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Calacanis: Digital journalism is flawed and BuzzFeed could hit zero
“Journalism is a terrible business. There's no path to viral growth here. Every time you grow in order to grow their top line, they're going to have expense. So if you want to get more page views, you're going to have to hire more expensive entitled writers as …”
Pompliano: BuzzFeed generates $400M revenue with 1,000+ staff at $50M market cap
“BuzzFeed has over a thousand employees. They do four hundred million dollars in revenue, and the company's worth fifty million dollars in the public market.”
Isenberg: StumbleUpon prompted publishers like BuzzFeed to pay for traffic
“I sold a company to StumbleUpon, which was many years ago, a very large social network that would refer traffic to publishers' websites, and people used to see in their analytics that StumbleUpon would send them traffic. So then all of a sudden we'd have, like…”