Melia Russell
@meliarobin
muh-LEE-ah is a @businessinsider reporter covering tech culture and the collision course between law and technology
Personal news: I'm launching a new beat at @BusinessInsider, exploring how AI is transforming legal and professional services! After covering Silicon Valley for a decade, I'm excited to drill into an industry on the edge of disruption. It feels like reporting on OpenAI in 2022.
Lawyers are expensive, but *looking* like you have a lawyer is free. Today, I'm happy to announce my latest project, Heavyweight! Heavyweight lets you take any complaint you have, and make it look like a scary legal document without ever actually claiming to be from a lawyer.
Genuinely perplexed that the new Comet browser doesn’t put tabs in a vertical sidebar like Arc. imo that's been the most transformative browser UX shift in decades. Why walk it back?
The Windsurf deal touches a nerve as it rewrites the traditional cap table “rules” for many employees. Early hires must now wake up to a new normal: (I) how do you know if you will be part of the group deemed “essential” to the acquirer? Who gets invited onto “Noah’s Ark”, and…
And I never went back. Congrats @rahulvohra and early @Superhuman investors including @btrenchard @davidu @ajayvashee on the @Grammarly acquisition 🎉 Please don't ruin it!
No boring press release. No Twitter thread filled with self-congratulations. @adamguild from @owner, @jaentwistle & @KyleTibbitts from @wander, and many other clever founders are rewriting the script for startup fundraise announcements with the power of video. Check out…
The startup comms playbooks are changing in real-time! Press coverage can still be powerful, but there are far more startups and funding rounds than the media ecosystem can/should support. So fun to chat with @meliarobin about this latest trend!
News: Hebbia has made its first acquisition, of FlashDocs, a slide generator and fellow NYC-based startup. The move solves a last-mile problem for @HebbiaAI users, CEO @gsivulka tells @UpstartsMediaCo exclusively, in a fiercely competitive AI app race. upstartsmedia.com/p/exclusive-he…
There’s always insight in the banana stand
New milestone - first time I'm seeing @ThePeelPod quoted in a major publication. (really good convo with @Rick_Zullo if you haven't listened yet)