Jim VandeHei

And I felt like, you know, having been starting to do TV and starting to look at what was taking off on the Internet, I

I didn't think the Post was as good as the Post thought it was.

I thought there were several reporters who were awesome, but I really believed that you were starting to see that if you could put a collection of really good reporters together in one place, you no longer needed a massive army.

And if you could hook those reporters up to the internet and get them on cable TV or get them on network TV, that you could almost instantly have an impact.

And that was it.

That was the observation.

At that time, I had just been named to a beat where I could write about anything.

The White House, Congress, lobbying is kind of the dream beat.

I loved the Washington Post.

I didn't do nothing I didn't like about it.

It was more we had this idea.

The idea was really intoxicating.

It took on a life of its own, and we quit to start Politico.

And that all happened in about a six-month period.

It was.

I don't know if it was bad, but at that point in time, people weren't obsessing about politics all day.

You didn't really have a mechanism to obsess about politics all day.

So then that was the void that we filled.

And suddenly we're writing – our mentor was win the morning.

We were trying to produce more content before –