Axios

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”

“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 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.”