Jim VandeHei
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Everybody seems to be growing.
Viewership in TV seems to be growing.
Website traffic's going through the roof for everybody.
Is this a moment or is this the post?
And at that point is when they start to make all these investments in overseas and let's have a bureau in South Korea and London and losing it.
Really?
But is that what the post-consumer wants?
Is that what somebody in Korea wants?
Like that's where you started to probably see a divorce between kind of their success and the reality around them.
Yeah, I mean I think there's a couple of things.
I think it didn't know what it was.
Like that's what I'm always looking for in companies is like do you have a sense of who you are?
Do you know what you need to do every day?
The term I always use with our staff jokingly is like we got to know every day who's asked.
We got to kick, right?
We got to know exactly how we win.
And the Post seemed to lose its sense of self, right?
Is it a technology company because we have Bezos backing us?
Are we a Washington company because we're in Washington?
Are we now an international brand because we've started to expand overseas?