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Axios CEO on Media’s Existential Crisis, Entrepreneurship, and Luck

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Episode • Jul 7, 2024 • 29m

What happens to a publisher when an AI personal assistant can just give you the news?

Jim VandeHei is the CEO of Axios, the co-founder of Politico and the author of Just the Good Stuff. Mary Long caught up with VandeHei for a conversation about:

  • The “aha” moment that created Politico.
  • How AI changes our relationship with information.
  • Practicing good times paranoia and bad times optimism.
  • The case for teaching kids how to play poker.


Companies mentioned: ABNB, JPM


Host: Mary Long

Guest: Jim VandeHei

Producer: Ricky Mulvey 

Engineers: Desiree Jones, Austin Morgan

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