Jonah Peretti Quotes & Sayings

“I'm a typical Capricorn. I'm hardworking, loyal, sometimes stubborn, and I don't believe in astrology.”

“People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.”

“At The Huffington Post, we thought of the front page as a one-stop shop for everything you'd need in news.”

“If you look at the heritage of the best advertising, you can make stuff that is great for both readers and advertisers. I don't think Don Draper would have loved banner ads.”

“It's so much easier to write for a person in your life than to write for some imagined readership, so you write something that's more intimate and true.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.”

“BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.”