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Katharine Graham

12 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 29, 2025 by Shane Parrish · said 8 times in 2 episodes since 2019 · across every show →

On the record as a speaker too: Katharine Graham's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.

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brought up most by Jim Collins (6), Tracy Britt Cool (1), Shane Parrish (1)

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2025 2 mentions in 1 episode
2019 6 mentions in 1 episode

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Everything said about Katharine Graham, oldest first

Jul 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Parrish: Zero Fortune 500 CEOs were female in 1963
“In 1963, there were zero female CEOs in the Fortune 500 companies.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 23:03 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Katharine Graham returned a fabricated Pulitzer Prize and published an apology
“In 1981, when a Post reporter's Pulitzer Prize-winning story turned out to be fake, Graham didn't cover up or deflect. The Post returned the Pulitzer, published a front-page apology, and investigated the circumstances surrounding the incident.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 47:30 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025
Disclosure
Katharine Graham says deciding to publish the Pentagon Papers felt unheroic
“And I really was convinced by the editors and the reporters that they were right, and that we really had to go ahead. And so I really gulped, and I really was not what your heroic leader is. I just said, oh, go ahead.”
Katharine Graham Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 33:54 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
The Washington Post's $40M acquisition of Kaplan eventually became worth billions
“The most per seant move came in 1984 when managers proposed buying Kaplan, a test preparation company, for forty million dollars. Within two decades, Kaplan's revenues would surpass those, the newspapers, and become the company's largest profit center. That ca…”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 45:14 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Effective executive hires often cause internal discomfort and bypass corporate politics
“Sometimes the best hire is the one that makes everyone else uncomfortable. Catherine chose talent over internal politics and an outsider's perspective over insider loyalty.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 27:57 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Parrish: The only way to assert the right to publish is to publish
“The only way to assert the right to publish is to publish.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 41:25 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Washington Post revenues grew from $84M to $1.4B under Katharine Graham
“When Catherine Graham took over in 1963, the Washington Post Company had revenues of eighty four million. By 1991, when she stepped down as CEO, revenues reached 1.4 billion, a 20 fold increase that beat the market by orders of magnitude.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 45:35 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Katharine Graham was pleased her father offered The Post to her husband
“She wrote in her memoir, far from troubling me personally, that my father thought of my husband and not me. It pleased me. In fact, it never crossed my mind that he might have viewed me as someone to take on an important role with the paper.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 12:14 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025
Assertion Supported
Eugene Meyer gave Philip Graham 3,500 shares versus Katharine's 1,500
“The arrangement was telling Phil received 3500 shares while Catherine received 1500 shares.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 14:18 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Philip and Katharine Graham lived on a $5,100 combined salary in 1940
“Phil insisted that they live on their combined salaries, his 3600 dollars as a Supreme Court clerk and her 1500 dollars at the post.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 10:31 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Insight
Granting operational freedom requires enforcing maximum transparency and no surprises
“Maximum freedom requires maximum transparency.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 54:14 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Katharine Graham Became the First Female Fortune 500 CEO
“That she would become the first woman CEO of a Fortune 500 company.”
Shane Parrish Jul 29, 2025 ▶ 20:25 Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
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