BuzzFeed is planning an IPO
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"We're very focused on building out internationally, we're very focused on building out across multiple different platforms, we're very focused on building out our video business," Peretti said at the conference.
"That will give us a diversification … to allow us to build a big independent company with much more predictability and things that would allow us to be a public company."
Here is a video from Re/code of Peretti discussing his company:
This isn't the first time that BuzzFeed has hinted that an IPO is on its way. BuzzFeed President Greg Coleman told AdAge in 2014 that the company was open to the idea of an IPO, but went on to explain that the board was focused on building a large media company.
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