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Michael Seibel

Michael Seibel

@mwseibel

michaelseibel.com

Partner at YC and Managing Director of YC Early Stage #ycombinator michael@ycombinator.com

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#1 0.043753 Y Combinator
#222 0.000575 Initialized Capital
#224 0.000704 My Climate Journey
#347 0.000390 Khosla Ventures
#637 0.000228 A16Z
#742 0.000214 Village Global
#948 0.000032 Sequioa
#1126 0.000044 Index Ventures
#2136 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2188 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2339 0.000049 Homebrew
#2620 0.000001 Accel
#4608 0.000001 Bessemer
#5146 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#5514 0.000001 Benchmark Capital

Culture and Political Economy

#360 0.000443 Progress Studies
#433 0.000288 The Long Now Foundation
#604 0.000250 Bismark Analysis
#1110 0.000072 Degrowth
#1435 0.000091 Heterodox Academy
#1802 0.000053 RadicalxChange
#2112 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2159 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2268 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2300 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#2337 0.000001 Existential Risks
#2373 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2377 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2418 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2646 0.000001 350.org
#2826 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#4135 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4457 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#4905 0.000023 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#5331 0.000009 Rationality
#5524 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#5875 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#6073 0.000001 Works in Progress
#6521 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#6540 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#7176 0.000001 EFF
#8264 0.000001 Anarachists
#8870 0.000004 Persuasion Community
#8945 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#9227 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Science

#433 0.000260 Biotech
#2685 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3096 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4802 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7167 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Crypto

#856 0.000163 Crypto VC
#1448 0.000046 Crypto Angels
#2158 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2264 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#2332 0.000001 Polkadot
#4198 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#4881 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#5154 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#5194 0.000001 Cosmos
#6063 0.000006 Crypto Infrastructure
#6118 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#6355 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6409 0.000005 IDEO Founder Collective
#8164 0.000001 Ethereum
#8787 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Think Tanks

#1084 0.000149 Mercatus Center
#2555 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2610 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2797 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3022 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3463 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4471 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#5392 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#6240 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#7292 0.000001 Earth Institute
#8022 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Informal Community

#2043 0.000068 Founders

Journalism

#2488 0.000001 The Information
#2999 0.000001 Stat News
#3331 0.000001 The Verge
#3919 0.000001 OANN
#3938 0.000001 Newsmax
#3945 0.000001 The Economist
#4535 0.000001 CNBC
#4586 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5335 0.000022 Bloomberg Opinion
#5410 0.000001 Wired
#5817 0.000001 Financial Times
#6381 0.000001 The Intercept
#6387 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7002 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7515 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7863 0.000001 VICE

Software Engineering

#2272 0.000001 Rust
#4081 0.000001 Zig

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