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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where BuzzFeed comes up on How I Built This, the a16z Podcast, 20VC, My First Million, Big Technology
How AI Should Handle News, Politics, Medicine, and Mental Health — With Campbell Brown
- ▶ 7:39 Alex Kantrowitz Um, when I was covering you, when I was a reporter at Buzzfeed and you were working at Meta,
- ▶ 14:32 Alex Kantrowitz There was, so, it's funny, I was at Buzzfeed, which was a publication that sort of based its existence on the idea that people would want to get their information through social media feeds, and you were at, you were at Facebook, that was…
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 1:15 Alex Kantrowitz Um, and a week after I was here, May 26, 20 20, I decided it was time for me to leave my reporter job at BuzzFeed and start a publication called Big Technology to hammer home on the ideas that I had pursued in the book.
Altman’s Testimony, AI SPV Drama, Ebay Rejects $GME Bid | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 26:36 unnamed speaker Byron Allen is buying BuzzFeed, uh, investing a hundred and twenty million dollars in the digital media company and will become the CEO. 8 times in the scene
Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era
- ▶ 20:46 John Coogan Yeah, we were just talking about BuzzFeed, and it felt like for a long time it fell into that category of, you know, decent-sized audience, but ultimately built on a shaky ground of another platform without that really strong core audience…
- ▶ 29:46 Jordi Hays Uh, help me, uh, I don't know how much you'll be able to say here, but help me understand why BuzzFeed is worth something like a hundred and twenty million. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
- ▶ 0:59 Guy Raz Joining me this week is BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti. 12 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:57 Guy Raz You're on with Jonah Peretti, founder of BuzzFeed.
- ▶ 20:13 Guy Raz He's the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, and we are taking your calls, and let's bring in our next caller.
- ▶ 29:03 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and today I'm taking calls with BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:01 Guy Raz Um, Jonah, before I let you go, a question that I ask everybody who comes onto the advice line, which is if you were, you know, with 20 years now of experience running this business, if you could go back to where you were in 2006 when you… 3 times in the scene
What comes after smartphones, with Evan Spiegel of Snap
- ▶ 31:04 Evan Spiegel That then accelerated, I think, this need to bring in public content, right, no longer friend content, and very, very quickly the, the social network morphed into something that was much more about, you know, posts from Buzzfeed or…
Jensen On The Ropes, Sam Altman’s Conflicts, Allbirds’ GPU Pivot
- ▶ 54:21 Ranjan Roy Go get BuzzFeed. 4 times in the scene
OpenAI’s Superapp Is Coming, Jensen on Jobs, Bezos’s $100 Billion Automation Fund
- ▶ 44:36 Alex Kantrowitz You know, I had an Oculus when I was, uh, it was a test device when I was at, uh, Buzzfeed back in the day.
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
Post Earnings with Figma CEO Dylan Field
- ▶ 16:32 unnamed speaker Another thing that, that I was thinking about when you were talking about kind of the explosion of UI, uh, John had a, had a post yesterday that he was sort of jokingly making like a buzzfeed
Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
- ▶ 22:49 Ben Thompson The bad insight was my prescription, which was they needed to do more with professional content makers, like more funding of like the BuzzFeeds of the world and share revenue, all that.
AI's Research Frontier: Memory, World Models, & Planning — With Joelle Pineau
- ▶ 9:12 Alex Kantrowitz I actually broke the news of Tay that Microsoft was going, had this great bot, spoke with the people, wrote the first story about it when I was at BuzzFeed.
Investing Expert: Your Step-By-Step Plan to Build Generational Wealth | Vivian Tu
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
- ▶ 54:23 Alex Kantrowitz Um, when, when I got hired at Buzzfeed to be a reporter in San Francisco, I was a reporter at age at the time, but I'm pretty sure it was the stuff I was writing on medium that caught the attention of the editors there and got me that…
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
Where Are The AI Startups? — With Rick Heitzmann
- ▶ 4:06 Alex Kantrowitz Um, just to give an example, there was, I, about 10 years ago, when I was at Buzzfeed writing about consumer tech, there was this nutrition app that I would use, and you would upload your meals and, um, your thoughts and stuff like that,…
Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating
- ▶ 40:41 Alex Kantrowitz By the way, that happened, I think, in the twenty-twenties, but I definitely missed the twenty-tenths when I was, uh, you know, doing social media reporting at BuzzFeed, and there would be a new app every, every week, and it was like, all…
If I Wanted To Become A Millionaire Creator in 2025, This Is What I’d Do
- ▶ 24:56 Jon Youshaei Like a BuzzFeed. 2 times in the scene
Raising a Trust Fund With Marc Andreessen & Paris Hilton | Sophia Amoruso · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 42:28 Sophia Amoruso You know, Jonah Preddy from BuzzFeed, and Jen Rubio from Away, and Sam Parr, and, um, a lot of, like, Damon John, just awesome people join me as guests.
No Priors Ep. 126 | With Cloudfare CEO Matthew Prince
- ▶ 14:15 Matthew Prince I mean, BuzzFeed.
No Priors Ep. 125 | With Senior White House Policy Advisor on AI Sriram Krishnan
- ▶ 11:22 Sriram Krishnan And next thing you know, it's like one of the news stories off the land and Buzzfeed will write a piece saying,
Marc & Ben on the Collapse of Traditional Media - Podcasts, Politics & the New Media Playbook
- ▶ 17:15 Marc Andreessen And then, you know, in the, in the, in the early 20 tens, we had the rise of the new digital media companies, you know, the Vox and Buzzfeed and these guys.
OpenAI’s Windsurf Crash, Grok’s Wild Week, Replace Tim Cook? — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 26:57 Alex Kantrowitz So I remember it well, because I broke, I had the exclusive, so Microsoft came to me to break that news at BuzzFeed, and I wrote, Microsoft has this fun chatbot called Tay, it will, you know, be your friend.
Brainstorming $10M AI Business Ideas w/ the Airtable Founder
Sam Altman’s Gentle Singularity, Zuck’s AI Power Play, Burning Of The Waymos
- ▶ 57:19 Alex Kantrowitz When I was at BuzzFeed, I did a series where I would fight with robots.
The Future of Media in VC | Erik Torenberg on TBPN
- ▶ 8:40 Erik Torenberg A lot of people, when they think about media businesses of last 15 years, they think about like Buzzfeed and Vox and, uh, it's kind of like, you know, Upworthy, these businesses raised a bunch of money in the 2010 and totally crashed,…
From making $6/week selling worms to making $110M+
- ▶ 29:06 James Currier Just like Buzzfeed was very vulnerable and wasn't going to go anywhere.
- ▶ 46:10 James Currier So think the first Buzzfeed.
How to build a $100M+ newsletter business
- ▶ 7:47 Austin Rief And, you know, even in 2015, 20 17, we were like, yeah, PuzzFeed, it just doesn't make sense.
- ▶ 11:32 Sam Parr And John Steinberg is the president or CEO of Buzzfeed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:03 Sam Parr It's like Buzzfeed, like doing, um, um, haven't they tried like making ovens or something like that?
#74 Stop Killing Your Plants
Will Big Tech CEOs Win Their All-In Bet on Trump? With Saagar Enjeti
- ▶ 7:42 Saagar Enjeti I have an age, I almost have an age bias on this, where I think everyone under 30 should have to go into work, and I, I'm, maybe you, did you ever go to the Buzzfeed offices? age,
How AI Might Solve the Alien Mystery: Thought Leader's Paradox · Joe Lonsdale
Why The Costco Guys And Hawk Tuah Took Over The Internet
- ▶ 34:03 Alex Kantrowitz BuzzFeed has recently sold hot ones, and whether the future of media is eating, eating hot wings.
- ▶ 34:38 Alex Kantrowitz Um, but right before this Ron John told me, all right, Alex, if we're going to talk with Ryan about internet culture, we have to talk about effectively what's happened to Buzzfeed and what it's done with its assets. 11 times in the scene
What's the Right Amount of Tech to Give Kids?: A Psychologist and Parent Weigh In
- ▶ 48:19 Alex Kantrowitz Um, where Stephanie Lee, one of my former BuzzFeed colleagues actually goes into what the book claims and the criticism.
Surviving a VC Holiday Party (ep22)
- ▶ 1:07:34 John Coogan They say Buzzfeed has sold the show hot ones for 82, 82.5 million dollars. 5 times in the scene
How we became the fastest growing podcast (ep20)
- ▶ 2:17:04 John Coogan Or if it's like a Vivek Ramaswamy buying BuzzFeed,
How to Persuade Anyone, Build Confidence & Become Influential | Expert Magician
- ▶ 1:18:26 Alex Ramon You know, BuzzFeed named her the top moments of the AMAs.
How BILLIONAIRES dress for XMAS (ep17)
- ▶ 41:34 John Coogan Uh, interns at BuzzFeed, then he founds
Build a high traffic startup using AI, Webflow and Zapier
- ▶ 49:58 Greg Isenberg So then all of a sudden we'd have, like, BuzzFeed hit us up and be like, hey, you guys drove us like a million visits.
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars Fast (ep13)
- ▶ 1:35:48 John Coogan He's buying BuzzFeed. 2 times in the scene
The Secret Billionaire Party (ep6)
- ▶ 56:37 John Coogan Um, you see Vivek Ramaswamy, uh, he's now the second largest holder and shareholder in BuzzFeed, and he posted a vlog of him. 5 times in the scene
You Have 70 Days to Win the Year
- ▶ 30:43 Shaan Puri And, you know, this type of, like, BuzzFeed headline stuff isn't what you're gonna find from most money managers.
He Got Fired By His DAD… So He Built a $60M/yr Empire ft. Craig Fuller
ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko
I can't believe he gave away these GENIUS 7 profitable startup ideas (watch this)
- ▶ 52:12 Cody Schneider You make these like, I mean, it's just coming back to like Buzzfeed listicles.
How To Master Storytelling ft. David Perell
- ▶ 45:44 Shaan Puri The BuzzFeed guy goes, everything we do at BuzzFeed is about Debbie at her desk. 4 times in the scene
COVID nearly bankrupted him. Then with AI he grew from $0 to $25M ARR in 4 years. | Andrew Lockhe... · PMF Show
- ▶ 30:33 Pablo Srugo So let's say it's like a BuzzFeed, but local BuzzFeed, things like that, that are writing these kind of lists. 2 times in the scene
Kara Swisher Rates Tech Leaders
- ▶ 45:04 Alex Kantrowitz I'd be like, write your way in, and then someone like a BuzzFeed or a Vice will hire you.
How an obscure, 100-year old law is disrupting U.S. energy
- ▶ 0:32 Shayle Kann The BuzzFeed headline for this podcast would be, quote, that one weird U.S. law that distorts shipping costs Americans billions of dollars a year
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone: The Web is Still a Great Business
- ▶ 4:33 Alex Kantrowitz Like Ben Smith wrote this whole book called traffic saying basically like his miscalculation with Buzzfeed was that traffic equals money.
Lessons from CMOs, Great Storytelling, Freelance vs. Full-time, Follow Your Energy
- ▶ 18:08 Alex Lieberman Sean then fast forwards, and he says he was talking to, I think, the CEO of BuzzFeed at some point, and the CEO of BuzzFeed, as BuzzFeed was fast climbing and, like, they were at peak, said, when we create stories, we think about Debbie at… 2 times in the scene
How to Launch an SMB Product | Jay Myers, Founder of Bold · PMF Show
Google Gemini and AI bias
- ▶ 24:20 Toni Cowan-Brown It reminds me of, God, Buzzfeed did one of their listicles of show me what Barbie would look like from around the world, and obviously they ended up with a Barbie from Sudan carrying a rifle, Barbie from Germany that's dressed in what…
A Brief History of the Open Source AI Hacker - with Ben Firshman of Replicate
- ▶ 42:15 unnamed speaker You have them on your landing page, you have Buzzfeed, you have Unsplash,
The Co-Founder Of A $75M+ Company Gave Me His BEST Business Ideas
- ▶ 13:19 Greg Isenberg I've talked about on the show, Buzzfeed is a kind of a similar opportunity.
Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:33 Joe Lonsdale Buzzfeed is dead. 2 times in the scene
$20M In ONE Day?! (#544)
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:32:02 Jason Lemkin You don't want to have need massive human capital to fuel these things.
How We Got Our First 100 Customers (No Bulls**t, Specific Details) (#534)
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn (2020)
- ▶ 47:03 Luis von Ahn And we, we landed a contract with CNN and a contract with BuzzFeed that we were going to translate all their news from English to Spanish. 2 times in the scene
E157: Epic legal win, OpenAI's news deal, FCC targets Elon, the limits of free speech & more
- ▶ 1:16:03 David Sacks But then it was printed by Buzzfeed.
Ep# 13 | WTF does it take to Build Influence Today? Nikhil w/ Nuseir, Tanmay, Prajakta & Ranveer · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 1:59:01 Tanmay Bhat If you, speaking to someone's identity just gets, gets more like, like Buzzfeed pioneered this ages ago, right? 2 times in the scene
How To Build A Media Business With Anthony Pompliano
- ▶ 16:43 Anthony Pompliano BuzzFeed has over a thousand employees. 3 times in the scene
Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- ▶ 13:11 Alex Kantrowitz I was working at Buzzfeed at the time and I said, okay, this is great.
Big Technology's New Release, AI Bubble Looms, Apple's Next Event — With Brian McCullough
- ▶ 25:04 Alex Kantrowitz I've been, uh, when I was at Buzzfeed, I flew the drones and captured, uh, some wild footage inside, uh, some of the wildfire impacted areas in California.
How Jason Yanowitz Bootstrapped Blockworks To A +$20M/yr Company
- ▶ 4:22 Jason Yanowitz So what's actually done really well for us this year is our subscription revenue on the research platform, but the ad market across the board, both in crypto and digital media, if you probably talked to the morning brew guys, or you…
This Tragedy to Triumph Story is Why I’m an Entrepreneur
- ▶ 9:46 Alex Lieberman And so it also reminds me of, you know, like Jonah Peretti, who's the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed.
E139: Recapping Chamath's wedding, VC surplus, unions vs Hollywood, room-temp superconductors & more
- ▶ 1:02:54 Jason Calacanis Yeah, somebody rewriting a listicle in Buzzfeed
Business ideas worth paying attention to
- ▶ 25:04 Greg Isenberg The other interesting thing is I just checked BuzzFeed's revenue, but 2022, they had four hundred and thirty seven million dollars of revenue and their business is worth eighty five million dollars today. 2 times in the scene
E133: Market melt-up, IPO update, AI startups overheat, Reddit revolts & more with Brad Gerstner
- ▶ 22:13 Jason Calacanis We talked about BuzzFeed, talked about having AI journalists in their stock, which looks like it's going to be delisted, got a quick pop.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired
- ▶ 1:17:02 Dara Khosrowshahi This is the BuzzFeed days, right?
Four ways to store sunlight
- ▶ 2:12 Shayle Kann But if this episode were a BuzzFeed article, I think I would call it, four weird ways to replace 47 days of fossil energy stockpile with solar electrons.
Buzzfeed News, Reddit and OpenAI
- ▶ 4:54 Benedict Evans And I thought it was just really interesting to compare that with BuzzFeed.
- ▶ 4:57 Benedict Evans Because BuzzFeed, which we, we invested in the A, 16 Z, um, when I worked there, but, you know, obviously not, not saying anything that isn't public. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:31 Toni Cowan-Brown I find it interesting with the piece around, you know, whether it's overflow, whomever is the, you know, Twitter, you name it, BuzzFeed coming, not BuzzFeed, but coming back and saying, hey, we need to be paid for this.
- ▶ 22:57 Toni Cowan-Brown Also fascinating that all of these questions are coming up for us, and like that piece that we kicked off with, which, you know, Reddit, Twitter, Stack Overflow wants to be paid for the data that's, that's helping, um, the likes of… 2 times in the scene
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 1:00:08 Jason Calacanis Did you see the news about Buzzfeed today? 2 times in the scene
Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei
Unlock Your Super-Learning Potential: Learn from Emerson Spartz, Founder of Dose and MuggleNet
- ▶ 0:34 Greg Isenberg He started Dose, uh, which was a Buzzfeed competitor that was really, really big and is really big.
Liquid Death CEO Mike Cessario: How I Turned Canned Water to a $700M Company | E968 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:13 Harry Stebbings I think that's what people misunderstand is the importance of the amplification on other outlets, which is like, as you said, Forbes write about the crazy thing you did, or BuzzFeed write about that, and it's more their reinforcement,…
HIBT Lab! mitú and SUMA Wealth: Beatriz Acevedo
- ▶ 8:43 Guy Raz BuzzFeed and Huffington Post have been around for a while. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:19 Guy Raz I mean, I know people have tried this with AI, it doesn't work, not yet, but you need human beings to write articles, you need editors, you need, I mean, this is why BuzzFeed and HuffPost and all these places, like, have, you know, have…
- ▶ 15:56 Beatriz Acevedo So very quickly, we sort of had the problem of thinking, well, if our content's in English, how are we going to differentiate ourselves from the BuzzFeeds of the world, from the Huffington Post of the world?
- ▶ 20:46 Guy Raz You know, I, I remember I interviewed Jonah Peretti, the founder of BuzzFeed, and, you know, you look at the company's market cap today, and it's, you know, it's, it's, it's a shadow of what it once was valued at. 3 times in the scene
What You Need to Know Before Raising Capital, and The Billion-Dollar Media Company You’ve Never Heard of
- ▶ 33:20 Alex Lieberman We had always heard kind of these horror stories of raising VC money, uh, and we'd especially heard horror stories with media businesses because, again, we grew up in media at a time where kind of, like, the, the golden children of media…
Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business (#382)
Is AI Dangerously Overhyped? — With Gary Marcus
- ▶ 58:37 Alex Kantrowitz I would also take the blame, you know, on that one, I wrote some stories about it for Buzzfeed that I wish I could go back and revise.
20VC: Bumble's Whitney Wolfe Herd on How The Best Leaders Manage Intense Pressure, How To Think Through Risk vs Reward Frameworks & What it Truly Means to Listen so Your Teams Will Talk
- ▶ 4:20 Whitney Wolfe Herd Seeing Buzzfeed alert, New York times alert, all these things.
How To Pick Startup Winners With Jason Calacanis
- ▶ 49:18 Greg Isenberg What do you guys think of Buzzfeed? 5 times in the scene
Bootstrapping Through A Bear Market with Noah Kagan
- ▶ 54:16 Sahil Bloom Like, uh, Buzzfeed, uh, you know, created a billion dollar business around that.
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