1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,840 My name is Jake Belvance, but I'm more commonly known as Belle, because there's just so many 2 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:10,000 jakes here, and I am a channel manager slash a producer for ShortCircuit, and I guess I'm a 3 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:15,600 host now too. I've been working here for just over two years now, which is wild. It feels like 4 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,600 it's been way longer. It's going to sound cheesy, but my favorite part about working here is the 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:25,760 people I know, blah, blah, blah. It should be something better, but genuinely some of my closest 6 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,600 friends are people who work here, who I've met through here. I even lived with Jeff and Chase 7 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:34,080 at one point, and you don't do that with people you don't like, and yet here we are going to concerts, 8 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:39,120 doing stuff together, and living our best lives. Other than the comment section, man, 9 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:43,360 I don't know if there's anything that's truly that bad about working here, other than the fact that 10 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:48,960 we just released a lot of content. I'm responsible for posting all the Short Circuits videos and 11 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,560 making sure they get shot, so it can be quite a bit of a workload, but even then I don't think 12 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:56,880 it's a bad thing. It's just something to be aware of is that we work hard and we play hard, 13 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:02,320 but we work hard. I mean, at first it's very scary. He's the CEO. I wasn't even a huge fan of LTT 14 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:07,840 when I started working here, but still knowing that this is the guy. This is the lioness of 15 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:11,920 lioness tech tips. It can be a little daunting, but once you get comfortable in a position and he 16 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,880 starts to get to know you, he's a great guy. When he's outside of his persona of on and getting ready 17 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:25,280 to be on camera, he's super generous, super nice, and usually intense a little bit when he's filming, 18 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,760 but I think in the way of wanting to be constructive and get things running the best they can do, 19 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:36,000 he farts a lot just constantly. I used to be the WAN Show producer and always farting. Short 20 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:50,800 circuit, always farting. And he knows it's true. Otherwise, it's just that passion for the craft 21 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,920 can sometimes seem blunt, but again, once you realize that it's because he wants to grow and 22 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,280 things to be better the next time and it's not actually directed at you, it is more frustrating 23 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:04,000 about the situation, you realize that it's not that bad, but the guess is that bad. I was employee 24 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,840 number 50 and now we've doubled that. It's crazy. We have a different building. I've gone from working 25 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,080 on the business team, writing the ad spots and selling those spots to now directing and managing 26 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:18,480 a channel and working with Labs to launch a new channel. And it seems like there's just big push 27 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:26,000 to just do bigger and better, which is great. And I cannot wait to see what we're able to do next 28 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,560 because I think this is only the beginning of the changes. And yeah, there's a lot coming. 29 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,960 I think what people get wrong about working here is that, you know, it is loud and rambunctious and 30 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:39,840 that we're kind of crazy influencer stuff all the time. But a lot of time it is just like quiet 31 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:43,680 people with their headphones on writing, people quiet with their headphones on editing, things 32 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,800 like that. Though we like to have fun in our off time and enjoy the lounge and go and do stuff, 33 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:53,440 there's also an awareness of like, we are a business trying to make 17 plus videos a week, 34 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:59,600 which means a lot of time we're just grinding, which I mean is like any workplace and people 35 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,680 probably just don't realize that how much goes into making these videos that you're watching for free, 36 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:09,440 or if you're my best friend or watching on Floatplane. I would say that we need more 37 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:14,560 ShortCircuit merch. I think there's not enough appreciation for it. But more realistically, 38 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:20,880 I think just adding more people and personalities and getting to show more vloggy stuff. And that 39 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:25,200 can be hard with something like Linus Tech Tips, the channel itself, because a lot of it is about 40 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:30,720 Linus or about tech tips. And I think having an opportunity to show off some of the great people 41 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:35,920 here that the camera, the audience doesn't get to meet that are really awesome people that we 42 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:39,040 we needed a chance to showcase them more. And that's what was really great about the Intel 43 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:43,440 upgrades and hopefully the AMD upgrades if it continues going on. So we could see these people, 44 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:51,120 but I think we should continue to raise up the new or next generation of hosts and personalities. 45 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:55,520 I started working at LTT because I used to watch the WAN Show and tackling those are the only two 46 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:59,600 LMG things I ever watched. It's because I just like wanted an update on the news. And I was watching 47 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,760 the WAN Show working an accounting job from home. And they were like, we're hiring a salesperson. 48 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:10,000 And I thought YOLO being a YouTuber sounds fun and started working here and happened to get the 49 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:16,000 job and work under Colton. And it's been an absolute blast. And I think my lucky stars every 50 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,000 day that happened to be watching the WAN Show and that they announced it because I did not want to 51 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:25,280 be sitting in my dark dank room during the heat of COVID, just crunching number numbers all day 52 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:32,240 when I could be instead doing what I love, which is entertaining people and working hard and writing 53 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:39,600 and changing processes. And it's a lot of fun here. I worked as a bookkeeper for a 54 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:46,640 accounting startup. So they used AI to track all of the business's expenses so that your 55 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:51,120 bookkeeping would just be done automatically as you use your card. So I was a guy checking to make 56 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:55,440 sure everything was correct. And then I helped them launch their banking division where they 57 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:00,080 actually had their own debit card. So I was on the team launching that, which is very different 58 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:06,640 from selling ad spots, writing, and then directing and producing content for YouTube. 59 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:12,880 But luckily I watch a lot of YouTube, which is my greatest skill set here. I just watch 60 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:16,640 so much YouTube. It's a sickness. The weirdest thing I've had to do here, there's a few. There's 61 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:21,920 the ASMR build guide in parentheses that everybody hated. The most offensive video title, that was 62 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,680 my first video. Then a couple of channel super funds. There was one that never aired, but it was 63 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:31,200 the tester for the ice block challenge one where they had to find the keys to unlock brief cases 64 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:38,160 to get a prize. We did one at what was lab one originally before we had HQ2, where we had to 65 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:43,200 get keys and unlock stuff and we filmed it all, but it never aired. And I got covered in gold paint. 66 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,120 I painted a Mona Lisa, which has been on the ShortCircuit set and other places that were 67 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:51,280 in the office. It's a good time. There's a lot of weird B roll shots. You'll just see me in 68 00:05:51,280 --> 00:05:56,240 shouting China joy in the background pretending to be businessman. You never know what you're 69 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,440 going to do any given week. I think that if you want to work here, it's really important to know 70 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:05,680 again that we work hard. Content is fun. A lot of these ideas are a lot of fun and executing 71 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,480 them is a lot of fun, but there's the pre-planning stage. There's the writing stage. There's the 72 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:16,400 getting sponsors. There's the calendar planning. There's the meeting with people to make sure this 73 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:21,200 idea works. There's a lot of things that go into a fun idea that you're not really aware of until 74 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:26,240 you're in it. Even this video would have a ton of meetings going through a lot of back and 75 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,640 forth to make sure this works perfectly that you just don't really imagine. You just kind of think, 76 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,640 oh, I want to build a fun PC. I'm going to build one. But no, it goes through a group of people. 77 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:39,760 It goes through a writing stage and a review stage and revisions to then editing and guidance. 78 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:44,000 There is a lot of stuff that goes through it, but if you put in the work, you will be rewarded. 79 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:49,360 And I think I luckily get to be a poster child of that from starting a business with no experience 80 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:55,040 on YouTube, to showing a passion for creating and changing processes, to then being the WAN 81 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:59,840 show producer, to ShortCircuit producer, to now working with Labs for things that will be coming 82 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:04,240 soon. It just shows that if you're really willing to put in the work, you will be rewarded, but 83 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:10,880 it's a lot of work and you need to put in your time to get those opportunities. 84 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:15,680 The first time I met Linus, I was actually at a grocery store in Vancouver and I was just shopping 85 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,960 around. I was like, that's Linus Tech Tips. Like even not as a fan, you know I'm from the memes and 86 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:23,280 such. And I saw him and I was like, hey man, I'm a big fan. I don't want to be rude and ask for a 87 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:28,080 photo or anything. He said, oh, be rude like you're being now. And I was like, huh? And he said, 88 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,360 huh, huh, huh? And he started snapping his hand in front of my face and I was like, 89 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,640 okay, and I left. And as I was leaving, he chuckled and I was like, that's weird. 90 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:43,920 So anyways, I finished up my shopping and everything and I was kind of thrown by it, but as I was leaving, I saw he had like 15 milky ways in his hands as he was trying to 91 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,440 leave the grocery store. And the woman was like really, the employee was really nice and she's 92 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:50,960 like, hey, sir, you had to buy that. And he pretended to like be tired and didn't hear 93 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:54,800 as he had like all these milky ways. He was like juggling and dropping. But eventually he went back 94 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,920 and started scanning them. And she kept trying to like ask, like, you know, she tried to scan them 95 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:04,400 all in. And he said, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't scan one multiple times. Like I want you to scan each 96 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,720 individual Milky Way bar. I don't want any electronic in veterans. And then he like turned 97 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:13,840 around and he winked at me. And I don't even, I don't even think electrical in veterans is a word. 98 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:20,560 But anyways, he just then threw cash at her and left and it was just a really odd experience. But 99 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,440 hey, that's an influencer life.