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Kanyi Maqubela

Kanyi Maqubela

@km

kanyi.me

lover, not-fighter. building and funding startups: @kindredventures

36417 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#37 0.002595 Initialized Capital
#41 0.002897 Khosla Ventures
#66 0.001903 My Climate Journey
#70 0.001700 Benchmark Capital
#73 0.001152 Bessemer
#76 0.001252 A16Z
#100 0.001935 Y Combinator
#134 0.000986 Village Global
#269 0.000811 Sequioa
#581 0.000334 Sutter Hill Ventures
#654 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#666 0.000276 Homebrew
#728 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1180 0.000003 Accel
#1296 0.000022 Index Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

#41 0.002497 RadicalxChange
#621 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#670 0.000003 Fair Vote
#798 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#818 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#856 0.000003 Existential Risks
#914 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#932 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#947 0.000172 Social Epistemology
#960 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1053 0.000117 The Long Now Foundation
#1177 0.000003 350.org
#1364 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1472 0.000101 Progress Studies
#2026 0.000050 Rationality
#2276 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2307 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2861 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#3618 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3671 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#4056 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4473 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4505 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5188 0.000002 EFF
#5253 0.000008 Degrowth
#5646 0.000002 Anarachists
#6682 0.000010 Ecomodernists
#7102 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7241 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9932 0.000009 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams

Journalism

#265 0.000701 Wired
#371 0.000358 Techcrunch
#901 0.000108 Washington Post
#1006 0.000143 Recode
#1047 0.000003 The Information
#1073 0.000089 Palladium Magazine
#1144 0.000150 Wall Street Journal
#1581 0.000003 Stat News
#1598 0.000002 Newsmax
#1602 0.000002 OANN
#1963 0.000003 The Verge
#2535 0.000003 The Economist
#3137 0.000003 CNBC
#3212 0.000021 BuzzFeed
#3304 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4424 0.000003 Financial Times
#4579 0.000002 The Intercept
#5712 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6067 0.000015 Ars Technica
#6205 0.000019 The Atlantic
#6625 0.000003 VICE
#6982 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#7077 0.000002 Reuters
#8935 0.000002 The Dispatch

Crypto

#255 0.000583 Crypto VC
#330 0.000576 Public Goods Funding
#488 0.000314 Ethereum
#668 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#720 0.000179 IDEO Founder Collective
#808 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#857 0.000003 Polkadot
#1580 0.000054 Crypto Infrastructure
#1922 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1923 0.000023 Cosmos
#2916 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#3024 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3809 0.000004 Decentralized Web
#3835 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4576 0.000004 Crypto Investing

Informal Community

#957 0.000140 Founders

Science

#1003 0.000115 Biotech
#1229 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1584 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3409 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5215 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism

Think Tanks

#1099 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1158 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1354 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1589 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1789 0.000042 Atlantic Council
#2052 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2450 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3052 0.000008 Adam Smith Institute
#3969 0.000023 Hoover Institution
#4207 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4936 0.000002 Earth Institute
#6063 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6933 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6982 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7236 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7865 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics

system

#6607 0.000023 Baseline
#7918 0.000016 Think Tanks

Software Engineering

#799 0.000003 Rust
#1766 0.000002 Zig

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