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Currier: MrBeast relies on weak scale effect and is vulnerable like BuzzFeed
“That's a scale effect. And it's a very weak one. Yeah, no, he's very vulnerable. Just like Buzzfeed was very vulnerable and wasn't going to go anywhere.”
Samir Chaudry: MrBeast will be the biggest digital media company by 2028
“I think he's probably the number one online digital media company. I don't know that, you know, I don't know what creator is going to mean in that many years. Like, I think he has the best pulse on, on online storytelling right now. And I think, you know, we s…”
BuzzFeed's media business model was never worth a $1B valuation
“And, you know, even in 2015, 20 17, we were like, yeah, PuzzFeed, it just doesn't make sense. It's not worth a billion dollars.”
Fuller: BuzzFeed sold out to programmatic ads and platform reliance
“Well, I think Buzzfeed along with a lot of other publishers have sold out to programmatic and have relied upon the platforms, the Facebooks and the.”
BuzzFeed failed to build a durable daily brand compared to Business Insider
“I don't believe they built up a true brand. They showed up in search results, they got traffic, but there were many, many people that religiously read Business Insider every single day. So it just had a brand that I think was much stronger and more defined.”
Liu: AI-driven personalized news will spawn the next BuzzFeed or Hustle
“Like, I think that's a, there's going to be a very large business to be created there, right? Like Buzzfeed, you know, hustle, et cetera. Like, you know, all of these were like high growth businesses in that era. Of news. And I think now there's going to be a …”