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What's it like to work at Linus Media Group?

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Well, I think it's great.

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I mean, my name's on the building.

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You know how that feels, walking up and being like,

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yeah, my name's on the building.

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But if you want the real answer,

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you'll probably have to ask the poor schmucks

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who do the actual grunt work around here.

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So we made a deal.

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They said, if you agree not to watch the video,

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we will give the viewers the real honest answer.

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And I kind of went, okay.

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I remember thinking, this guy is so quirky.

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Psychotic.

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Petite.

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Hyperactive insanity.

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Yeah, somewhat, like, insane.

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Slightly insane, like, not much insane.

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I mean, we're not dead in the water yet,

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so, uh...

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I got there at 5.01.

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No answer.

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And my first thoughts are, holy crap,

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this guy is so intense

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that I'm a minute late for my interview,

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he locks up shop, leaves, doesn't even consider me.

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He's coming at you with all this energy

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and all this drive,

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and you just kind of have to match that.

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Like, has no semblance of personal time

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and is more than willing to, like,

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spend every hour of his life working.

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Linus, as a leader, I think,

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has always been specifically good

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at inspiring drastic action.

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And he transforms that once you're already here

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to inspire gratuitous amounts of overtime

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that may or may not be.

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Linus had this idea to make videos

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about building a computer

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to a level that no one else had ever tried to make.

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So this was our first build guide.

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It took us, like, 18 hours.

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Close down the retention ARM.

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Little bit of strength required here.

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I think we finished at, like, 4 a.m.

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I have never...

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I have never regretted anything more

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than taking the job at Linus Media Group

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for the first two weeks.

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And after that, things got a lot better.

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We had so much work to do.

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Linus is very decisive,

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but he's very vague in his decisiveness.

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He doesn't really know

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how you're going to do something,

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just what you're going to do.

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When Linus tells you that something will be done

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in two hours,

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I always double the amount of time in my head.

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And more often than not, I am correct.

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Quite a bit of fun to work for

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in, like, a constantly disorganized

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and a bit wacky kind of way.

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So I've never used a reciprocating saw.

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Ooh!

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And it's plugged in.

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I get kind of weird demands from Linus.

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Like I said, not working with him much,

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I get demands like,

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can you paint my face?

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Can you find this?

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Can you do that?

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So as a leader,

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I'd say he's very random and interesting.

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So I never heard one of my bosses, like,

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fart audibly from across the office before, but...

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If you're wondering at any point

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if we're actually...

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as unorganized and incompetent

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as we seem on camera,

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it's actually like that.

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We're not faking that.

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And actually, this was a mistake.

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I mean, everything about this was a mistake,

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but this in particular, filling the glass,

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that was a mistake.

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He had, like, the jankiest setup.

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And as I walk away,

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the test bench fell.

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And it's probably the scariest moment in my life.

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Linus comes back, everything's on the floor.

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We lost the footage of something

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that had been shot earlier,

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where Linus was installing something in his attic.

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Linus was definitely yelling and swearing.

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Like, I've broken some stuff back since before,

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and he was mad.

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But that's, like, really short,

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you know, a short burst of anger.

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It's very rare where you're freaking out and I'm not.

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I only freak out when it's really, really bad.

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Whenever he's like,

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no, no, it's okay.

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And then he walks away.

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What?

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That's the GPS antenna.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Everything is fine.

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Everything is fine.

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And I am calm.

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And once he gets to a certain boiling point,

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you can just, you can feel it.

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I'm kind of mad where he gets really high-pitched and goes,

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I was doing the WAN doc,

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and I messed up one of the topics,

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and he came upstairs and he just said, you're fired.

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And I didn't know if he was joking or not.

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So I just continued working and everything went fine.

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And then about a week later,

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I accidentally copyright striked our channel.

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And then Linus said, you're fired.

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And I thought that time maybe he was serious.

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Cause you know,

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I almost took down the whole channel single-handedly.

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I've had some terrible, terrible bosses.

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Sometimes, you know,

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I've been able to get one,

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either like a boss who knew what they were doing,

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or like a boss who like cares about people.

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But getting both of those together has been a new experience.

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He's really professional,

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like an efficient,

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like he doesn't like to waste time.

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I am nothing if not willing to do things entirely the wrong way

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for the sake of finishing this video right now.

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After 30 minutes of me sitting out front of the door,

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just waiting for somebody to like answer the door.

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He calls me and he goes,

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oh, I completely forgot about her interview.

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And Linus is like, this question is stupid.

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This one's dumb.

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I don't want to ask this one.

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And then he puts it, puts down the paper and goes,

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all right, are you into bestiality?

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Do you watch bestiality?

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I was like the 25th person to get interviewed.

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By the time he got to me and I was last,

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I think he had a real strict regimen of what he wanted to get through.

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And he probably didn't have any time or energy

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to waste on any bullshit.

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Excuse me?

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He's like, yeah, you heard me.

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And I'm like, uh, no.

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And he's like, ha, just messing with you.

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He found my Twitter and read all of my tweets,

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asked me why I tweeted that,

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what that meant, who I follow, why I follow them.

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So that was a little bit offside for me.

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It was fine, but a little bit strange.

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The first interaction I had with Linus,

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actually on the phone, was my first interview.

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It was at an Indian restaurant with his children.

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It was kind of like a first date,

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but someone brought along a baby.

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The whole thing was full of really bad jokes.

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So I was, a lot of nervous laughs and stuff like that.

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Yeah, it was like an interview, but I didn't know it was an interview.

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I was just literally there to have lunch with him.

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One of the things that I actually like about the relationship

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that Linus and I have is I can no filter and he can no filter

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and everyone's fine when we're done.

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When I started, he didn't really know what he was doing.

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I didn't really know what I was doing.

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And we both kind of grew into figuring that out.

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Undo this stupid thing and then undo this other stupid, ridiculous thing.

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They are stupid.

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I'm sure there's stuff that comes up that catches him off guard or whatever,

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but he seems to be pretty on top of everything at all times.

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Very well prepared for everything that comes up.

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I hate when he's right.

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He hates when I'm right.

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But we're both often right about the things that we're respectively working on.

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And that balance is fun and also frustrating.

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I'm pretty sure I've only probably talked to him one-on-one

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for maybe about I want to say 15 minutes.

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Been here for two years because he's just so busy just back and forth.

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It's kind of like hide-and-seek.

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I always need to find him.

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On the car ride to or from somewhere is when we can actually talk about whatever.

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So that's when you actually get to know him as a person.

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Whereas when we're all at work,

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there's really

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time for nothing else but working.

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Throughout the years,

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I kind of saw Linus as like this crazy maniac

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and I was just trying to help him do whatever it was he was trying to achieve.

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But recently because I've taken on managerial roles,

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he's more of a teacher than before.

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And I don't want to turn into him,

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but I'd like to steal some of his skills.

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It's a lot more structured here than I think a lot of people would assume.

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Compared to the beginning,

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things are a lot more corporate.

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It seems like we're a lot less mobile or agile to just change directions.

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There's intense meetings and there's deep statistical analysis.

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All this kind of stuff,

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which doesn't make it feel as like fun.

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It's actually really refreshing to have a working relationship with somebody who's,

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well,

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the CEO of the company.

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But,

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you know,

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we're working together side by side.

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He understands.

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He understands the value of spending good money on employees and equipment

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so that the product that we make,

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which is videos in this case,

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is good.

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$138,000 US dollars for two red cameras and the bulls**t accessories that they make you buy.

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$60,000 in hard drives to store all this crap on.

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Another $20,000 in NVMe SSDs so that all of our editors can edit red footage all the time.

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JARED in the comments and comments.

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You know,

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he cares,

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you know,

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he cares about all of us that work here.

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He cares about you guys watching

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and he's just he's just a loving father.

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I don't know.

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I don't I mean he says he's not going to watch it.

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That's bulls**t.

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Everyone knows that Linus is going to watch this and then he's going to come around be like,

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so um.

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Heard you think I say it's fine all the time when I'm mad.

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I've always felt that a leader should ride a horse

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and

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I've never seen him on horseback.

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So I guess if I were gonna say one thing

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that Linus could do to improve himself as a leader

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in my eyes, is I'd like to see him on a horse more.

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It would make me feel a lot more at ease.

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