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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

Yeah.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Yeah, that company had a structure.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I'm going to ask you about how you make decisions.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

This is going to be great.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

You recently changed the ownership structure of that company.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

So you and John founded it.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

You owned 100% of it.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Notably, you didn't take any investment.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I think there was a YouTube grant somewhere along the way.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

There was an early YouTube grant, yeah.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

In that period where YouTube was like, does anyone want to make videos?

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Here's some money.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Yeah, and honestly โ€“

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I think that that program is considered a failure internally, but I think that it was extremely successful if you only look at the money they gave to YouTubers.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

If you look at the money that they gave to, like, media companies, it was a very bad investment.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

But if you only look at, like, Rhett and Link and Phil DeFranco and the Fine Brothers and Hank and John, there's just, like, it turns out there was a lot of good stuff came out of that.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I'm curious about that, too.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I agree with you, by the way.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

And Vox Media received some of that money.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Yeah.