Alex cut his teeth reporting at Fortune in 2010, writing about local New York startups such as ZocDoc and General Assembly. After joining Forbes in 2012, he kept covering the scene, writing some of the first in-depth stories about Blue Apron, Peloton and WeWork.

For ten years, Alex managed the Midas List franchise of top venture capitalists, expanding the franchise to Europe and writing profiles about the likes of Chris Sacca, the All Raise community, a16z, Benchmark and Sequoia. As co-creator and editor of the Cloud 100 list, he camped in the Utah foothills with Silicon Slopes software billionaires, sang karaoke with Salesforce's Marc Benioff in Tokyo and traveled to Sydney to tell the world about Melanie Perkins and Canva.

Alex's 15-plus Forbes cover stories also include profiles of Asana's Dustin Moskovitz, Snowflake's Frank Slootman, Flexport's Ryan Petersen, Stripe's Collison brothers and Wiz's Assaf Rappaport. He's also profiled Figma, Plaid and Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, among many others.

For his reporting on the Silicon Valley Bank crisis and the generative AI boom, including the brief hiring and refiring of Sam Altman at OpenAI, Alex received SABEW's Honorable Mention award for 'Body Of Work' for 2023. He served as lead reporter for Forbes on the Emmy-award winning documentary 'WeWork: Or The Making And Breaking Of A $47 Billion Unicorn.'

Tracey Taylor is co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Cityside Journalism Initiative, the nonprofit news organization that operates three digital news outlets in the Bay Area: Berkeleyside, Oaklandside and Richmondside.

Tracey co-founded Berkeleyside in 2009 along with Frances Dinkelspiel and Lance Knobel. Before that, Tracey wrote for the The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and various other publications. Before moving to the Bay Area from London in 2005, she worked as an editor and publisher for business magazines and at the Financial Times.

Camila DeChalus is a reporter covering Capitol Hill and national politics for CNN, based in the Washington, DC bureau. Her reporting focuses on the decisions coming out of Congress and the White House that shape the everyday lives of Americans.

DeChalus joined CNN in 2023 after covering Capitol Hill, and some of the most pressing issues facing the country, for The Washington Post. Prior to that, she worked at Business Insider, where she reported on Congress, political campaigns and legal affairs.

At Insider, DeChalus was part of a team of journalists that produced "Conflicted Congress," an investigative project that exposed how many members of Congress face possible conflicts of interest around their investments and stock trades. The series ultimately led to lawmakers introducing several pieces of legislation to ban individual stock trading and won a 2022 Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Before joining Insider, DeChalus was a homeland security and immigration reporter at CQ Roll Call. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and a board member of the National Association of Black Journalists political task force.

DeChalus graduated from American University with a degree in broadcast journalism. She currently lives in Washington, DC with her husband, son and dog.

Morgan Chesky is a National Correspondent for NBC News whose reports can be seen on NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas, The Today Show, and all NBC platforms. While based at the network's West Coast Bureau in Los Angeles, assignments have taken the 5th generation Texan all over the country and world.

Most recently, Chesky led NBC's coverage of the devastating Texas Hill Country floods from his hometown of Kerrville. Following the loss of twenty-seven young girls at Camp Mystic, and more than 100 others across Texas, Chesky's interviews and reporting shed light on one of the state's worst natural disasters in its history and raised questions about the emergency response.

In 2022, months after the war broke out in Ukraine, Chesky reported on the deepening war with Russia. His team's interviews from the city of Zaporizhzhia provided critical accounts of how the Russian military took over Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

Prior to joining NBC News, Chesky anchored and reported in Seattle, Oklahoma City, Austin, and Tyler Texas where he built his career on stories ranging from Cuba reopening to American visitors, a solar eclipse at 30,000 feet, to a vicious custody dispute over a pair of pet hogs.

Chesky is a proud graduate of Sam Houston State University where he graduated in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications with an emphasis in Broadcast Journalism.