Awards & Recognition
★Fortune 40 Under 40 (2013)
★Fast Company 'New Faces of Social Media' recognition
★BuzzFeed named 'Most Innovative Companies' by Fast Company (2012)
★Business Insider '11 Rising Tech Stars to Watch' (2012)
★BuzzFeed News won Pulitzer Prize (2021) under his leadership
Notable Facts
→Co-founded both HuffPost (sold to AOL for $315 million in 2011) and BuzzFeed
→Pioneered viral marketing with famous Nike sweatshop email exchange at MIT (2001)
→Led BuzzFeed to $1.5B SPAC public listing in 2021
→Graduate of MIT Media Lab, former teacher at NYU and Parsons
→BuzzFeed achieved record profitability by 2020 under his leadership
→Brother of comedian Chelsea Peretti
→Known for developing reblogging technology and viral content strategies