Project Lens is an alpha-level demo. The data sets are incomplete and imbalanced and algorithm parameters are being tuned. Results should thus be considered directional. Want to provide feedback, request features, or collaborate?

David Sacks

David Sacks

@DavidSacks

sacks.substack.com

Founder, Investor, Bestie, Rain Man. Over 20x🦄 💦🐦. Creator of the Bottom-Up SaaS Playbook. Occasional movie producer. @craft_ventures @theallinpod

205268 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#9 0.020195 Standard Crypto
#17 0.004389 Benchmark Capital
#31 0.004989 Sequioa
#64 0.001925 Khosla Ventures
#233 0.000600 Village Global
#266 0.000500 Initialized Capital
#408 0.000469 Sutter Hill Ventures
#410 0.000114 Accel
#426 0.000335 A16Z
#440 0.000407 Homebrew
#481 0.000337 Y Combinator
#958 0.000046 Bessemer
#1375 0.000017 Index Ventures
#1472 0.000002 Founders Fund
#3542 0.000001 My Climate Journey

Crypto

#95 0.001331 Crypto VC
#367 0.000358 Crypto Angels
#536 0.000267 Crypto Journalists
#717 0.000179 IDEO Founder Collective
#1431 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1475 0.000034 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1549 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1611 0.000002 Polkadot
#2468 0.000031 Crypto Infrastructure
#2738 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3665 0.000009 Crypto Investing
#3818 0.000001 Cosmos
#4223 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4697 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6316 0.000001 Ethereum

Culture and Political Economy

#249 0.000609 Progress Studies
#556 0.000174 Effective Altruism
#987 0.000139 Bismark Analysis
#1124 0.000108 The Long Now Foundation
#1362 0.000095 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1385 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1432 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1548 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1575 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1616 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1659 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1671 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1700 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1924 0.000002 350.org
#2111 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2241 0.000034 Harper's Open Letter
#2404 0.000037 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3059 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3106 0.000025 Rationality
#3610 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4119 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4265 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4347 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4453 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4755 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5219 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5866 0.000001 EFF
#6812 0.000001 Anarachists
#7777 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8737 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#241 0.000603 Mercatus Center
#1843 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1899 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2092 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2323 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2777 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3504 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3793 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4914 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5882 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6732 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7998 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#8389 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8525 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8689 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#8793 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Journalism

#1310 0.000101 Bloomberg Opinion
#1777 0.000002 The Information
#2311 0.000002 Stat News
#2436 0.000001 OANN
#2441 0.000001 Newsmax
#2649 0.000002 The Verge
#3256 0.000002 The Economist
#3865 0.000002 CNBC
#3952 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4379 0.000021 Recode
#4522 0.000003 Techcrunch
#4797 0.000002 Wired
#5150 0.000002 Financial Times
#5202 0.000001 The Intercept
#5772 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6020 0.000006 Washington Post
#6287 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6383 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6452 0.000003 VICE
#8689 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#9616 0.000002 Wall Street Journal
#9944 0.000001 The Dispatch

Informal Community

#2197 0.000062 Founders

Science

#1971 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2367 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4136 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5936 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8770 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1553 0.000002 Rust
#2603 0.000001 Zig

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