# Jonah Peretti Internet entrepreneur (b. 1974) who co-founded The Huffington Post (2005) and founded [[BuzzFeed]] (2006), pioneering the science of viral, social-media-optimized content. His career tracks the rise and fall of the venture-funded digital-media model — from BuzzFeed's billion-dollar valuation to its post-SPAC collapse and asset sell-offs. > [!note] Stub > Minimum-viable page created to support the [[BuzzFeed Timeline]]. Expand with the contagion-media theory and the BuzzFeed business arc.