The Techie with 1M Subscribers (w/ Joma Tech)
Noah Kagan Presents
Noah Kagan
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Joma Tech is a YouTuber who makes tech entertainment videos about life in Silicon Valley. He’s built an audience of 1 million subscribers while working full-time as a data scientist and software programmer for major tech companies.
His videos are a unique blend of entertaining and educational, but as you’ll hear in the interview, he still faces imposter syndrome just like the rest of us. However, that doesn’t detract from his ultimate goal of becoming a director and build a multi-million dollar media company.
If you’ve ever wanted to learn about a techie's creative process and what it takes to grow a Youtube channel to 1M, you’ll love this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | I think the key to having a healthy revenue as a content creator is to have as many |
| 0:06.5 | orthogonal revenue streams as possible. Revenue streams that do not cannibalize each other. |
| 0:12.3 | For example, if I'm selling Joma Class, |
| 0:14.8 | I'm not gonna do like a sponsored video on like another |
| 0:18.9 | like another coding tutorial website, right? |
| 0:21.4 | Because them spending it on that platform means they have less money to spend on my |
| 0:26.0 | platform. |
| 0:27.0 | What is up you sexy bastards? It is your boy, little Noah, aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka big Noah Kagan. |
| 0:35.3 | In today's episode I talk with Joma Tech. |
| 0:37.6 | This is a Yewtuber, I know you're like, I'm tired of youtubers, but God, they're so interesting. |
| 0:41.4 | This guy is a Silicon Valley Tech nerd who makes super funny videos |
| 0:44.8 | that actually has a day job at a tech company and he makes YouTube videos, really interesting |
| 0:48.9 | guy, and his ultimate goal is actually to become a director and build a multi-million dollar media empire? |
| 0:54.0 | If you've ever want to learn about how to have a full-time job plus grow a side hustle, his was a YouTube channel, |
| 0:58.3 | over 1 million subs, you're going to love this episode. |
| 1:00.3 | In this conversation you enjoy three to five gigantic things. |
| 1:04.0 | One, the downfalls of creating content to get external validation. |
| 1:06.8 | I know I've struggled with that. |
| 1:07.9 | Two, why he only releases one video a month? |
| 1:10.7 | Three, why entertaining content trumps educational content? I'm still |
| 1:14.5 | figuring that one out. Four, why he's creating a dating show and five, how he plans to |
| 1:18.7 | build the gimlet media of YouTube. You're gonna enjoy those five things, plus even more earnuggets along the way. |
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