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Daniel Gross

Daniel Gross

@danielgross

dcgross.com

Pioneer (pioneer.app). Started Cue, acquired by Apple. Startup investor in Uber, GitHub, Figma, Opendoor, Coinbase, SpaceX, etc. Aspiring runner.

44337 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#4 0.017265 Y Combinator
#86 0.001961 Sequioa
#169 0.000844 Village Global
#544 0.000238 Khosla Ventures
#557 0.000264 A16Z
#790 0.000191 Initialized Capital
#1221 0.000121 Benchmark Capital
#1626 0.000091 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2350 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2638 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2682 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3115 0.000001 Accel
#4530 0.000001 Bessemer
#4856 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5632 0.000001 Homebrew

Culture and Political Economy

#10 0.006569 Progress Studies
#26 0.003653 The Long Now Foundation
#142 0.000615 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#426 0.000375 Social Epistemology
#709 0.000169 Rationality
#957 0.000143 Bismark Analysis
#1221 0.000103 Works in Progress
#2615 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2662 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2676 0.000033 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2768 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2799 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2839 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2871 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2872 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2918 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3147 0.000001 350.org
#3325 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4381 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#5267 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5504 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5624 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5800 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6448 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6475 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7105 0.000001 EFF
#7386 0.000006 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#8198 0.000001 Anarachists
#8894 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism

Think Tanks

#17 0.003714 Mercatus Center
#2851 0.000012 Niskanen Center
#3050 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3098 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3290 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3512 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3948 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4929 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5302 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6168 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7220 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7955 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Crypto

#220 0.000667 Crypto VC
#1184 0.000078 Crypto Infrastructure
#1223 0.000099 Public Goods Funding
#1673 0.000055 Ethereum
#1916 0.000021 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2661 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2762 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2831 0.000001 Polkadot
#4121 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5056 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5080 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5117 0.000001 Cosmos
#6119 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7344 0.000002 IDEO Founder Collective
#8714 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Journalism

#155 0.000594 Bloomberg Opinion
#2475 0.000021 Palladium Magazine
#2851 0.000012 Foreign Policy
#2973 0.000001 The Information
#3488 0.000001 Stat News
#3810 0.000001 The Verge
#3843 0.000001 OANN
#3860 0.000001 Newsmax
#4422 0.000001 The Economist
#5028 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5028 0.000001 CNBC
#5176 0.000003 Techcrunch
#5843 0.000001 Wired
#6292 0.000001 Financial Times
#6317 0.000001 The Intercept
#6842 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7448 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8300 0.000001 VICE

Informal Community

#1291 0.000105 Founders

system

#6745 0.000019 Think Tanks

Science

#3180 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3590 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5257 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#5987 0.000010 Biotech
#7101 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#2771 0.000001 Rust
#4002 0.000001 Zig

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