Jonah Peretti

Peretti co-founded The Huffington Post along with Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart and Arianna Huffington in 2005.

Peretti founded the "Internet popularity contest" site BuzzFeed in November 2006.

He left The Huffington Post in 2011 after it was bought by AOL for $315 million

In June 2021, BuzzFeed announced that it would be going public, looking to target a $1.5-billion valuation