The Washington Post
also referred to as: washington post
part of The Washington Post Company
5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Feb 18, 2015 by Clark Landry · said 23 times in 15 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Katherine Boyle (5), Vlad Tenev (2), Victoria Treyger (2), John Borthwick (2), Naval Ravikant (1), Julia Hartz (1), Jessica Lessin (1), Harry Stebbings (1)
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2025 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- Robinhood Founder & CEO, Vlad Tenev: Robinhood’s $85BN Resurgence & Tokenizing SpaceX & OpenAI · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Navan Files to Go Public and Canva Pulls the Brakes: Why and What Happens? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Elon’s Empire: SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink After the Storm & Anduril’s $2.6BN Power Move · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2020 6 mentions in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 1 episode
2017 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Betaworks' John Borthwick on Why The VC Model Is So Inefficient, Why Venture Fund Cycles Are Too Short & Why Frontier Tech Could Only Have Been Disappointing Over The Last Year
- 20VC: Eventbrite Founder, Julia Hartz on The Lessons Learned Scaling Eventbrite to Unicorn Valuation & $3Bn in Gross Ticket Sales
- 20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- every mention in 2017, scene by scene →
2016 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2015 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about The Washington Post, oldest first
Feb 18, 2015
Modern ad arbitrage requires Wall Street-style black-box trading systems
“I mean, at this point, you know, if you want to try and do internet arbitrage you know, most of the most successful guys are using, I mean, Borderline Wall Street style, like, black box trading systems. Back then, you could literally go on a commission junctio…”
Feb 26, 2016 neutral
Digg was dismantled and sold to Washington Post, LinkedIn, and Betaworks
“At the end of 2012, what happened was that Dig was really split apart into kind of three different deals. The first was that a lot of the folks, the people, and the tech went to Washington Post, and then the second was that a bunch of the patents went to Linke…”
Mar 6, 2017 positive
Borthwick: The Washington Post succeeded under Jeff Bezos rather than becoming a plaything
“And then you match with that what he's done personally with the Washington Post. I mean, I think that the Post is, you know, was one of the single best sources of journalism in And, you know, most people expected after he acquired it that it would become sort …”
Oct 1, 2020 bearish
Boyle: Top Journalists Will Leave Premier News Institutions for Independent Platforms
“So I do think you can see a shift even at the top, even at the Washington Post and the New York Times, where people will opt out of those premier institutions because they value the freedom to monetize their following. And they also value the freedom to say wh…”