Hasta La Creative!

BuzzFeed President and Chief Operating Officer Jon Steinberg is leaving his position after four years at the fast-growing website. He will move into an advisory role at BuzzFeed for the next six months before leaving BuzzFeed altogether, the company said Monday.

Mr. Steinberg is a former Google executive, who joined BuzzFeed in 2010 after less than a year with Polaris Venture Partners. He helped build the site’s revenue strategy of helping to create and spread content for brands, such as sponsored lists and videos intended to be highly shareable.

“As you know, Jon was instrumental in building BuzzFeed into the great company we are today, joining as the 15th employee in a tiny SoHo office, defining and growing our innovative social content advertising products, helping grow the company to 500 employees all over the world and building a strong, profitable operation,” BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti said in a memo to staff.

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