Linus Tech Tips - 11+ million YouTube Subscribers, Addressing The Verge and Managing Company Culture

That Creative Life

Sara Dietschy

Business, Design, Gary Vee, Technology, Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, Sara Dietschy, Sara Peachy, Arts, Filmmaking, Youtube, Gary Vee Audio Experience

4.8 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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With over 11 million YouTube subscribers, Linus is the CEO of Linus Media Group. Linus Media Group creates entertaining videos about all things technology with decades of collective experience in web video, social media and influencer marketing. They foster a vibrant tech forum where everything is discussed from building PCs to servers and NAS.

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0:00.0	Ooh, this is an exciting podcast episode. It's a huge fan of Linus from Linus Tech Tips.
0:06.7	Wow. I am just shocked to be in the presence of Linus himself. If you don't know who Linus is,
0:14.0	well, you should. He has a YouTube channel with 8.3 million subscribers, but it doesn't just stop there. He actually has two other
0:23.1	channels, TechQuicky, which is quick, interesting tech info videos that has 2.7 million subscribers,
0:30.1	and then Tech Linked, which is a Tech News YouTube channel, has 800,000 subscribers. So they just produce all of the content over there at Linus Media Group.
0:42.2	So they make entertaining videos about technology, including PC builds, TV and laptop reviews,
0:47.6	gaming, all of the things, really all things tech in a very, very fun way. And a lot of people don't know how big Linus Media Group is.
0:58.1	It's, they employ over 20 people and they are just good humans. They're fun humans.
1:04.4	And there's so much to learn from someone who took a YouTube channel with just him, his wife, first employee, and have blown it up
1:13.3	to what it is today. It is very inspirational chat I have with Linus. So without further ado,
1:19.5	enjoy guys. Welcome to That Creative Life. Hi, my name is Saradici and I am your host. I talk with artists, YouTubers, CEOs, and everyone in
1:30.8	between. I hope this podcast helps you live your best creative life. Enjoy. What's up, everyone? I have
1:37.5	Linus from Linus Tech Tips and many other things here with me on the podcast, That Creative Life. Welcome to the show.
1:45.3	Hi, Elle. I'm so excited to have you on. This is so exciting. I flew to Vancouver for one day
1:50.3	for just this podcast, and I am so excited to be here. I have a ton of questions because your
1:56.3	operation here is so crazy. Seeing your setup here, insane. My first first question are you like a canadian native like
2:03.7	did you born and raised in vancouver oh yeah yeah yeah no i'm uh i'm i mean this office is like i don't know
2:10.4	60 kilometers from where i was born actually okay okay because that's about 40 miles yeah i couldn't do that math in my head. Sorry.
2:19.6	Mile? What's that in miles? So I want to go all the way back to when Linus was working at the computer store. And you had a decent salary. Life is good.
2:29.5	Yeah. What made you decide to take the jump to do your own thing?
2:35.4	I will mute my phone.
2:37.3	Sorry about that.
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