The Washington Post
also referred to as: washington post
part of The Washington Post Company
3 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2017 by Frank Chen · said 37 times in 15 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Balaji Srinivasan (7), Ben Horowitz (6), Marc Andreessen (4), Frank Chen (2), Reed Hastings (1), Margit Wennmachers (1), Kathleen Hicks (1), Ezra Klein (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 19 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- Tech vs. Media: Balaji Srinivasan on the Battle Shaping Our Future
- The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
- Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- Substack Cofounder on AI Slop Content & the Decline of Social Media
- Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 9 mentions in 2 episodes 5 per episode
2019 4 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about The Washington Post, oldest first
Jul 16, 2017 positive
Chen: Washington Post and Toutiao used AI to write Olympic sports coverage
“During the last Olympics, two professional journalism outfits, one, the Washington Post, and then another, the Chinese news aggregator called Toutiao, both ran experiments where they had AIs write coverage about sporting events in the Olympics.”
Aug 1, 2025
Balaji Srinivasan: The Unabomber murdered people to force media distribution
“He killed those people so he could get an op-ed in the Washington Post, right? Now, why? Because distribution was so scarce back then that, you know, he wanted to get his manifesto out, so he literally killed people for the distribution, right?”
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…”