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▶ 23:26 Jonah Peretti Um, and so, it was really, to your point about RSS not being able to have the functionality, we saw this need to make, to make content social, you know, way before BuzzFeed, and made it through using RSS, which is this open platform, and… 2 times in the scene
▶ 26:42 Jonah Peretti The other, the other thing that I think happens is, is trends converge that you didn't expect, you know, so I think just as an analogy, when Buzzfeed started, the iPhone didn't exist yet.
▶ 32:50 Jonah Peretti People don't know how to figure out what, what information they should pay attention to, um, and I, I, I definitely think there's, um, um, and, and then I feel like when you look at the, the press coverage of all this, there's just so many…
▶ 37:47 Jonah Peretti And it's just going to be, you know, one trend we've seen at Buzzfeed.

▶ 0:06 Sonal Chokshi We have Natasha Tiku, who is a senior writer covering technology and Silicon Valley for BuzzFeed News.
▶ 3:58 Natasha Tiku I mean, I personally would love her BuzzFeed San Francisco to purchase a nap pod, and I would take full advantage of it.
▶ 28:02 Sonal Chokshi The Sleep Revolution, as well as Natasha's article in BuzzFeed, where she goes into more detail with more of her perspectives.

▶ 38:30 Sonal Chokshi And the case of, um, I believe Apple, Google, and Facebook, Charlie Warzel at BuzzFeed wrote a really detailed article investigating this and about how they sort of help suppress, as part of the Unicode consortium, the rifle emoji.

▶ 0:03 Sonal Chokshi I'm Sonal, and today we have Angela Strange, a partner on the deal and investing team, monitoring a podcast on fintech trends, including our general partner, who's an expert on all things fintech, Alex Rampell, and special guest, Charlie…

▶ 29:27 Benedict Evans There's a great chart from BuzzFeed, information from BuzzFeed on where people watch content on BuzzFeed. 2 times in the scene

▶ 13:11 Benedict Evans And the thing that comes in parallel is you have Facebook or BuzzFeed or Medium creating, solving it from the side. 5 times in the scene
▶ 18:05 Benedict Evans For massive global scale with no monetization we're speaking of, and in the other corner you would have the Daily Mail, which is, got the same traffic, a 10th of the cost base, um, and a 10th of the content quality, and the rail of shame,…
▶ 20:05 Benedict Evans Well, so it struck me when you talk about finding new models, it's like, in a sense, it's not that it's easy for BuzzFeed, but, you know, BuzzFeed can do that if, and if you're a top 10 site, you can think about doing that. 6 times in the scene
▶ 21:47 Benedict Evans Yeah, you can't understand BuzzFeed if you go to BuzzFeed.com, because no one knows.

▶ 37:55 Balaji Srinivasan Some will be able to do it, but like, it'll be like newspapers which have the whole printing presses and stuff, and then you've got a BuzzFeed that's coming in with a totally different cost structure.

▶ 21:02 Michael Copeland You know, Jonah and Chris were talking about how, you know, they target Pinterest with this, and Facebook with that, and, and people don't go through the front door of BuzzFeed.

▶ 0:03 Chris Dixon Today I'm here with Jonah Peretti, the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed. 4 times in the scene
▶ 6:18 Jonah Peretti And that's why we've been able to grow so quickly, um, generate profits and in, while simultaneously investing in foreign correspondence and investigative news team and other things that people thought weren't possible for internet…
▶ 8:15 Chris Dixon You even go so far as to organize BuzzFeed, right, according to, um, which, which social network the content is, is created for. 6 times in the scene
▶ 14:40 Jonah Peretti Yeah, so we, we sometimes get, get criticized for things, and, and the argument goes along the lines of, how can I take you seriously if you have a slidey thing on your site, or if you have a list or quiz?
▶ 15:35 Jonah Peretti At BuzzFeed, I wanted to avoid that, where I wanted one unified platform for distributing media, and that unified platform could be used for news, it could be used for entertainment, it could be used for branded content. 5 times in the scene
▶ 21:58 Jonah Peretti And Zay Frank, our, our, our president of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures, you know, he, he joined through an acquisition of a small startup company, and he went from four people to a hundred people and build it, built out a really tremendous…

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