Discussion

• @jbillinson Josh Billinson on x

  Oh you get your news from the mainstream media? I get mine from a a16z funded livestream of an Australian guy scrolling Twitter to read OSINT accounts aggregating the New York Times [image]

• @eriktorenberg Erik Torenberg on x

  Thrilled to announce our investment in MTS. Beginning today, MTS will be monitoring the situation across technology, business, politics, and culture, interviewing the main characters of the moment all day long on X. We're seeding it alongside other angel investors such as Dan

• @brian_blum1 Brian Blum on x

  Absolutely zero aura out of the hosts Bearish

• @nikitabier Nikita Bier on x

  @semaforben @tbpn They reached out 4x in the last 2 months asking if we could partner. I ignored all 4 outreaches. No favorites.

• @tylermcbrien Tyler McBrien on x

  The latest a16z backed “media” company MTS (short for “monitoring the situation” of course) appears to be just a livestreamer switching back and forth between Twitter, Kalshi, and Wikipedia and googling things like “Rizzler birthday”?

• @knowerofmarkets Knower on x

  So excited to have helped bring MTS to life these past several weeks and we're officially out of stealth today The future is bright

• @elkelk Eli on x

  > a16z invents “new media” > hires new media team > new media team leaves to create even newer media > a16z invents in even newer media

• @hopes_revenge @hopes_revenge on x

  Have you seen the new episode? It's on TBPN. It's literally on All-In. It's on PirateWires patreon . It's literally on Uncapped. You can probably find it on Core Memory. Dude it's on Cheeky Pint. It's an a16z original. Even MTS has it — they just launched today,

• @packym Packy McCormick on x

  Erik was born to Monitor the Situation. I did Age of Miracles because of the machinery he built at Turpentine, where he also co-hosted something like ~700 podcasts, and have been blown away by the squad he's assembled at a16z new media. IT'S TIME TO MONITOR (24/7)

• @a16z @a16z on x

  We're very excited to invest in MTS, a media company launching today. MTS aims to be the best place in the world to make sense of what's happening right now. It's what you get when you take the Current Thing to its logical conclusion. Stream starts today. Tune in.

• @netcapgirl Sophie on x

  X is the purest expression of what internet pioneers imagined. it's where reality plays out in real time. the line between online and real life has disappeared i'm on the founding team of MTS, an X-native news network built to make sense of what's happening right now

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  It's time to monitor the situation.

• @luke_metro @luke_metro on x

  the new a16z show using Grokipedia is a truly inspired touch [image]

• @metapreston Preston on x

  Would not suggest re-rolling TBPN with less interesting, less well-dressed hosts

• @lucacs @lucacs on x

  ohhh so its like tbpn but they're not as hot?

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  Welcome back Cheddar

• @dwr Dan Romero on x

  .@MTSlive has the opportunity to do a different niche (CNN) than TBPN (SportsCenter x CNBC). Lots of pulling up tweets and tabs live. (Balaji is the perfect first guest for that.) Should feel like doomscrolling with internet friends. More Twitch stream than video podcast (but [im…

• @gavinpurcell Gavin Purcell on x

  fascinated by the full-court a16z press on this former new media team a16z member left to found/join too but i do think it makes sense to try something with the TPBN hole that's been created (at least in the minds of a lot of people) but... daily media is H A R D

• @mtslive @mtslive on x

  Introducing MTS: The first timeline-native news network that's always on. Monitoring tech, finance, geopolitics and culture — as it happens. We are Live Now. [video]

• @balajis Balaji on x

  On the new Monitoring the Situation stream with @eriktorenberg and @theojaffee.

• @semaforben Ben Smith on x

  X does seem to be giving this just a little more juice than @tbpn. Rare to see one of the big platforms pick favorites quite like this

• @matt_slotnick Matt Slotnick on x

  just clicked to watch for the first time ever and was greeted with “we should get the rizzler. if anyone has a connection to the rizzler”

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  The co-host @theojaffee said his screentime average was just 6 hours per day last week. Better get those numbers up!!

• @davelee.me Dave Lee on bluesky

  The more serious take on this is that prediction markets are going to fuel a wave of these kind of start-ups.  Total trash that will claim to be doing the work of journalism (while simultaneously relying on the “old” media for literally every insight they have) [embedded post]