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Patrick Ruffini

Patrick Ruffini

@PatrickRuffini

echeloninsights.com/TheIntersection

Account for measured hot takes. Republican Pollster @EchelonInsights

49518 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#27 0.005982 Founders Fund
#263 0.000533 Khosla Ventures
#894 0.000203 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1374 0.000015 Y Combinator
#1656 0.000081 Benchmark Capital
#3058 0.000031 Initialized Capital
#4828 0.000001 Bessemer
#5148 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5362 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5389 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#5823 0.000001 Accel
#5909 0.000001 Homebrew
#6191 0.000001 Sequioa
#6796 0.000001 Village Global
#9149 0.000006 A16Z

Think Tanks

#248 0.000640 Niskanen Center
#1595 0.000037 Eurasia Group
#1661 0.000093 American Enterprise Institute
#1661 0.000093 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1746 0.000090 Mercatus Center
#1923 0.000078 Center for American Progress
#5656 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5758 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#5820 0.000001 Belfer Center
#6001 0.000001 Urban Institute
#6210 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#6239 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#6448 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6592 0.000001 Cato Institute
#7499 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7519 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#8219 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#248 0.000640 Foreign Policy
#408 0.000291 New Yorker
#1448 0.000095 The Dispatch
#2007 0.000068 The Intercept
#3358 0.000034 Recode
#4040 0.000031 Bloomberg Opinion
#4144 0.000001 OANN
#4162 0.000001 Newsmax
#4191 0.000005 Palladium Magazine
#5686 0.000001 The Information
#6178 0.000001 Stat News
#6426 0.000018 The Atlantic
#6457 0.000001 The Verge
#6886 0.000004 Washington Post
#7051 0.000001 The Economist
#7567 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#7641 0.000001 CNBC
#8302 0.000001 Wired
#8758 0.000001 Techcrunch
#8841 0.000001 Financial Times
#9249 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#9872 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times

Culture and Political Economy

#768 0.000160 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1673 0.000067 Heterodox Academy
#1936 0.000074 Progress Studies
#2461 0.000044 Moderate Conservatism
#3470 0.000019 Harper's Open Letter
#4672 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#5168 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5371 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#5417 0.000001 Fair Vote
#5510 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#5530 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#5552 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#5581 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#5591 0.000001 Existential Risks
#5597 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#5651 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#5731 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5788 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5881 0.000001 350.org
#6055 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#6087 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6265 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6730 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6747 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6936 0.000007 Persuasion Community
#7377 0.000001 EFF
#8458 0.000001 Anarachists
#9237 0.000001 Rationality
#9414 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

system

#2250 0.000061 Think Tanks

Crypto

#2279 0.000047 Crypto VC
#4418 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4912 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5345 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#5364 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5403 0.000001 Cosmos
#5414 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#5504 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#5577 0.000001 Polkadot
#6333 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6592 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#8401 0.000001 Ethereum
#9009 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Science

#5908 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#6317 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#7355 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#7846 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Software Engineering

#4306 0.000001 Zig
#5499 0.000001 Rust

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