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Scholar-activist directing The New School's Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy
Credibility
GTM / Distribution · 17th percentile
- newschool.edu ranks #4,679 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)newschool.edu ranks #4,679 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Identified researcher with an h-index of 7 and 1,306 citations across 27 works (OpenAlex), affiliated with The New School.
What you likely need
Trebor Scholz is a scholar-activist and academic leader whose public profile is built around research, writing, and institution-building in the platform cooperativism space — not venture-backed startups or angel investing. His strongest leverage points are his academic credibility, his network in the cooperative/solidarity economy, and his thought-leadership platform. To increase his scored presence, he would benefit from translating his institutional work into more publicly trackable outputs.
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- positioningContinue publishing peer-reviewed research to grow your OpenAlex h-index beyond 7, which would unlock higher researcher credibility tiers in scoring systems and grant applications.
- fundraisingConsider formally incorporating the Platform Cooperativism Consortium or Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy as a standalone legal entity, which would create a traceable founding record and potentially unlock grant or philanthropic funding.
- tacticalCreate a personal GitHub account linked from your public profiles to surface your open-source and research tooling work, since your current GitHub footprint is unverified and the @jbenno account in the enrichment does not match your identity.
- positioningEnsure a Wikipedia or Wikidata entry exists for you, given your significant academic and public intellectual footprint — this would add notability signal that scoring systems and journalists rely on.
- positioningIf the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy releases tools, reports, or platforms, launch them on Product Hunt to build a public maker record and reach a broader tech-adjacent audience.
- introsGiven your deep expertise in cooperative and alternative ownership models, consider formalizing an advisory or angel role in platform co-op startups to build an investor track record aligned with your research.
- positioningAmplify your co-authored Stanford Social Innovation Review piece on cooperatives and AI through tech media channels (TechCrunch, Wired) to increase cross-domain visibility beyond academic circles.