The Upstarts Podcast

Alex Konrad
partnerships@upstartsmedia.com

Booking Overview

The Upstarts Podcast is built around one-on-one conversations with founders and builders of high-impact emerging technologies. Each episode is a deep look at how they’re scaling ambitious ideas in areas like AI, healthcare tech, and energy—plus the strategic lessons PR audiences can translate into their own positioning.

Metrics

13 episodes, Irregular, 5.0 rating
<1k, Male, USA

Contact Information

partnerships@upstartsmedia.com, tips@upstartsmedia.com, contact@lightningpod.fm

Description

On The Upstarts Podcast, you’ll hear from some of the most exciting Upstarts today: emerging technology leaders punching above their weight to achieve real impact. 

Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad profiled leaders from Marc Benioff to Melanie Perkins in a decade-plus at Forbes. Now as the founder and editor of Upstarts Media, he’s sitting down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more. 

You’ll leave each interview with a new understanding of a world-changing technology that’s transforming how we live and work – as well as strategies and tactics any builder can put to use. 

Production Team

Host

Alex Konrad

Categories

Entrepreneurship, Business, Technology

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Founder/CEO or equivalent executive of a high-growth technology company (often with meaningful enterprise or government traction) in emerging tech such as AI, infrastructure, healthcare tech, or frontier energy/space. Guests generally have credible technical or thought-leadership background (e.g., major research authorship, prior elite tech pedigree, or demonstrable scaling milestones like high valuations, large revenue growth, or major customer logos).
Required Achievements:  
Founder/CEO of a venture-backed or high-growth startup, Demonstrated scale (e.g., rapid revenue growth, large valuation, significant funding totals), Notable technical credibility (e.g., publishing landmark research or building foundational infrastructure), Enterprise/government deployments or major customer adoption, Category leadership (positioning against large incumbents)

Recent Guest Discussions

Cobi Blumenfeld-Gantz - Medicare Disruption Via Better Plan Connectivity; Scaling Metrics (product-market-channel Fit); Navigating Revenue/valuation Growth And Government Data Disruption During Enrollment., Aidan Gomez - Transformer Architecture Origins; AI Sovereignty And Ethical/national Resilience; Growing AI Beyond Big Tech And Positioning For Potential Ipo., Jesse Zhang - Closing Customer-service Doom Loops With AI Agents; Winning With Product Superiority And Speed; Sales Strategy And Agent Duets/long-running Operations.

Recent Topics

Artificial Intelligence, Startups, Enterprise Software, Technology Policy, Founders, Innovation, Infrastructure, Healthcare, Energy, Space
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