Thread by @borrowed_ideas

1/7 From 300 followers in March to 30,000 in December, I will remember 2020 as the year I got completely hooked to fintwit community.

Thank you to everyone for making fintwit such an enjoyable experience. Let me share my journey here in a short thread.

2/7 I started lurking at fintwit since mid-2019 and by the end of '19, I wished I were part of this cool little community on twitter.

So when the pandemic hit, I wrote this mega thread on $AMZN hoping I would get some traction. I didn't. It got <50 likes

3/7 I still kept writing, hoping something would stick.

And it did. Everything changed when Paul Graham retweeted this $FB thread. Followers increased from 500 to 2.5k in 1 day.

A few days later, I RT that $AMZN thread again. This time, 3 PMs DMed me.

4/7 A month later, I posted this $ISRG thread. This led to most of the fintwit heavyweight following me.

And again, some PMs/analysts reached out. It was amazing to receive validation of the work I was putting in.

5/7 Beyond the company specific threads, my personal favorite thread was "half-life of investing".

6/7 Ever since PG RTed the FB thread and the messages I received, I realized first-hand the power of twitter.

That belief only solidified further over the last few months, so much so that after leaving my role due to immigration reasons, I decided not to look for another job

7/7 I launched independent research service, and it's been great to see the support I received from this fintwit community.

mbi-deepdives.com

I will never take your support for granted. I will try my best to earn it again in 2021 and every year after that.

THANK YOU.