WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.000 My name is Jake. You probably already know me. I'm the writing supervisor for the Linus Tech Tips 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:12.240 team. That means I get to yell at people and make sure that they're doing their job, haha. 00:00:12.240 --> 00:00:18.320 But only Linus Tech Tips people. And I've been working here February 2nd, 2016. Seven years and 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:24.960 a month. Holy s***. I feel like my favorite part of working here has changed over the years. 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:31.360 I really, like at the start, it was just an opportunity to see crazy technology. I never 00:00:31.360 --> 00:00:36.400 would have been able to see or even think about seeing. And it's kind of transitioned into, 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:44.480 I don't know, just making videos is so much fun. It's so different. You get to inform the public. 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:50.800 You get to be an authoritative figure in the media. You get to do all these things. But I guess it kind 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:55.760 of, when you boil that down, it just comes to cool tech, I guess. I think the worst part about 00:00:55.760 --> 00:01:00.720 working here is for a long time my direct report was Linus. And he is the most stubborn person 00:01:00.720 --> 00:01:07.600 I've ever met in my entire life. And that's even considering I work with like 70, 80 other 00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:14.000 very opinionative techie people. I have very opinionative family members that are all like, 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:19.520 oh, I'm well educated. I went to university. And Linus is still the worst in that regard. 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:25.200 But I mean, there's some weird things that people don't consider. I never even really thought 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:28.720 about it. It was like, oh, it's always so cool to like get recognized in public. And I'm not saying 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:34.000 that it's a bad thing. It's super cool to meet people in public and just to see people that are 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.720 just so stoked about what we do that they'll yell at you from across the parking lot. 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:45.520 But it is weird. And I don't know if it will ever get normal being in Chipotle and being like 00:01:45.520 --> 00:01:49.600 somebody leaning over your shoulder, like, oh, you get chicken in your burrito. Just Linus 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:55.920 get that? What's it like working for Linus? I don't know. Linus is pretty set in his ways. 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:02.960 I don't know if he's changed much. He still likes to use Windows when it's not acceptable, 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:11.760 like in a server. He's still is very stubborn. I don't know. I feel like if anything I've changed 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:15.840 more than he has. But also when I started here, I was 15 years old. So makes sense. 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:24.080 The obvious things that have changed in Linus Media Group is when I started, I was number, 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:28.560 I think in terms of employees ever hired number 12. 00:02:29.360 --> 00:02:35.440 Now, based on still people that are still here, I think it's like seven or something like that. 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:44.640 Things were a lot more jank. We were way less organized, a lot less processes you had to worry 00:02:44.640 --> 00:02:51.920 about. But those are good processes. It's just absolutely insane to see how the company has 00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:57.040 grown from, you know, 10 people to 100 people in the span of, I guess it's been seven years, 00:02:57.600 --> 00:03:01.760 going from, I think it was 2.3 million subscribers on LTT when I started to now 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:08.720 15 point whatever and all these other channels. And yeah, it's ridiculous. I never thought little 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:14.560 warehouse general labor or Jake would be where I am today, or still working here this far in. 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:21.600 I do miss when things were simpler. It was still the same amount of chaos, like it was still just 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:30.720 as crazy. I do think that the level of production that we had then was easier, but it was also way 00:03:30.720 --> 00:03:35.200 lower. Like we would just, oh man, this CPU arrived today, let's just throw it on the bench, 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:39.280 Linus is going to make a video in his office. Yeah, sick. And now it's like, oh my God, there's 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:45.120 like eight LTT writers or whatever working to make content all the time. And that's just one channel. 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:50.320 I definitely know what is the worst thing that has happened over time, parking. 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:57.120 When I used to roll up, man, I could park across two parking spots if I wanted. 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:06.640 The best thing. I don't know, I think it's probably the people. There's just so many 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:10.640 more people to talk about cool tech with. And there's so many different, 00:04:12.640 --> 00:04:17.440 everyone here, even the editors, they all have some sort of techy niche for the most part, 00:04:18.080 --> 00:04:25.840 whether it be Mark and his old storage medias and cameras and VCRs or, I don't know, like Maria and 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:31.040 her interior design and like fashion design and like, you get influence from so many different 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:35.200 people and so many different walks of life. I'd make a car channel. If I could change one thing 00:04:35.200 --> 00:04:42.320 about LMG, I'd make a car channel. The comments are all going to be, yeah, car channel, let's go. 00:04:43.280 --> 00:04:49.280 In terms of what people get wrong about Linus Media Group, I think the thing that has been shown to 00:04:49.280 --> 00:04:56.800 me the most is that we're just normal people. Like the guy at the movie theater that's like, 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:01.520 yo, Jake, I'm like, yeah, I just work a job. We make YouTube videos. It's just cool. I love it. 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:05.680 But at the end of the day, I'm just sitting at a desk like you. It's not really any different. 00:05:06.640 --> 00:05:10.000 We're all just working a job. We get to make cool content that lots of people enjoy, 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:16.000 but at the end of the day, normal people. Linus puts his pants on, you know, two legs at a time, 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.360 right? Jumps into them. He's pretty short. You know how it works. 00:05:21.760 --> 00:05:29.280 Yeah, there's one thing I could say to potential hires is, yes, it is. It's a dream job. It's a 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:34.480 cool job. It's something that is very unique to this company. I mean, there are other YouTube 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:42.560 companies, but not that many. But it is hard. It is fast-paced. We have deadlines when products 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:49.200 launch. Like it is not a walk in the park. And despite it being, I would say, my dream job, 00:05:49.200 --> 00:05:55.600 and it still is, and I wouldn't trade it for the world, it is not easy. But that's what also makes 00:05:55.600 --> 00:06:00.080 it super rewarding. So what's an example of a weird story that somebody else has told? 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:09.760 Yeah, but that's not weird. That's normal. Is it not normal? The amount of times I've seen Linus 00:06:09.760 --> 00:06:14.320 like show me, like the amount of times Linus has shown me his underwear, it's just normal now, right? 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:21.200 It's a product we sell, you know? 00:06:25.760 --> 00:06:34.320 No, but well, yeah, maybe I'm just desensitized. It's been, I've been working here too long. This weirdness is normal now.