marketing BS and what's not so I was like why not just bring on people who are working on the cool stuff at cool companies we will”