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Common Ground

These are Twitter accounts that rank highly in both lenses, meaning these are the people who are likely trusted by both groups and could be useful at neutrally establishing a shared reality. Once they clear a threshold in PageRank score, they are sorted by geometric mean of both Personalized PageRank scores (decreasing).

Summary

  1. A16Z (18)
  2. Sutter Hill Ventures (11)
  3. Sequioa (11)
  4. Baseline (10)
  5. Benchmark Capital (10)
  6. Khosla Ventures (10)
  7. Initialized Capital (9)
  8. Crypto VC (8)
  9. Homebrew (8)
  10. The Information (7)
  11. Biotech (6)
  12. Think Tanks (6)
  13. Techcrunch (6)
  14. Recode (6)
  15. Founders (6)
  16. Wired (5)
  17. Y Combinator (5)
  18. The New York Times (4)
  19. Village Global (4)
  20. My Climate Journey (4)
  21. Mercatus Center (3)
  22. Reality-Based Community (3)
  23. Founders Fund (3)
  24. Accel (3)
  25. Bloomberg Opinion (3)
  26. Wall Street Journal (3)
  27. CNBC (3)
  28. IDEO Founder Collective (2)
  29. Council on Foreign Relations (2)
  30. Financial Times (2)
  31. Stat News (2)
  32. Ars Technica (2)
  33. American Enterprise Institute (2)
  34. National Bureau of Economic Research (2)
  35. Epidimiology Twitter (2)
  36. Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) (2)
  37. Epidemiology Journalism (2)
  38. Populist Libertarians (1)
  39. Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams (1)
  40. Public Goods Funding (1)
  41. Crypto Journalists (1)
  42. Crypto Infrastructure (1)
  43. Climate Solutions (1)
  44. Social Epistemology (1)
  45. Index Ventures (1)
  46. Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy (1)
  47. Eurasia Group (1)
  48. The Atlantic (1)
  49. Washington Post (1)
  50. The Los Angeles Times (1)
  51. The Verge (1)
  52. Niskanen Center (1)
  53. Foreign Policy (1)
  54. New Yorker (1)
  55. Harper's Open Letter (1)
  56. RadicalxChange (1)
  57. Ecomodernists (1)
  58. Hoover Institution (1)
  59. Cato Institute (1)
  60. Peterson Institute for International Economics (1)
  61. Earth Institute (1)
  62. Persuasion Community (1)
  63. Rationality (1)
  64. Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (1)
  65. ClimateTwitter (1)
  66. Progress Studies (1)

Common Ground Accounts

A16Z

  1. Elliott Robinson (8.4936009)
  2. alex (8.2980220)
  3. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (8.2010289)
  4. Nikhil Krishnan (8.1316173)
  5. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.1009430)
  6. Alex Konrad (8.0392224)
  7. Nick Mehta (8.0025342)
  8. Dan Primack (7.9339376)
  9. Gaby Goldberg (7.9001794)
  10. Kanyi Maqubela (7.8989120)
  11. isa watson (7.8955140)
  12. Alex Immerman (7.8664076)
  13. Ron Pragides (7.7719406)
  14. Christina Farr (7.7138422)
  15. Marlon C. Nichols (7.6978905)
  16. Pronounced Sher - Elle (7.6388994)
  17. Nikita S (7.6011152)
  18. All Raise (7.5855538)

Sutter Hill Ventures

  1. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (8.4367274)
  2. Nick Mehta (8.4108490)
  3. Byron Deeter (8.2307187)
  4. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.2267816)
  5. Nikita S (7.9457517)
  6. Alex Konrad (7.9043018)
  7. Nikhil Krishnan (7.8812856)
  8. Dan Primack (7.7769850)
  9. Ari Levy (7.6876399)
  10. Tom Nichols (7.6388316)
  11. isa watson (7.5377268)

Sequioa

  1. alex (8.3703573)
  2. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.2860645)
  3. Alex Konrad (8.2769792)
  4. Matt Turck (8.1298833)
  5. Nick Mehta (8.1193069)
  6. Jamin Ball (8.1106551)
  7. Nikhil Krishnan (8.1105945)
  8. Dan Primack (7.9386935)
  9. Kanyi Maqubela (7.8946801)
  10. All Raise (7.8380853)
  11. Scott Raney 🇺🇸 (7.6369266)

Baseline

  1. alex (8.5654575)
  2. Alex Konrad (8.2242971)
  3. Christina Farr (8.0032141)
  4. Dan Primack (7.9825670)
  5. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (7.9401192)
  6. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (7.9384474)
  7. Nikhil Krishnan (7.9082302)
  8. Pronounced Sher - Elle (7.7763954)
  9. Ari Levy (7.7693261)
  10. Kanyi Maqubela (7.7638247)

Benchmark Capital

  1. alex (8.2178682)
  2. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (8.1602301)
  3. Alex Konrad (8.1352229)
  4. Dan Primack (7.9147728)
  5. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (7.8780715)
  6. Jamin Ball (7.8585986)
  7. Nikhil Krishnan (7.8515066)
  8. Kanyi Maqubela (7.7421692)
  9. Jennifer Tejada (7.6667452)
  10. Christina Farr (7.6059060)

Khosla Ventures

  1. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.3717055)
  2. alex (8.3538724)
  3. Alex Konrad (8.2109234)
  4. Nikhil Krishnan (8.0680989)
  5. Christina Farr (8.0644208)
  6. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (8.0635775)
  7. Dan Primack (8.0139257)
  8. Kanyi Maqubela (7.9797561)
  9. Ari Levy (7.6149303)
  10. isa watson (7.5585270)

Initialized Capital

  1. alex (8.3824191)
  2. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.2990811)
  3. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (8.0944314)
  4. Alex Konrad (7.9554370)
  5. Kanyi Maqubela (7.8621322)
  6. Christina Farr (7.8090442)
  7. Dan Primack (7.7344073)
  8. Ari Levy (7.6348813)
  9. SaaStr (7.5510621)

Crypto VC

  1. alex (8.3300193)
  2. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.1769304)
  3. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (7.9792904)
  4. Alex Konrad (7.8553842)
  5. Dan Primack (7.7647532)
  6. Nikhil Krishnan (7.7539322)
  7. Kanyi Maqubela (7.7391841)
  8. Nikita S (7.5270978)

Homebrew

  1. alex (8.5040508)
  2. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.2919910)
  3. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (8.2416405)
  4. Alex Konrad (7.9411070)
  5. Gaby Goldberg (7.8464848)
  6. Nikhil Krishnan (7.7456029)
  7. Dan Primack (7.6234463)
  8. Tom Nichols (7.6120772)

The Information

  1. alex (8.7708227)
  2. Alex Konrad (8.3929980)
  3. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (8.0694950)
  4. Christina Farr (8.0467931)
  5. Ari Levy (8.0104165)
  6. Dan Primack (7.9505440)
  7. Pronounced Sher - Elle (7.6079194)

Biotech

  1. alex (8.0620961)
  2. Nikhil Krishnan (7.8523486)
  3. Tom Nichols (7.8513856)
  4. Dan Primack (7.7201603)
  5. Pronounced Sher - Elle (7.5861072)
  6. isa watson (7.5435638)

Think Tanks

  1. alex (8.2292020)
  2. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.1348906)
  3. Nikhil Krishnan (7.9533840)
  4. Christina Farr (7.9199438)
  5. Dan Primack (7.6574825)
  6. Kanyi Maqubela (7.6259121)

Techcrunch

  1. alex (8.8466357)
  2. Alex Konrad (8.0902509)
  3. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.0224305)
  4. Gaby Goldberg (7.8250602)
  5. Christina Farr (7.8065938)
  6. Dan Primack (7.8008054)

Recode

  1. alex (8.0810317)
  2. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (8.0412941)
  3. Alex Konrad (7.8939337)
  4. Ari Levy (7.6348996)
  5. Christina Farr (7.5611537)
  6. Tom Nichols (7.5365103)

Founders

  1. alex (8.3175636)
  2. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (7.8423254)
  3. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (7.8207786)
  4. Tom Nichols (7.7034033)
  5. Dan Primack (7.6554668)
  6. SaaStr (7.5698300)

Wired

  1. Elliott Robinson (8.5939785)
  2. Christina Farr (8.0679767)
  3. Kanyi Maqubela (7.9711916)
  4. Tom Nichols (7.9153633)
  5. Pronounced Sher - Elle (7.8308321)

Y Combinator

  1. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.1319516)
  2. Pronounced Sher - Elle (7.9773993)
  3. Nikhil Krishnan (7.9589267)
  4. Jeff Lawson (7.9045546)
  5. Alex Immerman (7.7954111)

The New York Times

  1. alex (8.1428844)
  2. Tom Nichols (7.8177036)
  3. Dan Primack (7.7413044)
  4. Christina Farr (7.5644870)

Village Global

  1. Nikhil Krishnan (7.9963121)
  2. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (7.8755620)
  3. Kanyi Maqubela (7.6609638)
  4. Nikita S (7.5935452)

My Climate Journey

  1. Nikhil Krishnan (8.0856684)
  2. Kanyi Maqubela (7.8024406)
  3. Dan Primack (7.7665940)
  4. Christina Farr (7.7099334)

Mercatus Center

  1. Nikhil Krishnan (7.7439850)
  2. Michael Shermer (7.6225645)
  3. Tom Nichols (7.6130092)

Reality-Based Community

  1. alex (9.0089550)
  2. Alex Konrad (8.4188750)
  3. Ari Levy (8.0839843)

Founders Fund

  1. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.2101651)
  2. Nikhil Krishnan (7.8715090)
  3. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (7.8312389)

Accel

  1. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (8.0592696)
  2. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (7.7884842)
  3. Anna Khan (7.7700617)

Bloomberg Opinion

  1. alex (8.1013944)
  2. Tom Nichols (7.9681643)
  3. Dan Primack (7.5973696)

Wall Street Journal

  1. alex (8.3887553)
  2. Kanyi Maqubela (7.5806212)
  3. Christina Farr (7.5575733)

CNBC

  1. Ari Levy (7.8218878)
  2. Nasdaq (7.7584877)
  3. Christina Farr (7.6598237)

IDEO Founder Collective

  1. Jeff Richards 🇺🇸 (7.8444949)
  2. Gaby Goldberg (7.8187302)

Council on Foreign Relations

  1. Tom Nichols (7.9432386)
  2. Christina Farr (7.7963132)

Financial Times

  1. alex (8.0951134)
  2. Nikhil Krishnan (7.7881970)

Stat News

  1. Ari Levy (7.7729004)
  2. Christina Farr (7.7573493)

Ars Technica

  1. alex (8.3703309)
  2. Tom Nichols (7.5493032)

American Enterprise Institute

  1. Tom Nichols (7.9395930)
  2. Christina Farr (7.7509546)

National Bureau of Economic Research

  1. Tom Nichols (7.9395930)
  2. Christina Farr (7.7509546)

Epidimiology Twitter

  1. Christina Farr (8.0478231)
  2. Tom Nichols (7.6999384)

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

  1. Tom Nichols (7.9559853)
  2. Michael Shermer (7.7242100)

Epidemiology Journalism

  1. Tom Nichols (7.8143564)
  2. Christina Farr (7.6188130)

Populist Libertarians

  1. Michael Shermer (7.6415567)

Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams

  1. Tom Nichols (7.9684974)

Public Goods Funding

  1. Kanyi Maqubela (7.5225490)

Crypto Journalists

  1. alex (8.3592437)

Crypto Infrastructure

  1. Nikhil Krishnan (7.7933143)

Climate Solutions

  1. All Raise (7.5858480)

Social Epistemology

  1. Tom Nichols (7.7297224)

Index Ventures

  1. Alex Konrad (7.8960960)

Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

  1. Tom Nichols (7.8836732)

Eurasia Group

  1. Tom Nichols (7.6561523)

The Atlantic

  1. Christina Farr (7.6556105)

Washington Post

  1. Tom Nichols (7.9032137)

The Los Angeles Times

  1. Tom Nichols (7.8648197)

The Verge

  1. alex (8.0881922)

Niskanen Center

  1. Tom Nichols (7.6697980)

Foreign Policy

  1. Tom Nichols (7.6697980)

New Yorker

  1. Tom Nichols (7.6970111)

Harper's Open Letter

  1. Tom Nichols (7.5548213)

RadicalxChange

  1. Kanyi Maqubela (7.8459660)

Ecomodernists

  1. Tom Nichols (7.6105734)

Hoover Institution

  1. Tom Nichols (7.5373456)

Cato Institute

  1. Tom Nichols (7.6686674)

Peterson Institute for International Economics

  1. Tom Nichols (7.7533256)

Earth Institute

  1. Tom Nichols (7.5523320)

Persuasion Community

  1. Tom Nichols (7.8474926)

Rationality

  1. Tom Nichols (7.6445875)

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

  1. Tom Nichols (7.7933859)

ClimateTwitter

  1. Tom Nichols (7.8433537)

Progress Studies

  1. Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (7.8752009)