Live Episode! BuzzFeed: Jonah Peretti

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

Business

4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 2001, when most of us had no idea what it meant to "go viral," Jonah Peretti shared an email prank among his friends — and saw it spread to millions. That began his fascination with how information spreads, and set him on the path to launch two of the most powerful media organizations of the Internet age: The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. Recorded live in New York City.

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0:22.0	changes, both big and small.
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0:31.0	If you listen to how I built this, you're curious about ideas, and you probably have some ideas of your own.
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0:47.0	When I come out, and Ariana is having breakfast, so then we have our meeting she's talking about, you know, what she wants to do.
0:55.0	I don't even really remember.
0:57.0	She was like, she was charming and smart and fun to talk to.
1:01.0	And then a little while later, she's like, you have to meet Phil Angelini.
1:05.0	She's running for Governor of California.
1:07.0	And then Ariana's introducing me to Phil Angelini's.
1:11.0	But Ariana is like, it's like introducing me to Phil Angelini's.
1:15.0	And he's like, he should be our head of digital, you know, and I'm like, what?
1:20.0	He's like a digital genius, you know.
1:23.0	I'm like, I live in New York City, I don't work at politics.
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