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Ben Thompson

Ben Thompson

@benthompson

stratechery.com

Author/Founder of @stratechery. Host of @ditheringfm @exponentfm. @notechben for sports. @monkbent on other networks. Home on the Internet.

196998 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#16 0.008067 Founders Fund
#85 0.001586 Khosla Ventures
#99 0.001049 A16Z
#130 0.001020 Benchmark Capital
#173 0.001180 Sequioa
#198 0.000707 Village Global
#333 0.000571 Sutter Hill Ventures
#513 0.000284 Initialized Capital
#985 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1021 0.000063 Index Ventures
#1494 0.000002 Accel
#2231 0.000059 Homebrew
#2402 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2710 0.000001 Bessemer
#3128 0.000001 My Climate Journey

Culture and Political Economy

#46 0.002316 Progress Studies
#60 0.001981 The Long Now Foundation
#198 0.000707 Social Epistemology
#394 0.000292 Rationality
#870 0.000161 Bismark Analysis
#955 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1003 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1121 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1148 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1187 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1240 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1257 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1259 0.000103 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#1279 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1502 0.000002 350.org
#1537 0.000071 RadicalxChange
#1687 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1945 0.000056 Works in Progress
#2640 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2686 0.000032 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#3004 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3938 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4019 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4788 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4816 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5484 0.000001 EFF
#5879 0.000009 Persuasion Community
#6246 0.000001 Anarachists
#6419 0.000008 Harper's Open Letter
#7418 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8216 0.000001 Degrowth
#8867 0.000004 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Journalism

#148 0.000758 Recode
#151 0.001049 The Information
#687 0.000283 Wired
#723 0.000174 Bloomberg Opinion
#1143 0.000041 Techcrunch
#1175 0.000077 The Verge
#1389 0.000038 CNBC
#1902 0.000002 Stat News
#1980 0.000001 OANN
#1981 0.000001 Newsmax
#2034 0.000065 The Atlantic
#2848 0.000002 The Economist
#3590 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3827 0.000027 Ars Technica
#3869 0.000006 Foreign Policy
#4198 0.000025 New Yorker
#4212 0.000003 Financial Times
#4848 0.000001 The Intercept
#5245 0.000002 Reuters
#5433 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5930 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6022 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6918 0.000002 VICE
#7738 0.000005 Wall Street Journal
#9399 0.000002 Washington Post
#9432 0.000001 The Dispatch

Crypto

#145 0.000983 Crypto VC
#913 0.000071 Cosmos
#1001 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1131 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1145 0.000107 IDEO Founder Collective
#1188 0.000002 Polkadot
#2286 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2375 0.000022 Crypto Investing
#3182 0.000006 Ethereum
#3271 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3358 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3366 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3573 0.000017 Crypto Infrastructure
#4169 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#4202 0.000001 Public Goods Funding

Think Tanks

#304 0.000510 Mercatus Center
#1425 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1480 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1678 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1908 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2364 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2946 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2974 0.000008 Adam Smith Institute
#3397 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#3869 0.000006 Niskanen Center
#4491 0.000006 Hudson Institute
#4532 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5396 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6348 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6666 0.000006 Hoover Institution
#6861 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7991 0.000008 Center for American Progress
#8271 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Informal Community

#3299 0.000039 Founders

system

#7087 0.000018 Think Tanks
#7443 0.000019 Baseline

Science

#1550 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1943 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3737 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#4525 0.000017 Biotech
#5573 0.000001 Epidemiology Journalism

Software Engineering

#1129 0.000002 Rust
#2140 0.000001 Zig

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