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Justin Kan

Justin Kan

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#20 0.008910 Y Combinator
#136 0.001075 Khosla Ventures
#223 0.000571 Initialized Capital
#254 0.000512 A16Z
#329 0.000313 Bessemer
#340 0.000435 Village Global
#618 0.000160 Sequioa
#1140 0.000039 Index Ventures
#1630 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1687 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2124 0.000002 Accel
#4357 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4585 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4953 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#5163 0.000001 Homebrew

Culture and Political Economy

#392 0.000385 Bismark Analysis
#428 0.000377 Progress Studies
#639 0.000204 The Long Now Foundation
#703 0.000253 Heterodox Academy
#1604 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1651 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1764 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1792 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1834 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1838 0.000068 Social Epistemology
#1876 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1884 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1916 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2140 0.000002 350.org
#2156 0.000062 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2327 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2796 0.000030 Rationality
#3893 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4624 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4997 0.000011 Persuasion Community
#5008 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5312 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5541 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5979 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6003 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6648 0.000001 EFF
#7723 0.000001 Anarachists
#8486 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8725 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9744 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#853 0.000189 Mercatus Center
#2058 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2113 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2305 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2535 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2982 0.000002 Cato Institute
#4008 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4652 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5697 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#6757 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7498 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9671 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9722 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9769 0.000001 Eurasia Group

Crypto

#783 0.000180 Crypto VC
#889 0.000100 Decentralized Web
#1484 0.000075 IDEO Founder Collective
#1650 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1763 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1828 0.000002 Polkadot
#3611 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4002 0.000014 Crypto Infrastructure
#4561 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4601 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4640 0.000001 Cosmos
#5553 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5753 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7466 0.000001 Ethereum
#8157 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Informal Community

#1505 0.000089 Founders

Science

#1999 0.000049 Biotech
#2185 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2581 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4344 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#6669 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Journalism

#1927 0.000011 Techcrunch
#1993 0.000002 The Information
#2518 0.000002 Stat News
#2853 0.000002 The Verge
#3339 0.000001 OANN
#3350 0.000001 Newsmax
#3469 0.000002 The Economist
#4066 0.000002 CNBC
#4143 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4249 0.000029 Bloomberg Opinion
#4262 0.000023 Ars Technica
#4981 0.000002 Wired
#5354 0.000002 Financial Times
#5900 0.000001 The Intercept
#5949 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6579 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7017 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7453 0.000002 VICE
#9817 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Software Engineering

#1770 0.000002 Rust
#3492 0.000001 Zig

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