Virologists Panelist: Jonah Peretti
Peretti is the founder and CEO of BuzzFeed, and a cofounder of the Huffington Post. As documented in a series of emails forwarded widely around the Web, Peretti once tried to get Nike to print “sweatshop” on a pair of customized sneakers. The request was denied.

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