Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Margaret Venmachos. I'm a partner here at the firm.

And today we're going to talk about media. I'm joined by three outstanding professionals.

Claire Kane Miller with The New York Times, which incidentally was founded in 1851.

Alexis Madrigal with the Atlantic, which was founded in 1857.

And Connie Gulliammo with CNET, which was founded in 1857, and Connie Gulliamo with CNET, which was found in 1994,

which in these days is almost prehistoric. Welcome all. You're all part of reinventing long-lived

publications and media outlets. What does the change mean to each of you? Alexis, why don't we start with you?

Well, I think what's been really fun and exciting

is that we're the group of editors

who've had to do something that the previous 150 years

worth of editors didn't have to do,

which was understand the disruption of the Internet

and understand the successive waves of disruption

that have come to us.

And I think, you know, in any given six-month period, you could say, well, what does it

mean to you?

And I would have to say, well, it means this.

Facebook right now has eaten the internet, you know?

That's what it means right now.

And so how does the

Atlantic play what is like a the best possible interpretation of the Atlantic

that works within the constraints of the current ecosystem and speaking of

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