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Alec Stapp

Alec Stapp

@AlecStapp

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Director of Technology Policy @ppi

15283 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#18 0.007677 Founders Fund
#52 0.002328 Khosla Ventures
#422 0.000334 Initialized Capital
#499 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#582 0.000050 Accel
#628 0.000257 Village Global
#730 0.000262 Sutter Hill Ventures
#959 0.000162 Benchmark Capital
#994 0.000196 Homebrew
#1447 0.000003 Sequioa
#1769 0.000075 A16Z
#1969 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2101 0.000002 Bessemer
#2563 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2629 0.000002 Index Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

#24 0.004296 Works in Progress
#53 0.002241 Progress Studies
#220 0.000721 Bismark Analysis
#251 0.000440 The Long Now Foundation
#274 0.000376 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#292 0.000379 Rationality
#463 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#500 0.000322 Social Epistemology
#512 0.000003 Fair Vote
#643 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#661 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#699 0.000003 Existential Risks
#760 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#781 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#807 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1007 0.000136 RadicalxChange
#1024 0.000003 350.org
#1120 0.000078 Effective Altruism
#1212 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#2066 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2309 0.000047 Moderate Conservatism
#2374 0.000041 Persuasion Community
#2410 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3031 0.000037 Ecomodernists
#3212 0.000026 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3278 0.000020 Harper's Open Letter
#3389 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3416 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3976 0.000004 Anarachists
#4268 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4967 0.000002 EFF
#5293 0.000008 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#27 0.002808 Mercatus Center
#210 0.000740 Niskanen Center
#211 0.000643 Cato Institute
#520 0.000281 American Enterprise Institute
#520 0.000281 National Bureau of Economic Research
#621 0.000142 Adam Smith Institute
#947 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1006 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1205 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1417 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1843 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2472 0.000043 Hoover Institution
#2949 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3876 0.000030 Council on Foreign Relations
#3898 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4005 0.000007 Hudson Institute
#4544 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5054 0.000004 Eurasia Group
#5509 0.000010 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#5849 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#99 0.001214 Palladium Magazine
#110 0.000824 Ars Technica
#210 0.000740 Foreign Policy
#317 0.000344 Bloomberg Opinion
#728 0.000117 CNBC
#896 0.000003 The Information
#1060 0.000131 The Dispatch
#1322 0.000002 Newsmax
#1330 0.000002 OANN
#1437 0.000003 Stat News
#1683 0.000012 Reuters
#1749 0.000091 Wall Street Journal
#1822 0.000003 The Verge
#1870 0.000058 Financial Times
#1935 0.000011 Techcrunch
#2392 0.000003 The Economist
#2773 0.000044 Recode
#3161 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#3972 0.000031 The Atlantic
#3972 0.000013 Washington Post
#4069 0.000003 Wired
#4401 0.000002 The Intercept
#4975 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5533 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6473 0.000003 VICE

system

#383 0.000680 Think Tanks
#855 0.000106 Reality-Based Community
#3994 0.000130 Baseline

Crypto

#407 0.000466 Public Goods Funding
#510 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#595 0.000254 Ethereum
#660 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#704 0.000003 Polkadot
#740 0.000142 Crypto Angels
#909 0.000149 Crypto VC
#988 0.000101 Crypto Infrastructure
#1091 0.000057 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2370 0.000020 Crypto Journalists
#2376 0.000012 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2844 0.000002 Cosmos
#3897 0.000004 Decentralized Web
#4687 0.000014 IDEO Founder Collective
#5586 0.000002 Crypto Investing

Science

#1078 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1223 0.000103 EconTwitter
#1422 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3244 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#4914 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8057 0.000002 Biotech
#9985 0.000003 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#8168 0.000013 Founders

Software Engineering

#644 0.000003 Rust
#1488 0.000002 Zig

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