Prof G Markets · Sunday, September 6, 2026
Jim Van Der Hey states that Axios learned how to run a business and proved the viability of the digital model for media. He notes that many successful publications in the last decade have adopted a similar model, with many of their staff having previously worked for him.
“We learned how to run a business. We proved that the digital model could work.”
“I think we created a model that others, not long after, would would try to copy in other areas, the information, technology now punch bowl up on Capitol Hill.”
“I think most of the successful publications of the last decade kind of took that model, and a lot of those folks worked for us.”