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Sam Lessin: MrBeast will mirror BuzzFeed's collapse due to a low-LTV audience
“The thing I was positing is I expect we'll end up with the same outcome, right? Which is you're going to see a huge run up, a lot of excitement, but unfortunately the beast audience is in highly competitive, straight up media, right? Like it's straight up, you…”
Sam Lessin: Algorithm-Dependent Traffic Is Not a Durable Business Model
“Particularly like a Buzzfeed, right? Like they played a game for it. 10 years, it was all about effectively ranking, feed ranking, and things like that. There's not a durable business model. Like you're always one click away from getting swiped when the algori…”
Jessica Lessin says she declined multiple offers to buy BuzzFeed
“I've been asked, and I said no every time.”
Lessin: Vivek Ramaswamy will run an Elon/Trump playbook on BuzzFeed
“Vivek Ramaswani has declared his position in it, and he's gonna do like a mini Elon Trump thing to BuzzFeed, where he like, you know, at the cost of nothing, because the company's worth nothing, ends up doing this.”
Jessica Lessin: BuzzFeed attempted dedicated AI integration and failed
“Buzzfeed did that, and it didn't work, but okay, let's go back to that.”
Brit Morin: Mistral AI's seed round exceeds BuzzFeed's public market cap
“The hundred million seed round that was just raised is more than the current eighty-five million dollar market cap of BuzzFeed.”
Sam Lessin: BuzzFeed doubled its market cap to $70 million
“Somehow Buzzfeed has doubled its value from thirty million to seventy million dollars in market cap.”