"Twitter Changed My Life"
- A story from Maral Kalajian
- 1 juli 2016
- 2 min läsning
You might have guessed that I work in the startup ecosystem, and you are right. My day moves through rooms where the first smart guitar and the fastest drone in the world are still in their early phases and where companies like the next Spotify and King are still working on their prototypes. My Tweet trail started in 2013. Moving across Stockholm attending every startup event out there with #sthlmtech as my tag, I didn’t have a clue where I was heading. Not until the day I met a woman called Rosie Linder. She had just started her company Peppy Pals, producing an emotional intelligence game and platform for kids. We met at the launch party marking the birth of one of Stockholm's best startup hubs, SUP46 (Startup people of Sweden), and we clicked instantly. Fast forwarding from there, I started helping her out with all sort of marketing things, mostly digital and then became a co-founder! Yay! Tweeting my way into the startup community, working with Peppy Pals during nights and weekends, and managing my full-time job during the day, life was good. With my startup aspirations growing, in June 2015, I also became the co-director for the Stockholm chapter in one of the coolest startup forums called StartupGrind. That helped me to become a person who not just “tweets” but also “acts”. :) Becoming more active helped me build up a community and gave me the opportunity to conduct several on-stage cozy interviews with some of the greatest minds of our city. My guests span from founders, investors and CEOs to politicians... and I love every minute of these inspiring conversations! Days were rolling by, and one day I got the opportunity to join and work at Sweden's, or in fact the Nordics’, best incubator STING (Stockholm Innovation and Growth), and joined them full time as their digital, marketing and community manager. I started working with STING in May and I love every single minute of it. I am still a co-founder and still a co-director and still a twitterer. I love what I do and my non-9–5 job. When I am not doing any of these things, I do my morning power walks, boxing together with a friend, and take road-trips across Sweden with my dear friends. I speak 5 languages. I am an Apple fanatic and I consider Steve Jobs as the love of my life.

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