The New York Times
also referred to as: new york times · nyt
includes The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, New York Times Bestseller List, The New York Times App
20 statements across 12 episodes · 2 bullish · 11 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Claire Kane Miller · said 224 times in 87 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year, the whole family
brought up most by Balaji Srinivasan (40), Marc Andreessen (28), Ben Horowitz (23), Chris Dixon (19), Sonal Chokshi (10), Steven Sinofsky (8), Benedict Evans (7), Margit Wennmachers (6)
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2026 22 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz on a16z’s New Media Strategy
- The Media Game Has Changed
- Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical World
- Building a Company in Stealth | Travis Kalanick with a16z
- Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage | The a16z Show
- Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
- How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
- How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 62 mentions in 12 episodes 5 per episode
- Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- Steven Sinofsky & Balaji Srinivasan on the Future of M&A, AI & Tech
- The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- Marc Andreessen on the State of Film and Hollywood
- Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future
- Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- Keith Rabois: Israel, OpenAI, Opendoor, and DOGE
- 4 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 25 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
- Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- Fixing Higher Education & New Startup Opportunities
- Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- Trump is About to Change Everything For Tech Startups
- Trump Vs. Biden: Tech Policy
- Zach Perret (Plaid) & Simon Khalaf (Marqeta): New Applications in Fintech
- Startup Building: Major Shifts in Tech & Culture
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2024 →
2023 19 mentions in 7 episodes 3 per episode
- The 4th Estate: How Media is Changing in Washington, D.C.
- Oppenheimer & the Catastrophe of Communism
- The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- Building for Tomorrow with Jason Feifer
- What is the Future of Hollywood?
- Comfort Food, Climate, and the Future of Our Plates
- Growth vs Efficiency: Can You Have Both?
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2020 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 82 mentions in 38 episodes 2 per episode
- a16z Podcast | Reinventing Media
- a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
- a16z Podcast | Incenting Innovation Inside, Loonshots to Moonshots
- a16z Podcast | How to Be Original and Make Big Ideas Happen
- a16z Podcast | Which Bitcoin Players Matter?
- a16z Podcast | For Buzzfeed Sharing is the Metric that Matters
- a16z Podcast | Seeing into the Future -- Making Decisions, Telling Stories
- a16z Podcast | Data Network Effects
- 30 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 7 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about The New York Times, oldest first
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Miller: Reader engagement metrics should not dictate newsroom coverage decisions
“If a bomb killed six people in Baghdad, and not that many people read the news story, are we not supposed to be covering that? Of course not. It's still really important to cover that, so we shouldn't be determining what we cover based on what people are readi…”
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Apr 1, 2019
NYT retracted its 1920 Robert Goddard mockery after Apollo 11 launched
“About 49 years after the Times printed that, the day after the successful Apollo 11 launch to the moon, the Times printed a retraction and said, apparently rocket flight does not violate the laws of physics and quote, the Times regrets the error.”
Nov 16, 2022 neutral
Feb 6, 2023 positive
Weiss: Alternative media hunger driven by falling trust in legacy outlets
“But I think there's a growing audience of people who used to read the New York Times every morning or listen to NPR in their car, and now they're saying, I don't really trust what I'm hearing in those places. Where can I go? And that's frankly where, where com…”
Feb 6, 2023 negative
Weiss: NYT profile of Sam Bankman-Fried omitted political donations and fraud comparisons
“You have this 2000 word profile in the New York Times that doesn't mention the four hundred million dollars that he donated to Democratic candidates, that doesn't mention, you know, Madoff, Enron, like the kind of things that he's being compared to.”
Feb 28, 2024 negative
Dixon: Major AI copyright rulings will take three to five years
“Similar thing with like New York times open AI lawsuit, you know, you're going to have potentially copyright important decisions that have effects on huge economic effects. Decided by judges three to five years from now who are interpreting, you know, hundred …”
Jun 28, 2024
Jul 25, 2025
Horowitz: Democratic Party must reject legacy media to be true rebels
“If I was running the democratic party, I would say, okay, look, we either have to, we gotta go full rebel and like, then we can't be like, we actually have to be against CNN as well as Fox news and all this shit. And the New York Times and the Wall Street Jour…”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Balaji Srinivasan: AI can automatically surface every historical contradiction in NYT archives
“AI can do that. AI can do that. AI can find every internal contradiction to NYT ever, ok? And so you could just have them, NYT versus NYT, like, you know, they're enslaving people, and then they're pretending they're, you know, like, there's just so many thing…”
Aug 1, 2025 positive
Balaji Srinivasan: Musk's Twitter acquisition liberated Meta and YouTube from censorship
“X-Day was also the liberation of Meta and liberation of YouTube, right? All the countries that these racial fanatics at the NYT had occupied, right? All the networks they had occupied. That was like, you know how, like, the Nazi empire was at, like, its peak, …”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Balaji Srinivasan: The New York Times is A.G. Sulzberger's personal blog
“But with the NYT, they're granted The enormous shield of calling it the NYT, calling it the institution, as opposed to Sulzberger's paper. It is just Sulzberger's paper. It's his blog, right? There's nothing that is printed there without his approval, right?”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Balaji Srinivasan: The New York Times lost all influence over the center
“Much of what the NYT and what these guys do, and they're so much weaker than they used to be. Like so, so, so much weaker. Thank God they've lost the center, right? They've lost much of, you know, what happened is they just piled up the subscriptions and they …”
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Balaji Srinivasan: NYT, WSJ, and WaPo functioned as the presidency's board
“Think of Wall Street Journal, NYT, and Washington Post as the three board of director seats on top of the presidency. The president was, it was like the titular CEO, But the Journal, the Times, and the Washington Post, if they all put their multi-sig key in th…”
Sep 27, 2025
Mar 18, 2026 negative