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Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson

@chr1sa

about.me/andersonchris

Suddenly realized that this bio doesn't have to mirror LinkedIn. Also doesn't have to be a bio at all. Photo by @chrismichel

190350 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#97 0.001541 Sutter Hill Ventures
#228 0.000646 Benchmark Capital
#247 0.000523 A16Z
#272 0.000515 Village Global
#300 0.000458 Khosla Ventures
#379 0.000368 Initialized Capital
#1607 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1664 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2101 0.000002 Accel
#2492 0.000002 Sequioa
#2978 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3685 0.000001 Bessemer
#4037 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4229 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4863 0.000001 Homebrew

Culture and Political Economy

#99 0.001058 The Long Now Foundation
#280 0.000436 Ecomodernists
#808 0.000176 Bismark Analysis
#1358 0.000110 Social Epistemology
#1580 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1627 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1740 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1768 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1810 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1852 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1862 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1893 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2116 0.000002 350.org
#2303 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2556 0.000035 Rationality
#2590 0.000047 Progress Studies
#2664 0.000027 Works in Progress
#2844 0.000032 Persuasion Community
#3561 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3888 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4301 0.000027 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4682 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4843 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4976 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5672 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5695 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5726 0.000009 Harper's Open Letter
#6341 0.000001 EFF
#7392 0.000001 Anarachists
#8209 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8442 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9387 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#204 0.000819 Wired
#526 0.000214 Techcrunch
#1056 0.000117 New Yorker
#1747 0.000076 The Atlantic
#1969 0.000002 The Information
#2495 0.000002 Stat News
#2831 0.000002 The Verge
#2990 0.000001 OANN
#2997 0.000001 Newsmax
#3446 0.000002 The Economist
#3791 0.000034 Bloomberg Opinion
#3862 0.000027 Recode
#4045 0.000002 CNBC
#4120 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#5333 0.000002 Financial Times
#5374 0.000018 Ars Technica
#5620 0.000001 The Intercept
#5930 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6558 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6728 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7071 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#7435 0.000002 VICE
#9799 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Crypto

#272 0.000548 Crypto VC
#524 0.000254 IDEO Founder Collective
#1626 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1739 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1804 0.000002 Polkadot
#3270 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3775 0.000016 Crypto Infrastructure
#3988 0.000003 Ethereum
#4090 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4224 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4275 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4324 0.000001 Cosmos
#5218 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5362 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6170 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Science

#1054 0.000137 Epidimiology Twitter
#1086 0.000118 EconTwitter
#2162 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2557 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4167 0.000019 Biotech
#6393 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Think Tanks

#764 0.000070 Eurasia Group
#2035 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2089 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2283 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2462 0.000010 Berggruen Institute
#2514 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2958 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3229 0.000037 Mercatus Center
#3984 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4205 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#4359 0.000020 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6413 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7012 0.000015 Brookings
#7071 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#7197 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9233 0.000001 Hudson Institute

system

#4288 0.000031 Think Tanks
#9100 0.000014 Baseline

Software Engineering

#1746 0.000002 Rust
#3149 0.000001 Zig

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