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Mac the VC

Mac the VC

@MacConwell

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#57 0.001938 Homebrew
#85 0.000974 Bessemer
#213 0.000591 Initialized Capital
#248 0.000636 My Climate Journey
#255 0.000550 Khosla Ventures
#352 0.000413 A16Z
#503 0.000318 Village Global
#547 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#625 0.000003 Founders Fund
#767 0.000206 Benchmark Capital
#1076 0.000003 Accel
#1094 0.000154 Sutter Hill Ventures
#1490 0.000003 Sequioa
#2009 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2699 0.000002 Index Ventures

Crypto

#559 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#708 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#727 0.000199 Crypto VC
#750 0.000003 Polkadot
#856 0.000077 Cosmos
#1735 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2373 0.000019 Crypto Journalists
#2734 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2986 0.000032 IDEO Founder Collective
#3415 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3558 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#3598 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3742 0.000016 Crypto Infrastructure
#4707 0.000002 Ethereum
#5717 0.000002 Crypto Investing

Informal Community

#700 0.000179 Founders

Science

#782 0.000155 Biotech
#1125 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1471 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3298 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5015 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#9819 0.000003 EconTwitter

Journalism

#940 0.000003 The Information
#1396 0.000002 Newsmax
#1404 0.000002 OANN
#1483 0.000003 Stat News
#1513 0.000020 Techcrunch
#1867 0.000003 The Verge
#2436 0.000003 The Economist
#2873 0.000043 Recode
#3041 0.000003 CNBC
#3210 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4104 0.000003 Wired
#4336 0.000003 Financial Times
#4453 0.000002 The Intercept
#5043 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5408 0.000002 Palladium Magazine
#5595 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#5610 0.000002 Reuters
#6499 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6525 0.000003 VICE
#7695 0.000003 Washington Post
#8582 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8707 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#994 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1054 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1251 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1465 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1955 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2177 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2996 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3964 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4644 0.000002 Earth Institute
#4858 0.000015 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5904 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6499 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6532 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6867 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7169 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#9047 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#512 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#561 0.000003 Fair Vote
#691 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#710 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#748 0.000003 Existential Risks
#806 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#828 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#855 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1072 0.000003 350.org
#1260 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2136 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2388 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2686 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3172 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3449 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3484 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3510 0.000002 Social Epistemology
#3892 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4311 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4328 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5032 0.000002 EFF
#5305 0.000009 The Long Now Foundation
#5317 0.000002 Anarachists
#6919 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7027 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7411 0.000002 Degrowth
#7440 0.000002 Progress Studies
#7624 0.000002 Rationality

Software Engineering

#691 0.000003 Rust
#1565 0.000002 Zig

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