Katie Woo

I had someone from Arizona State reach out and say, hey, I think you should apply.

I did.

And three lucky interviews later, I was hired to what can only be described as my dream job.

Yeah, it's been a ride.

And to be very clear, even at 29 years old, you still don't have anything figured out.

And anyone that says they do, regardless of age, is a liar.

We're just here.

We just go with the flow, right?

It was the first it was the full COVID season.

So no clubhouse access.

The limited travel.

Well, sports media is changing constantly, and we know that.

And I think with The Athletic, there is change that we can see right away.

I mean, we were sold to The New York Times, which completely changed our operations.

And we changed how we cover teams because The Athletic has when we traditionally launched, we didn't write every day.

We weren't necessarily game story publications.

It was, you know, if you have a long term or a long form story that's going to take you a week to write, but nobody else will have.

That's fine.

Don't write for a week.

And that, I think, worked when we were very early on as a startup company.