Here's the Most Fascinating Slide From BuzzFeed's 2008 Pitch to Investors

An accurate prediction for the site and the media landscape

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Back in 2008, BuzzFeed was a two-person editorial operation with 750,000 monthly visitors, but it already knew exactly where it was headed.

It was, at the time, just a sliver of what the media empire would become (it now boasts more than 200 million uniques and almost 1 billion video views per month). Still, site founder Jonah Peretti was confident in his business model and wanted to sell investors on his vision.

Looking back through the presentation (resurrected this week via a tweet from former New York Times digital exec Martin Nisenholtz and picked up by Quartz), you won't find too many surprises—and that's probably what's most impressive.

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