BuzzFeed, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where BuzzFeed comes up
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