Jonah Peretti

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Jonah Peretti
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Peretti in April 2013
Born (1974-01-01) January 1, 1974 (age 51)
Alma mater University of California, Santa Cruz
Known for BuzzFeed, Huffington Post
Notable work Nike Sweatshop Emails
Spouse(s) Andrea Harner
Relatives Chelsea Peretti (sister)

Jonah Peretti (born January 1, 1974)[1] is an American Internet entrepreneur, a founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post, and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".[2][3][4]

Life and education

Peretti's father is Italian-American and his mother is Jewish. His stepmother was African-American.[5][6] He attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he graduated with a degree in environmental studies in 1996.[3] He taught computer science classes at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana in the mid-1990s.[7] He completed a postgrad at the MIT Media Lab.[8] While there, he became famous when an email exchange[9] with Nike over a request to print "sweatshop" on custom order shoes went viral.[10] He is the brother of comedian and writer Chelsea Peretti[11] and married to blogger Andrea Harner.[11][12]

Career

Huffington Post

Peretti co-founded The Huffington Post, along with Kenneth Lerer and Arianna Huffington in 2005.[3] He left The Huffington Post in 2011 after it was bought by AOL for $315 million.[3][8][13]

Contagious Media

In 2005, Peretti hosted the Contagious Media Showdown at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, where he worked as Director of the R&D Lab from 2001 - 2006.[citation needed] During the process Peretti developed the concept of the "Bored-at-Work Network", which he supposes to be larger than some major television network audiences.[14]

BuzzFeed

Peretti founded the "Internet popularity contest" site BuzzFeed in November 2006.[15] After he left The Huffington Post, Peretti began working at BuzzFeed full-time.[8] While originally best known for its mix of internet memes and lists, the site gained new attention when it was the first to break the news that John McCain would endorse Mitt Romney in the 2012 Republican Primary.[8] The site continued to grow afterward, raising over $35 million in funding from investors the next year.[16] In August 2014, the site raised another $50 million from the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, more than doubling its previous rounds of funding.[17] The site was reportedly valued at nearly $1 billion by Andreessen Horowitz.[17]

References

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External links

  1. ↑ Jonah Peretti profile. Cityfile.
  2. ↑ New York Times, Building a Brand with a Blog, May 15, 2006
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  5. ↑ http://business.highbeam.com/152499/article-1G1-167309418/interview-chelsea-and-jonah-peretti-discuss-their-controversial
  6. ↑ http://contagiousmedia.org/press/bplu/bplu-nyt.htm
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  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 M Magazine: "The Jolly, Abrupt, WTF Rise of BuzzFeed" by Matthew Lynch
  12. ↑ Andrea Harner blog retrieved January 1, 2016
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  14. ↑ *Peretti interview in STAY FREE! magazine
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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