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Dave Portnoy

Dave Portnoy

@stoolpresidente

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#174 0.000719 Climate Solutions
#198 0.000519 Populist Libertarians
#1190 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1237 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1354 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1383 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1421 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1468 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1484 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1508 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1733 0.000002 350.org
#1918 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2851 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3390 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3902 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4088 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4140 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4557 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4990 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5018 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5685 0.000001 EFF
#6558 0.000001 Anarachists
#6818 0.000003 Progress Studies
#7599 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7819 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8435 0.000001 Rationality
#8487 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#192 0.000705 Crypto Investing
#193 0.000048 Polkadot
#391 0.000326 Crypto Angels
#548 0.000264 Crypto Journalists
#552 0.000172 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#671 0.000215 Crypto VC
#965 0.000125 IDEO Founder Collective
#1110 0.000074 Decentralized Web
#1208 0.000049 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1236 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1361 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#2499 0.000017 Ethereum
#3071 0.000022 Crypto Infrastructure
#3619 0.000001 Cosmos
#4476 0.000001 Public Goods Funding

Venture Capital

#447 0.000098 Accel
#754 0.000091 Sequioa
#982 0.000152 Initialized Capital
#1219 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1284 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1306 0.000113 Benchmark Capital
#1569 0.000078 Khosla Ventures
#1767 0.000066 Village Global
#2004 0.000065 A16Z
#2622 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2934 0.000001 Bessemer
#3330 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3474 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3554 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4220 0.000001 Homebrew

Journalism

#343 0.000113 OANN
#460 0.000069 Newsmax
#1441 0.000059 Palladium Magazine
#1587 0.000002 The Information
#2119 0.000002 Stat News
#2469 0.000002 The Verge
#2667 0.000046 Recode
#3066 0.000002 The Economist
#3265 0.000019 The New York Post
#3466 0.000004 Techcrunch
#3685 0.000002 CNBC
#3785 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4186 0.000005 Foreign Policy
#4638 0.000002 Wired
#4966 0.000002 Financial Times
#5021 0.000001 The Intercept
#5025 0.000012 The Dispatch
#5613 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5726 0.000002 Reuters
#6116 0.000011 Wall Street Journal
#6206 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7108 0.000002 VICE
#8571 0.000009 New Yorker
#9807 0.000002 Washington Post

Informal Community

#4129 0.000030 Founders

Think Tanks

#1652 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1707 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1904 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2136 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2578 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3227 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3616 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4186 0.000005 Niskanen Center
#4725 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#4922 0.000024 American Enterprise Institute
#4922 0.000024 National Bureau of Economic Research
#5642 0.000001 Earth Institute
#5938 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#6155 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#6534 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8549 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Science

#1779 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2175 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3961 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5770 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#7539 0.000005 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1359 0.000002 Rust
#2376 0.000001 Zig

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