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Hank Green

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1016 total appearances

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

It's getting much longer.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

That's our new rebrand.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Earth.com.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Oddly, there's two .coms embedded in it.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

It's bold.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

We're going to do a Super Bowl ad to get people to pay attention to it.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

The reason I'm starting here instead of like, tell me about the paperwork to be a nonprofit.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

We've chosen different paths.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I try to keep us off the platforms.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I think the dynamics of the platforms warp us, and that's why we have a website, and we've talked about that at length.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

We have a subscription now because I think people paying us directly.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

It just keeps us away from the influence of algorithms in a way.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

And it sounds like in watching your announcement video and reading your tweets and some of the coverage of going to be a nonprofit, that being a nonprofit for you is in some way insulation from what an investor would have you do to make more money on these platforms in that way.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Right, because if you want all the videos to be free, they have to exist on those platforms because free and no one watching them is not useful.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Free and everyone watching them is useful.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Yeah, the only thing that we want is like the base level thing that we want is, you know, you don't have impact without reach.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Yeah, and the platforms offer you reach, and then there's just a series of incentives the algorithms create that make people do bad things.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

And being a nonprofit provides you some insulation from those things.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Yes, I think so.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I think that a thing that I'm moving over to being a board member rather than an owner, and I think that a big thing that that board will be constructed for is to make sure that we don't let...