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Outreach sent · 2026-04Lenny's Newsletter
✉ NewsletterLenny Rachitsky · Product / growth, ~900k subs
Fit: Crossover with PM-turned-angel readers
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You find your dream customer by working backwards from where they already pay attention. The same play works for partners. These are the 50 newsletter writers, podcast hosts, and community owners whose audiences overlap our developer-investor segment closely enough that a recommendation block, interview segment, or sector-deep-dive co-author piece would convert. Engagement status is current; we update the row when status changes. If you write or run one of these, scroll to the pitch templates — we ship the swipe kit pre-filled.
Lenny Rachitsky · Product / growth, ~900k subs
Fit: Crossover with PM-turned-angel readers
Ben Thompson · Tech strategy, 6-figure paid
Fit: Aggregation Theory readers care about platform-buildout signals
Casey Newton · Tech industry, ~170k
Fit: Audience overlaps tech-aware angels
Alex Xu · Engineering systems, ~700k
Fit: Reads engineering-as-signal naturally
Channing Allen / Stripe · Indie founders ~120k
Fit: Founder-investor crossover, low CPL
Jason Mikula · Fintech VCs + ops
Fit: Fintech sector overlap with our 20-sector grid
Dan Primack · VC industry, ~80k
Fit: Direct VC-news audience
Allie Garfinkle / Jessica Mathews · VC industry, large
Fit: Daily VC briefing — methodology PR fit
Eric Newcomer · VC scoops, ~80k paid
Fit: Pre-deck deal-flow scoop angle
Cory Weinberg · Premium tech, 6-fig
Fit: Methodology paper PR angle
Mario Gabriele · Deep-dive VC, ~150k
Fit: Long-form fit — could co-author a sector deep-dive
Evan Armstrong / Dan Shipper · Tech-business analysis
Fit: Alt-data thesis fits Napkin Math house style
Litquidity · Finance Twitter readers, ~700k
Fit: Tweet-Teardown crossover; high-volume top-of-funnel
Brian McCullough · Tech-industry daily, ~100k
Fit: VC-tools-news angle, methodology paper hook
Tim Carlson · Restructuring + alt-data
Fit: Alt-data community overlap
Harry Stebbings · VC industry, large
Fit: Founder-as-Data-Nerd angle if anonymity relaxes
Ben Gilbert / David Rosenthal · Long-form tech, ~500k
Fit: Methodology paper hook for an episode segment
Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Investing, large
Fit: Quant-side investing crossover
Jason Calacanis · Angel community
Fit: Angel-investor primary audience
David Senra · Founder reading-club, large
Fit: Bookish audience reads /book funnel naturally
Chamath / Friedberg / Sacks / Calacanis · Tech-VC, very large
Fit: Out of reach — methodology PR only
Nilay Patel · Tech industry
Fit: Platform-thinking audience
Sequoia Capital · Sequoia portfolio + alumni
Fit: Out of reach — long-shot
Logan Bartlett (Redpoint) · VC operators, growing
Fit: Operator-investor audience match
swyx + Alessio · AI engineering, ~50k
Fit: Agent-side MCP hook lands here
Channing & Rosanna Allen · ~50k MAU
Fit: Solo-founder building public; we already post weekly
Ryan Hoover et al. · PH Top 50 reach
Fit: MCP launch, Tweet-Teardown launch fits
dang (mod) · Tier-1 tech traffic
Fit: Account block needs resolution before resumption
Peter Bhat Harkins · ~25k engineers, invite-only
Fit: Methodology paper fits site rules
Mod team · ~95k
Fit: VC subreddit; affiliate disclosure required
Mod team · ~30k
Fit: Direct angel audience
Mod team · ~1.5M
Fit: Founder side; teardown / dashboard hook
Mod team · ~500k
Fit: Show-and-tell-friendly community
Mike Suprovici · Vetted founder community
Fit: Indirect — partners for affiliate co-promo
Stéphane Nasser · ~20k founders + investors
Fit: Direct VC-tools fit
Tomasz Tunguz · VC ops + analytics
Fit: Data-driven VC angle, methodology paper hook
Gergely Orosz · Senior engineers ~700k
Fit: Engineering-org signals fit his beat exactly
Anonymous SaaS exec · B2B SaaS ops
Fit: Anonymous-author parallel; soft cross-promo
Paul Graham · Founder canon
Fit: Methodology paper PR — long shot
Ed Zitron · Tech-criticism ~100k
Fit: Counter-warm-intro narrative fits his beat
Jeff Delaney · ~3M devs
Fit: GitHub-visualisation hook — could land a 100s short
YC team · Founder canon
Fit: Methodology paper interview-segment fit
Lex Fridman · Long-form, very large
Fit: Out of scope — long-shot list anchor only
Benedict Evans · Tech analyst ~140k
Fit: Methodology paper PR fit
Scott Galloway · Business-tech, very large
Fit: VC-tools commentary fit
Matt Levine · Finance Twitter, ~300k
Fit: Quirky alt-data fits his column tone
Byrne Hobart · Finance / strategy ~50k paid
Fit: Methodology paper fits Byrne's research style
Lior · AI research ~150k
Fit: AI/ML sector overlap, MCP hook
Dan Ni · Devs ~1M
Fit: Devtools sector overlap
Morning Brew · Tech business ~600k
Fit: Methodology paper PR fit
Michael Spencer · AI-business ~100k
Fit: AI sector deep-dive co-promo
Nathan Lambert · AI research-eng
Fit: MCP / agent-side hook fit
One template per archetype. Copy-paste, fill the [BRACKETS], send. If you're on this list and you'd rather skip the outreach pleasantries and go direct, the email is signal@gitdealflow.com with subject "Dream 50 — I'm on your list."
Template 1 — Newsletter recommendation block
Subject: methodology pitch — would your readers want this? Hi [Name], Big fan of [Newsletter] — [specific recent piece reference]. I run GitDealFlow. Short version: we scan ~4,200 venture-backed startup GitHub orgs every Sunday and surface the ones whose engineering velocity just spiked. The methodology is on SSRN with a panel of 219 confirmed fundraises that the signal preceded by 21–47 days. Free Sunday digest, 5 names a week. I don't want a paid placement. I want a one-time recommendation block in a future issue, only if your readers are the kind of people who'd actually use this. The reader profile is "developer-investor" — operators who write angel cheques between deal #5 and deal #40. If that's plausible, I'll send the swipe block (40 words, your edit). If it's not — totally understand, please ignore this. — The Data Nerd gitdealflow.com/methodology
Template 2 — Podcast / interview pitch
Subject: a 12-min segment on engineering signals before fundraises Hi [Name], I'd like to pitch a guest segment on [Show], not as the founder of GitDealFlow but as the author of an SSRN paper that tracked 219 confirmed fundraises and found GitHub commit-velocity acceleration preceded the round announcement by 21–47 days. The pitch is the methodology, not the product. 12 minutes, three concrete examples (which we can pre-clear with the orgs), and a takeaway your audience can apply themselves without subscribing to anything. Constraint: I can do voice-only or written-correspondence interview, not on-camera. Founder-anonymity is part of the product's credibility position. Most hosts skip on this — totally fair if it doesn't fit. If it does, I'll send a one-pager with three episode angles you can pick from. — The Data Nerd gitdealflow.com/methodology · ssrn.com/abstract=6606558
Template 3 — Community owner / mod outreach
Subject: would [Community] welcome a methodology share? Hi [Name / Mod team], I run GitDealFlow — free Sunday digest of GitHub commit-velocity spikes that historically preceded fundraises. I read your community rules before drafting this. Two ways I'd want to engage if it fits: 1) A single, mod-approved post sharing the methodology (SSRN paper, public dataset, the rationale). Disclosure-marked. Affiliate link OR no-link version, you pick. 2) Long-term: I'd like to be a member who shows up consistently, not a drive-by promoter. Most weeks I have something useful to add to discussions on alt-data, GitHub signals, or solo-founder ops. If neither fits, no problem — I'll lurk and contribute on substance only. If one of them does, I'll send the post draft for your edit. — The Data Nerd gitdealflow.com
Template 4 — Blogger / writer cross-promo
Subject: a free dataset for your next [topic] piece Hi [Name], You've written about [specific overlapping topic] — I have a dataset that may be useful for your next piece on it. GitDealFlow tracks engineering acceleration across 4,200 venture-backed startups. The full panel + methodology is open: SSRN paper (n=219), Zenodo dataset, public methodology page. CC-BY-4.0, no permission needed. If you want a custom cut for your piece — e.g., "the 10 fastest-accelerating [sector] startups in Q3 2026" — I'll generate it for free. No paywall, no asterisks. The product is downstream of the public methodology; the paper helps the product whether or not anyone clicks the affiliate link. Useful? — The Data Nerd gitdealflow.com/dataset · ssrn.com/abstract=6606558