Jonah Peretti co-founded Huffington Post, then left to start BuzzFeed. Now he’s running both companies. He sits down with Recode Media’s Peter Kafka to explain the logic behind the deal, his ambitions to grow even bigger - and why he says the New York Times can’t be “the paper of record”.

Featuring: Jonah Peretti (@peretti), Founder & CEO of BuzzFeed

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explains his HuffPost deal