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Josh Elman 🇺🇸

Josh Elman 🇺🇸

@joshelman

about.me/joshelman

I have been very lucky to work on or invest in many products I still use today. Let’s Build!

106132 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

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#144 0.000873 Benchmark Capital
#145 0.000942 Homebrew
#165 0.001013 Sutter Hill Ventures
#191 0.000755 Village Global
#196 0.000631 Initialized Capital
#278 0.000571 My Climate Journey
#390 0.000004 Standard Crypto
#400 0.000117 Accel
#415 0.000418 Y Combinator
#474 0.000004 Founders Fund
#476 0.000154 Bessemer
#1343 0.000004 Sequioa
#1489 0.000012 Index Ventures

Crypto

#120 0.001130 IDEO Founder Collective
#297 0.000515 Crypto VC
#399 0.000004 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#553 0.000004 Crypto Political Economy
#573 0.000132 Cosmos
#595 0.000004 Polkadot
#613 0.000283 Public Goods Funding
#874 0.000153 Ethereum
#1059 0.000092 Crypto Infrastructure
#1423 0.000052 Crypto Investing
#1589 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1629 0.000042 Decentralized Web
#2594 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2728 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3415 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

Culture and Political Economy

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#282 0.000567 Progress Studies
#352 0.000004 Schumacher Circle
#402 0.000004 Fair Vote
#535 0.000004 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#550 0.000004 Extinction Rebellion
#588 0.000004 Existential Risks
#656 0.000004 Claremont Institute
#674 0.000004 Ecosocialism
#699 0.000004 Sierra Clib
#915 0.000004 350.org
#1058 0.000152 Social Epistemology
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#1449 0.000085 Ecomodernists
#1991 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2164 0.000045 Rationality
#2220 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2543 0.000002 Bismark Analysis
#2630 0.000037 Persuasion Community
#3037 0.000002 RadicalxChange
#3314 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3326 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3570 0.000033 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3778 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4188 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4203 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#4622 0.000013 Harper's Open Letter
#4894 0.000002 EFF
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#6716 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#6772 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7153 0.000002 Degrowth

Journalism

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#792 0.000004 The Information
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#1337 0.000004 Stat News
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#1638 0.000069 Ars Technica
#1726 0.000004 The Verge
#2287 0.000004 The Economist
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#3065 0.000004 The Daily Beast
#3206 0.000010 Palladium Magazine
#3227 0.000040 Bloomberg Opinion
#3547 0.000035 The Atlantic
#3712 0.000030 New Yorker
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#3910 0.000006 Foreign Policy
#3990 0.000004 Wired
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#4345 0.000002 The Intercept
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Informal Community

#697 0.000179 Founders

Think Tanks

#841 0.000004 RAND Corporation
#899 0.000004 Belfer Center
#1101 0.000004 Urban Institute
#1312 0.000004 Heritage Foundation
#1497 0.000106 Mercatus Center
#1786 0.000004 Cato Institute
#1951 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2843 0.000004 Atlantic Council
#3806 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#3910 0.000006 Niskanen Center
#4358 0.000006 Hudson Institute
#4361 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5787 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6187 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6256 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#7430 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#7741 0.000012 American Enterprise Institute
#7741 0.000012 National Bureau of Economic Research
#8754 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Science

#969 0.000004 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1064 0.000105 Biotech
#1313 0.000004 Philosophy Twitter
#3128 0.000004 Epidimiology Twitter
#4769 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#9116 0.000004 EconTwitter
#9622 0.000004 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#533 0.000004 Rust
#1400 0.000002 Zig

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