Monitoring the Situation
Short summary
Andreessen Horowitz and angel investors have seeded Monitoring the Situation (MTS), a media startup that streams live interviews and analysis of tech, business, politics, and culture on X. MTS aims to replicate CNN’s rolling-news concept online by hosting experts and main characters of the moment to decode events as they unfold.
- Andreessen Horowitz and angel investors (Dan Romero, Packy McCormick, Soona Amhaz, Julia DeWahl, Zach Perrett, others) have seeded MTS, a live-streaming media startup built natively on X
- MTS is essentially trying to recreate CNN's rolling-news format for the X platform, using hosts like Mark Halperin, Jack Farley, and Steven Sinofsky to interview key figures on breaking tech/business/political stories in real time
- Andreessen frames the pitch as "sense-making"—continuous interpretation of fast-moving events rather than traditional scheduled broadcast news
- The startup is actively recruiting additional hosts, guests, and sponsors through Discord and a public pitch email, signaling it's still in early build-out phase
Full summary
MTS, short for Monitoring the Situation, just launched on X with backing from Andreessen Horowitz and angel investors including Dan Romero, Packy McCormick, Soona Amhaz, Julia DeWahl, Zach Perrett and others. The founding team—Chris Bakke, Theo Jaffee, Gabriel Dickinson and Sophie (@netcapgirl)—will lead a lineup of hosts such as Mark Halperin, Jayden Clark, Jack Farley, Amit Kukreja, Steven Sinofsky, Jesse Genet and Nathan Labenz. Their goal is to interview key figures in tech, business, politics and culture around the clock, covering whatever the “Current Thing” is on X in real time.
The concept echoes CNN’s original “Randemonium” idea: continuous, angle-by-angle coverage of whatever matters right now. But unlike traditional TV, MTS treats X as the real-time world stage—where breaking news, debates and insider takes happen instantly. Marc Andreessen calls this “sense-making”: unpacking what’s happening and why it matters. MTS is inviting more hosts, guests and sponsors to join via Discord and is taking pitches at pitch@mts.now.