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Everyone had ample warning that we were doing this today. So, you're going to see two things. Why a YouTuber could
possibly need nearly a hundred people on staff and some Oscar worthy performances
in the category of looking busy while my boss is standing over me watching. Why
don't we start with James? What's up, boss? Wow, you're doing a great job
entering that pin. You almost found the number pad. James, what would you say
you do here? Enable the other writers to do their best. Wow. And that after all
the rehearsal you obviously did. You see how concise that is? Pretty good. That
was good writing. It's good writing. In all seriousness though, I'm going to
need you to explain what you do because I can't even remember it anymore. I know you manage the writing team, which is
like a dozen people now. I help unblock them. I review some scripts cuz
remember, it's not just LT, it's also Mac Address and Channel Super Fun. I
make sure that their shoots happen on time. And when they do, I get ice cream
sandwiches for everyone. And when they don't,
uh, Ah, man. Is everyone else here on Are you on probation still? No. No,
you're not. What do you mean? Like 6 months? Yeah. in November. You've been
here that long? Yeah, like 10 months ago. Okay. Uh, what would you say you
do, Adam? Uh, I'm a writer and I make videos.
Wow, that's fantastic. Computer. Well,
this one's coming along great. You just wait. He's actually the one organizing
this very video. So, he had to leap over here in his LT shorts. Nice, by the way.
Love him. And pretend to write. Where the hell is everybody? We've got a
probationary employee. Alex isn't at his desk. Anony's not at his desk. Jake's
not even here. We're going to have to find some of these guys at some point. But in total, we have eight writers for
LT, 12 writers total, and we do a total of how many videos a week? Like 15. 15?
I don't think that's right. We do six LTS. One WAN Show, that's seven. Two
techies, that's nine. Three short circuits, that's 12. A Mac Address
theoretically a Channel Super Fun theoretically. And don't forget about
Techlink, that's another three a week. And don't forget about They're just
Move. and dad the the Just Movies podcast. Plof, what do you focus on? Uh,
I write things. No. My god. But what? Uh, display stuff and other things that
we cover. I do all the random stuff.
Would you believe he hosts too? Oh yeah, sometimes. Yeah, I do. The SC is fun.
You're writing about a water block right now. I can see. I was going to do other
things on screen for a j for a joke, but I think Yeah, maybe something you
actually did cuz I wrote most of that. Keep up the good work. You're going to
walk right past me. Okay, where are we going now? This is completely off the
rails at this point. Go talk to horse or something. Fine.
Go find someow. No, we're
the flow. Okay, well my work. Wait, did I Oh my god, Dennis, don't leave. What
are you I want to lick my face. What are you doing? Okay, we've got our channel
managers for Mac Address as well as Channel Super Fun. Dennis used to be an
editor, but now he's like, "Why are you always so close to me?
Don't you just I can't hold it. He's like being put on the spot. Yeah, that's
closer than I was holding it. I'll hold it. Okay. I don't Why are you moving
away? Why are you so close? Just you can push Jonathan. Yeah. So, you do MAC
address? I do Mac Address. Hello. Yes, I can do this if you prefer. I like to
think of myself as someone who tries to show everyone here why Apple does the
things they do. Right now, I haven't actually watched it yet, but I love the
title of the most recent video. I am going to watch it soon. Am I becoming a
hater? Do you think that being around all of us has made you see Apple in a
different light? I've always been a hater. I've always been cynical. All
right, that's fair enough. Now, Dennis, you used to be an editor here and now
what on earth do you do? I go I mostly I
spend my time
I spend a lot of time at your house and watch you naked three times total.
I wouldn't describe it as super fun, but is it at least a little fun? It's not.
It's not fun. It's not fun. So, Arthur,
what do you do here? Uh, I make memes. I mean, that is an actual position that we
actually have. But in all seriousness, these guys have been absolutely crushing
it. We've got Floatplane exclusives that have been just off the freaking
rails awesome lately. whether it's cutting room floor or original content.
Uh these guys have been doing a great job of I mean yeah making memes I guess
that really is like a big part of it among us. If you want to learn more
about some of the people that we have here you can check out the meet the team
series over where are you going? I'm going downstairs.
If you want to learn more about some of the people here the meet the team series
over on Floatplane is awesome. and their exclusive kind of behind the scenes content that Arthur and his
helper put together. Where am I supposed to go next? Supposed to be up in the
lab. You're supposed to go to business. I think you're supposed to go to business. I'm informed that I'm supposed
to talk to the business team next. We'll start with the one and only Colton
Potter, who surprisingly has not actually been fired yet. Yeah, for I'm
head of business development. I do business. What are you doing with this? Why are you holding it like that? Hey,
I'm going to let you finish, but just I do business stuff. Marketing, sales,
events. We're doing an event right now. Yeah. Land party. It's going to be
awesome. By the time you see this, it'll be over. So, don't try and sign up.
Yeah. Cool. That's it. That's it. Well, you said you were going to ask me something. Yeah. I don't want to ask
this in cam. Now, for the rest of the business team, where the hell is
everyone? Uh, vacation helping blur.
Okay. Well, fine. Go. All right. Hey,
Sean, sales supervisor here. Uh, oversee our accounts team. Essentially, we work
with all of our different partners from like the Intels, the AMDs, the
Samsung's. Now, how many customers would you say that each of our sales people
works with? Oh, I'd say at any given time, probably 30 to 40.
We're not going to get any applications anymore ever because that's a lot of
clients to have to work with. The business team also handles procurement,
but neither of those guys appear to be here either. Oh, they've moved. We used
to manage the relationship with all the brands ourselves, but now we have Matt
and his helper who is on probation. And
what is it that you would say you do? I would say that we talk to all the brands
ahead of time so that we know what's coming out next, when it's coming out,
whether or not he can get his hands on it, and whether or not it's drop proof.
That's always pretty critical. Oh my god, enough.
Thanks, Matt. Over here, we've got the accounting department, some of which is
still on probation. It used to be just my wife and now it's my wife is gone.
Okay, she's gone and Jake's gone. What is going on here? Oh, this is This
office is probably full of confidential stuff. Blur everything. Also in this
office is other and then another
probationary employee. Wow. Other has some really cool Lego flowers. Are these
cool or what? All right. Once we've procured the stuff. Yeah. Where does it
go? It goes to your mama. No. Okay.
Logistics. Logistics. Let's go. Welcome to the hold. This is the logistics
department where Serge, Jamie, Nicholas,
Dan, Alex, Dick, all do their Oh my god,
it is a mess in here. Dan. No, it's not. Give Dan the mic.
Are you kidding me right now? No. Hi.
These guys do everything from inventorying and stickering things that
come in to rearranging sets to right now
building up the computers for our whale ticket holders at the whale land. That's
right. How does it feel to be working on something so pointless given that four
out of the five whale ticket holders told us they already have better computers anyway? It's a good use of my
time. Better than sweeping up uh you know HQ2 in this heat. Yeah. Yeah,
that's fair. Is that where everyone else is? Yeah. Oh, you should show the other cool thing you did recently with the
mockup with the thing with the panels. Oh, yeah, sure. Here is your mockup.
Check this out. That's the theater room at my house. And those are the exact
dimensions of our LTT acoustic panel
frames that we're working on. So, we are going to absolutely deck this room out
with them. How many uh did you say I would need of the of the little modular
connectors? So, yeah, it looks like we need 1,700.
Cool. Yeah. All right, let me tell you something I
know about Serge. All right, fire away. When something needs to be picked up at
my house, Serge is the guy. Oh, is that
all you think I do around here? No, but darn it, you are so fast at it. Well, if
you're wondering what else I do, I also handle your crossber stuff that comes
across. So, Commamino server, you name it. Like the EMC thing, testing chamber.
I was dealing with that as well. Little import things. Yeah, things I also deal with customs and brokerage and I look
read all the trade laws. so you don't have to. That's actually pretty
critical. Um, Nicholas, I would say, is our specialist when it comes to cooling,
component repair, stuff like that, like super geeky stuff. Uh, 3D printing, that
kind of thing. Uh, Alex D is the manager
of the team here. So, he coordinates, I
mean, really the higher level things that logistics does. So, kitting out a
new building, for example, is going to fall on mostly Alex and Dan. And then
the rest of them are going to make sure that it actually happens. And then they do a lot of the making sure it actually
happens. We have five people in logistics now. I mean, if you look
around though, there is a lot to keep organized. So, here's incoming items to
be inventoried. Here's things to be returned to inventory. I brought this
back from my house by the way. Um, so that Yeah, that was me. I just dropped
it there this morning. Picking up after me is a lot of work and not everything
they do is logistic stuff. the set design and actually the production setup
over here, particularly the audio was handled by the logistics department.
Everything from design to fabrication to building out the set to actually running
all of these cables and making sure that the WAN Show and and they're just movies
podcast sound and look awesome. Where is
everybody? I'm here. I know I know you're there,
but like Andy's not here and David's not here. I'm kidding, David. I'm kidding.
I'm kidding. Brandon, I think many of our viewers probably aren't familiar
with you. So, yeah, I've never I haven't worked here for very long. Yeah, not very long. Definitely fresh meat. What
do I do here? Yeah. Well, if it has anything to do with lighting or pointing
a camera at something and it's on one of our channels, I'm one of the shooters.
So, one of the people who is doing exactly what's happening to me right
now. Very good. In all seriousness though, massive shout out to those of
you who actually notice and care about what these guys do. I actually forwarded
you guys some comments and some emails that I got recently where people are
just like, "Yeah, you know, I don't really notice the production values on LT until I go to other channels."
Honestly speaking, I'd say that is the highest praise that you can give to a
team like this where they just make it look kind of effortless. Um, really?
Yeah, I promise you it's not effortless.
It's very It's very high. The stuff is like actually heavy. That's something
all of our camera guys have in common is like they're not stick things. They
actually have to like move stuff a lot. Uh Andy here is our sort of supervisor
for the camera department. So uh what do you do that's different from just
operating a camera? Merge photo and uh I sometime like help writing feedback for
new shooters. I do a little bit like Chinese thing procurement. Oh that's
right. Yeah. Andy's our guy. If there's some like super weird thing we need from
China, this guy has connections. Yeah, it's kind of weird actually. Naturally,
once we shoot the videos, somebody's got to edit them. Let's see if my production
manager is here. Ah, yes. One of the
original gangsters, Edel Yago. Does this
actually work? Like, is that Yeah,
Ed manages our editing team, which is now a total of Holy crap. Do you have
like 15 people? Did you count yourself? 12 13. Did you count the camera, guys?
15. Technically, you overseas. Who said 15? Me. Okay. Yeah, you're right. Are
you going to tell them what you do or do you want me to tell them what you do? Ed's camera shy. You should see his
first video that he hosted way back in the day. We tried him out as an on
camera host and he was he was so sweaty.
I had to run back and forth between the camera and prompter.
Uh, what do I do here? That's really good question. Really good question. And
I am going to pack my things because I knew this was going to come. Ed does
scheduling. He also does hiring for the editing department. And lately he's
actually been doing a ton of R&D including coordinating with YouTube as
well as Adobe on HDR content. Name Deleted here is finally a dedicated
thumbnail artist. We should have had one freaking ages ago. There are YouTube
channels literally a tenth our size that have a dedicated thumbnail artist. Uh
she also does a ton of the merch photos now, including both the photography and
the photoshopping of them. The delightful one with the dog pulling down
my pants. Uh that was her work. And then we've also got Scott. What a dick.
That's Scott. Sorry. Uh what would you say you do here? Um I document Linus,
drop tips. Everything you drop, I I got to show the public. Thank you. That was
bound to happen. All right. We've also got Emily, who is an editor plus. Plus,
yes, I help out a little bit. Yeah, when Ed and Nicole are not here, then I make
sure that these guys do their job. Good job, Emily. And she even knows that she
does it, which is excellent. Also in here, we've got the one and only, the
meme kingiest, Alex Puffin. Hi.
You're going to give me nothing? No.
When he edits this video, he's going to make it so that his segment is like the
balmst segment out of the whole video. And he's going to do it purely in
editing. That's really his superpower.
Oh wow. The whole microphone was a lie. This is just a road wireless goto. Oh
yeah. What's up? What's up? You're relatively
new. I forget your name. I'm sorry. Andrew. See, you don't have a name like Scott where I can just be like, "That's
Scott. What a dick." Yeah. Well, I'm happy about that. Yeah, it worked out
great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What do I do? I edit and I shoot some stuff as well. All
right. Fantastic. We have a lot to shoot and a lot to edit. Robert. Hello. I'm
Robert. I'm one of the editors. And you know you're Robert. You're standing in the editing. You know you're an editor.
Come on, man. Help me out here. Basically, my job is I make him look good. That's a tough job. Hi, Nicole.
Hi. Hi. Everybody knew I was coming. Come
on, people. Um, I help schedule videos.
I help Ed with a lot of other things as
well. I assign people to videos and I heard that Alex is now assigned to this
video. Oh, hi Mark. Hi. How are you? I mean, uh, I did not hit her.
That was That's That's a line. Okay. Mark's one of our editors, resident
hoarder, resident Mac user. Why is this
still here? Do you know how many times I've tried to give this thing away? This
weird NZXT helmet. I took it. It was great. I can see that. But you know the
problem that you have is not going to get any better by taking more random
crap. It's not data. What? Oh, no. You've seen Oh, you're talking about my
call. Yeah, I'm talking about your other hoarding problem. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have Okay. Yeah. Uh, fair enough. Throw
it away. But it's at work. It's not. It's not supposed to be at work. I'll
throw it away. Thank you. Hi, Marcus. What are you working on? I'm working on
Techquickie, so I just stare at whoever
is hosting eight hours a day. Okay, cool. Uh James knows he has a little
something right in the crotch area there, right? Yeah, I should I should uh
crop it out there. Thanks. That's a lot better. Yeah, that's everyone down here.
Y that's good. Probably. Yeah, except your uh coc chief.
Cool. I think we all know what David does. David operates the camera and also
is on the There's Movies podcast and also contributes to some of our retro
gaming content because he's turned into something of an enthusiast lately. This
is the thing. This whole work from home trend. You want to make a video, you
want to take a group picture or something, everybody's freaking at home,
man. I was talking to another YouTuber who was commiserating with me about like
business overhead and they gave me the number for their monthly payroll, and
they were like, "Yeah, man. It's like," and I was like, "Let me tell you." We
had customer care agents like Adam and Nolan who take care of all of the
incoming tickets for our ow. Dang it.
Merch sales. We've got everything from pillows to t-shirts to to plushies to
the upcoming backpack. We did a video recently showing off a lot of the stuff
that's coming down the line. At that time, h this is unfortunate. At least
some of these guys were in office. But
today, I don't see Bridget. I don't see Matthew. I don't see Alama Day. But the
engineering department is here.
Da da. You're not live, right? No. No, we're not live. Act like we are, though.
No. So, be nice. Am I not nice? No. No. Otherwise, why
would I say that? That hurts. Kyle's the engineering manager here. He's been
tasked with a multitude of projects. Uh, most importantly, our d LT screwdriver,
but he's also worked on like a battery bank, like RGB accessory of some sort.
He helps the other guys out when they run into roadblocks and has actually
helped us out a lot when it comes to just general procurement best practices
because he actually has experience in it unlike us. Um, I also did some of the
initial hiring for the Labs and kicking that off the ground before Gary came
along and he has great taste in cars.
Honestly, it was so validating for me when our first like actual engineering
hire came on staff and drove the exact same car as me. I was like, "Now that is
a practical car. Stop timing." Oh, hi.
How it goes. Is there anything you can actually talk about or is everything top
secret? I mean, I guess I kind of almost everything. So, yeah. No, I don't have
anything new. Tiny is our resident
physical, you know, therapy guru. You
can you can see that he's the king when it comes to balance boards. And that's
not all of the things. That's two of the many things. Look how many things there
are. I actually designed this thing and own a patent on it. Really? Really?
Really? So, this is a patented balance board. And I won't die if I try to use
it. I would not say that. Hold on. No, no, no. I'm good. I'm good. I got this.
I got this. All right, Jacob. What's up?
Hello. How's it going? This is exciting.
Jacob, can we show the power bar holder?
I gave all of my prototypes to Are you freaking kidding me? He's filming a
video. It is coming. Spoiler. How about the power brick one? Wait, no, I showed
that one in the last one. The power bar one. You don't have a single power bar
holder? How about an early prototype? Uh, show me a crappy power bar holder.
So, what does he do here? I'm doing product design with these guys. I'm
working on some stuff that involves magnetism and also uh high volume
production. So, I'll work on quality control and like uh validating suppliers
and things like that. Yeah. So, I went ahead and ran off with every single
common power bar I could find and ordered more online and stuff. The goal
here was I wanted to have something that interfaces with as many of these keyhole
slots as we could and then make it as I
suppose easy to use as possible and not finicky. This is an older prototype.
Yeah. So, it's a little finicky. Ease just put it on there. And once that's on
there, if you have a metal strip on the bottom of your desk or a metal surface,
there goes your power bar. And most of them are going to have two of them on
them obviously, so it'll totally hold it in place. And this is also much weaker
compared to the final one. We have final ones that are so strong due to magnetic
simulation stuff that you can actually unplug things without it pulling off the
the power bar. And you can see even this one, the early one holds as long as it's
right above the magnet. Lloyd designs delightful t-shirts like this one. Got
some new plushies coming. All that kind of good stuff. You have no idea what
these are, but they're cute. Sarah does more graphic design as well as product
design for things like our notebooks, which you can find on LT. Oh, wait. This
isn't ours. Our notebooks that we sell on ltstore.com, as well as our toques or
beanies. And in here, we've got the business folks from Creator Warehouse.
So, Bridget and Kyle manage their respective departments. And then Nick is
in charge of the whole shebang. He used to be our business development manager
for LTT, but then moved on to bigger and better things to be replaced temporarily
by Colton until we find a suitable, you know, long-term fit for the job. Then
this is Natalie. She works on just like logistics basically, but not like what
our logistics department does, like like the logistics of like containers of
things coming in.
Crap. Serge, you were saying you like drive
things. I do. Yes. Okay. Can you drive us to where? Yeah, we need to go to lab
2. Sure. Let's go. Okay. After a short ride, we've arrived at Lab 2. I mean,
most of you only see the videos. But if it wasn't for the large team that we
have behind the scenes, there would be no way for me to lose money on a scale
like this. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Floor space. Floor space. Marketing floor
space. New marketing guy. What does the marketing guy do? We've hired a lot of
people lately. Everyone we've blurred or covered up started in the last three
months. It's been insane. Uh the marketing guy does marketing for Float
Plane, LMG's channels, LTX, and that's
it. LT Store. You probably haven't noticed it yet because he just started.
And also like Colton's been guiding him. So, can only expect so much. Yeah. He's
got to be a self starter. You know what I'm saying? What's up, Jake? Okay. Hi.
Hi. This is the Jake Show. Hello. What's going on? Okay, you're taking us way
over to the probationary employee again. Hey, probation. Come on. You can't do
making extra work for the editor. So, Lionus, what what do you do here? Well,
I roll in anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes
late. I I get dragged around by James um
to wherever it is that I'm supposed to be or Jake. Jake's actually been doing
more of like a supervisory role for the writing department. James was on Patly
for a bit. Screw that guy. Jake had to Jake had to cover for him. Um I look
pretty. for the camera. Is that a Dennis Leo
exclusive? Yeah. Thank you. This has been This has been wonderful. The
cooling alone for this 150 attendee land
party is apparently costing $13,000.
Chase, get over here and explain. No, you can't point there. Did Colton
approve this? $13,000 for cooling? Uh,
yeah, but you also approved a land party in the summer, so Oh, so it's my fault.
Chase is our events coordinator. He does like lounge night. He does this. He does
kind of large weird sponsored shoots like that PC or no PC thing. Yeah, he
was hired to run LTX and then boom, pandemic lol jokes. Um, thanks for that.
Great job on LTX. We found them, folks.
Alex D, manager of the logistics department, who takes my dreams and
makes them close to reality. Yeah, sometimes they don't turn out the right
color. Yeah, the walls in there are supposed to be gray. Uh, can you explain
the dusty brown? Um, yeah, it's kind of like a uh um Jamie put it the right way.
It's like a uh um a beverage holder.
Well, anyway, uh this was coordinated at
the last minute. So, this was a collaborative effort between logistics
and event planning. Uh this is the $13,000
air conditioner that because it was so last minute, we couldn't just buy our
own air conditioner and put it up on the roof. We're just blowing away money. See
you later money. So that's pretty cool. Good work. Yeah. Well, I mean, if you
want to put AC on there, it's at least 150,000. Are you serious? Yeah, that's
the lowest quote I got. You know, we're doing that though, right? Oh, yeah. I know. It won't happen till next year,
though, unfortunately. Holy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Flow plane. Where the hell's Flow
Plane? I know two of our Floatplane people are attending the land, but
they're mostly like scattered around the globe. They build our own like uh
inventory management system on top of maintaining our video streaming platform
which now has over 27,000 paying subscribers. Shout out you guys.
Flowplane. Oh yeah, they do a ton of the dev work for ltstore.com. Did we miss
anyone? God, there's so many people who work here. Oh yeah, John, one of our
writers. He's based in North Carolina. And I think I think that's everybody
from my checklist. Okay, that's a lot of people, Lionus. Yeah. And aren't we
hiring more? linusmedi.com/job
I think or something like that is where you can find the latest listings. We got
to like chill out though. You know we're headed for like a global recession, right? You wouldn't know it walking
around here. See you later. If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe go check out
the creator warehouse specific tour where we talked a little bit more in
detail about what the people there do with the obsession exception of Nick who
runs the whole thing which was really funny. Uh he doesn't think it's funny. He's going to be mad when he sees this.