Hank Green on everything YouTube, Tik Tok, podcasting, and Montana

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Hank Green and, his brother John Green, have been on the internet for a long time. Initially gaining fame from their YouTube series The Vlog Brothers. They later created Youtube shows like Crash Course and Sci Show, one of the biggest online video conventions VidCon, and written young adult novels such as A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor. Hank Green sits down Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss life as a content creator and the current state of YouTube. Featuring: Hank Green (@hankgreen) Author and Video Creator Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:45.4	to talk to Hank Green. Sometimes I stumble over either the guest pronunciation of their name or
1:52.7	the best way to identify them. I think I got Hank Green, right? Yeah, you did that. And I'm going to
1:56.5	read from your Twitter bio because it's quite extensive. Okay. And that way I can't blame. That's a good call. That way if I'm wrong, you got to blame somebody else. Hank describes himself as a book writer, video maker, science communicator, small business lover, period. Co-creator of Crash Course, SciShow, vlog brothers, VidCon. And there's a, then there's a link that I won't pronounce. I think of you as an OG YouTuber, one of the, you and your brother are being one of the
2:21.3	original YouTube personalities who have then built a career.
2:27.8	Yeah.
2:28.0	Starting on YouTube and across many forms of media.
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