 What's it like to work at Linus Media Group? Well, I think it's great. I mean my name's on the building. You know how that feels walking up being like yeah My name's on the building, but if you want the real answer You'll probably have to ask the poor schmucks who do the actual grunt work around here So we made a deal they said if you agree not to watch the video We will give the viewers the real honest answer and I kind of went Okay The be quiet pure base 600 features a versatile design noise insulation and optimization for different liquid cooled radiator configurations learn more at the link below I Remember thinking this guy is so quirky psychotic petite Hyperactive insanity. Yeah somewhat like insane slightly insane like that much insane. I mean, we're not we're not dead in the water yet So I got there at 5 o 1 no answer and my first thoughts are holy crap This guy is so intense that I'm a minute late for my interview. He locks up shop leaves doesn't even consider me He's coming at you with all this energy and all this drive and you just kind of have to match that like has no semblance of personal time and is more than willing to like Spend every hour of his life working Linus as a leader. I think has always been specifically good at inspiring drastic action and he Transforms that once you're already here to inspire gratuitous amounts of overtime That may or may not be Linus had this idea to make videos About building a computer to level that no one else had ever tried to make so this was our first build guide It took us like 18 hours Close down the retention arm a little bit of strength required here. I think we finished at like 4 a.m. I have never regretted anything more than taking the job at Linus Media Group For the first two weeks and after that things got a lot better We had so much work to do Linus is very decisive, but he's very vague in his decisiveness. He doesn't really know How you're going to do something just what you're going to do when Linus tells you that something will be done in two hours I always double the amount of time in my head and more often than not I am correct quite a bit of fun to work for in like a Constantly disorganized and a bit wacky kind of way, so I've never used a reciprocating saw And it's plugged in I got kind of weird demands from Linus. Like I said not working with him much I get demands like can you paint my face? Can you find this? Can you do that? So as a leader, I think he's very random and interesting So I never heard one of my bosses like fart audibly from across the office before but if you're wondering at any point if we're Actually as unorganized and incompetent as we seem on camera It's it's actually like that. We're not faking that and actually this was a mistake I mean everything about this was a mistake, but this in particular filling the glass that was a mistake He had like the jankiest setup and as I walk away the test bench fell and It's probably the scariest moment in my life Linus comes back. Everything's on the floor We lost the footage of something that had been shot earlier where Linus was installing something in his attic Linus was definitely yelling and swearing like I've broken some stuff back since before And he was mad, but that's like really short, you know a short burst of anger It's very rare where you're freaking out and I'm not I only freak out when it's really really bad Whenever he's like no, no, it's okay. And then he walks away What? That's the GPS antenna. Yeah Okay Everything is fine Everything is fine and I am calm And once he gets to a certain boiling point You can just you can feel it the kind of mad where he gets really high pitched and goes I Was doing the WAN doc and I messed up one of the topics and he came upstairs and he just said you're fired And I didn't know if he was joking or not So I just continued working and everything went fine. And then about a week later I accidentally copyright striked our channel and then Linus said you're fired And I thought that time maybe he was serious because you know, I almost took down the whole channel single-handedly I've had some terrible terrible bosses Sometimes, you know I've been able to get one either like a boss who knew what they were doing or like a boss who like cares about people But getting both of those together has been a new experience He's really professional like and efficient like he doesn't like to waste time. I am nothing if not willing to Do things entirely the wrong way for the sake of finishing this video right now After 30 minutes of me sitting out front of the door just waiting for somebody to like answer the door He calls me and he goes. Oh, I completely forgot about her interview and Linus is like this question is stupid This one's dumb. I don't want to ask this one And he puts it puts down the paper and goes, all right Are you into bestiality? Do you watch bestiality? I was like the 25th person to get interviewed by the time he got to me and I was last I think he had a real strict regimen of what he wanted to get through and he probably didn't have any time or Energy to waste on any bullsh** Excuse me He's like, yeah, you heard me. I'm like, uh, no And he's like, ha just messing with you. He found my twitter And read all of my tweets asked me why I tweeted that what that meant who I follow why I follow them So that was a little bit offside for me. It was fine, but a little bit strange The first interaction I had with Linus actually on the phone was my first interview It was an indian restaurant with his children It was kind of like a first date But someone brought along a baby Um, the whole thing was full of really bad jokes Uh, so I was a lot of nervous laughs and stuff like that Yeah, it was like an interview, but I didn't know it was an interview I was just literally there to have lunch with him One of the things that I actually like about the relationship that Linus and I have is I can no filter and he can no filter And everyone's fine when we're done When I started he didn't really know what he was doing. I didn't really know what I was doing And we both kind of grew Into figuring that out undo this stupid thing and then undo this other stupid ridiculous thing And they are stupid. I'm sure there's stuff that comes up that catches him off guard or whatever, but he seems to be pretty On top of everything at all times very well prepared for everything that comes up. I hate when he's right He hates when i'm right what we're both often right about the things that we're respectively working on And that balance is fun and also frustrating. I'm pretty sure i've only probably talked to him one-on-one For maybe about I want to say 15 minutes. I've been here for two years Because he's just so busy just back and forth He's kind of like hide and seek and I always need to find him on the car ride to or from somewhere Is when we can actually talk about whatever so that's when you actually get to know him as a person Whereas when we're all at work, there's really time for nothing else but working Throughout the years, I kind of saw Linus as like this crazy maniac and I was just trying to help him Do whatever it was he was trying to achieve but recently because i've taken on managerial roles He's more of a teacher than before and I don't want to turn into him, but i'd like to To steal some of his skills It's a lot more structured here than I think a lot of people would assume compared to the beginning things are a lot more corporate It seems like we're a lot less mobile or agile to just change directions. There's intense meetings and there's deep statistical Analysis all this kind of stuff which doesn't make it feel um as like fun It's actually really refreshing to have a working relationship with somebody who's Well the ceo of the company But you know we're working together side by side. He understands the value of spending good money on employees and equipment so that The product that we make which is videos in this case is good 138,000 us dollars for two red cameras and the bullsh** accessories that they make you buy $60,000 in hard drives to store all this crap on Another $20,000 in NVMe SSD so that all of our editors can edit red footage off of our NAS at the same time You know he he cares You know he cares about all of us that work here. He cares about you guys watching And he's just he's just a loving father I don't know. I don't I mean he says he's not going to watch it. That's bullsh** Everyone knows that Linus is gonna watch this and then he's gonna come around be like so um I heard you think I say it's fine all the time when I'm mad I've always felt that a leader should ride a horse and I've never seen him on horseback So I guess if I were going to say one thing that Linus could do to improve himself as a leader in my eyes Is I'd like to see him on a horse more I just it would make me feel a lot more at ease We have got a huge Giveaway for everybody today. 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