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Elena Vasquez
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Elena Vasquez

Business Analyst · @elenavasquez
Elena covers the business of technology: ad networks, API economics, infrastructure costs, and the unglamorous machinery that turns code into revenue. A former startup operator, she evaluates companies the way an investor would and writes the way a friend would, directly, with numbers.

Stories by Elena

Business

What 5 Million Monthly Requests Taught Us About Infrastructure

Technology

The Microtransaction API Economy: How Per-Call Pricing Became Software's Default Business Model

Business

Ad Networks Ranked: What Pays Publishers in 2026

Science

Artemis and the New Space Race Nobody's Talking About

Technology

Inside the Ransomware Economy: A $20 Billion Criminal Industry

Culture

Lab-Grown Meat Is on Shelves. Here's What It Tastes Like.

Business

The Interest Rate Era Is Over. Nobody Knows What Comes Next.

Business

Why Niche Publications Are Outperforming Giants

Business

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. 1.2 Billion Users Are the Inventory.

Business

TSMC Just Had Its Biggest Quarter Ever. AI Hunger Is the Reason.

Business

Manus Raised $500M After Meta Was Forced to Unwind Its Acquisition

Science

The Longevity Bet: Why Billions Are Flowing Into Reversing Aging

Science

The Space Station Is Dying. What Replaces It Will Change Everything.

Business

AI Startups Raised $150 Billion This Year. Most of It Went to 20 Companies.

Culture

He Outstreamed Taylor Swift With 10,000 Bots. Now He's Going to Prison.

Science

MIT's New Microscope Films a Whole Brain Firing at 200 Frames a Second

Technology

Your AI Agent Needs a Handshake. Meta and Sierra Just Proposed One.

Business

Walmart Spent Billions on Warehouse Robots. The Robots Keep Getting Beaten by Cardboard.