My name is Colton Potter. I'm the head of business development. I've been here for almost eight years.
This is the longest I've had a job at one place. Yes. My last job I worked at for six years.
So it was close, but this one takes the cake. What's your favorite part of working at LMG?
Oh, Jesus Christ. I'd say my favorite part of working at LMG
is probably the variety of the work. Every day here, there's different kind of problems
to tackle and solutions to offer up. With that being said, it's organized chaos.
Some people don't like it that much, but I personally thrive in it.
I'd say the worst part of working at LMG is the variety and the organized chaos.
Yeah, there's, because of the nature of our work
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.
And it takes creative thinking and problem solving to solve.
And sometimes it can be pretty rough. How has LMG changed since you've started?
Bro, how has LMG changed since I started?
I'd say LMG has changed a lot in the sense that we've become a real company.
A lot of people have said over the years, oh man, we're becoming corporate,
but we are a corporation. It's been interesting seeing the way
that we've handled culture as we've kind of grown. There's been a lot of growth.
There's been a lot of new initiatives that we've taken on. So I started here the day that we moved
from the old house to this office.
So I got to see the entire office build out. I was employee number 10.
I think four of the people that were here when I started aren't here anymore.
There's a lot more people at LMG than there was when I started. So it's changed by adding a lot more bodies.
Do I miss how it used to be? No, not really.
I actually really like the growth that we've seen. It's been cool that as we've scaled up
the amount of things that we're doing and the amount of people that we have on the team,
I can say personally working here is that everybody on the team I can get along with
and I have a good time working with. I can't say that for previous jobs.
There was always people at previous jobs. I used to work at a gas station.
There's always a few people that you're like, fuck person, I hate that person.
To be honest, the way that I work with Linus these days as opposed to five years ago
when we did the first video on this series has changed a lot.
So I probably talked to Linus less now than I used to
but I've also become a lot more autonomous. I think I managed like 12 or 14 people.
It's absurd. But I've kind of grown to manage my own department
and I work in business development, sales stuff.
Linus is kind of more focused on creative. So when I talk to him, it's usually for problems.
So when I go to Linus, it's like, hey man, we have this sponsor thing.
There's some issues and you're the only person that can figure it out because it's Linus.
At Linus Tech Tips, at Linus Media Group and you're the only person that can help me with this.
So it's been great though. Working with Linus has always been pretty inspiring
because he's just got that drive and energy. Even after all these years, he's still got it.
I can go to him with a problem and he's pretty quick to offer up a solution
or a few different solutions that I can look at. But I will say working with Linus,
there's a lot more things that we're doing now and he's so involved and he's so on the ball
with these different things that it can be tough to get time with him
to really hash out larger ideas.
Something like LTX for example, we meet with him once a month
and it's him and him on for about an hour and that's about all of the direct time I get with him
on that specific subject. For which LTX is honestly a pretty big thing.
But I like to think that part of the reason why we don't need to meet so often
is because we've done the event so much and we kind of know what we're doing at this point.
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.
I think what's changed Linus over the years has just been the growing as a business side of things.
I think creatively and personally, he's still the same guy,
but he and everyone else on the leadership team
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
and think so like Linus has always been
a strategic business guy, but even more so as we've grown
because he probably feels the need that he has to be. Linus still like he did in the first video,
I feel he cares about everybody, he cares about team members, he cares about the audience.
He'll see random issues that people have on the forum about some random thing and he will action it.
He will send whatever the issue is, if it's with a video that we did or a sponsor,
that stuff gets brought up here still and we work as hard as we can
to kind of acknowledge it and deal with it. So Linus is a caring guy, he still cares.
He's still a nice guy. Hello Hoffman. Linus even cares about Hoffman.
Oh really? He does. Yeah he says great things about you buddy.
Oh thanks. He's always like that. He never shuts up, I'm like hey man.
He's gonna marry you. He told me he could make you a better employee
and I said be more like Hoffman. Be more like Hoffman, yeah, we could all be more like Hoffman.
Wow. Whoa. Whoa, whoa.
This is chaos, chaos. The chaos is happening right now.
In talking to a lot of people when I talk about the company culture
and what we actually do here at Linus Media Group, I feel a lot of people misunderstand
that it's a real business. Like we do actually do work here, it's not just us making Channel Super Fun videos
or goofing around all the time. It's a fun environment, but I think a lot of people get that wrong,
especially people that work here, people that I've interviewed and that we hire.
Sometimes they think that it's like, oh man you guys are just like hanging out,
shooting all day, right? And it's like, well we have fun when we can,
but there's a lot of hard work that everybody on the team puts in.
So I think that's misunderstood a little bit, but. Yeah we edit out the boring parts.
Yeah we try to edit out the boring parts as much as humanly possible.
People that wanna work here, what you need to know is that if you get a job here,
you're probably not gonna be able to sit down and chat with Linus for hours and hours a day.
I would move the office. I would go to the cheapest cost of living place.
The weirdest thing I've had to do here was where James Stribe's wife's pregnant belly cast
under address for a photo shoot for a video.
That was probably one of the weirdest things. Or putting on a T-Rex costume
and chasing Ivan or Linus through the parking lot and falling on my neck.
I have multiple company tattoos on me for no reason.
I didn't get paid for those. I have an LTT Store tattoo.
I've got an Illuminati tattoo. I've got a Debran tattoo.
I'm basically allocating my entire left leg to just sponsored tattoos at this point I guess.
Linus is absolutely basically the same on camera and off camera.
He tones it down a bit, but he's the same person. He doesn't change his personality
to suit the camera really. He's just a little bit more, he just enunciates a little bit more
and gets the energy across, but he's very much the same person.
IMO. Sammy's a good guy. I've reviewed a few of his videos.
Oliver. Oh my gosh.
You know what? Alex, Alex Dick from Logistics.
He's just a soft soul. He's just a nice guy.
Most hated employee, Dennis Liao. Hate that guy.
He works on my team now. It's really funny. Yeah, hate him.