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Adam Townsend

Adam Townsend

@adamscrabble

adamtownsend.me

Investor. Extreme salesman. Philanthropy, politics and policy.

75714 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#158 0.001068 Sutter Hill Ventures
#881 0.000174 Village Global
#1364 0.000102 A16Z
#2833 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2877 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3309 0.000001 Accel
#3685 0.000001 Sequioa
#4143 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4954 0.000001 Bessemer
#5262 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#5488 0.000001 Index Ventures
#5850 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#6025 0.000001 Homebrew
#7187 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#7975 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#366 0.000389 Crypto Journalists
#1345 0.000051 Crypto Angels
#1560 0.000031 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1778 0.000047 Crypto Infrastructure
#2236 0.000049 Crypto VC
#2440 0.000017 Decentralized Web
#2857 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2956 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3026 0.000001 Polkadot
#3238 0.000028 IDEO Founder Collective
#4547 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4565 0.000004 Crypto Investing
#5529 0.000001 Cosmos
#6459 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#8552 0.000001 Ethereum

Culture and Political Economy

#293 0.000269 Claremont Institute
#2812 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2859 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2962 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2996 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3035 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3066 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3114 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3342 0.000001 350.org
#3520 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4749 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4792 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#5290 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#5849 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5905 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#6027 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#6211 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6381 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6848 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6861 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7495 0.000001 EFF
#7870 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#8563 0.000001 Anarachists
#8860 0.000010 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#9231 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9520 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9972 0.000001 Progress Studies

Journalism

#804 0.000094 CNBC
#816 0.000160 Bloomberg Opinion
#3165 0.000001 The Information
#3680 0.000001 Stat News
#4000 0.000001 The Verge
#4272 0.000001 OANN
#4292 0.000001 Newsmax
#4611 0.000001 The Economist
#4957 0.000003 Palladium Magazine
#5210 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5406 0.000002 Techcrunch
#5717 0.000007 The New York Post
#6016 0.000001 Wired
#6471 0.000001 Financial Times
#6621 0.000006 The Dispatch
#6679 0.000001 The Intercept
#7012 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7622 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8361 0.000001 Reuters
#8490 0.000001 VICE

Think Tanks

#1298 0.000055 Hudson Institute
#3239 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3293 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3482 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3703 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#4131 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5113 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5835 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6565 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7614 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8331 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Science

#3375 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3784 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5439 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7450 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#2965 0.000001 Rust
#4435 0.000001 Zig

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