WEBVTT 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. 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. 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? 00:00:13.140 --> 00:00:17.860 Oh, Jesus Christ. I'd say my favorite part of working at LMG 00:00:17.860 --> 00:00:22.020 is probably the variety of the work. Every day here, there's different kind of problems 00:00:22.020 --> 00:00:26.540 to tackle and solutions to offer up. With that being said, it's organized chaos. 00:00:26.540 --> 00:00:30.340 Some people don't like it that much, but I personally thrive in it. 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. 00:00:35.380 --> 00:00:40.380 Yeah, there's, because of the nature of our work 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. 00:00:48.340 --> 00:00:51.660 And it takes creative thinking and problem solving to solve. 00:00:51.660 --> 00:00:56.700 And sometimes it can be pretty rough. How has LMG changed since you've started? 00:00:56.780 --> 00:01:00.380 Bro, how has LMG changed since I started? 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. 00:01:05.260 --> 00:01:10.140 A lot of people have said over the years, oh man, we're becoming corporate, 00:01:10.140 --> 00:01:13.420 but we are a corporation. It's been interesting seeing the way 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. 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 00:01:23.900 --> 00:01:26.900 from the old house to this office. 00:01:26.900 --> 00:01:31.100 So I got to see the entire office build out. I was employee number 10. 00:01:31.100 --> 00:01:34.860 I think four of the people that were here when I started aren't here anymore. 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. 00:01:40.180 --> 00:01:44.020 Do I miss how it used to be? No, not really. 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 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, 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 00:01:55.580 --> 00:01:58.580 and I have a good time working with. I can't say that for previous jobs. 00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:01.740 There was always people at previous jobs. I used to work at a gas station. 00:02:01.740 --> 00:02:05.380 There's always a few people that you're like, fuck person, I hate that person. 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 00:02:08.580 --> 00:02:12.220 when we did the first video on this series has changed a lot. 00:02:12.220 --> 00:02:15.300 So I probably talked to Linus less now than I used to 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. 00:02:19.660 --> 00:02:24.500 It's absurd. But I've kind of grown to manage my own department 00:02:24.500 --> 00:02:28.820 and I work in business development, sales stuff. 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. 00:02:34.500 --> 00:02:38.340 So when I go to Linus, it's like, hey man, we have this sponsor thing. 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. 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. 00:02:47.140 --> 00:02:50.860 So it's been great though. Working with Linus has always been pretty inspiring 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. 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 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, 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 00:03:09.180 --> 00:03:12.580 with these different things that it can be tough to get time with him 00:03:12.580 --> 00:03:15.900 to really hash out larger ideas. 00:03:15.900 --> 00:03:19.000 Something like LTX for example, we meet with him once a month 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 00:03:22.820 --> 00:03:27.220 on that specific subject. For which LTX is honestly a pretty big thing. 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 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. 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. 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. 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:52.520 I think creatively and personally, he's still the same guy, 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:55.700 but he and everyone else on the leadership team 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 00:04:01.200 --> 00:04:04.520 and think so like Linus has always been 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:08.560 a strategic business guy, but even more so as we've grown 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, 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:17.040 I feel he cares about everybody, he cares about team members, he cares about the audience. 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. 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, 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.060 that stuff gets brought up here still and we work as hard as we can 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. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:40.760 He's still a nice guy. Hello Hoffman. Linus even cares about Hoffman. 00:04:40.760 --> 00:04:44.120 Oh really? He does. Yeah he says great things about you buddy. 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:48.000 Oh thanks. He's always like that. He never shuts up, I'm like hey man. 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:51.360 He's gonna marry you. He told me he could make you a better employee 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. 00:04:55.200 --> 00:04:58.280 Wow. Whoa. Whoa, whoa. 00:04:58.280 --> 00:05:01.780 This is chaos, chaos. The chaos is happening right now. 00:05:01.780 --> 00:05:05.160 In talking to a lot of people when I talk about the company culture 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 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 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, 00:05:18.780 --> 00:05:22.300 especially people that work here, people that I've interviewed and that we hire. 00:05:22.300 --> 00:05:26.540 Sometimes they think that it's like, oh man you guys are just like hanging out, 00:05:26.540 --> 00:05:30.500 shooting all day, right? And it's like, well we have fun when we can, 00:05:30.500 --> 00:05:33.820 but there's a lot of hard work that everybody on the team puts in. 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. 00:05:37.740 --> 00:05:41.060 Yeah we try to edit out the boring parts as much as humanly possible. 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, 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. 00:05:48.940 --> 00:05:52.380 I would move the office. I would go to the cheapest cost of living place. 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 00:05:59.500 --> 00:06:02.880 under address for a photo shoot for a video. 00:06:02.880 --> 00:06:07.940 That was probably one of the weirdest things. Or putting on a T-Rex costume 00:06:07.940 --> 00:06:11.900 and chasing Ivan or Linus through the parking lot and falling on my neck. 00:06:11.900 --> 00:06:16.140 I have multiple company tattoos on me for no reason. 00:06:16.140 --> 00:06:19.500 I didn't get paid for those. I have an LTT Store tattoo. 00:06:19.500 --> 00:06:23.500 I've got an Illuminati tattoo. I've got a Debran tattoo. 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. 00:06:28.620 --> 00:06:32.220 Linus is absolutely basically the same on camera and off camera. 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 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 00:06:41.140 --> 00:06:44.420 and gets the energy across, but he's very much the same person. 00:06:44.420 --> 00:06:49.780 IMO. Sammy's a good guy. I've reviewed a few of his videos. 00:06:49.780 --> 00:06:53.060 Oliver. Oh my gosh. 00:06:53.060 --> 00:06:56.060 You know what? Alex, Alex Dick from Logistics. 00:06:56.060 --> 00:06:59.500 He's just a soft soul. He's just a nice guy. 00:06:59.500 --> 00:07:02.780 Most hated employee, Dennis Liao. Hate that guy. 00:07:02.780 --> 00:07:06.100 He works on my team now. It's really funny. Yeah, hate him.