1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,500 My name is Colton Potter. I'm the head of business development. I've been here for almost eight years. 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:08,260 This is the longest I've had a job at one place. Yes. My last job I worked at for six years. 3 00:00:08,260 --> 00:00:13,140 So it was close, but this one takes the cake. What's your favorite part of working at LMG? 4 00:00:13,140 --> 00:00:17,860 Oh, Jesus Christ. I'd say my favorite part of working at LMG 5 00:00:17,860 --> 00:00:22,020 is probably the variety of the work. Every day here, there's different kind of problems 6 00:00:22,020 --> 00:00:26,540 to tackle and solutions to offer up. With that being said, it's organized chaos. 7 00:00:26,540 --> 00:00:30,340 Some people don't like it that much, but I personally thrive in it. 8 00:00:30,340 --> 00:00:35,380 I'd say the worst part of working at LMG is the variety and the organized chaos. 9 00:00:35,380 --> 00:00:40,380 Yeah, there's, because of the nature of our work 10 00:00:42,740 --> 00:00:48,340 and how much growth we've seen over the last couple of years, a lot of problems that come up are new problems to us. 11 00:00:48,340 --> 00:00:51,660 And it takes creative thinking and problem solving to solve. 12 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:56,700 And sometimes it can be pretty rough. How has LMG changed since you've started? 13 00:00:56,780 --> 00:01:00,380 Bro, how has LMG changed since I started? 14 00:01:00,380 --> 00:01:05,260 I'd say LMG has changed a lot in the sense that we've become a real company. 15 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:10,140 A lot of people have said over the years, oh man, we're becoming corporate, 16 00:01:10,140 --> 00:01:13,420 but we are a corporation. It's been interesting seeing the way 17 00:01:13,420 --> 00:01:18,060 that we've handled culture as we've kind of grown. There's been a lot of growth. 18 00:01:18,060 --> 00:01:23,860 There's been a lot of new initiatives that we've taken on. So I started here the day that we moved 19 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:26,900 from the old house to this office. 20 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:31,100 So I got to see the entire office build out. I was employee number 10. 21 00:01:31,100 --> 00:01:34,860 I think four of the people that were here when I started aren't here anymore. 22 00:01:34,860 --> 00:01:40,180 There's a lot more people at LMG than there was when I started. So it's changed by adding a lot more bodies. 23 00:01:40,180 --> 00:01:44,020 Do I miss how it used to be? No, not really. 24 00:01:44,020 --> 00:01:47,860 I actually really like the growth that we've seen. It's been cool that as we've scaled up 25 00:01:47,860 --> 00:01:51,580 the amount of things that we're doing and the amount of people that we have on the team, 26 00:01:51,580 --> 00:01:55,580 I can say personally working here is that everybody on the team I can get along with 27 00:01:55,580 --> 00:01:58,580 and I have a good time working with. I can't say that for previous jobs. 28 00:01:58,580 --> 00:02:01,740 There was always people at previous jobs. I used to work at a gas station. 29 00:02:01,740 --> 00:02:05,380 There's always a few people that you're like, fuck person, I hate that person. 30 00:02:05,380 --> 00:02:08,580 To be honest, the way that I work with Linus these days as opposed to five years ago 31 00:02:08,580 --> 00:02:12,220 when we did the first video on this series has changed a lot. 32 00:02:12,220 --> 00:02:15,300 So I probably talked to Linus less now than I used to 33 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:19,660 but I've also become a lot more autonomous. I think I managed like 12 or 14 people. 34 00:02:19,660 --> 00:02:24,500 It's absurd. But I've kind of grown to manage my own department 35 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:28,820 and I work in business development, sales stuff. 36 00:02:28,820 --> 00:02:34,500 Linus is kind of more focused on creative. So when I talk to him, it's usually for problems. 37 00:02:34,500 --> 00:02:38,340 So when I go to Linus, it's like, hey man, we have this sponsor thing. 38 00:02:38,340 --> 00:02:43,300 There's some issues and you're the only person that can figure it out because it's Linus. 39 00:02:43,300 --> 00:02:47,140 At Linus Tech Tips, at Linus Media Group and you're the only person that can help me with this. 40 00:02:47,140 --> 00:02:50,860 So it's been great though. Working with Linus has always been pretty inspiring 41 00:02:50,860 --> 00:02:56,300 because he's just got that drive and energy. Even after all these years, he's still got it. 42 00:02:56,300 --> 00:02:59,980 I can go to him with a problem and he's pretty quick to offer up a solution 43 00:02:59,980 --> 00:03:04,800 or a few different solutions that I can look at. But I will say working with Linus, 44 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:09,180 there's a lot more things that we're doing now and he's so involved and he's so on the ball 45 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:12,580 with these different things that it can be tough to get time with him 46 00:03:12,580 --> 00:03:15,900 to really hash out larger ideas. 47 00:03:15,900 --> 00:03:19,000 Something like LTX for example, we meet with him once a month 48 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:22,820 and it's him and him on for about an hour and that's about all of the direct time I get with him 49 00:03:22,820 --> 00:03:27,220 on that specific subject. For which LTX is honestly a pretty big thing. 50 00:03:28,220 --> 00:03:31,520 But I like to think that part of the reason why we don't need to meet so often 51 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,100 is because we've done the event so much and we kind of know what we're doing at this point. 52 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:41,420 So he's kind of just looking at what we're doing and going like Linus is not the same as he used to be. 53 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:48,800 I think what's changed Linus over the years has just been the growing as a business side of things. 54 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,520 I think creatively and personally, he's still the same guy, 55 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,700 but he and everyone else on the leadership team 56 00:03:55,700 --> 00:04:01,200 are aware of our growth and what we're trying to do. So it kind of sets a new way that we need to operate 57 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:04,520 and think so like Linus has always been 58 00:04:04,520 --> 00:04:08,560 a strategic business guy, but even more so as we've grown 59 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:13,280 because he probably feels the need that he has to be. Linus still like he did in the first video, 60 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:17,040 I feel he cares about everybody, he cares about team members, he cares about the audience. 61 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:22,120 He'll see random issues that people have on the forum about some random thing and he will action it. 62 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,800 He will send whatever the issue is, if it's with a video that we did or a sponsor, 63 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,060 that stuff gets brought up here still and we work as hard as we can 64 00:04:30,060 --> 00:04:36,000 to kind of acknowledge it and deal with it. So Linus is a caring guy, he still cares. 65 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:40,760 He's still a nice guy. Hello Hoffman. Linus even cares about Hoffman. 66 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,120 Oh really? He does. Yeah he says great things about you buddy. 67 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,000 Oh thanks. He's always like that. He never shuts up, I'm like hey man. 68 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,360 He's gonna marry you. He told me he could make you a better employee 69 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,200 and I said be more like Hoffman. Be more like Hoffman, yeah, we could all be more like Hoffman. 70 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,280 Wow. Whoa. Whoa, whoa. 71 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:01,780 This is chaos, chaos. The chaos is happening right now. 72 00:05:01,780 --> 00:05:05,160 In talking to a lot of people when I talk about the company culture 73 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:08,880 and what we actually do here at Linus Media Group, I feel a lot of people misunderstand 74 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:14,300 that it's a real business. Like we do actually do work here, it's not just us making Channel Super Fun videos 75 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:18,780 or goofing around all the time. It's a fun environment, but I think a lot of people get that wrong, 76 00:05:18,780 --> 00:05:22,300 especially people that work here, people that I've interviewed and that we hire. 77 00:05:22,300 --> 00:05:26,540 Sometimes they think that it's like, oh man you guys are just like hanging out, 78 00:05:26,540 --> 00:05:30,500 shooting all day, right? And it's like, well we have fun when we can, 79 00:05:30,500 --> 00:05:33,820 but there's a lot of hard work that everybody on the team puts in. 80 00:05:33,820 --> 00:05:37,740 So I think that's misunderstood a little bit, but. Yeah we edit out the boring parts. 81 00:05:37,740 --> 00:05:41,060 Yeah we try to edit out the boring parts as much as humanly possible. 82 00:05:41,060 --> 00:05:44,380 People that wanna work here, what you need to know is that if you get a job here, 83 00:05:44,380 --> 00:05:48,940 you're probably not gonna be able to sit down and chat with Linus for hours and hours a day. 84 00:05:48,940 --> 00:05:52,380 I would move the office. I would go to the cheapest cost of living place. 85 00:05:52,380 --> 00:05:59,420 The weirdest thing I've had to do here was where James Stribe's wife's pregnant belly cast 86 00:05:59,500 --> 00:06:02,880 under address for a photo shoot for a video. 87 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,940 That was probably one of the weirdest things. Or putting on a T-Rex costume 88 00:06:07,940 --> 00:06:11,900 and chasing Ivan or Linus through the parking lot and falling on my neck. 89 00:06:11,900 --> 00:06:16,140 I have multiple company tattoos on me for no reason. 90 00:06:16,140 --> 00:06:19,500 I didn't get paid for those. I have an LTT Store tattoo. 91 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:23,500 I've got an Illuminati tattoo. I've got a Debran tattoo. 92 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:28,620 I'm basically allocating my entire left leg to just sponsored tattoos at this point I guess. 93 00:06:28,620 --> 00:06:32,220 Linus is absolutely basically the same on camera and off camera. 94 00:06:32,220 --> 00:06:37,020 He tones it down a bit, but he's the same person. He doesn't change his personality 95 00:06:37,020 --> 00:06:41,140 to suit the camera really. He's just a little bit more, he just enunciates a little bit more 96 00:06:41,140 --> 00:06:44,420 and gets the energy across, but he's very much the same person. 97 00:06:44,420 --> 00:06:49,780 IMO. Sammy's a good guy. I've reviewed a few of his videos. 98 00:06:49,780 --> 00:06:53,060 Oliver. Oh my gosh. 99 00:06:53,060 --> 00:06:56,060 You know what? Alex, Alex Dick from Logistics. 100 00:06:56,060 --> 00:06:59,500 He's just a soft soul. He's just a nice guy. 101 00:06:59,500 --> 00:07:02,780 Most hated employee, Dennis Liao. Hate that guy. 102 00:07:02,780 --> 00:07:06,100 He works on my team now. It's really funny. Yeah, hate him.