Jonah Peretti
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Peretti in April 2013
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Jonah Peretti January 1, 1974 United States |
| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Employer | Contagious Media (2001–2006) The Huffington Post (2005–2011) BuzzFeed (2006–present) |
| Known for | BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post |
| Notable work | Nike Sweatshop Emails |
| Spouse(s) | Andrea Harner |
| Relatives | Chelsea Peretti (sister) |
| Website | buzzfeed |
Jonah Peretti (born January 1, 1974) is an American Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder of BuzzFeed and The Huffington Post, and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".
Peretti grew up in Oakland, California. His father is of Italian and English descent and his mother is Jewish. His stepmother was African-American. He attended the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he graduated with a degree in environmental studies in 1996. He taught computer science classes at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Louisiana in the mid-1990s. He completed a postgrad at the MIT Media Lab. While there, he became known for an email exchange with Nike over a request to print "sweatshop" on custom order shoes that went viral. He is the brother of comedian and writer Chelsea Peretti and married to blogger Andrea Harner.
Peretti co-founded The Huffington Post, along with Kenneth Lerer and Arianna Huffington in 2005. He left The Huffington Post in 2011 after it was bought by AOL for $315 million.
In 2005, Peretti hosted the Contagious Media Showdown at Eyebeam, where he worked as Director of the R&D Lab from 2001 - 2006. During the process Peretti developed the concept of the "Bored-at-Work Network", which he supposes to be larger than some major television network audiences.
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