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

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 VandHei 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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