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John Lilly

John Lilly

@johnolilly

johnolilly.com

Boards: Code for America, VotingWorks, Figma, Caffeine, Nuro, Crew, Clockwise, Lecturer at Stanford GSB. Dad, husband, son, nerd.

183460 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#15 0.003856 Sutter Hill Ventures
#17 0.003825 Homebrew
#37 0.002690 My Climate Journey
#113 0.000992 A16Z
#117 0.000746 Bessemer
#160 0.000941 Khosla Ventures
#174 0.001152 Sequioa
#189 0.000647 Initialized Capital
#493 0.000309 Benchmark Capital
#759 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#829 0.000002 Founders Fund
#887 0.000172 Village Global
#1276 0.000002 Accel
#1554 0.000010 Index Ventures
#2196 0.000002 Y Combinator

Crypto

#287 0.000488 IDEO Founder Collective
#637 0.000231 Crypto VC
#773 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#912 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#963 0.000002 Polkadot
#1804 0.000027 Cosmos
#1972 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2068 0.000028 Crypto Investing
#2341 0.000019 Decentralized Web
#2950 0.000023 Crypto Infrastructure
#2965 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3071 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3793 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#3890 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4315 0.000002 Ethereum

Culture and Political Economy

#355 0.000344 The Long Now Foundation
#384 0.000405 Social Epistemology
#482 0.000334 Progress Studies
#484 0.000227 EFF
#727 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#776 0.000002 Fair Vote
#901 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#923 0.000127 Rationality
#924 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#960 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1017 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1037 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1065 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1283 0.000002 350.org
#1470 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2019 0.000059 Ecomodernists
#2159 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2353 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2904 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3159 0.000027 Persuasion Community
#3394 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3664 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3717 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4089 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4509 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4552 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5738 0.000001 Anarachists
#6129 0.000009 Harper's Open Letter
#7150 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7296 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7672 0.000013 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#7786 0.000001 Degrowth

Journalism

#369 0.000370 Recode
#974 0.000120 Ars Technica
#1142 0.000002 The Information
#1366 0.000115 Wired
#1535 0.000019 Techcrunch
#1650 0.000001 Newsmax
#1654 0.000001 OANN
#1684 0.000002 Stat News
#2054 0.000002 The Verge
#2630 0.000002 The Economist
#3236 0.000002 CNBC
#3396 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3404 0.000033 Wall Street Journal
#4121 0.000026 New Yorker
#4408 0.000028 The Atlantic
#4490 0.000004 Foreign Policy
#4514 0.000002 Financial Times
#4613 0.000001 The Intercept
#5216 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5648 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#5729 0.000020 Bloomberg Opinion
#5820 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6720 0.000002 VICE
#7269 0.000002 Reuters
#8759 0.000002 Washington Post
#8986 0.000001 The Dispatch

Informal Community

#374 0.000280 Founders

Think Tanks

#418 0.000121 Eurasia Group
#892 0.000130 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1202 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1260 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1456 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1690 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2155 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2513 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3197 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#3257 0.000004 Berggruen Institute
#4490 0.000004 Niskanen Center
#4861 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#5007 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7333 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#7919 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9393 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Science

#1334 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1688 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3515 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5288 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8247 0.000001 Biotech

Software Engineering

#904 0.000002 Rust
#1816 0.000001 Zig

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