text: It's Been Real
  
  Let's wrap this up with some peppy "Go, internet!" thoughts!
  
  In January of 2014, an executive from YouTube took me and my business partner to lunch to inform us that the company wouldn't be investing in Geek & Sundry or any of the other original content channels anymore. The two-year funding experiment was over. We were on our own.
  
  I left the restaurant, got in my car, and drove exactly one block. Then I pulled over and burst into tears.
  
  Of joy.
  
  No, it wasn't PMS. (Maybe.) It was relief that I could be free to follow my own compass again. Concentrate more on less. And maybe have a digital vacation and log offline for a bit? (Psh, don't get crazy, girl.)
  
  I immediately went home and wrote down the top things I'd learned going from naïve actress to inexperienced web series show runner to world-weary start-up lady with Geek & Sundry.
  
  I learned everything about creating and businessing the "stab me in the eye" way, but wow, did it feel good to take a moment to realize how much I'd grown over the past five years. And eventually, it led me down the best path I could ever have imagined.
  
  In July 2014, I sold my company to Legendary Entertainment. The coolest, nerdiest company in Hollywood. After a lot of meetings, it was clear: HERE was a partner who would be fun to hang out with at Comic-Con.
  
  The head of the company, Thomas Tull, isn't a Hollywood dude, he's a MATH GUY. We had a conversation about fluid dynamics and comic books the first time we met and I thought, Wow, this guy is the coolest CEO bigwig I've ever met. I haven't met many, but he's definitely the coolest.
  
  Today I work with my company to create and produce shows for the web and television, write things like this book, act in tons of interesting projects, and still tweet and do conventions and stay connected with people in my online community every day. I've carved out the perfect job for myself, and the world has opened up to me in a way that I could never have imagined as a weird homeschooled kid writing in that little pink diary.