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Tech journalist (founder/editor, Upstarts Media; ex-Forbes) profiling startup leadership and revenue orgs; strong engagement on deep-dive leadership stories.
It’s gotta be so tough to be an injury attorney in SF when every good billboard is taken by b2b SaaS
It's wild that it's now just consistently cheaper for Americans to fly to other countries to attend tentpole events like the World Cup, Olympics, or Taylor Swift concerts versus pay to attend them at home
How can math make better code? "We want a world where vibe coding for complex systems and backends can be unlocked with the guarantee that you actually did it," says Axiom Math CEO Carina Hong. The $1.6B-valued startup's founder pictures a future...
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg's big regret: not building in public. "There was a lot of secrecy in the beginning. If I would do things over again, I would have figured out how to build in public faster." Being secretive wasn't deliberate or...
How do you survive as an AI startup competing with Anthropic and OpenAI Know when to retreat, says Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg. His advice for AI startups: focus on infrastructure, security and other defensible areas -- instead of getting "distracted" by...
Legal AI startup Harvey just reached an $11B valuation. On The Upstarts Podcast, CEO Winston Weinberg shares how a cold email to Sam Altman helped launch its journey, and why he believes lawyers are a surprise power user of AI tools. Plus,...
EXCLUSIVE: in a sea of Terminator-looking bots, Aussie founder Grace Brown took a different direction for her robot, Abi: color, bubbles, and fun. Now her startup Andromeda, which has raised $16.6M, is launching for senior homes across the U.S. - with...
Tomorrow is our 1st birthday at Upstarts 🎉 I wrote about our first year in operation, my gratitude for the startup ecosystem, and what to expect from @upstartsmediaco in Year 2. https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/upstarts-turns-1-heres-whats-next-e6a
AI talent wars continue 👀 Dec 3: Anthropic acquires Bun Dec 8: Meta acquires Limitless Dec 29: Meta acquires Manus Jan 12: OpenAI acquires Torch Feb 15: OpenAI acqui-hires OpenClaw Feb 25: Anthropic acquires Vercept Mar 9: OpenAI acquires Promptfoo Mar 10: Meta acqui-hires Moltbook Mar 19: OpenAI acquires...
What's being a startup founder really like? "You have to keep your head when somebody slaps in you the face in the morning," says Star Catcher CEO @theandrewrush. "And then somebody shakes your hand and tells you you're doing a great job...
Before Elon Musk famously slept on the Tesla factory floor, Star Catcher CEO @theandrewrush was doing it at his previous company, Made In Space, as they worked to build the first space-ready 3D printer. "I hope that Elon has had better...
"For the last three years, the best growth strategy in AI has been to just lie." @synthesiaio co-founder @victorriparbelli calls it "the biggest fog of war in AI right now." "Just make a video of a product demo that's what you want...
