A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

Jonah Peretti

Categorized in : Living Will End Potential

It's important that all my friends have verified Twitter accounts. The blue checkmark makes me feel comfortable and like I'm friends with a legit, high-quality person. I also prefer friends with ridiculously long usernames.

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I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.

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One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

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People go to the front page of BuzzFeed partly because they've seen a bunch of things in their stream, and they're like, 'Oh, I like this site. Why don't I go to the source?' I think that happens. But also people are going to look for something to share.

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If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.

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I think the best content on BuzzFeed is something you share with someone else in your life, and it connects you to them. And that's a big part of what e-mail's about as well.

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It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.

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