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Digiday / Lucia Moses / Nov 21
“‘It came from Pete on down — ‘What’s going to be our version of Ben Smith?'” a former insider said. “‘They got Ben Smith, so we need someone,'” said another, describing the philosophy. “‘They started BuzzFeed Studios; let’s start Mashable Studios.’ I’m surprised they didn’t call it ‘MashFeed’ at some point.'” But as an ex-editorial staffer said, the pivot to general news made Mashable a ‘jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Everyone was aware BuzzFeed was beating us on stuff, and the tech pubs didn’t take us seriously.'”
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