Hank Green

I'm flattered to be here.

You're doing a very interesting thing in a very different way than I think anybody else in media, which is why I think it's really going to be exciting to talk to you about this stuff and also try and figure out

The whys and hows that you can do that.

But to start, usually I don't really tend to go in that much for origin stories.

I think they're usually mostly just like a way to sort of make people think that they could imagine that they could learn something from the very particular circumstances that one person experienced, which I think are going to be different from other people's.

And also a way for people to toot their own horns.

But can you give me an origin story of Dropout from...

the beginning of Dropout.

So we don't need to get into like 2006 and college humor and stuff, but just hit me with like, how did Dropout end up in your hands?

So this was who owned CollegeHumor?

Yeah.

Just go OTT, as they say.

And there was a collection of- I'm not sure exactly what the top we're going over is, but we're going over the top of something.

And the things are always changing.

Yeah.

And also, you're not just doing the YouTube thing, where certainly you're selling against views, but also you're selling on these platforms that decide whether or not you get the views that can have their priorities shift in ways that are going to be advantageous or not to your business.

And that's always going to be their idea.

And everybody knows once you break trois, it's just a mess in there.

Somebody's always getting left behind.

That's a business rule.