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Barefoot Wine: Bonnie Harvey and Michael Houlihan
Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei
- ▶ 0:46 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Jim VandeHei walked away from a dream job to help reimagine journalism with Politico, and then 10 years later, did it again with Axios.
- ▶ 3:34 Guy Raz So a year later, in 2007, Jim and another Washington Post journalist, John Harris, and a wealthy media mogul, Robert Albritton, launched Politico. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:10 Guy Raz This is an interesting niche that some people may not know about, which is that in Washington, D.C., certainly at the time, even now, there are these publications, and later on, you would kind of replicate this model with Political Pro,…
- ▶ 16:58 Jim VandeHei A publication called Inside the New Congress, which was created to cover the Republican Congress, and it was me, Charlie Mitchell, and then John Bresnahan, who just, uh, who I worked with, uh, later at Roll Call, later at Politico, and now…
- ▶ 25:15 Jim VandeHei We jokingly called it Project X and started to really sketch out what would later become Politico. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:34 Guy Raz You, you and John basically were handed the reins to run the editorial side of Politico to kind of create it, and I think your wife gave it the name, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:48 Guy Raz I'm curious, when you would tell reporters, like, when new reporters came in, and you would say, this is what a Politico story is. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:30 Guy Raz Like, Politico became, you know, a sort of a sensation in Washington DC quickly. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:48 Guy Raz I mean, you talk about the culture and, and, um, you, you mentioned this, this kind of the sweatshop stories that were coming out about Politico. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:20 Jim VandeHei And we had decided we wanted to start a subscription business called Politico Pro. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:50 Guy Raz I think, I think he's very successful and has done some amazing things and made his mark, um, certainly with Politico and, um, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:08 Guy Raz And this time, he's going to leave the business he helped build, Politico, to start a new online publication. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:04:23 Jim VandeHei So Mike is one of the co-founders of Politico, and he's a co-founder of Axios.
- ▶ 1:10:40 Jim VandeHei 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.
- ▶ 1:15:55 Jim VandeHei I don't know if I worked as hard as I did that first year at, at Politico, but I work a lot.
- ▶ 1:18:19 Jim VandeHei How do we have a spark of an idea to start Politico, and it just happens to be at that very moment, the internet's taking off, and cable has an insatiable appetite, and we happen to run into the right mix of reporters that can bring it… 3 times in the scene