Rob Reid
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1,484 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Rob Reid’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Remember last time he bought a paper at an auction in St.
Louis, he was able to flip that paper for a $20,000 profit in 48 hours.
And so this is why he hired what he called a Trojan horse.
Pulitzer knew that if he were to openly join the bidding, others would assume that he had seen in that paper something of value that had escaped everybody else's attention.
And then the price would soar.
So Pulitzer is able to get a newspaper for only $2,500.
The problem is not the $2,500.
It's the fact that this newspaper is losing so much money.
And so Pulitzer does the math.
He figures out how much money he has left, how much the paper is losing every week, and he says if he can't turn it around, he's going to run out of cash in 17 weeks.
And so immediately he does something really smart.
There's three evening papers in St.
Louis.
And immediately he convinces one of the other papers to merge with him.
So it says his business acumen drove him.
Although he was at times an innovator of journalism, that was not his strength.
Rather, he possessed remarkable foresight and an uncanny ability to recognize value where others didn't.
He was willing to take risks based on his insights when others remained timid.
So the other paper is called The Post and is run by this guy named Dillon.
Dillon agreed to merge his paper with Pulitzer's.
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