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Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed
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. 3 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?
- ▶ 19:11 Guy Raz And eventually, I mean, you, you did a bunch of licensing deals, right, with, even with Huffington Post, AOL, the AOL properties, right?
- ▶ 24:38 Guy Raz I think about, like, BuzzFeed is still around, and HuffPost is still around, but, I mean, they probably were under, in
Pitchfork: Ryan Schreiber
Live Episode! Wellness Coach and Podcaster: Jay Shetty
- ▶ 41:24 Jay Shetty I meet them at the HuffPost offices in London, in Victoria, and, and I go there going ready to ask for a job because now I'm like, this is my moment. 3 times in the scene
Food52: Amanda Hesser
- ▶ 1:05:57 Amanda Hesser You know, this was, this was the beginning, like this, this was the age of Huffington Post when these, like, sort of new kinds of media organizations started really gaining steam, and, and they were,
How I Built Resilience: Live with Morgan DeBaun
Live Episode! BuzzFeed: Jonah Peretti
- ▶ 2:46 Guy Raz Because Jonah Peretti co-founded the Huffington Post, a news site that totally disrupted the journalism world. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:44 Guy Raz So how did you, I mean, this is around 2003, 2004, 2005, you get on the radar, I guess, of people who wanted to create the Huffington Post.
- ▶ 19:18 Guy Raz And at that point, I mean, the vision of Huffington Post was to kind of be like a left-wing Drudge Report. 4 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. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 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. 6 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… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:28 Jonah Peretti We learned from Huffington Post that building a, a, a news business in the run-up to election is a good time to do it, and so Ben joined, hired a really great crew of, of reporters, beat reporters covering the election,
- ▶ 36:46 Jonah Peretti Like at Huffington Post, it was so frustrating to me that we build all these tools and technology to grow Huffington Post, and then the way we made money was banner ads that were powered by some other technology company that we didn't… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:38 Guy Raz Um, Jonah, you know, does this viral thing with Nike, and then he gets connected to the people who start Huffington Post, and then that happens, 2 times in the scene