BuzzFeed Investor Eyes Success as ‘Full-Stack Startup’

Wired: Chris Dixon, who led Andreessen Horowitz’s $50 million investment in BuzzFeed, said he believes the past is littered with examples of novelty in media being mistaken for lack of quality. Dixon sees BuzzFeed as a prime example of a “full-stack startup,” a category that aligns it in his eyes not with other media companies but the most valuable company in the world. Dixon and company are betting that BuzzFeed, by re-imagining the business of media and its underlying technology, can succeed as a native inhabitant of the social and mobile platforms where so much content is shared and consumed.