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Alex Konrad
@alexrkonrad
Senior editor @Forbes covering venture capital and tech. Edit the Midas List, Cloud 100 and 30 Under 30 VC. Plus one to @N_Sportelli. email: akonrad@forbes.com
Oct 18, 2020 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
When Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam raised $400M for their new fund Paradigm in 2018, they did something bold: put it all into Bitcoin.

The trade is already up 3x. But the ex-Sequoia partner and Coinbase cofounder have a bigger goal: bring crypto mainstream.

forbes.com/sites/alexkonr… Since leaving Sequoia and Coinbase to launch Paradigm in 2018, @matthuang and @FEhrsam raised $750M to invest in a mix of crypto coins, tokens and startups.

And they got backers like Harvard, Stanford and Yale behind their unusual strategy.

forbes.com/sites/alexkonr… tip @Techmeme
Sep 11, 2019 • 7 tweets • 8 min read
Three years ago, UiPath was an unknown little Romanian startup. Today, it's a $7 billion global leader in a red-hot new area of tech called RPA.

Beyond excited to share my latest @Forbes cover story on UiPath CEO Daniel Dines, the first bot billionaire.

forbes.com/sites/alexkonr… @Forbes I flew to Bucharest in July to meet with Dines, who moved his HQ to NYC but still goes back to Romania each summer. My goal: figure out how @UiPath had gone from off the radar to #Cloud100 No. 3 company, 3,200 employees and a $7B valuation overnight.

forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
Jul 11, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
My aunt sent a gif of Steve Harvey clapping to the whole fam and my grandma went to the Verizon store to make it stop "It's 5:30 pm and he's STILL clapping"

I would give any amount of money to have seen the face of the Verizon staffer my grandma asked to stop the gif