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Eric Hippeau predicts drone racing will become as popular as video games
“We believe that drones are going to have the same popularity that video games and that, that people are going to want to raise them, people are going to develop themselves as professional or semi-professional pilots that it's a very visual because these drones…”
Hippeau: Digital scale gives long-form journalism a larger audience than print
“Today because of the sheer size of the audience being, you know, multiply, Bigger than it was in the past. You will, if you want to do long-form journalism, as such as we do on BuzzFeed, and we did some at the African Post as well, you, by default, you're goin…”
Eric Hippeau: Long-form journalism will never be the most popular media format
“It's never going to be the most popular form of journalism, because it was never the most popular form of journalism.”