Jim VandeHei is a media entrepreneur and founder/CEO of Axios. With a career spent at The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, he co-founded Politico in 2006, and left a decade later due to issues with the co-founder. Jim began Axios in 2016, which came to public prominence after Jonathan Swan\u2019s iconic interview with President Trump, and now boasts over 4 million monthly visitors, 2 million newsletter subscriptions. In this in-depth interview, Jim discusses Axios\u2019 unique proposition as \u201cThe Economist mated with Twitter,\u201d and how their \u201csmart brevity\u201d approach makes \u201chigh-end info consumption more efficient, enjoyable and essential\u201d with ambitious plans to expand local coverage to 50 cities; shares the whole story of Politico\u2019s journey from start to finish - including a candid, warts-and-all discussion of the execution of their \u201call-politics, all the time\u201d mission; and gives a Washington insider\u2019s analysis on Biden\u2019s first six months - and Trump\u2019s likely next move.