1. Jonah H Peretti was born on January 1,1974 and is an American internet entrepreneur.
13 Facts About Jonah Peretti
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Jonah Peretti is a co-founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, a co-founder of HuffPost, and a developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".
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Jonah Peretti attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland, followed by the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he graduated with a degree in environmental studies in 1996.
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Jonah Peretti taught computer science classes at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, in the mid-1990s.
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Jonah Peretti received a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab in 2001.
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Jonah Peretti co-founded The Huffington Post along with Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart and Arianna Huffington in 2005.
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Jonah Peretti left The Huffington Post in 2011 after it was bought by AOL for $315 million.
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Jonah Peretti founded the "Internet popularity contest" site BuzzFeed in November 2006.
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In 2019, Jonah Peretti announced that BuzzFeed would be cutting its overall workforce by 15 percent.
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Jonah Peretti said he wanted to reduce costs without resorting to additional fundraising.
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In 2022, shareholders urged Jonah Peretti to shut down BuzzFeed News; two anonymous sources told CNBC that BuzzFeed News lost about $10 million annually.
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Jonah Peretti is the elder brother of comedian, actress and writer Chelsea Peretti.
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Jonah Peretti is married to blogger Andrea Harner, with whom he has twin sons.