The Washington Post, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where The Washington Post comes up
Mars Inc. - The Chocolate Story (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:44 Ben Gilbert Almost a century after founding that she actually got access for a Washington Post article and then that turned into the book.
- ▶ 5:51 David Rosenthal She was a young reporter at the Post and, uh, called the company like every day for a year and finally got access and that became a piece in the Washington Post magazine and then she turned it into the book Emperors of Chocolate.
- ▶ 1:44:17 Ben Gilbert In fact, when Joelle wrote the Washington Post article, do you know the thing about the photographs?
- ▶ 1:44:28 Ben Gilbert It was, but then Mars didn't like the Washington Post article, like, didn't like the way it came out, so not only did they then fire their PR consultant, they went and found the newspaper's freelance photographer and paid off 20,000…
- ▶ 2:52:50 David Rosenthal So shortly after the FLM acquisition is when Forrest Jr. and John Mars, the brothers who are running Mars now as co-CEOs, this is when they give Joelle Brenner access and the Washington Post access to write the piece about the company.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:20 Ben Gilbert The original deal was that Don Graham from the Washington Post was gonna invest, and it wasn't gonna be a VC deal.
Nike (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:53:04 David Rosenthal The Washington Post gets word of this.
- ▶ 1:53:06 David Rosenthal They run a real pearl-clutchy article saying that this is shameful.
- ▶ 1:53:21 David Rosenthal In the article, the Post mistakenly says that Iowa
- ▶ 1:53:38 David Rosenthal Instead of being pissed off that he was included in this shameful article with the Post, he calls up Nike
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 1:18:20 David Rosenthal Other than maybe them, maybe, maybe the post, maybe nobody else has aggregated quality content at scale.
Benchmark Part I · Acquired
- ▶ 1:20:01 David Rosenthal It was also reported by the Washington Post after the IPO of eBay that Benchmark had also structured
- ▶ 1:20:34 Ben Gilbert If this Washington Post article is true, is a total of 1.5 million dollars was paid to Pierre and Jeff to say, hey, make yourselves comfortable.
- ▶ 1:21:02 Ben Gilbert At least something, and there's enough sort of smoke here around the equity back loans that was reported not only by the Washington Post, but then was an SEC filings that in addition to the equity investment that Benchmark made, there was…
- ▶ 1:23:52 David Rosenthal Now, if something did or didn't happen with a secondary in these loans, and if those were incremental to the actual equity investment, which we don't know for sure if they were or weren't, but if they were, if what is reported in the…
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 15:39 Ben Gilbert Cause he delivered the Washington post before later going on to become a major shareholder.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:44 David Rosenthal She was a reporter at the Washington Post in the pre Bezos era, and then came out to Silicon Valley, went to GSB.
- ▶ 16:34 Katherine Boyle I wrote a piece for the Washington Post in 2018 about how actually it seemed like Silicon Valley was actually doing a lot of the work of government.
- ▶ 29:09 Katherine Boyle The actual answer of why I left Washington and why I left the Washington Post was that I was convinced I was going to be fired.
- ▶ 29:22 Katherine Boyle I actually left right as Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post.
- ▶ 29:38 David Rosenthal Man, I was working at the Wall Street Journal a few years before, and like, we were like, thank God we're owned by News Corp, you know, like, otherwise, if Dow Jones were still independent, like the Post was at that point in time, there…
- ▶ 31:32 Ben Gilbert When a Washington Post journalist emails me, like, that's much more interesting than a cold email from someone with a Gmail address in most scenarios.
- ▶ 35:29 Ben Gilbert What were you covering at the post?
- ▶ 35:33 Katherine Boyle I was a style section reporter at the post.
- ▶ 37:29 David Rosenthal Clearly you still have such love and reverence for that world and for the post.
- ▶ 38:34 Katherine Boyle There were people when I was at the Washington Post that wouldn't vote in elections because they didn't believe that they should be voting in elections if they were covering certain stories.
- ▶ 39:11 Katherine Boyle I was pre-Twitter actually becoming what it is when I was at the Washington Post, and there was still a view that social media should be second to our actual reporting.