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Alex Danco

Alex Danco

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#165 0.001221 Sequioa
#232 0.000603 Village Global
#274 0.000493 Initialized Capital
#325 0.000430 A16Z
#510 0.000256 Khosla Ventures
#532 0.000292 Benchmark Capital
#902 0.000084 Y Combinator
#962 0.000203 Homebrew
#1455 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1514 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1561 0.000116 My Climate Journey
#1951 0.000002 Accel
#2795 0.000001 Bessemer
#3335 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3420 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures

Culture and Political Economy

#295 0.000517 Social Epistemology
#349 0.000456 Progress Studies
#377 0.000402 Bismark Analysis
#501 0.000255 The Long Now Foundation
#783 0.000153 Rationality
#930 0.000097 Effective Altruism
#1427 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1474 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1589 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1616 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1620 0.000063 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1658 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1699 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1712 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1741 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1770 0.000055 RadicalxChange
#1965 0.000002 350.org
#2151 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2720 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2871 0.000044 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3174 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4018 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4100 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4438 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4895 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5566 0.000001 EFF
#6376 0.000001 Anarachists
#7487 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8313 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#8318 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#527 0.000286 Crypto VC
#859 0.000147 IDEO Founder Collective
#1473 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1518 0.000057 Crypto Infrastructure
#1590 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1653 0.000002 Polkadot
#2371 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3172 0.000013 Crypto Investing
#3189 0.000007 Decentralized Web
#3358 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3447 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3487 0.000001 Cosmos
#4317 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4360 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5784 0.000001 Ethereum

Think Tanks

#904 0.000181 Mercatus Center
#1884 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1940 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2134 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2363 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2506 0.000022 Eurasia Group
#2814 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3062 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3842 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4223 0.000005 Niskanen Center
#4611 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5503 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6422 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7961 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#8008 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8378 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9896 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Journalism

#723 0.000143 Palladium Magazine
#939 0.000150 Recode
#1636 0.000016 Techcrunch
#1818 0.000002 The Information
#2068 0.000001 OANN
#2071 0.000001 Newsmax
#2085 0.000064 Bloomberg Opinion
#2350 0.000002 Stat News
#2688 0.000002 The Verge
#3298 0.000002 The Economist
#3907 0.000002 CNBC
#3989 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4223 0.000005 Foreign Policy
#4613 0.000026 The Atlantic
#4836 0.000002 Wired
#4912 0.000001 The Intercept
#5188 0.000002 Financial Times
#5809 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6425 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6878 0.000002 Reuters
#7311 0.000002 VICE
#7626 0.000010 Ars Technica
#9542 0.000001 The Dispatch
#9656 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Informal Community

#3634 0.000035 Founders

Science

#2011 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2406 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4177 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5653 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8524 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1594 0.000002 Rust
#2232 0.000001 Zig

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