Jonah Peretti
Jonah Peretti
Jonah H. Peretti is an American Internet entrepreneur, a founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post, and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth1 January 1974
CountryUnited States of America
bunch front page partly people seen
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.
people want pieces
You don't want everyone to see a piece of content. You want the people who are really excited about the content to see it.
people quality matter
The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there’s a ton of high-quality things that don’t go anywhere.
people fans ifs
People on Twitter can follow tech if they're interested in tech, or business if they're interested in business, or they can follow celebrities that they're fans of.
thinking people missing
I think people often miss the fact that things often start in a swashbuckling like low cost just get it done kind of way, even when they grow into these iconic brands.
cat people emotion
People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.
people way good-business
Facebook will figure out ways to allow people to have good businesses.
class people citizens
People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.
people needs news
The world needs sustainable, profitable, vibrant content companies staffed by dedicated professionals; especially content for people that grew up on the web, whose entertainment and news interests are largely neglected by television and newspapers.
people mail way
People used to share things with e-mail on a massive scale. If you remember e-mail forwards from the late '90s, it was a terrible way to share content.
hard parallel straight
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.
corollary distribute possible
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.
religion spread
Mormons know that it's not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.
easier imagined intimate life
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.