When was buzzfeed founded

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Clark Valberg started by solving a problem that he faced himself. He took his opportunities as they came, and was able to create a company that went on to shake Adobe to its core. Simple tech tutorials. Understand the different methods of accessing the last element of an array in JavaScript. How to check if a value exists in an array using Javascript? In this article, we will solve for a specific case: To check if a value exists in an array.

We then also look at its implementation in JavaScript and jQuery. Other Flexiple Blogs. And it's definitely still all over your Facebook feed. What's more, Peretti says the endeavor is now profitable. The growth doesn't seem to have surprised Johnson, but what does is the rise of the young man who once sent an email to a dozen friends.

Top Stories. What really got John and Peretti together was their growing fascination about why people share content, what gets them excited and how it affects the media industry, politics, what value do people get when they share etc.

This seemed to have worked and once they started to attract visitors they decided to raise funding. Can you make this automatic? Could you detect what was trending and then grab stuff from other places and turn it into an article synthetically where the cost of content creation would be zero?

Screenshot of their pitch to investors circa Luckily, SoftBank pumped in money at the right time. Apparently, was also a good time for them to start. Meme after meme, they struck gold with one of their other make-content-go-viral tactic: cute kittens.

In the previously mentioned NPR podcast, Peretti said that humor and animals worked for BuzzFeed because they bring people together. However, that was not what BuzzFeed could be reduced to.

Then, in October , Pulitzer winner Mark Schoofs took over as the head of investigative reporting. They were really making a huge difference with the kind of content the team wrote. One of their investigative journalists, Alex Campbell wrote a story on grotesque injustice towards women who were jailed for not being able to prevent their partners from harming their children. The story made a huge impact on the life of one of the imprisoned women, Arlena Lindley and she was granted parole.

By , Buzzfeed had grown to become a team of 20 investigative journalists across two countries, the United States and Britain.