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Ryan Burton

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
410 total appearances

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We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

50 million subscribers?

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

I have technically maybe like 10 million subscribers across the two channels.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

I have like 8 million on one.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

50 million on our most viewed video.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

That is crazy.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

I interrupted you.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

No, you're good.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

So from four years of going to Drexel University, Noah and I just were going in the libraries, filming those videos, doing skits,

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

experimenting with all different types of concepts.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

And we went from about 13,000 subscribers our freshman year to about 5 million by the time we graduated.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

And what did you learn there in order to like blow up that way?

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

I don't think we would have blown up without it.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

It was less about the curriculum or the actual knowledge and the camera skills and whatnot.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

We learned the basics that we then applied to our filmmaking and videos.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

But it's more about what you do

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

in the real world or like you can work you can go to school and do all the classwork and essays and then leave there with nothing essentially you have your piece of paper and then nothing but it was what we were doing in between the classes that made all the difference it was speaking with other people including them in our videos uh basically building this sort of community and these uh how do i phrase this we essentially just

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

took advantage of the resources we had.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

So we had computer labs available to us.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

So being able to utilize friends our age, hop in this video, be in this, let's go to the library, let's film in this classroom, let's film here at midnight.

We're Out of Time
The Truth About Going Viral: Ryan Burton on Success, Anxiety & Growth

And they were basically free sets for our film, for our concepts, for our comedy skits.