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What I learned co-founding Vox

Talent is scarce, training is hard, and the competition is smarter than you want them to be

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Matthew Yglesias
Dec 07, 2022
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New episode of Bad Takes is out about fossil fuel advertising in the media.

I mentioned recently to former Book Club guest Brad DeLong that I needed some fresh ideas, and he suggested writing about what I learned from my time co-founding and working at Vox.com.

To revisit that period of my life is to revisit a time when I learned an enormous amount abou…

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