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?

jason@calacanis.com

jason@calacanis.com

@Jason

linktr.ee/calacanis

meme dealer; invested in startups like @uber @thumbtack @robinhoodapp @desktopmetal @calm; my dealflow thesyndicate.com pods @twistartups @theallinpod

426886 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#12 0.005885 Benchmark Capital
#28 0.004155 Khosla Ventures
#52 0.001606 A16Z
#63 0.002022 Sutter Hill Ventures
#108 0.001701 Sequioa
#152 0.000912 Village Global
#157 0.001203 Y Combinator
#188 0.000006 Standard Crypto
#263 0.000360 Index Ventures
#287 0.000006 Founders Fund
#334 0.000423 Initialized Capital
#356 0.000184 Accel
#596 0.000107 Bessemer
#651 0.000288 My Climate Journey
#654 0.000279 Homebrew

Journalism

#82 0.002163 The Verge
#218 0.000677 The Information
#468 0.000232 Palladium Magazine
#999 0.000003 Newsmax
#1017 0.000003 OANN
#1114 0.000006 Stat News
#1132 0.000115 Bloomberg Opinion
#1323 0.000028 Techcrunch
#2055 0.000006 The Economist
#2613 0.000006 CNBC
#2710 0.000013 Foreign Policy
#2810 0.000006 The Daily Beast
#2887 0.000005 Reuters
#2895 0.000043 Recode
#3125 0.000023 BuzzFeed
#3632 0.000031 New Yorker
#3781 0.000032 The Atlantic
#3834 0.000006 Wired
#3946 0.000006 Financial Times
#4214 0.000003 The Intercept
#5036 0.000006 The Los Angeles Times
#5060 0.000009 The New York Post
#5476 0.000009 VICE
#6173 0.000006 Washington Post
#7632 0.000006 Wall Street Journal
#7662 0.000003 The Dispatch
#9053 0.000006 Ars Technica

Culture and Political Economy

#113 0.001130 Progress Studies
#146 0.000006 Schumacher Circle
#169 0.000619 The Long Now Foundation
#196 0.000006 Fair Vote
#218 0.000655 Social Epistemology
#330 0.000006 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#347 0.000006 Extinction Rebellion
#384 0.000006 Existential Risks
#431 0.000267 Rationality
#457 0.000006 Claremont Institute
#478 0.000006 Ecosocialism
#498 0.000006 Sierra Clib
#716 0.000006 350.org
#720 0.000166 Ecomodernists
#889 0.000139 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#905 0.000006 Environmental Defense Fund
#908 0.000152 Bismark Analysis
#1408 0.000082 RadicalxChange
#1811 0.000003 Environmental Journalists
#1983 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2008 0.000033 Effective Altruism
#3048 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3147 0.000003 Heterodox Academy
#3449 0.000026 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3564 0.000018 Harper's Open Letter
#3578 0.000003 Works in Progress
#4012 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#4279 0.000003 Anarachists
#4726 0.000003 EFF
#6269 0.000003 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#6402 0.000003 Moderate Conservatism
#6603 0.000003 Degrowth
#6733 0.000007 Persuasion Community

Crypto

#156 0.000899 Crypto VC
#193 0.000006 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#288 0.000482 Crypto Angels
#319 0.000444 IDEO Founder Collective
#333 0.000560 Public Goods Funding
#361 0.000006 Crypto Political Economy
#391 0.000006 Polkadot
#395 0.000360 Crypto Journalists
#492 0.000309 Ethereum
#513 0.000151 Cosmos
#574 0.000198 Crypto Infrastructure
#820 0.000114 Crypto Investing
#1378 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1552 0.000031 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2228 0.000022 Decentralized Web

Think Tanks

#279 0.000552 Mercatus Center
#646 0.000006 RAND Corporation
#703 0.000006 Belfer Center
#910 0.000006 Urban Institute
#1108 0.000006 Heritage Foundation
#1572 0.000006 Cato Institute
#1581 0.000003 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2628 0.000006 Atlantic Council
#2710 0.000013 Niskanen Center
#3084 0.000012 Hudson Institute
#3279 0.000007 Adam Smith Institute
#3493 0.000003 Berggruen Institute
#3666 0.000036 American Enterprise Institute
#3666 0.000036 National Bureau of Economic Research
#3914 0.000003 Earth Institute
#5487 0.000003 Eurasia Group
#5634 0.000003 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7069 0.000003 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7674 0.000004 Hoover Institution

Informal Community

#539 0.000219 Founders

Science

#744 0.000161 Biotech
#774 0.000006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1083 0.000006 Philosophy Twitter
#2786 0.000006 Epidimiology Twitter
#4353 0.000003 Epidemiology Journalism
#7628 0.000006 EconTwitter
#8404 0.000006 ClimateTwitter

system

#9029 0.000014 Baseline

Software Engineering

#328 0.000006 Rust
#1167 0.000003 Zig

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