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Rapid Response: BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: Record-high audience, record-low revenue
FromMasters of Scale
Rapid Response: BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: Record-high audience, record-low revenue
FromMasters of Scale
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32 minutes
Released:
Jun 6, 2020
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Podcast episode
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BuzzFeed audience is at record highs. But the pandemic's economic effects have crushed the bottom line. BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti shares how his company is making hard decisions to build long-term stability. “But the transition is painful,” he says. While BuzzFeed is leaning into food vertical Tasty, new e-commerce habits, and BuzzFeed News, he worries that businesses like his don't have more resources to support staffers of color. But, he says, there's a clarity of purpose in crisis, in bearing witness to the things that are happening in the world. Interviewed by editor Bob Safian.Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com/rapidresponse/Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter at http://eepurl.com/dlirtX
Released:
Jun 6, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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