The Wall Street Journal

also referred to as: wall street journal

8 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Chris Dixon · said 68 times in 44 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

Mentions by year

brought up most by Ben Horowitz (10), Balaji Srinivasan (7), Marc Andreessen (6), Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) (4), Michael Copeland (3), Benedict Evans (3), Alex Rampell (3), Tony James (2)

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2026 12 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
2025 26 mentions in 11 episodes 2 per episode
2024 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 21 mentions in 17 episodes 1 per episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 1 mention in 1 episode

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Everything said about The Wall Street Journal, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019 negative
Opinion
Dixon: Premier News Publishers Pair Great Journalism With Third-Rate Monetization
“You have the journal, the FT, the economists, the New York Times, all of these first rate journalistic institutions with top rate journalistic products bundled with very third rate monetization products.”
Chris Dixon Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 16:05 a16z Podcast | Advertising vs. Micropayments in the Age of Ad Blockers
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Assertion Contradicted
WSJ named Patrick Byrne among five people who foresaw the 2008 crisis
“The Wall Street Journal wrote a story at the end of a wait saying, okay, there were five guys who figured this out and, you know, Nassim Taleb and Patrick Byrne.”
Patrick Byrne Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 24:19 a16z Podcast | Wall Street's Most Hated Man -- A Conversation With Overstock.com's Patrick Byrne
Mar 5, 2024 positive
Assertion Supported
Hicks: Defense tech saw over $100B across 2,000 deals since 2021
“Some 2000 deals investing over a hundred billion dollars since twenty-twenty-one per pitch book in the Wall Street Journal.”
Kathleen Hicks Mar 5, 2024 ▶ 4:45 Collaborative Disruption at DoD
Jul 25, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Andreessen: 1990s union rules required hand-built servers at Wall Street Journal
“For sure through the 19 nineties they actually had a full-time employee who actually hand built all their servers. Because it had been in a prior union contract that all servers to be used by the Washington Post company, or yeah, sorry, the Wall Street Journal…”
Marc Andreessen Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 4:14 Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
Jul 25, 2025
Insight
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…”
Ben Horowitz Jul 25, 2025 ▶ 1:31:26 Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
Aug 1, 2025 negative
Opinion
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…”
Balaji Srinivasan Aug 1, 2025 ▶ 25:08 Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
Oct 7, 2025
Insight
Kaz Nejatian: Running a Public Company Is Difficult If You Care About Media Coverage
“If you care a great deal about what's said about you in the Wall Street Journal, running a public company is incredibly difficult. It's just very difficult. Luckily, I just don't care.”
Kaz (Kaz Nejatian) Oct 7, 2025 ▶ 42:08 Opendoor CEO: Building the Amazon for Homes
May 5, 2026 negative
Insight
Charlie Munger: Newspapers are depleting oil wells; WSJ is a trade journal
“This is not a business, Tony. It's an oil well. It's depleting to zero. And I said, well, What about the Wall Street Journal? Well, that's not a newspaper. That's a trade journal.”
Tony James May 5, 2026 ▶ 24:20 Building Blackstone, Backing Costco, and Working with Munger | Tony James on The a16z Show
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