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Dan Primack

Dan Primack

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#20 0.007386 Founders Fund
#23 0.003645 Benchmark Capital
#34 0.003203 Khosla Ventures
#62 0.001390 A16Z
#69 0.001222 Bessemer
#86 0.001324 Initialized Capital
#97 0.001506 My Climate Journey
#142 0.001141 Sutter Hill Ventures
#205 0.000748 Homebrew
#216 0.000940 Sequioa
#441 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#802 0.000196 Village Global
#867 0.000091 Index Ventures
#972 0.000003 Accel
#1921 0.000003 Y Combinator

Journalism

#19 0.003778 Recode
#47 0.002558 Techcrunch
#73 0.002466 The Information
#726 0.000173 Bloomberg Opinion
#737 0.000115 CNBC
#1082 0.000171 The New York Times
#1149 0.000121 The Dispatch
#1297 0.000002 Newsmax
#1306 0.000002 OANN
#1385 0.000003 Stat News
#1415 0.000085 VICE
#1421 0.000079 Ars Technica
#1771 0.000003 The Verge
#1987 0.000009 Reuters
#2335 0.000003 The Economist
#2752 0.000047 The Atlantic
#2854 0.000028 BuzzFeed
#3041 0.000019 Washington Post
#3112 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4025 0.000003 Wired
#4222 0.000003 Financial Times
#4390 0.000002 The Intercept
#4734 0.000021 New Yorker
#5284 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5470 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6215 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#7271 0.000005 The New York Post
#8573 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Crypto

#238 0.000618 Crypto VC
#451 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#603 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#647 0.000003 Polkadot
#747 0.000168 IDEO Founder Collective
#1640 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1878 0.000043 Crypto Infrastructure
#2642 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2778 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#2823 0.000002 Cosmos
#3087 0.000013 Crypto Investing
#3248 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3482 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3907 0.000004 Decentralized Web
#4543 0.000002 Ethereum

Informal Community

#334 0.000309 Founders

Science

#378 0.000300 Biotech
#1020 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1364 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3185 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4864 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#9356 0.000003 EconTwitter
#9811 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Culture and Political Economy

#404 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#453 0.000003 Fair Vote
#585 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#602 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#640 0.000003 Existential Risks
#706 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#724 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#751 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#967 0.000003 350.org
#1095 0.000112 The Long Now Foundation
#1155 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1186 0.000132 Progress Studies
#1851 0.000066 Social Epistemology
#2046 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2137 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2359 0.000046 Moderate Conservatism
#2594 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3082 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3368 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3393 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3491 0.000020 Rationality
#3821 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4231 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4251 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4947 0.000002 EFF
#5134 0.000002 Anarachists
#6845 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7249 0.000002 Degrowth
#7519 0.000006 Harper's Open Letter
#7569 0.000013 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#7771 0.000007 Ecomodernists

Think Tanks

#890 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#950 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1149 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1361 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1742 0.000046 Atlantic Council
#1841 0.000003 Cato Institute
#1945 0.000079 American Enterprise Institute
#1945 0.000079 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2042 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3099 0.000008 Adam Smith Institute
#3876 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4246 0.000019 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#4464 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5632 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#6215 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6612 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7508 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8868 0.000002 Hoover Institution

system

#4476 0.000061 Baseline
#7337 0.000018 Think Tanks
#8315 0.000061 Reality-Based Community

Software Engineering

#585 0.000003 Rust
#1463 0.000002 Zig

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