BuzzFeed, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where BuzzFeed comes up
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
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
ECKO UNLTD and COMPLEX: Marc Ecko
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
Politico & Axios: Jim VandeHei
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
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
- ▶ 24:58 Matt Mullenweg And so CNET was kind of the first internet media company, is the best way to put it, so not unlike a BuzzFeed or Vice or something.
How I Built Resilience: Live with Morgan DeBaun
reCAPTCHA and Duolingo: Luis von Ahn
- ▶ 43:12 Luis von Ahn And we, we landed a contract with CNN and a contract with BuzzFeed that we were going to 2 times in the scene
Live Episode! BuzzFeed: Jonah Peretti
- ▶ 2:58 Guy Raz While at Huffington Post, he started to tinker around with an idea that would become BuzzFeed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:52 Guy Raz Yeah, no, so, so, I mean, pretty soon, I guess, within a year or 18 months of starting, helping to launch the Huffington Post, you started this side project, this, this thing that you called BuzzFeed Labs. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:29 Guy Raz In just a moment, we'll find out how Jonah turned BuzzFeed into a very viable business.
- ▶ 24:09 Guy Raz So, it's around 2008, and Jonah Peretti is still at the Huffington Post, but he started this side project called BuzzFeed Labs. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:13 Jonah Peretti I have, our first pitch deck is, we, we put it online, so you can actually go see our first pitch deck, and, and I don't know, now that BuzzFeed's done well and grown, people think, oh, that's a good pitch deck, you should pattern your… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:23 Guy Raz It seems from the outside, and it may be different from the inside, but it seems, seems to the outside a big turning point was in 2011 when you hired Ben Smith of Politico to be the editor in chief of BuzzFeed. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:53 Guy Raz Um, I want to ask you about, uh, you know, a very controversial decision that BuzzFeed took earlier this year to, to, to post the contents of the Trump dossier, right, which was, uh, which, which suggested that there were all kinds of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:34 Guy Raz So turning back to BuzzFeed in, in your, I mean, your business model is around advertising, obviously. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:47 Jonah Peretti And so, um, when we started BuzzFeed, everyone thought of content as information to get in people's head.
- ▶ 39:36 Guy Raz While you were, and while you were building the company and, and as you continue to develop the company, you are the CEO. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:56 Guy Raz You, uh, you got an offer from Disney to, to, to buy BuzzFeed, I guess, in 2013. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:06 Guy Raz You, your company, the last valuation was like one, one and a half billion dollars. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:47 Guy Raz and then he's able to start BuzzFeed, and, you know, and BuzzFeed just scales. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:52 Guy Raz By the way, in 2015, a BuzzFeed reporter in New York tracked down his lost iPhone to a rural village in China. 3 times in the scene