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Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley

@mattwridley

mattridley.co.uk/newsletter

Biologist and writer. Author of Red Queen, Rational Optimist, and most recently How Innovation Works (now in paperback): amazon.co.uk/dp/0008334846

90800 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#47 0.002426 Benchmark Capital
#1180 0.000111 Khosla Ventures
#1475 0.000012 Index Ventures
#1565 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1623 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2060 0.000002 Accel
#2452 0.000002 Sequioa
#2825 0.000043 A16Z
#2940 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3537 0.000005 Village Global
#3968 0.000001 Bessemer
#4307 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4535 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5121 0.000001 Homebrew
#6244 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Journalism

#150 0.000885 The Dispatch
#1480 0.000090 Bloomberg Opinion
#1928 0.000002 The Information
#2455 0.000002 Stat News
#2792 0.000002 The Verge
#3284 0.000001 OANN
#3295 0.000001 Newsmax
#3409 0.000002 The Economist
#4009 0.000002 CNBC
#4084 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4258 0.000012 The New York Post
#4549 0.000020 Recode
#4923 0.000002 Wired
#5292 0.000002 Financial Times
#5861 0.000001 The Intercept
#5895 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6275 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6524 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6972 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7403 0.000002 VICE
#8636 0.000013 The Atlantic
#9760 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#157 0.000879 Cato Institute
#357 0.000438 Mercatus Center
#399 0.000352 American Enterprise Institute
#399 0.000352 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1383 0.000047 Adam Smith Institute
#1637 0.000036 Eurasia Group
#1910 0.000057 Hoover Institution
#1932 0.000018 Berggruen Institute
#1993 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2047 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2242 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2472 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#3942 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4582 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#5825 0.000008 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#6275 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6687 0.000001 Earth Institute
#7456 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9608 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Culture and Political Economy

#153 0.000673 The Long Now Foundation
#156 0.000579 Persuasion Community
#160 0.000699 Ecomodernists
#177 0.000804 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#397 0.000364 Moderate Conservatism
#453 0.000157 Harper's Open Letter
#667 0.000238 Progress Studies
#882 0.000150 Works in Progress
#937 0.000133 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1084 0.000120 Bismark Analysis
#1500 0.000075 Rationality
#1538 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1585 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1698 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1726 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1768 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1810 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1820 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1851 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2074 0.000002 350.org
#2262 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#3336 0.000013 Effective Altruism
#3840 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4630 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4692 0.000011 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4961 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4962 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5109 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#5261 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5958 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6605 0.000001 EFF
#7675 0.000001 Anarachists
#9694 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#588 0.000251 Crypto VC
#1131 0.000108 IDEO Founder Collective
#1584 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1697 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1762 0.000002 Polkadot
#2003 0.000040 Crypto Infrastructure
#3557 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3659 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3714 0.000005 Decentralized Web
#4115 0.000006 Crypto Investing
#4303 0.000002 Ethereum
#4508 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#4550 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4592 0.000001 Cosmos
#5500 0.000001 Public Goods Funding

system

#956 0.000191 Think Tanks
#5275 0.000036 Baseline
#9952 0.000021 Reality-Based Community

Science

#1539 0.000066 Biotech
#2120 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2516 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4282 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#6625 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism
#8433 0.000004 EconTwitter

Informal Community

#2966 0.000043 Founders

Software Engineering

#1705 0.000002 Rust
#3438 0.000001 Zig

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