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“The thing that is hard about creating a new media company right now is that as AI models continue to develop, your product will already be out of date” - Jonah Peretti at The Berkeley Forum

“I think we are going to have a massive culture shift in the next few years. [..] I’ve never had a time where people were more uncertain about what will happen in the future” - Jonah Peretti at The Berkeley Forum

“Strong emotion and powerful emotion is something the algorithm really loves. […] Sometimes it should provoke anger, but if it doesn’t, it’s hard to make it in the feed.” - Jonah Peretti at The Berkeley Forum

“You used to be creating content for other people. Now, more people are making content for the algorithm. The algorithm has warped what types of content breaks through” - Jonah Peretti at The Berkeley Forum

“If you’re starting a company, it’s really powerful to look at the types of technologies that exist and what is possible that wasn’t possible before” - Jonah Peretti on his approach to making HuffPost different from its competitors, at The Berkeley Forum

“I enjoy studying people—what they wear, what they do, what’s cool, what’s catchy—that inspires me and helps me stay current” - Nikki Russell on how she makes sure that Nikki Maxwell stays relevant to everyone, at The Berkeley Forum

“We’re basically a family business… I just love it!” - Rachel Renée Russell at The Berkeley Forum

“Even as a mom, I do get their [her kids] permission.” - Rachel Renée Russell on using stories from her kid’s lives, at The Berkeley Forum

“After both daughters left home…I decided I needed a hobby other than micromanaging my two daughters. I had always wanted to write a children’s book” - Rachel Renée Russell, on why she wrote the hit book series Dork Diaries, at The Berkeley Forum

“It’s good to be dorky. It’s good to march to the beat of your own drummer” - Nikki Russell, on reclaiming being a ‘dork’, at The Berkeley Forum

“I'm really no one’s friend at the White House no matter what the administration is… that is a core principle of what we do today.” -Kathleen Kingsbury on journalistic objectivity at the Berkeley Forum

“Journalists and the work that we've been doing is being threatened in ways we've never seen before.” -Kathleen Kingsbury at the Berkeley Forum

“The whole mission of opinion is trying to convey everyday a national or global conversation about what's happening on our planet, and then allowing people to form their own opinions." -Kathleen Kingsbury at the Berkeley Forum

“If we’re wrong about something, we own that. Humans make mistakes. We make the decisions in the moment that we think we are the right ones… we talk things through and we find a compromise, or at least, we move on.” -Kathleen Kingsbury at the Berkeley Forum

“Progress in this country has been built on new ideas, and if you don't have a space where people are willing to disagree with each other, then you don't have a democracy.” -Kathleen Kingsbury at the Berkeley Forum

“Journalism is the best job. You're just learning constantly. The number one skill you have to have as a journalist is you have to be adaptable to change and willing to learn and try new things.” -Kathleen Kingsbury at the Berkeley Forum

“When I won the Pulitzer, one of the things I had heard time and time again was that opinion journalism has no reporting in it… all good opinion journalism always has reporting in it.” -Kathleen Kingsbury at the Berkeley Forum

“Kindness is one of the most crucial things in life. I hope people come away thinking I was kind to them” - Steve Kerr on the impression he hopes to make, at The Berkeley Forum

“My entire young life, if I lost, I was such a failure. It drove me” - Steve Kerr on the pressure he put on himself at The Berkeley Forum

“All of these runs have an expiration date, and you don’t really know what that date is. The challenge is staying competitive as you get older” - Steve Kerr at The Berkeley Forum