What's it like to work at Linus Media Group?
Well, I think it's great.
I mean, my name's on the building.
You know how that feels, walking up and being like,
yeah, my name's on the building.
But if you want the real answer,
you'll probably have to ask the poor schmucks
who do the actual grunt work around here.
So we made a deal.
They said, if you agree not to watch the video,
we will give the viewers the real honest answer.
And I kind of went, okay.
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I remember thinking, this guy is so quirky.
Psychotic.
Petite.
Hyperactive insanity.
Yeah, somewhat, like, insane.
Slightly insane, like, not much insane.
I mean, we're not dead in the water yet,
so, uh...
I got there at 5.01.
No answer.
And my first thoughts are, holy crap,
this guy is so intense
that I'm a minute late for my interview,
he locks up shop, leaves, doesn't even consider me.
He's coming at you with all this energy
and all this drive,
and you just kind of have to match that.
Like, has no semblance of personal time
and is more than willing to, like,
spend every hour of his life working.
Linus, as a leader, I think,
has always been specifically good
at inspiring drastic action.
And he transforms that once you're already here
to inspire gratuitous amounts of overtime
that may or may not be.
Linus had this idea to make videos
about building a computer
to a level that no one else had ever tried to make.
So this was our first build guide.
It took us, like, 18 hours.
Close down the retention ARM.
Little bit of strength required here.
I think we finished at, like, 4 a.m.
I have never...
I have never regretted anything more
than taking the job at Linus Media Group
for the first two weeks.
And after that, things got a lot better.
We had so much work to do.
Linus is very decisive,
but he's very vague in his decisiveness.
He doesn't really know
how you're going to do something,
just what you're going to do.
When Linus tells you that something will be done
in two hours,
I always double the amount of time in my head.
And more often than not, I am correct.
Quite a bit of fun to work for
in, like, a constantly disorganized
and a bit wacky kind of way.
So I've never used a reciprocating saw.
Ooh!
And it's plugged in.
I get kind of weird demands from Linus.
Like I said, not working with him much,
I get demands like,
can you paint my face?
Can you find this?
Can you do that?
So as a leader,
I'd say he's very random and interesting.
So I never heard one of my bosses, like,
fart audibly from across the office before, but...
If you're wondering at any point
if we're actually...
as unorganized and incompetent
as we seem on camera,
it's actually like that.
We're not faking that.
And actually, this was a mistake.
I mean, everything about this was a mistake,
but this in particular, filling the glass,
that was a mistake.
He had, like, the jankiest setup.
And as I walk away,
the test bench fell.
And it's probably the scariest moment in my life.
Linus comes back, everything's on the floor.
We lost the footage of something
that had been shot earlier,
where Linus was installing something in his attic.
Linus was definitely yelling and swearing.
Like, I've broken some stuff back since before,
and he was mad.
But that's, like, really short,
you know, a short burst of anger.
It's very rare where you're freaking out and I'm not.
I only freak out when it's really, really bad.
Whenever he's like,
no, no, it's okay.
And then he walks away.
What?
That's the GPS antenna.
Yeah.
Okay.
Everything is fine.
And I am calm.
And once he gets to a certain boiling point,
you can just, you can feel it.
I'm kind of mad where he gets really high-pitched and goes,
I was doing the WAN doc,
and I messed up one of the topics,
and he came upstairs and he just said, you're fired.
And I didn't know if he was joking or not.
So I just continued working and everything went fine.
And then about a week later,
I accidentally copyright striked our channel.
And then Linus said, you're fired.
And I thought that time maybe he was serious.
Cause you know,
I almost took down the whole channel single-handedly.
I've had some terrible, terrible bosses.
Sometimes, you know,
I've been able to get one,
either like a boss who knew what they were doing,
or like a boss who like cares about people.
But getting both of those together has been a new experience.
He's really professional,
like an efficient,
like he doesn't like to waste time.
I am nothing if not willing to do things entirely the wrong way
for the sake of finishing this video right now.
After 30 minutes of me sitting out front of the door,
just waiting for somebody to like answer the door.
He calls me and he goes,
oh, I completely forgot about her interview.
And Linus is like, this question is stupid.
This one's dumb.
I don't want to ask this one.
And then he puts it, puts down the paper and goes,
all right, are you into bestiality?
Do you watch bestiality?
I was like the 25th person to get interviewed.
By the time he got to me and I was last,
I think he had a real strict regimen of what he wanted to get through.
And he probably didn't have any time or energy
to waste on any bullshit.
Excuse me?
He's like, yeah, you heard me.
And I'm like, uh, no.
And he's like, ha, just messing with you.
He found my Twitter and read all of my tweets,
asked me why I tweeted that,
what that meant, who I follow, why I follow them.
So that was a little bit offside for me.
It was fine, but a little bit strange.
The first interaction I had with Linus,
actually on the phone, was my first interview.
It was at an Indian restaurant with his children.
It was kind of like a first date,
but someone brought along a baby.
The whole thing was full of really bad jokes.
So I was, a lot of nervous laughs and stuff like that.
Yeah, it was like an interview, but I didn't know it was an interview.
I was just literally there to have lunch with him.
One of the things that I actually like about the relationship
that Linus and I have is I can no filter and he can no filter
and everyone's fine when we're done.
When I started, he didn't really know what he was doing.
I didn't really know what I was doing.
And we both kind of grew into figuring that out.
Undo this stupid thing and then undo this other stupid, ridiculous thing.
They are stupid.
I'm sure there's stuff that comes up that catches him off guard or whatever,
but he seems to be pretty on top of everything at all times.
Very well prepared for everything that comes up.
I hate when he's right.
He hates when I'm right.
But we're both often right about the things that we're respectively working on.
And that balance is fun and also frustrating.
I'm pretty sure I've only probably talked to him one-on-one
for maybe about I want to say 15 minutes.
Been here for two years because he's just so busy just back and forth.
It's kind of like hide-and-seek.
I always need to find him.
On the car ride to or from somewhere is when we can actually talk about whatever.
So that's when you actually get to know him as a person.
Whereas when we're all at work,
there's really
time for nothing else but working.
Throughout the years,
I kind of saw Linus as like this crazy maniac
and I was just trying to help him do whatever it was he was trying to achieve.
But recently because I've taken on managerial roles,
he's more of a teacher than before.
And I don't want to turn into him,
but I'd like to steal some of his skills.
It's a lot more structured here than I think a lot of people would assume.
Compared to the beginning,
things are a lot more corporate.
It seems like we're a lot less mobile or agile to just change directions.
There's intense meetings and there's deep statistical analysis.
All this kind of stuff,
which doesn't make it feel as like fun.
It's actually really refreshing to have a working relationship with somebody who's,
well,
the CEO of the company.
But,
you know,
we're working together side by side.
He understands.
He understands the value of spending good money on employees and equipment
so that the product that we make,
which is videos in this case,
is good.
$138,000 US dollars for two red cameras and the bulls**t accessories that they make you buy.
$60,000 in hard drives to store all this crap on.
Another $20,000 in NVMe SSDs so that all of our editors can edit red footage all the time.
JARED in the comments and comments.
You know,
he cares,
you know,
he cares about all of us that work here.
He cares about you guys watching
and he's just he's just a loving father.
I don't know.
I don't I mean he says he's not going to watch it.
That's bulls**t.
Everyone knows that Linus is going to watch this and then he's going to come around be like,
so um.
Heard you think I say it's fine all the time when I'm mad.
I've always felt that a leader should ride a horse
and
I've never seen him on horseback.
So I guess if I were gonna say one thing
that Linus could do to improve himself as a leader
in my eyes, is I'd like to see him on a horse more.
It would make me feel a lot more at ease.
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