The Washington Post Company
includes The Washington Post
5 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 23, 2024 by Tom Gaynor · said 114 times in 13 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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brought up most by Shane Parrish (95), Jim Collins (6), Tom Gaynor (3), Michael Ovitz (2), Christopher Davis (2), Bethany McLean (2), Josh Wolfe (1), Esther Wojcicki (1)
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2026 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2025 93 mentions in 2 episodes 47 per episode
2024 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2020 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2019 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
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Jan 23, 2024
Gaynor: Washington Post Vetted Him Using Real-Time Dot-Com Memos
“And so Don then asked me as part of their consideration of Me potentially being a candidate to join that board. Would I share with them some of the memos that I had written to our board Real time during 98, 99, 2002 1001, 2000, so five years where they could s…”
Jul 29, 2025 positive
Jul 29, 2025 positive
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…”
Jul 29, 2025 positive
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.”