I don't want to sort of, you know, spitball about BuzzFeed's valuation. We're certainly thinking incredibly hard about how do we build a business that's totally aligned with quality journalism from the start. And I think in one of the things that I, that I just made me most excited about doing this venture is that my partner, Justin Smith,. has been really successful in making money for people off high, off high quality news for his whole career. So I look at Axios and Puck and the brew is three examples of new media that's doing really well.
Netflix beat estimates for Q3 and added two million subscribers. Meta has Super-App dreams for WhatsApp, and Mark Zuckerberg is ready to take on iMessage. Plus, Twitter freezes employees' stock accounts, and an activist investor grabs a significant stake in Salesforce. Friend of Pivot Ben Smith joins Kara and Scott to talk about the state of media, and the launch of his news platform, Semafor.
You can find Ben on Twitter at @semaforben, and Semafor at semafor.com.
You can listen to Kara’s new show, On with Kara Swisher, here.
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