Tom Ellsworth
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We have a bigger newsroom than we did under Watergate, which is one of the great legacies and great accomplishments and the great history, storied history of the Washington Post.
We've got that.
Don't judge it by the investigative reporting.
We need that.
Follow the data on everything else.
And it's like, are you contributing value?
And then he whips it back around and says, hey, the New York Times, people want to buy that.
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal is kind of interesting.
They're both in New York.
They're down the street from each other.
And both of them have done better digitally than any other newspaper.
papers out there.
Who's done better digitally on subscription than the Times and that?
So what do I think?
I think Bezos is speaking the truth.
Bezos is speaking like an entrepreneur.
And there is stuff for people to learn there.
If you're running a t-shirt company in Berlin or a small software company in Nebraska,
You have something to learn right there.
If it's profitable and it's making it, you bet on it.