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My name is Jake. You probably already know me. I'm the writing supervisor for the Linus Tech Tips

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team. That means I get to yell at people and make sure that they're doing their job, haha.

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But only Linus Tech Tips people. And I've been working here February 2nd, 2016. Seven years and

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a month. Holy s***. I feel like my favorite part of working here has changed over the years.

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I really, like at the start, it was just an opportunity to see crazy technology. I never

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would have been able to see or even think about seeing. And it's kind of transitioned into,

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I don't know, just making videos is so much fun. It's so different. You get to inform the public.

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You get to be an authoritative figure in the media. You get to do all these things. But I guess it kind

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of, when you boil that down, it just comes to cool tech, I guess. I think the worst part about

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working here is for a long time my direct report was Linus. And he is the most stubborn person

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I've ever met in my entire life. And that's even considering I work with like 70, 80 other

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very opinionative techie people. I have very opinionative family members that are all like,

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oh, I'm well educated. I went to university. And Linus is still the worst in that regard.

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But I mean, there's some weird things that people don't consider. I never even really thought

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about it. It was like, oh, it's always so cool to like get recognized in public. And I'm not saying

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that it's a bad thing. It's super cool to meet people in public and just to see people that are

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just so stoked about what we do that they'll yell at you from across the parking lot.

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But it is weird. And I don't know if it will ever get normal being in Chipotle and being like

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somebody leaning over your shoulder, like, oh, you get chicken in your burrito. Just Linus

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get that? What's it like working for Linus? I don't know. Linus is pretty set in his ways.

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I don't know if he's changed much. He still likes to use Windows when it's not acceptable,

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like in a server. He's still is very stubborn. I don't know. I feel like if anything I've changed

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more than he has. But also when I started here, I was 15 years old. So makes sense.

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The obvious things that have changed in Linus Media Group is when I started, I was number,

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I think in terms of employees ever hired number 12.

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Now, based on still people that are still here, I think it's like seven or something like that.

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Things were a lot more jank. We were way less organized, a lot less processes you had to worry

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about. But those are good processes. It's just absolutely insane to see how the company has

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grown from, you know, 10 people to 100 people in the span of, I guess it's been seven years,

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going from, I think it was 2.3 million subscribers on LTT when I started to now

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15 point whatever and all these other channels. And yeah, it's ridiculous. I never thought little

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warehouse general labor or Jake would be where I am today, or still working here this far in.

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I do miss when things were simpler. It was still the same amount of chaos, like it was still just

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as crazy. I do think that the level of production that we had then was easier, but it was also way

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lower. Like we would just, oh man, this CPU arrived today, let's just throw it on the bench,

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Linus is going to make a video in his office. Yeah, sick. And now it's like, oh my God, there's

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like eight LTT writers or whatever working to make content all the time. And that's just one channel.

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I definitely know what is the worst thing that has happened over time, parking.

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When I used to roll up, man, I could park across two parking spots if I wanted.

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The best thing. I don't know, I think it's probably the people. There's just so many

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more people to talk about cool tech with. And there's so many different,

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everyone here, even the editors, they all have some sort of techy niche for the most part,

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whether it be Mark and his old storage medias and cameras and VCRs or, I don't know, like Maria and

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her interior design and like fashion design and like, you get influence from so many different

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people and so many different walks of life. I'd make a car channel. If I could change one thing

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about LMG, I'd make a car channel. The comments are all going to be, yeah, car channel, let's go.

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In terms of what people get wrong about Linus Media Group, I think the thing that has been shown to

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me the most is that we're just normal people. Like the guy at the movie theater that's like,

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yo, Jake, I'm like, yeah, I just work a job. We make YouTube videos. It's just cool. I love it.

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But at the end of the day, I'm just sitting at a desk like you. It's not really any different.

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We're all just working a job. We get to make cool content that lots of people enjoy,

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but at the end of the day, normal people. Linus puts his pants on, you know, two legs at a time,

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right? Jumps into them. He's pretty short. You know how it works.

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Yeah, there's one thing I could say to potential hires is, yes, it is. It's a dream job. It's a

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cool job. It's something that is very unique to this company. I mean, there are other YouTube

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companies, but not that many. But it is hard. It is fast-paced. We have deadlines when products

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launch. Like it is not a walk in the park. And despite it being, I would say, my dream job,

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and it still is, and I wouldn't trade it for the world, it is not easy. But that's what also makes

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it super rewarding. So what's an example of a weird story that somebody else has told?

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Yeah, but that's not weird. That's normal. Is it not normal? The amount of times I've seen Linus

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like show me, like the amount of times Linus has shown me his underwear, it's just normal now, right?

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It's a product we sell, you know?

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No, but well, yeah, maybe I'm just desensitized. It's been, I've been working here too long. This weirdness is normal now.