The digital media company’s founders, Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz, will continue to run the company. : The digital media company’s founders, Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz, will continue to run the company. Axios, the digital media company that quickly gained traction since its founding five years ago with its distinctive bulletin-style scoops on the realms of politics, business and technology, said on Monday that it had agreed to sell itself to Cox Enterprises.