The Washington Post, every mention

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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where The Washington Post comes up

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▶ 32:33 Shane Parrish By 1968, Bill Jr. could joke in the Washington Post that his father owed 2000 dollars when he first came to Washington in 1927, and now he owes twenty million, and that, he says, is progress.

▶ 24:03 Michael Ovitz Those were the days of long form, not short form, like today, where no one has any attention span, so all the things that are written are, except in the New York or in the Atlantic, are, or an in-depth piece in, you know, the Post or the…
▶ 1:05:53 Michael Ovitz The New York Times, the LA Times, and the Washington Post, and I go right through those like a hot knife through butter digitally.

▶ 1:28:15 Shane Parrish and he was teaching her sort of like the financial aspect of running the Washington Post.

▶ 4:22 Shane Parrish The Washington Post was dying. 10 times in the scene
▶ 10:31 Shane Parrish Phil insisted that they live on their combined salaries, his 3600 dollars as a Supreme Court clerk and her 1500 dollars at the post. 5 times in the scene
▶ 13:07 Shane Parrish But Phil was electric at the Post. 4 times in the scene
▶ 15:46 Shane Parrish He was running the post at full speed. 8 times in the scene
▶ 22:42 Shane Parrish Picture this, the president of the Washington Post sitting in her first editorial meeting, finally working up the courage to speak. 14 times in the scene
▶ 31:52 Shane Parrish Now the Washington Post had the same documents, and they faced a choice that would define history. 5 times in the scene
▶ 35:38 Shane Parrish And for nine months, nine long months, the Washington Post stood alone against the most powerful office in the world. 12 times in the scene
▶ 41:11 Shane Parrish The coverage could destroy the Post. 6 times in the scene
▶ 43:07 Shane Parrish The pressmen at the post didn't just go on strike. 6 times in the scene
▶ 50:53 Shane Parrish And I'm really hopeful and optimistic that we can find our way back to the Washington Post of the 19 seventies and holding government to account no matter who was in charge. 11 times in the scene

▶ 49:38 Aaron Wade I wrote about it, and it got picked up by the Washington Post, and it became this, like, viral article.

▶ 2:24:23 Christopher Davis I mean, it's just, I've loved watching how, you know, the Washington Post evolved. 2 times in the scene

▶ 1:08:30 Balaji Srinivasan Well, in 1995, uh, he got, he wanted the Washington Post and MIT to publish his op-ed.

▶ 22:59 Bethany McLean There was a book, and I'm struggling to remember the name of it, I did a review for the Washington Post on it, um, by a professor, I think he's, it's one California school, and he studied the history of companies that do try to have a…
▶ 37:09 Bethany McLean Um, there's the billionaire backer model that the Washington Post has with, with Jeff Bezos.

▶ 29:27 Esther Wojcicki And I have two women, one from the Washington Post, one from the Wall Street Journal, who are what we call writing coaches.

▶ 17:13 Jim Collins So let me talk about one, one person who I think, uh, did go through something quite dramatic in her life and one of the great level five leaders, and that's Catherine Graham of the Washington Post, who I think is one of the great chief… 6 times in the scene

▶ 20:35 Josh Wolfe So I read in the morning the Financial Times, I read the New York Times, I read the Wall Street Journal, I read the Washington Post, I read USA Today.

▶ 0:44 Shane Parrish His work has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.

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