Pierre Bienaimé

‘Profitability in the back half of next year’: BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti (and Verizon Media CEO Guru Gowrappan) on their big merger

‘People give when they’re excited about good things’: Grist CEO Brady Piñero Walkinshaw on what drives member support

Shine co-founders Naomi Hirabayashi and Marah Lidey on how mental health went mainstream

Activision Blizzard Esports’ Jack Harari on how the energy and pageantry of gaming is enduring the pandemic

The 74’s publisher Jim Roberts on bridging equality divides in education and making trust bonds with audiences

Diversity ‘is a commercial imperative now’: Brand Advance CEO Chris Kenna

‘Scale for scale’s sake is almost meaningless’: Axios CEO Jim VandeHei

‘All taking a chance on each other’: Jasper Wang on Defector Media’s collective ownership structure

‘One beat in an ongoing movement’: BET+ general manager Devin Griffin on the streamer’s evolution

Wonder Media Network CMO Shira Atkins on making (and selling) branded podcasts

Daily Maverick founder Branko Brkic on the hard-hitting journalism that sells memberships in South Africa

‘We have to grow this responsibly’: Tenderfoot TV co-founder Donald Albright on the podcasting’s bright (but consolidated) future