Hank Green

Teachers love us.

Students love us.

Administrators don't know that we exist because we don't have to sell ourselves to anybody because it's free.

And people watch because they want to learn, even if they're not inside of school.

So we have this thing that we could easily leverage.

This is why if you had a normal company, you would turn this into some kind of freemium model, or you would be positioning yourself to sail to an ed tech company, et cetera.

That's what you would normally do.

We keep not doing that.

And I think that honestly, it's like held us back from developing some projects because we don't wanna do things that would lead us too quickly or too aggressively into the sort of business shape direction.

And so, because one of the tenets has always been like this, the videos should be free for everyone forever.

That's what we keep saying to people.

That's what we say to the staff internally.

And so this is like really a project that is about impact, which means two things.

Like one, you got to like you're adding value if you're reaching more people.

And so anything that that that constricts the number of people you reach is decreasing your impact.

And then and then like how much good are you doing with the content?

Like like what how much value is the content itself delivering?

And I think that all of our shows are doing that work and we want to keep them all open.

We want to continue to compete in the online video space.

We don't want to lock ourselves up or lock teachers into using us because then it's like, oh, we did it.