Jonah Peretti quotes
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“You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.”
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“A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.”
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“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.”
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“The math helps you have better understanding and helps you have more creative ideas, but you can't replace the creative ideas”
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“Mormons know that its not enough to practise your religion - you also have to spread your religion.”
-- Jonah PerettiSource : "Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti: 'We're not like something that came before'". Interview with Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2013.
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“I think a lot about how ideas spread, how information spreads, why is it that something youre really proud of and you spend a lot of time creating sometimes doesnt go anywhere, and something that you kind of do on the side, on a lark, ends up getting shared and passed around and having this big impact.”
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“At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.”
-- Jonah PerettiSource : "INSIDE BUZZFEED: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved New Media Brand". Interview with Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2012.
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“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.”
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“BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.”
-- Jonah PerettiSource : "INSIDE BUZZFEED: The Story Of How Jonah Peretti Built The Web's Most Beloved New Media Brand". Interview with Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. December 11, 2012.
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“Im a typical Capricorn. Im hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I dont believe in astrology.”
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“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.”
-- Jonah PerettiSource : "Miranda July and Jonah Peretti on Reading Other People’s E-Mail". Interview with Jesse Ashlock, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. July 11, 2013.
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“People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.”
-- Jonah PerettiSource : "BuzzFeed's strategy" by Chris Dixon, www.businessinsider.com. July 24, 2012.
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Did you know that the Stegosaurus lived further away from the Tyrannosaurus Rex than we are from the Tyrannosaurus Rex in time?”
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“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.”
-- Jonah PerettiSource : "Miranda July and Jonah Peretti on Reading Other People’s E-Mail". Interview with Jesse Ashlock, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. July 11, 2013.
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