The Washington Post
part of The Washington Post Company
8 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 4 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 7, 2024 by Sam Lessin · across every show →
Everything said about The Washington Post, oldest first
Jun 7, 2024 positive
Sam Lessin: WaPo Would Make More Catering Exclusively to Elite Insiders
“What they should have been doing is saying like, Why do I care? Like, I'll be the Washington Post. I'm going to be super elitist. I only cater to Washington insiders. Guess what? Great fucking business because everyone's trying to influence those thousand peop…”
Jun 7, 2024 negative
Jun 7, 2024 negative
Jessica Lessin: WaPo's General News Strategy Competing With NYT Isn't Working
“And this is, again, to the point you're making, Sam, that even, this is the Washington Post, but it went a kind of middle strategy, right, of trying to be more general news, trying to compete with the New York Times. It just really, really isn't working”
Nov 1, 2024 neutral
Nov 1, 2024 bearish
Nov 1, 2024 negative
Nov 8, 2024
Rauch: Vercel Hosted Polymarket and Washington Post During 2024 Election
“In fact, in terms of the election, we hosted the election microsites for Washington post. We hosted polymarket.com, which was extremely hot this election, like quite literally hot in terms of like, How many servers, how much infrastructure it took to help them…”
Feb 28, 2025 neutral
Lessin: Bezos directs Washington Post opinion to focus on free markets
“Bezos announced today that the Washington Post opinion section is going to wholly, wholly focus on topics that support personal liberties and free markets. So as a result of this, the opinion editor who is award winning, probably Pulitzer Prize winning, but I …”