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Venkatesh Rao

Venkatesh Rao

@vgr

venkateshrao.com

Conversational account. Writing @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. Hail threadthulhu 🐙

43683 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#35 0.010379 Standard Crypto
#68 0.001765 Initialized Capital
#121 0.000958 A16Z
#195 0.000733 Village Global
#316 0.000005 Founders Fund
#698 0.000187 Khosla Ventures
#768 0.000005 Accel
#980 0.000022 Sequioa
#1075 0.000039 Y Combinator
#1787 0.000003 Bessemer
#2193 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2285 0.000003 My Climate Journey
#2478 0.000003 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2903 0.000003 Benchmark Capital
#3312 0.000003 Homebrew

Culture and Political Economy

#16 0.007416 Bismark Analysis
#16 0.005384 Social Epistemology
#49 0.002030 Rationality
#54 0.002080 The Long Now Foundation
#62 0.002037 Progress Studies
#168 0.000786 RadicalxChange
#183 0.000005 Schumacher Circle
#224 0.000520 Ecomodernists
#233 0.000005 Fair Vote
#326 0.000322 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#367 0.000005 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#383 0.000005 Extinction Rebellion
#420 0.000005 Existential Risks
#493 0.000005 Claremont Institute
#514 0.000005 Ecosocialism
#523 0.000185 Effective Altruism
#534 0.000005 Sierra Clib
#719 0.000130 Anarachists
#752 0.000005 350.org
#942 0.000005 Environmental Defense Fund
#1169 0.000094 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1668 0.000072 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#1798 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#1994 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2913 0.000031 Persuasion Community
#3009 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3051 0.000023 Harper's Open Letter
#3129 0.000003 Heterodox Academy
#3562 0.000003 Works in Progress
#3995 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4708 0.000003 EFF
#4733 0.000010 Degrowth
#6379 0.000003 Moderate Conservatism

Journalism

#36 0.003084 Palladium Magazine
#632 0.000005 The Information
#970 0.000146 Foreign Policy
#978 0.000003 Newsmax
#996 0.000003 OANN
#1161 0.000005 Stat News
#1375 0.000082 Ars Technica
#1381 0.000025 Techcrunch
#1482 0.000089 Bloomberg Opinion
#1580 0.000005 The Verge
#1857 0.000073 The Intercept
#2093 0.000005 The Economist
#2530 0.000052 The Atlantic
#2681 0.000005 CNBC
#2860 0.000005 The Daily Beast
#3609 0.000004 Reuters
#3863 0.000005 Wired
#3999 0.000005 Financial Times
#4624 0.000005 BuzzFeed
#4808 0.000014 The Dispatch
#5123 0.000005 The Los Angeles Times
#5429 0.000009 VICE
#6372 0.000014 New Yorker
#6448 0.000005 Washington Post
#6666 0.000006 Recode
#6777 0.000006 The New York Post
#7882 0.000005 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#24 0.002440 Berggruen Institute
#174 0.000949 RAND Corporation
#614 0.000262 Mercatus Center
#739 0.000005 Belfer Center
#946 0.000005 Urban Institute
#970 0.000146 Niskanen Center
#1144 0.000005 Heritage Foundation
#1191 0.000049 Eurasia Group
#1250 0.000150 Earth Institute
#1559 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1616 0.000005 Cato Institute
#2670 0.000005 Atlantic Council
#2815 0.000050 American Enterprise Institute
#2815 0.000050 National Bureau of Economic Research
#2943 0.000041 Council on Foreign Relations
#5478 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#5560 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#5621 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#5664 0.000020 Brookings
#7032 0.000003 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7072 0.000005 Hoover Institution

Crypto

#81 0.001501 Crypto VC
#230 0.000005 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#395 0.000005 Crypto Political Economy
#397 0.000316 Crypto Infrastructure
#428 0.000005 Polkadot
#462 0.000296 IDEO Founder Collective
#490 0.000217 Decentralized Web
#537 0.000144 Cosmos
#641 0.000233 Ethereum
#650 0.000136 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#846 0.000176 Public Goods Funding
#1112 0.000073 Crypto Investing
#1119 0.000058 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2378 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2539 0.000003 Crypto Journalists

Software Engineering

#158 0.000826 Zig
#365 0.000005 Rust

Informal Community

#3321 0.000038 Founders

system

#3741 0.000035 Think Tanks

Science

#810 0.000005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1126 0.000005 Philosophy Twitter
#2842 0.000005 Epidimiology Twitter
#4318 0.000003 Epidemiology Journalism
#5773 0.000010 EconTwitter
#7773 0.000003 Biotech
#8725 0.000005 ClimateTwitter

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