Words matter. These are the best Hank Green Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In the Big City, different feels good, like blazing a trail. In a small town, though, different can feel like trying real hard to look special. Or even like rubbing your neighbor’s nose in your success.
We had such a dedicated and interested audience that they provided the opportunity to do cool new things – and we like doing cool new things.
The online video ecosystems thrives largely on ads.
I started paying my bills with YouTube money around the time I hit a million views a month.
When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that’s when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.
On paper, I am a Tesla guy. I’ve got money, I’m a nerd, and for years I professionally ran a blog advocating for technology that helps decrease our impact on the environment. I love what Tesla does.
YouTube’s growth exploded in 2006. Ian and Anthony of Smosh, who began uploading in late 2005, were among the platform’s top native stars and they defined a lot of what it meant to be a ‘YouTuber.’
Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously the moment I write something down that is unique and from my brain. Trademarks are far more restrictive.
Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.
Gaming content is exactly what YouTube wants (the videos are long, the audiences are engaged, and thus people stay on the site).
Don’t feel bad about getting someone to click on something if the thing they’re clicking on doesn’t suck.
Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can’t be good at every single thing.
No one really knows how trademarks work. I don’t mean, ‘Come along with me on this journey and you will be one of the righteous few who truly understands!’ I mean, no one really understands how trademarks work.
People are curious and want to know about stuff.
I still do believe in the power of the Internet for good. I believe it’s a net positive. I believe that it does connect people. It does give people a chance to be more of themselves. It does allow for content to be created for audiences that were being completely ignored and neglected.
Conventions are expensive to run and attend.
YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized.
I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it’s an old idea in science fiction.
I have made lots of mistakes. I have had many bad days. I have hurt people and myself.
It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.
Podcasts, and the way they are distributed, are extremely simple technologically. Indeed, ‘RSS,’ the feed protocol that connects podcast apps to the audio files that they need, stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication.’
You’re going to make decisions that are not in your best financial interest because they make you happier or more fulfilled or because of your values. You’re going to do that because you’re a good, smart person.
One of the wonderful things about the Internet is that it allows us to create lots of different kinds of content for lots of different kinds of people.
I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.
My brother and I semi-coined a phrase back in 2007, ‘Don’t Forget to be Awesome.’
I’m Hank, I do a bunch of stuff.
The path to success isn’t through my lizard brain, it’s through high quality collaboration and making good stuff and understanding difficult situations fully enough to come up with good (or even great) solutions quickly.
If you’re making something you’re passionate about, it’s not going to feel like work.
Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don’t believe that, then you have never truly taught.
You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can’t with a real person, which is weird, because you know everything there is to know about them.
I love online video. I’ve been obsessed with it since day one.
We shouldn’t be ashamed of getting people to click on content that we’re proud of.
Robots have solved and will continue to solve so many human problems. Except for all the ones that they cause.
The process of seeking fame is a process of seeking dehumanization. You are looking for it. You want it. But you only want the good parts of it. You want the part where people see you as just a collection of positive things and nothing else.
Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn’t all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it’s about inviting a broader variety of viewers to the platform.
There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.
As long as we continue to invest in good content that increases excitement about and understanding of science, we’re on the right side of this fight, and I have no problem at all stealing from the toolbox of the clickbaiters.
Gone are the days when every successful creator got their own New York Times profile. Nowadays, professional Internet creator is just another job.
When I’m in L.A., I see Teslas like they’re Hondas.
I’m a professional maker of online video and I love platform diversity of every kind.
Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it’s the other way around, that the anonymity removes the ‘self’ from the people we’re talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.
I make and watch and think about YouTube for a living. So, when YouTube is launching a new feature I might have any emotion ranging from Christmas-morning enthusiasm to utter terror.
I am somewhat surprised to have employees.
I think that we rightly spend more time thinking about and criticising the stuff that is really successful, because we want to make sure that we understand all the ways that it is both a positive and negative influence. It isn’t always a bad thing.
I don’t want to be one of those bosses… taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.
I have gone long stretches of working 60 to 80 hours per week.
I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.
I am hopeful about the future of humanity.
My grandfather was a very successful businessman. He started off as an engineer, but moved to sales to management to executive over a long career. For a while, before I was born, he was the CEO of an oil and gas exploration company.
Anyone can put up a podcast, any application can locate and download it. It’s a decentralized, hacked together, open system and, as podcaster and a listener, I think it works perfectly.
