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Alex Konrad

@alexrkonrad

Founder and editor of @upstartsmediaco, a new tech publication focused on the startup ecosystem. Previously @Forbes senior editor. Email: [email protected]

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my new startup Helm’s Deep is currently seeking $100M+ in investment. DM for wiring instructions at first light on the 5th day. At dawn, look to the East

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I'm absolutely thrilled to share my first story for The New York Times! For today's DealBook, I previewed LIONS | The Home of Creativity and the existential debate the ad industry is having: how to embrace generative AI without being displaced by it. #CannesLions2025

I'm absolutely thrilled to share my first story for <a href="/nytimes/">The New York Times</a>! 

For today's <a href="/dealbook/">DealBook</a>, I previewed <a href="/Cannes_Lions/">LIONS | The Home of Creativity</a> and the existential debate the ad industry is having: how to embrace generative AI without being displaced by it. #CannesLions2025
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Finishing up a fun exclusive dive into an AI infrastructure startup's new funding + product release for tomorrow 👀 It'll be fully free for all Upstarts Media subscribers, so sign up now to get first word in your inbox 👇 upstartsmedia.com/subscribe

Finishing up a fun exclusive dive into an AI infrastructure startup's new funding + product release for tomorrow 👀

It'll be fully free for all <a href="/UpstartsMediaCo/">Upstarts Media</a> subscribers, so sign up now to get first word in your inbox 👇
upstartsmedia.com/subscribe
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“It only takes one breakthrough to turn the tables.” Amid splashy moves by OpenAI and Meta, you might be sleeping on poolside, the frontier AI lab led by Jason Warner and Eiso Kant. I spoke to them about the model race, VC groupthink, Meta’s recent talent spending and more 👇

“It only takes one breakthrough to turn the tables.”

Amid splashy moves by OpenAI and Meta, you might be sleeping on poolside, the frontier AI lab led by <a href="/jasoncwarner/">Jason Warner</a> and <a href="/eisokant/">Eiso Kant</a>.

I spoke to them about the model race, VC groupthink, Meta’s recent talent spending and more 👇
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Code AI : built as thin wrapper on Anthropic and OpenAI, or build full stack like Poolside? Love this article - Alex Konrad writes well, and Jason Warner thinks clearly.

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Bleeding heart progressives on Bluesky. SF tech leaders turned overnight experts on NYC politics on X. The only safe platform is Threads (they don’t know there’s an election yet).

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.poolside’s Jason Warner & Eiso Kant spoke to Alex Konrad of Upstarts Media and shared how startups can succeed in a closer-to-AGI landscape: -Build a data moat of asymmetric info -Build assuming that models will get 10x or 100x better upstartsmedia.com/p/poolside-ai-…