What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news.
Are you a hardworking, entrepreneurial visionary, with a big, fat crazy idea? Do you believe that this earth-shattering idea of yours – this strange and forward thinking contraption, this unlikely service, or this bold, new business model – could make a boatload of money for a lucky investor, if only he or she had the foresight and the guts? Well, calm down Mr./Ms. Visionary. We’re not offering, nor are we the sorts from whom you should be seeking help for that kind of thing. But you know who might be able to help you out? Venture capitalists – those fearless, moneyed folks, forever seeking to become more so by tossing their cash, hand over fist, at high-risk startups which they view as possessing tremendous potential to find them all the more moneyed still by day’s end.
Below is a list of 20 of the most powerful venture capitalists in America ranked by their PeekScores. If you are an entrepreneur or inventor – as outlined above – we’re not sure of how such a list will be of use to you, but we think it’s pretty cool.
| Rank | Picture | Name | Company | PeekScore |
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Fred Wilson | Union Square Ventures | 9.13 / 10 |
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Reid Hoffman | Greylock Partners | 9.06 / 10 |
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Peter Barris | New Enterprise Associates | 8.21 / 10 |
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Michael Moritz | Sequoia Capital | 8.21 / 10 |
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Jim Breyer | Accel Partners | 8.17 / 10 |
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Marc Andreessen | Andreessen Horowitz | 8.10 / 10 |
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Peter Thiel | Founders Fund | 8.08 / 10 |
| 8 |
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Peter Fenton | Benchmark Capital | 8.06 / 10 |
| 9 |
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Josh Kopelman | First Round Capital | 8.03 / 10 |
| 10 |
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Scott Sandell | New Enterprise Associates | 8.00 / 10 |
| 11 |
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David Skok | Matrix Partners | 7.91 / 10 |
| 12 |
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Kevin Efrusy | Accel Partners | 7.65 / 10 |
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David Sze | Greylock Partners | 7.55 / 10 |
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Jeremy Levine | Bessemer Venture Partners | 7.13 / 10 |
| 15 |
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Douglas Leone | Sequoia Capital | 6.69 / 10 |
| 16 |
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Joel Cutler | General Catalyst Partners | 6.36 / 10 |
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Sean Dalton | Highland Capital Partners | 6.15 / 10 |
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Harry Weller | New Enterprise Associates | 6.11 / 10 |
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Terry McGuire | Polaris Venture Capital | 5.49 / 10 |
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Bob Goodman | Bessemer Venture Partners | 5.32 / 10 |