Reshaping Industries
I was reading back on Chris Dixon’s post about Andreessen-Horowitz’s $50 Million investment in Buzzfeed, and thought it was very insightful.
Honestly, I wasn’t a big fan of the “listicle” machine and openly bashed on it before, grouping it with the likes of ThoughtCatalog, Upworthy, and Elite Daily, convinced that most of the material in these new-age media sites were created solely for clickbaits. But after some time, I realized my opinion was a heavy generalization that I can attribute to my liberal studies elitism.
However, as I’ve dug more about Buzzfeed as a company, and found out that it’s started and ran by a beast in digital media (Jonah Peretti, previously co-founded The Huffington Post), and that the inner-workings of its data science and engineering teams is top-notch in the tech industry, I was blown away. In Chris Dixon’s post, he shares that Buzzfeed has 150M viewers...