Axios

“And then AWS was also reported and Axios is having spent something like half a billion dollars in a single month.”

“Anthropic is now capturing over 73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time. 73%. Just 10 weeks ago, the split with OpenAI was fifty-fifty, and it was sixty-forty in OpenAI's favor as recently as December.”

“The Charlotte agenda was acquired by Axios for like five million dollars.”

“Axios this morning cited three hundred and seventy billion dollars to boost green energy and technology sectors. Two hundred and fifty billion dollars of that is going to red states.”

“Axios is really strong on the FinTech side, on the healthcare side. They have some really great like beat reporters. The one thing I will say about them is they are very deals focused. So a hundred percent would need to either have funding. If you're announcin…”

“The data was Unambiguous. That most people were skimming and scanning, and they weren't reading most of the words that any of us in the media were writing.”

“I think that most media companies are going to go under”

“Basically, one of the genetic flaws in journalists is that they're not great writers, and they often bury what matters, and they often hide it in a vomit of words.”

“And we had seen from the data that if you take multiple ideas and break it into bullets, you're much likelier to get people to keep reading and to retain.”

“One, we raised money, so we launched with ten million dollars in cash, and then Because we had done Politico when we left, I probably had four or five companies call me and say, I don't care what you're starting. Like, we've allocated X amount to advertise wit…”

“I think by year two, or by year two, we're profitable. Not by design, by the way. Like, we were trying to be in investment mode. The business was doing better than we thought. Hiring is tough in media, but we were breaking even, like we were doing, we were, we…”

“I think we were probably 35 to forty million all in.”

“I mean, I could leave whenever, I guess, but our commitment to them is, you know, a minimum of six years and probably a lot longer.”

“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…”

“On the other hand, you know, that is not a substitute for the kind of work that is being done every day at places like Axios. Like, you do need the fact check. You do need, you know, two sources, three sources, you know,”

“We don't have an opinion page. We ask our reporters to stay off of Twitter and social media platforms expressing their personal opinions.”

“Axios reported over 2000 dead in Spain and Portugal alone.”

“I shouted out newsroom wide and said, hey, we need to avoid any imagery that says, or conveys that this heat event, ah, is joyful.”

“Axios writes the story ahead of time. He says, hey, there's somebody planning a hostile takeover XRP, and here's how it's going to work. And XRP, the Ripple team obviously sees this and they're like, okay, just in case they, so they sold some amount of their R…”