Advice Line with Jonah Peretti of Buzzfeed

Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week, I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show. Who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Send us a one-minute message that tell us about your business and the issues or questions that you'd like help with. And you can also send us a voice memo at hibtid.wondery.com and make sure to tell us how to reach you. And also don't forget to sign up for my newsletter. It's full of insights and ideas from some of the world's greatest entrepreneurs. You can sign up for free at guy.com or on Substack. and we'll put all of this info in the podcast description.

Alright. Let's get to it. Joining me this week is BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Paretti. Jonah, welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me. So you were first on uh back in twenty seventeen to tell us a story about how you started BuzzFeed, and that was a long time ago. I mean we did that that live in New York City. It was uh it was fun. I had fun, hope you did.

Yeah, it was great. Uh, and if anyone listening missed that episode and you want to go back and listen, it's a great episode. It involves the founding of Huffington Post and Ariana Huffington makes an appearance in the show, all kinds of things happen. Uh we will drop a link to it in our episode show notes. Um so basically uh the b BuzzFeed story really began about twenty years ago, back in two thousand six, uh for a time It was the most fun place on the internet. The site had online quizzes and listicles, and I'm sure lots of you listening remember the famous dress and Was it gold and white or black and blue I always saw Gold and White myself.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript, segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

10 free credits is 10 episodes like this one a month. Episodes nobody has transcribed yet cost their length in hours, because we have to actually transcribe them.