I think sometimes people overlook that YouTube is an entertainment platform.

It's TV.

And so if you don't want to entertain people, then you don't want to do this job.

Today on the show, we're interviewing James Pumfrey and Jesse Wood from the YouTube channel, Speed.

Now, these guys started this channel about 18 months ago, and it quickly rose to 2 million subscribers.

And beyond that, in their first 60 uploads,

they crossed 80 million views. Speed is one of my favorite new channels on YouTube, and

Jesse and James have a super unique perspective on the platform because this isn't their first

go at it. They worked for just about eight years at the very popular car YouTube channel, Donut Media.

Jesse was the chief creative officer,

and James was the editor-in-chief.

Outside of personal finance and tech,

car YouTube has proven to be one of the most valuable genres on YouTube.

It has a really rabid audience,

and we've seen an influx of capital come into the space

from Doug DeMurro, who launched an auction website called Cars and Bids. He got a $30 million

investment from the Churning Group to the company that James and Jesse worked at, Donut Media,

which got acquired for a reported tens of millions of dollars in 2021. In this episode, we asked Jesse and James what it was

like to be at Donut Media, what they learned there, and what it was like to get acquired, some of the

discomfort that came from all of that capital coming in to their media company. James described

the time period after they got acquired as a gluttonous pursuit of growth.

So we'll get into that. We'll talk about what it means for large capital injections to come into creative companies.

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