
Private Media's Will Hayward on battling Murdoch
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BuzzFeed: The Victim of the Speed of Culture Change
I think the life cycle of BuzzFeed in terms of really being there was probably sort of four or five years. I remember John Steinberg, who was my boss of BuzzFeed, showing me text. He used to love showing people this thing because BuzzFeed was just like, it was there. It's just it's lost that cultural relevance. So I think there's a tough level there. On the inside, I'd also say BuzzFeed was a excellent place to work when I was there, which was 2014-2016,. It was ambitious. It was driven again to give John and at that time, Jonah, his credit, they built a company that had a very high density of curious driven people.
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