And, This Is How To Build A Better Media Business With Axios’s Jim VandeHei

Axios co-founder and CEO Jim VandeHei joins the show to talk through how AI is changing the media industry, why he rejects the simple solutions floated by today’s politicians and how he’d handle saving legacy media institutions.

He then shares his philosophy on how to manage one’s time and business effectively as articulated in his new book book Simplify: Do 50 Percent More with 50 Percent Less co-written with his Axios co-founders, Mike Allen & Roy Schwartz

00:00 An Era As Significant As The Great Depression

2:46 Trust Loss In Institutions

6:09 The Challenge Of Breaking News In An AI World

11:42 How To Fix Business Leaders Selling Out

16:57 How Algorithms Shape Our Thinking

19:22 The Competing Incentives Between LLMs & Algorithms

22:00 Can We Shut Down AI Even If We Wanted To

25:06 How Axios Rejects The AI Binary

35:05 The Future Of Work

39:32 Working With OpenAi & Local News