Axios Co-Founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen on the 2026 midterms, AI, and simplifying your life
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Most people only remember one thing you tell them. Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen built Axios around making that one thing impossible to miss.
Axios co-founders Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen share their take on the 2026 midterm elections, the future of news and AI in the workplace. They also discuss how they built one of the most influential media companies of the last decade and lessons from their new book, Simplify: Do 50% More with 50% Less.
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Time stamps (full transcript available here)
- 00:00 — Welcome to Inside Blackstone
- 01:28 — The Monday Morning Meeting
- 05:24 — Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen Come Inside Blackstone
- 06:14 — The 2026 Midterm Elections and What Comes Next
- 09:21 — The Founding of Axios
- 10:53 — What is Smart Brevity?
- 12:27 — How Axios Uses AI in the Workplace
- 14:23 — Smart Brevity take on Politics, AI, and Jobs
- 17:42 — The Future of News
- 19:23 — A Surprise Visit from Jon Gray
- 23:47 — Two Words That Will Change Your Life
- 26:47 — What Should Students Study Today?
- 27:34 — Advice for Co-founders
- 29:01— The Debrief
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Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. Blackstone seeks to deliver compelling returns for institutional and individual investors by strengthening the companies in which the firm invests. Blackstone’s US$1.3 trillion in assets...
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