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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

Both Sides of the Table

there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 I asked Jonah about his started position in photos, lists, GIFs and text and where he thought video fit in.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, Friendster was famously vertically partitioned at one time in its growth curve. I normally recommend you just store this directory on your master database, but you could use a standalone vertical shard (or even a key-based partition!) This type of vertical partitioning sharding scheme wont work in most cases.

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Ben's Blog

Jobs not only killed all the commodity hardware and the horizontal strategy; he went radically vertical. But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M. He even added retail stores.

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

That means I get to spend loads and loads of time across many industry verticals, see many many campaigns, translate many many foreign websites (thanks Google Chrome for auto-translate!) They, and their brethren like video views and emails sent and # of followers on Twitter and Likes on Facebook and. Take, bad, shortcuts. " 20.

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