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If you assemble enough people wearing Patagonia vests, a venture fund spontaneously forms around them.

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Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#96 0.001837 Sequioa
#98 0.001240 Benchmark Capital
#151 0.000918 Village Global
#219 0.000718 My Climate Journey
#340 0.000394 Khosla Ventures
#437 0.000330 Initialized Capital
#440 0.000442 Sutter Hill Ventures
#661 0.000131 Index Ventures
#679 0.000174 Y Combinator
#704 0.000267 Homebrew
#790 0.000185 A16Z
#1520 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1579 0.000002 Founders Fund
#2017 0.000002 Accel
#2781 0.000001 Bessemer

Culture and Political Economy

#732 0.000219 Progress Studies
#1359 0.000085 The Long Now Foundation
#1493 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1540 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1654 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1681 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1723 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1765 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1777 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1806 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#2029 0.000002 350.org
#2217 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2706 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2760 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3248 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3754 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3971 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4003 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4086 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4381 0.000026 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#4428 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4854 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4880 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5551 0.000001 EFF
#6361 0.000001 Anarachists
#7472 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7685 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8284 0.000001 Rationality
#8303 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#1038 0.000155 Mercatus Center
#1948 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2002 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2198 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2428 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2876 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3041 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3903 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4596 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5481 0.000001 Earth Institute
#5653 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#6409 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7760 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7942 0.000001 Niskanen Center
#7988 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8360 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9874 0.000001 Hoover Institution

Crypto

#966 0.000125 IDEO Founder Collective
#1539 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1653 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1718 0.000002 Polkadot
#1784 0.000066 Crypto VC
#2356 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2401 0.000032 Crypto Infrastructure
#3342 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3432 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3472 0.000001 Cosmos
#4294 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4344 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5739 0.000001 Ethereum
#6064 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6702 0.000001 Crypto Investing

Science

#1476 0.000069 Biotech
#2075 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2472 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#4240 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#5640 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Journalism

#1343 0.000027 Techcrunch
#1883 0.000002 The Information
#2053 0.000001 OANN
#2055 0.000001 Newsmax
#2410 0.000002 Stat News
#2749 0.000002 The Verge
#3366 0.000002 The Economist
#3966 0.000002 CNBC
#4046 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4241 0.000029 Bloomberg Opinion
#4885 0.000002 Wired
#4899 0.000001 The Intercept
#5249 0.000002 Financial Times
#5858 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5990 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6488 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#7367 0.000002 VICE
#7942 0.000001 Foreign Policy
#8718 0.000001 Reuters
#9196 0.000001 Recode
#9523 0.000001 The Dispatch
#9711 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Informal Community

#4583 0.000026 Founders

system

#9708 0.000013 Think Tanks

Software Engineering

#1660 0.000002 Rust
#2216 0.000001 Zig

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