/
Navigation
C
Chronicles
Browse all articles
C
E
Explore
Semantic exploration
E
R
Research
Entity momentum
R
N
Nexus
Correlations & relationships
N
~
Story Arc
Topic evolution
S
Drift Map
Semantic trajectory animation
D
P
Posts
Analysis & commentary
P
Browse
@
Entities
Companies, people, products, technologies
Domains
Browse by publication source
Handles
Browse by social media handle
Detection
?
Concept Search
Semantic similarity search
!
High Impact Stories
Top coverage by position
+
Sentiment Analysis
Positive/negative coverage
*
Anomaly Detection
Unusual coverage patterns
Analysis
vs
Rivalry Report
Compare two entities head-to-head
/\
Semantic Pivots
Narrative discontinuities
!!
Crisis Response
Event recovery patterns
Connected
Nav: C E R N
Search: /
Command: ⌘K
Embeddings: large
VOICE ARCHIVE

Alex Konrad

@alexrkonrad
381 posts
2026-02-06
When a PR fixer turned VC introduced a startup founder to Jeffrey Epstein... what a lede from @iainmartin.bsky.social 🫠  —  www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...  [image]
2026-02-06 View on X
Forbes

DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of investments in 22 unicorns like xAI

Here's a gift link for those who want to read the full piece: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...Sam Blum /@samblum:New reporting from Forbes confirms Bucher's role as a matchmaker bet...

When a PR fixer turned VC introduced a startup founder to Jeffrey Epstein... what a lede from @iainmartin.bsky.social 🫠  —  www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...  [image]
2026-02-06 View on X
New York Times

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction

The disgraced financier regularly courted tech industry figures not just for their prestige but also for access to promising companies.

2026-02-05
When a PR fixer turned VC introduced a startup founder to Jeffrey Epstein... what a lede from @iainmartin.bsky.social 🫠  —  www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...  [image]
2026-02-05 View on X
New York Times

DOJ files reveal Epstein's deep Silicon Valley relationships and how key insiders offered access to buzzy startups like Coinbase, long after his 2008 conviction

The disgraced financier regularly courted tech industry figures not just for their prestige but also for access to promising companies.

When a PR fixer turned VC introduced a startup founder to Jeffrey Epstein... what a lede from @iainmartin.bsky.social 🫠  —  www.forbes.com/sites/iainma...  [image]
2026-02-05 View on X
Forbes

DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of investments in 22 unicorns like xAI

Masha Bucher is one of the more high profile female VCs in Silicon Valley.  New emails released from the Department of Justice reveal a deep …

2026-02-03
CRM has been a startup tar pit over the past decade, with so many trying and failing to take meaningful market share 📈 LLMs mean a new wave is trying. We've got a new horse race 🐎 Some of the startup contestants: ▪️Day AI (Sequoia, Greenoaks, Conviction) ▪️Reevo (Khosla
2026-02-03 View on X
Upstarts Media

Day AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, note-taking, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia

2026-02-02
CRM has been a startup tar pit over the past decade, with so many trying and failing to take meaningful market share 📈 LLMs mean a new wave is trying. We've got a new horse race 🐎 Some of the startup contestants: ▪️Day AI (Sequoia, Greenoaks, Conviction) ▪️Reevo (Khosla
2026-02-02 View on X
Upstarts Media

Day AI, which is developing an AI-powered CRM service that can automate data entry, meeting prep, note-taking, and more, raised a $20M Series A led by Sequoia

2026-01-16
The VCs who poured $2B into Thinking Machines pre-launch are probably not having fun rn 😳
2026-01-16 View on X
Wired

Source: at least two more Thinking Machines employees are set to join OpenAI soon; some AI researchers say they are exhausted by the industry's constant drama

OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says.

The VCs who poured $2B into Thinking Machines pre-launch are probably not having fun rn 😳
2026-01-16 View on X
Sources

Sources: Thinking Machines lacks a clear product or business strategy and has been struggling over the past couple of months to raise a new round of financing

More Thinking Machines employees are in talks to join OpenAI.  Also: Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe on ACCESS and the Sources Live @ Davos lineup.

2026-01-15
It appears that my birthday overloaded the Verizon network. If you're in line to text me, STAY IN LINE [image]
2026-01-15 View on X
TechRadar

Verizon fixes “an issue impacting wireless voice and data services” that caused 100K+ users to lose reception for 10+ hours on January 14 and gives a $20 credit

The carrier says the outage is now resolved  —  While Verizon had a good few months, with the last major outage occurring …

The VCs who poured $2B into Thinking Machines pre-launch are probably not having fun rn 😳
2026-01-15 View on X
Wired

Source: at least two more Thinking Machines staffers are expected to join OpenAI soon; some researchers say they are exhausted by the industry's constant drama

The VCs who poured $2B into Thinking Machines pre-launch are probably not having fun rn 😳
2026-01-15 View on X
Wired

A source close to Thinking Machines Lab alleges ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors

The departures are a blow for Thinking Machines Lab.  Two narratives are already emerging about why they happened.

2026-01-14
It appears that my birthday overloaded the Verizon network. If you're in line to text me, STAY IN LINE [image]
2026-01-14 View on X
TechRadar

Verizon says it is “aware of an issue impacting wireless voice and data services for some customers”, as thousands of users report no cellular reception

Seemingly ‘SOS’ is replacing network bars  —  While Verizon had a good few months, with the last major outage occurring in October 2024 …

2025-12-08
WSJ reports that IBM is buying Confluent, a once high-flying data pioneer that I profiled in Forbes magazine *checks notes*... 10 years ago 😱 https://www.forbes.com/... Confluent reached a $20B market cap after IPO in 2021, but treaded water in the post-ZIRP era, stuck at ~$8B.
2025-12-08 View on X
Wall Street Journal

IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share

Confluent shares surged more than 25% in premarket trading Monday, while IBM's fell slightly.

2025-11-17
The Upshot on Span ⚡️ ▪️Founders J Zac Stein and Henry Liu (@henryl) met at Zenefits ▪️Customers include @Carvana, @intercom, @tryramp, @TrustVanta, @Get_Writer ▪️Backed by @_altcapital, @craft_ventures, @svangel, @BoxGroup, @blingcapital and 100 industry execs ▪️Central [image]
2025-11-17 View on X
Upstarts Media

Span, which aims to help companies measure the value of AI-assisted coding, raised $25M in seed and Series A rounds from Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, and others

In April, J Zac Stein took his cofounder Henry Liu out to dinner to pitch him on a new product: a model for detecting when code was generated by AI.

Exclusive: Span, a startup building a new-look ‘developer intelligence’ platform for the AI code era, has raised $25M. Led by Lattice's former head of product J Zac Stein, Span already helps companies like Braze, Intercom, Ramp, Vanta and Writer keep track of their engineering. [image]
2025-11-17 View on X
Upstarts Media

Span, which aims to help companies measure the value of AI-assisted coding, raised $25M in seed and Series A rounds from Alt Capital, Craft Ventures, and others

In April, J Zac Stein took his cofounder Henry Liu out to dinner to pitch him on a new product: a model for detecting when code was generated by AI.

2025-09-17
@console__ ... Check out our interview with Console, and why Thrive Capital's Vince Hankes (@vhankes) says it's in a land grab to own this area of work, in our story today 👇 A big thanks to partner @TrustVanta for helping it reach the startup ecosystem fully free! https://www.upstartsmedia.com/ ...
2025-09-17 View on X
Upstarts Media

Console, which uses AI agents in Slack to resolve lower-level IT support tickets, raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and Thrive Capital

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media : X: @alexrkonrad , @andrei_serban , @alexrkonrad , and @alexrkonrad X: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : Exclusive: Console has raised a $23M Series A rou...

Exclusive: Console has raised a $23M Series A round from DST Global and Thrive Capital. The one-year-old AI startup led by Andrei Serban (@andrei_serban) counts Ramp, Flock Safety and Scale AI as customers of its agents, which handle 50%+ of internal IT tickets on their own. [image]
2025-09-17 View on X
Upstarts Media

Console, which uses AI agents in Slack to resolve lower-level IT support tickets, raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and Thrive Capital

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media : X: @alexrkonrad , @andrei_serban , @alexrkonrad , and @alexrkonrad X: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : Exclusive: Console has raised a $23M Series A rou...

Fast facts on Console (@console__) ⚡️ ▪️CEO Andrei Serban (@andrei_serban) is a Thiel Fellow and Y Combinator (@ycombinator) alum who previously sold a startup, Fuzzbuzz to Rippling ▪️Launched IT agents late last year, and more recently, one for HR and finance Customers include [image]
2025-09-17 View on X
Upstarts Media

Console, which uses AI agents in Slack to resolve lower-level IT support tickets, raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and Thrive Capital

Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media : X: @alexrkonrad , @andrei_serban , @alexrkonrad , and @alexrkonrad X: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : Exclusive: Console has raised a $23M Series A rou...

2025-08-23
@UpstartsMediaCo Meta said they'd get back to me with a possible comment this morning, then went dark. Here's @alexandr_wang tweeting out a partnership with Midjourney, confimring our scoop 👀 https://x.com/...
2025-08-23 View on X
@alexandr_wang

Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney to license the startup's “aesthetic technology” for Meta's future models and products

1/ Today we're proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.

Scoop: Meta has held talks with Midjourney about a partnership including a potential acquisition, sources tell me at @UpstartsMediaCo. Meta's also met with AI video startups HeyGen and Krea, while Midjourney has pitched an API to https://x.ai/ https://www.upstartsmedia.com/ ...
2025-08-23 View on X
@alexandr_wang

Meta announces a partnership with Midjourney to license the startup's “aesthetic technology” for Meta's future models and products

1/ Today we're proud to announce a partnership with @midjourney, to license their aesthetic technology for our future models and products, bringing beauty to billions.