10 Year LTT Anniversary Stream - Ask Us Anything (Almost)

whoo there we go all right we're back guys do you want to lift it up know that it's not it's fine cat no you'll be fine this time I set it to a much less aggressive encoding settings worsening it like CPU so we should be fine so let's start fresh round four fourth attempt you know it's funny because this is just such a throwback to the early days of the channel when like half of what we did was not edited at all and the other half of it was edited so poorly that half of the comments were about how all the audio was only in one year or the resolution was set wrong or there was just like four minutes of black screen at the end of the video that was just nothing and there'd be these comments on the video that would be like alright I stopped drew the whole format I think us remember this was before YouTube there's so many features we take for granted now this is before YouTube had like a preview scrub feature where you could mouse over and see a preview of what was in the video at that point so people are just sitting there for like four minutes of black they're waiting for like a jump-scare or unlike hey for those of you who stayed till the end here's a embargoed product that no one's seen before right and they're just like there was nothing yeah I don't really know how to video at it like looking back at the last ten years of YouTube and sort of how much has changed I was looking at a video that there's a threat on the forum cuz a lot of people have been kind of talking about the ten year anniversary it's not actually today it was actually sex ride the stream 20 no 26 I think okay yeah I think it was on the 26 that makes sense cuz then I went to San Fran was I'm San Fran yesterday you know what I don't even know it doesn't it doesn't matter I think it was 26 but a lot of people been talking about it so there's a threat on the forum what's the first line is tech tips YouTube video you watched and it was a collab giveaway with Lou from unbox therapy from like six years ago or something like that and I watched about the first 20 I'm like this is so cringe this is completely unwatchable how did it anybody like this and the funny thing is that not relatively speaking not that many people liked it it only gone you know 20,000 views which at the time for us might have been pretty respectable but there's a lot of stuff that's like that on our previous attempt at this dream I was talking about how I was reading an article about just sort of looking at the top 20 top 30 YouTube channels over the last 10 years and how those rankings have changed like looking at the pre music videos era and then the first time VEVO kind of showed up on the top youtube channels list and then how gaming sort of went from machinima like remember machinima machinima being basically the sole presence of gaming on youtube - all of a sudden you know PewDiePie being the top youtuber a Minecraft before that you prank videos reaction videos drama videos like all these kinds of eras and it's been it's been really mind-blowing to me that in spite of like I don't know I have kind of this I have kind of this forced humility about my own presence on the channel and when I say my I should probably explain why my wife's here on this dream with me because she's actually been active in the channel since pretty much day one not quite day one technically actually but pretty much day one of when it wasn't me and one of the hardware connects guys back at NCIX who were working on it and so the purpose of this dream is just kind of to talk to us about the journey here and in particular if you want to get any insight sort of behind the scenes we left off with a huge cliffhanger of a question that we are going to come back to we've just been waiting for me to not be traveling and not be too tired frankly we're both kind of too tired tonight but that's good news for you because you're probably going to end up with a lot looser filter anyway it's kind of what reading through these articles kind of being me reflects on my own sort of history on the on the platform and the sort of forced humility that I've had because I've got to be one of the largest YouTube channels that I we - tech tips has to be one of the largest YouTube channels that I'm aware of from a subscriber standpoint from a total view standpoint from how long it's been around standpoint that has never had like a massive viral breakout hit you know I think seven gamers one CPU was a sort of a turning point for us but it was a million views in a day which even at that time so that was like four years ago I want to say was not a huge deal in the context of YouTube as a whole so we have just quietly kind of grown slowly but steadily along with the growth of the channel I actually have no idea how well you guys are gonna be able to see this if you will at all so I'm gonna have to pop up the thing here oh you guys can kind of see my screen yeah that's right this is how we're streaming tonight but like this is our this is our social blade you can actually creep vid stats X seems to be kind of gone now but you can creep pretty much any YouTube channel only the really really small ones that haven't been added to their database don't show up but you can creep any YouTube channel like how many subscribers they're gaining per day how many views they're getting per day and we've always had just kind of this slow and steady growth but some of the spikes you guys might actually see there are just you know CES in actually CES 2017 was huge for us we we uploaded like 50 or 60 videos in a span of five days like we usually do but we had quite a few that were that were really picked up by the algorithm and performed really well and like all on the same day so we end up with like this monster month but other than that we've never really had a breakout so we've always been kind of just kind of in the shadows chugging away and you know in the last ten years in spite of the fact that you know I've never been featured in a YouTube rewind for example and until the last couple of years when we've had a freaking awesome rep with YouTube like mad mad props I don't think he wants his name public so I'm not gonna name him or anything but we've had an awesome YouTube rep who's really like engaged with us and kind of cared about us and it's been it's been really my breath of fresh air you know other than that we've really just gotten no attention from the platform whatsoever and in that time like we've overtaken channels that were absolutely you know monstrous at the time that I first started out like Chris Pirillo and PC whiz kid were like huge tech channels back when back when I was first starting out and you know sort of quietly over again the last 10 years - tech tips has 2/3 as many views total as jenna Marbles who was like number 4 on YouTube or something like that you know back when - Texas was first starting to gain some traction so it's been just an unbelievable experience I do have a couple super chats coming in so I should probably have a look at some of those if you guys have any questions you don't have to super chat them but it obviously does kind of help me see them honestly this is just like we're chilling with you guys and we're gonna try and take questions from everywhere but the chatons so fast the first thing I wanted to do before we do that though is come back to the question that we left off with last time and that was does Linus Media Group support diversity in the workplace couldn't help noticing that you guys are kind of like a tech bro tech bro culture and for that I'm gonna kind of let my well HR manager take over don't look down here okay well why don't we recap where we left off so it's not like we haven't tried to hire females we really did try for especially for positions that aren't tech related I mean you guys know that most of our audience is male so literally 97 percent over the last month or so so anytime we get applicants for any tech related position most of them really are male so for things like sails or bookkeeping accounting and camera to edit and shooting editing we we get more female applicants and we've actually hired females for all of those positions I mean to know those females aren't with us anymore but that has nothing to do with we didn't want them here yeah that's not wanting them here and things like that it just they didn't work out for various reasons we can't for obvious reasons go over that with you guys I mean I will say that one thing that we've discovered makes our lives a lot easier from a production standpoint is having a passion for tech yeah I mean I've I've been asked a lot of times over the years how do I break out as a youtuber and one of the pieces of advice that I really like to fall back on if I can't think of anything unique and funny or whatever which happens a lot so if I say this a lot is you have to do something that you are truly passionate about because the audience is BS detector is just too finely tuned if you don't actually care then it's just not gonna fly and you can find people who are passionate about what we do in other ways like they could be you know passionate about interpersonal skills or they could be passionate about you know filming cinematography or video editing or whatever the case may be but if you're not if you don't have at least kind of a peripheral passion about for technology it's really hard to enjoy your work and that's another thing that I've said a lot over the years in fact that's something that we've kind of butted heads about a lot over the years so for those of you who don't know Yvonne's background is in pharmacy yeah so I went to school for five years got my pharmacy degree came out became fuzz not working out for you hey I still work once a month it's true yeah it's working somewhat but like we would we would run into situations where people would be kind of fooling around or not on tasks or you know whatever and in her line of work someone not paying attention for five minutes is could be deadly literally yes literally life and death yeah whereas in our line of work like I've always kind of made the argument that like we have some pretty loosey-goosey policies quite frankly you you don't have to be on time for work you're not even you don't even have to notify unless you're gonna be more than half an hour late we don't really taste people about being on their phones or just kind of going for a walk or having conversations in the halls like we're we're pretty we're pretty lacs about it and the argument that I've always kind of made in defense of that goofing around is that as long as the work gets done and it doesn't affect other departments adversely we have certainly crossed that line at times and obviously we've had to talk to people about things like we're still running a company sort of it's funny some Jake today I made a comment that the walls were painted like this really these really pastel bright colors and feels like a daycare in here and we were like really does feel like it sometimes but anyway the point is the argument that I've always made is that if you're not having fun when you're creating content that's the other thing that the audience picks up on so fast if you don't actually care and you're not actually having fun then your passion and your excitement and your fun are not gonna bleed into the content okay one thing that I feel like I had to jump in with here yes it's like you're making me seem like such a terrible like taskmaster yes lady yeah need I remind you that was your nickname at your old job literally the boss lady that was an affectionate nickname the one you're giving me right now doesn't sell I am very affectionate at the right time I brought that up is when it's been excessive not when it's just been like I I in joy getting to know people at work - it's not like I and I take longer than 30 minute lunch breaks all the time I get from the subhead so I don't think that's better that is something we actually had to crack down on a little bit recently yes setting a bad example okay well I'm just explaining that I'm not the bad guy you make me out to be I only cracked out on it when I do think it's excessive or when people are underperforming and that sometimes does happen and that's one way to get them to stop underperforming is to stop wasting time okay so I'm not being unreasonable I think so this is what a lot of people probably don't realize and I know that I don't help matters so we've we've had some we've had some very sort of I won't say tense how about intense we've had some very intense conversations about you know hey I couldn't help noticing that when you announced the Christmas bonus this year you said I decided I'm gonna do this I'm doing that yo what it gives like I I tend to be okay whenever I need another youtuber I am almost always blown away by how cut from the same cloth youtubers tend to be because I don't think you'd survive as a youtuber without being tireless without loving the spotlight without you know being kind of quick on your feet and and kind of making things up as you go along and so you know what I what I have tended to do is be a bit of a spotlight hog and like it's funny I mean I had to talk her into doing the stream with me now four times because Yvonne tends to be more of of a background player but what I think a lot of people haven't realized over the years like I've seen comments on our videos that have made me laugh so hard mostly inside because I think she'd get mad if I laughed like that hard of them okay well I'm pretty sure you oh yeah I did okay why did Linus bring his wife torque yeah and there was this there's this really great one there's actually quite a number of them it was on one of the vlogs where you can tell the company's going downhill because the boss's wife isn't weren't barking orders the first thing I do is hand in my resignation good know is that I was actually part of the channel from really really early on so like filming things in our dining room or in in my parents in her parents dining room where I was living yeah at the time the dining room specifically and yeah the cameraman which did refer to one specific person yeah I was part of the camera people that did help film so I think it was what within the first 30 videos I had already filmed the first one for you yep I mean I never did that it very early on I in no particular order the people who actually operated the camera for Linus tech tips are there was a guy named Arthur who did at one point we are you allowed to be naming these things yeah it's just the first name Arthur there was a bloke named Keaton there was the cameraman who has asked me very nicely to never reveal his name so I won't be revealing that one Ivan shots them at some point I'm pretty sure one of my colleagues who now works at Coursera shot something at some point like it was kind of whoever I could grab and he'll hold still for long enough to point a camera at me because I didn't have a lot of time like I just have started is like low-budget I remember we would go you would come home on the weekends with like a trunk full of products there'd be like 50 products in his drone not 50 not 30 30 no we would spend the entire weekend yeah filming unboxing after unboxing you're my parents but it probably felt like 30 but I think the most I never brought home in one weekend was around 15 so always yeah I'm serious I'm serious it just it probably seemed like more so your way it worked was I I had a quota and I don't remember how much I got paid I think it was like $30 I don't eat all your for tea five dollars or something whatever it wasn't a lot so aside from my salary and then any Commission structures that I had for my real job which was as a product manager category manager and then the PC systems division head so aside from that I got these like per video Commission's on both NCIX tech tips videos and - tech tips videos so I think NCIX tech tips videos I got paid about two hundred and fifty dollars in episode so I like tried my best to hit my quota for those but it was actually eight a month and I think four years I didn't hit it because the cameraman whose full-time job was very time consuming and my full-time job which was very time consuming just made it impossible those were so much more time consuming to film and then for every line expected to do I think it was like 30 bucks or something like that up to a maximum of 45 videos a month so the reason there was so much volume and from time to time you guys would see me unboxing like swag promotional items that Intel shipped or like I think one time I unboxed a game code that was part of like an Nvidia promotion and then just like scratch the game code on the videos when whoever watched first it's got a free game so I was like I was spinning that is like hey well we're promoting our partners like game promotion thing also I really needed my 30 bucks so there was nothing interesting in there so anyway Yvonne's been involved since really early on and even though she didn't actually appear on our company roster on - Media Group calm until she joined us full-time which was three years ago when did you join full-time it was after we moved into the current studio right I think it was when we moved into the cuz he's never worked out of the old house yeah okay yeah I worked from home and that wasn't because we had a baby and I was on Maui or like after my work at Costco full time and trouble at the CRA because you were working on your manliness well I wouldn't from well hopefully anyone from the CRA is watching and we won't have to deal with that that's no there is nothing wrong with that no I was yeah so you yeah so I didn't go to the office because I was dealing with the newborn and like working in between and then I was working at Costco full-time and then working after hours so there was just no point but I actually like people who people would wonder you know why is even allowed to give orders that - media group and the reason is that she's been a senior manager here since day zero she actually filed all of our incorporation documents has dealt with all of our accounting anything that's involved a lawyer anything that's involved a contractor it's hilarious because you'll I'll kind of have these funny experiences where particularly with contractors and I'm not trying to generalize but particularly with contractors Yvonne will do the initial outreach and they'll we don't have the last same last name so there would be no reason for them to know that we're related in any way but I think the vibe they get is that she's kind of like a personal assistant or secretary or something like that so she'll do the initial outreach and they'll walk in the door and you know you Linus yeah hi nice to meet you alright so I want to go through the thing right here and I'm like oh yeah yeah look I don't know anything about that I'm gonna have to defer to Yvonne and they're like well you know I really need to go through you know some of the technical aspects yeah yeah I go talk to her I never deal with that stuff so yeah like I don't think okay it's hide from contractors I don't like our accountant knows you like I don't be he's ever met you um I don't think the bank knows you cuz I always deal with them no I don't think the bank knows me the lawyer the lawyer knows me the girl lawyer with the office in downtown Oh I never was different that was like time thing yeah okay I signed some papers but yeah so Yvonne does all that stuff she's actually hired about as many people for - media group as I have she has kind of done everything set design I think he's even wrote a script I think so I don't know I feel weird talking about myself right now but I know people ask what I do so I guess I guess we're being helpful what else I guess I get projects so nice will be like hey I want to redecorate the office yeah go do that or hey I want to build an office that that's probably a bigger project it's probably the biggest project you ever had to take on yeah was building LMG from scratch oh it was a specific headquarters yeah it was really funny because we were working out of the Langley house which was a residential house and we had like 10 to 4 against the bylaws we had the City of Surrey try to evict us and luckily we had that other place but construction was going really slow on it and we'd uh yeah it was it was really hard it was such a mess but we made it up yeah and it's kind of worked out yeah it's getting a little cramped now but it is getting a little cramped but we actually have a plan which has ended up being yet another project poor Yvonne she's trying to finish reconciliations for October the time the date is now almost December but I actually just dumped two more crazy projects on her so because we need some more space we've actually and the timing worked out really well we've actually acquired another unit next door some of you I think noticed over the last couple of years that all of a sudden that's like there were those units that they had and then there was like this extra space where'd that come from so we did end up expanding into a unit next door not actually because we wanted to what happened was that used to be owned privately by someone who owns other property in our complex and was the ideal neighbor storage of boats motorcycles cars yeah CEO playground and he was never in there so we had this paper-thin drywall wall in between units one two three four which is us and unit 101 and we were like oh this is great because no one's ever in there so and to be clear yeah we needed it to be quiet for filming purposes ya hear everything well that's what I was gonna say was until one day they were in there too putting in like a temporary mezzanine yeah which is the mezzanine that you guys now see in our videos the stairs that are thankfully there now and our entire studio is completely unusable yeah hammering away at things and these guys are a construction company to be in there with a forklift all the time like it would have been a disaster so anyway they kind of a bend in that project because they got busy and then everything was quiet for a bit and everything was good and then I walked past it one day and it was up for lease oh crap it could be anything it could be a mechanic it could be uh III don't know it could be anything and so we were like okay uh we really don't have the money for this right now but but we want to make an apt choice otherwise our units are completely useless but I also didn't want to just lease from the guy forever that would feel pretty stupid so I was like okay look we need a permanent solution let's see if they'd be willing to sell it so we ended up acquiring that unit in order to just yeah it's it's extra payments we have to make but that secured our future basically permanently because there's eight units per building we already have these three it's a concrete wall down the middle of the building so there's four more over there and now we've grabbed this one we're all the way to the ends concrete on one side nothing on the other side and you have to worry about noise anymore ever again yeah theoretically I mean unless we ever have to move again but we're not moving okay the one on the other side came up for sale right around the time that you know we've been trying to get better at doing more maker style videos like we're constantly trying to evolve and I don't think we're ever going to be Adam Savage like it's just it's not in the cards but we can still we can still acknowledge that maker community without without being that hardcore but we what we need decent tools otherwise it's going to be sketchy heatsinks forever so we were looking at building a workshop in 101 yeah and what we realized is it wasn't gonna fly yeah so for again noise purposes and the other safety safety actually because people are always going back and forth and if you're gonna have a proper workshop with a laser cutter and things like that you really can't say Alex want to leave yeah like a metal lathe you can't have people just rocking back and forth it was also our storage area so so people would be yeah there all the time yeah so we were like okay oh wow unit 105 is available what if we put the workshop in there on the other side of a concrete barrier cuz that was another big concern even the editors were complaining when the CNC was running yeah and that they weren't trying to film anything so so we've expanded our space and so the latest project for Yvonne has been acquire that space build a workshop fortunately she's got a few months for that and in the meantime build an epic employee lounge in 101 so I think you're gonna have a what I think there's a 12 gaming station Lynn yeah 12 seat like land center which we talked about in a previous video but we've expanded the plan because what we realized was like that's gonna be lame just like sitting out in a warehouse playing video games like yeah we can do that here so what else we're gonna have so I think jig said there was an 85 inch day to an 82 inch TV which is I I don't even know where to start we're gonna figure this out Jake and I went couch shopping today so that was pretty I do like big comfy couches all around it we got flooring already which was super cheap and nice good I feel good about getting good deals that's what matters to me I have to get a good deal not a trained accounting but for better or for worse a professional accountant for the last six years so and and the accounting firm that we hired to look through our books said they would hire her so the first one that we went to first one yeah that made me feel pretty good we day that good though I don't know what you are you guys anyway but anyway so we're also gonna have a tabletop gaming section that's just gonna be like kind of a nice dining room table some chairs we're gonna put the arcade in there so hopefully some will finally use it ping-pong table we're gonna have a bigger kitchen area because the one right now is literally it fits a microwave and a dish back and that's pretty much it I mean it's not gonna be a full kitchen because we'd have to pull a permit if we were gonna do like an actual sink and running air and all that kind of thing so it's just gonna be kind of a microwave and a countertop that's still it's still gates enough for your popcorn we're gonna have a mini fridge yeah popcorn drinks yep things like that that kind of thing should be all good so that's Yvonne's latest project so that's gonna be pretty fun and now maybe we could actually start to take some of your questions Logan says once the next crack your dwarfs love you guys it's not in the plan right now you've tried to do scrapyard wars once every quarter so once every three months but I think it happens more like once every six months yeah I think it's gonna be probably a year in between the last one and by the time we finally get to it again now the reality of it is scrapyard wars is extremely taxing on the entire team yeah even the people who aren't directly involved in it get just screwed because their entire workflow gets messed up by half of the company being out of the office filming something for an entire week and the thing about scrapyard wars is this is such a big risk every time what if this is the season that no one actually builds a computer what if it's boring and you know it felt like there we got a lot of feedback last time around that maybe the concept was kind of played out with that said though those of you who are following on floatplane are probably already aware of this but we have a new kind of proposed totally different but we hope equally exciting multi-part serialized format coming it's going to start it today right on flow plan yeah I'm actually really excited to watch it I was hearing people in the office talking about Alex and Anthony unbeknownst to each other we're sitting basically back-to-back having just sat down with their lunches and they were watching almost the exact same part of the video just like had their popcorn ready the first episode is about 20 to 23 minutes long and it's gonna be called secret shopper so we realize that a lot of the time because of our profile we might get special treatment from manufacturers and so what we wanted to do was go undercover and look at PC builders that's so this is the first the first run here is going to be system integrators and see exactly what the experience is like start-to-finish bonynge a custom-built PC or a pre-built PC and there's I don't want to spoil too much but there is some epic stuff that goes down I'm not going to name names but at least one representative claimed to us that we could get a ten times performance increase by going from a standard SKU to a k' overclockable SKU of the same model number or like 3% okay you know not ten times so that's gonna be pretty good ah no man says can you do a GPU giveaway we actually have a GPU giveaway running right now on our forum for folding at home so go check that out will says thank you for the best content on YouTube thank you I really don't know for the best content on YouTube you know mr. beast saying cutie pie over and over again for ten hours that has got to be in the running setting a hundred thousand times I didn't actually watch the video because I feel like I could kind of have the experience from looking at the thumbnail looking at the length of the video - navigating somewhere else but it's gonna be right up there sir cloud says how has the last ten years affected LG for the future well it's funny because when we started LMG your goal was be a real company and I think that we've we hadn't really started to do that the sort of the dream was five to six people within five years making enough money that they can sustain themselves we never imagined anything like this yeah hi so I think we're up to 21 people now at LNG an lmg if you don't count flow plane people and I think there's five people at flow 25 people of flow plane so it's it's great and I like to think that people at LNG like lists people that work there get paid really well um they're buying homes which is amazing to see they're buying nice cars nicer than to be clear the ones that stick with it yeah and the ones that laughs the ones that prove they're proof they're worth it or what's that called earn their stripes there we go yep so we've it's funny there's been a lot of people I've seen a lot of talk outside sort of around the web about how - Media Group expects slave wages and we'll see a lot of comments whenever we post a video looking for applicants whether it's a call for writers call for programmers whatever else there's a whole lot of comments with people definitively as though they've worked here or something you know stating as though it's fact that - Media Group expects you know endless over time and for slave wages and the reality of it is our turnover like in the total time we've existed as a company is I think just over 10% and we have been around for six years wrap your head around that once people get in at lmg they do not go anywhere and I'm gonna cop to it starting wages very low but it's one of the it's one of the few things that I took away from NCIX that or from my time at NCIX because not all this was necessarily NCIX philosophy but one of the things I took away from my time at NCIX is that you should hire the team of people that are really excited to work with each other every day to the point where it's not about the money they'd rather just do what they do and love what they do and love the people that they work with and genuinely enjoy getting up and driving to work and then from there if you have an amazing world-class team of people who are passionate like that the business will thrive and when the business thrives well then the reward will come that's always been the philosophy as for how the last 10 years has affected LMG for the future I guess the point we were trying to make was we had so little idea where we were headed and honestly the whole thing was crazy yeah we were we were talking in the last room about how yeah ever ed and I were guessing how many subscribers we had when we first branched off into it's not like into LNG its own company yeah and it had guests around a million I had yesterday on five hundred thousand and we started with 150 I was both so it was about two hundred thousand by the time - media group was actually incorporated and started its first day of business but when we made the decision when the decision is actually made it was probably closer to a hundred and fifty a hundred and sixty thousand subscribers looking back on that that is crazy I don't know what we know I look at I look at channels with like a couple hundred thousand subscribers and I go yeah you know you're you're on your way but like you know we hit that million mark and then you can let go nd you can make it your full-time job like excited for you like make it happen and meanwhile we were absolutely nuts because not only did we go indie at 200,000 I had a six month old baby that I was leaving a good job before like I was making well over six figures at my job I was pretty high up in the company so I was leaving this job which I got a lot of support like can't be can't be grateful enough for that but I was leaving this job we had this six month old baby we expected to start the company with two full-time employees yeah plus myself right out of the gate Luka Ned because I didn't know how to edit video and Luke was running the forum which he wasn't on camera yet at this point remember so he was running the forum and he was also doing like prep for the videos because I didn't have time to prepare everything I had this crazy harebrained scheme work out and I worked out of my head where we were gonna work with technology companies like NCIX we were gonna do is just do unboxings we were gonna do a week's worth of unboxing videos for the tech channel in one day then the next day we were going to work with like local car dealerships and we were gonna do like car unboxings just like overviews and we were gonna stoop like five of those six of those and you wanted a we're gonna do like tools this other day toys this other day and we were gonna run all these like low production value kind of cheap Oh Clinton we were gonna put up like 50 to 70 videos a week because but this is like the three of us like it was just stupid like I don't know what I was thinking and and we and so like I need but I needed these people I couldn't survive without them because I didn't know how to shoot her at it and I didn't know how to well I just needed Luke for like the forum stuff that he did any development stuff that he did and and prep and so also means Ivonne for organization and accounting and keeping me grounded and yeah I don't know where I'm going with this anymore but it was not it was stupid it goes basically right we had no idea what we were doing then we probably have no idea what we're doing now and we're getting to the point where lmg honestly is developing kind of a heart beat of its own like I kind of found out that we are up there are apparently internal proposals that exist and there are brands looking to work with us in like more of an agency role and I was like oh yeah that kind of makes sense cuz we kind of nothing against any of the agencies we work with some of them are awesome but well we just we do some of that for ourselves yes so we're experienced when we do a lot of our own agency work and quite frankly we do a good job it's not that complicated prompt communication deliver what you said you were going to deliver clear communication you know we bring your a ideas to to the client and you know work with them to achieve both their goals and yours and make it work for the audience I got like all that kind of stuff and I was like okay yeah I guess that kind of makes sense we'll probably need to hire like a half a dozen people if this takes off what the hell thank you so I don't know to be clear we don't know if we're gonna do that yeah yeah still how I'm thinking about it we're not ready to announce who it's with yet but LTX this year is going to be in partnership with a major live event partner like you guys are going to know who this is they're gonna be like no way it's gonna be really awesome this year we're actually taking it like way way way we're way up into the big leagues hopefully yeah like the venue I think is something like double the size of last year it's in Vancouver proper yeah Vancouver Convention Center looks like it's pretty much locked down like we are we are kicking it up a handful of notches trying to really do it this year and like that you gotta remember there's entire companies who and whose entire business is one or maybe two events that they host once a year or twice a year and and all of this is kind of like happening with actually very little guidance from from my hand anyway I know Yvonne's been involved with it but alright so yeah we don't know there that's know but I think what we do know is that it's it's really become a real company yeah yeah with like paper towel dispensers that go like this you know in the bathrooms and some well no seriously like you don't have a way to dry your hands for the first three Oh like you just kind of wipe them on your shirt or your pants like I bet if you guys go back and look at videos there's gonna be like water marks on my shirt I'm like yeah is that even when you become a real company you have those paper towel dispensers and things like that people still go take a shower in the office come out shake themselves off and there's literally like Waterston Waterston the wall there's just like just like shook their hands off against the wall hence the day care comment uh-uh Aditya thank you Jamie Dunn says lines perfect timing was just tuning my PC watching your videos in the process you're amazing love your videos thank you Jimmy KITT caffeine TV isn't this leggy okay oh isn't this leggy speaking of caffeine TV we're doing kind of a fun stream pretty soon that's going to be like a caffeine-fueled madrina sponsored our live build so stay tuned for that it's gonna be I think Saturday night adnan hi thanks Aaron Cummings hi thanks Joshua hi thanks Trevor hi thanks Troy Williams hi thanks apparently I've been an inspiration hey its mate thanks mate you know you don't have to send money dude here you're awesome maybe super chatted us bought us a cake today that was really nice that was really nice too celebrating everyone's getting into the you know we have wanted to do like a 10-year anniversary product like like a keyboard or something like that but we just couldn't get our act together in time and honestly I kind of like this better just keeping it low-key but our community has really like made a lot of noise about it and it's been it's been really cool yeah you guys are amazing yeah none of this exists without you guys six says always fun to have Canadian content on YouTube we take so much flack for being bad Canadians cuz we always talk in like us pricing I'm sorry fellow Canadians but like here's the thing okay our audience is predominantly us sort of it's us the US has a greater share of the name one else but there's other regions that are catching up a big time Australia UK India is making a significant ground right now which is really cool anyway the u.s. still takes the biggest chunk and here's what you got to remember the pricing in other regions is often derived from the US pricing in particular Canada so we're giving you Canadian pricing ish you just got to kind of go Times 1.33 ish in your head except it doesn't always work out that way because sometimes we're talking about like promote promos and stuff ah Mahesh says thank you for 10 years inspired me to become an Intel engineer so you already you know more about tech than I ever will I can pretty much guarantee that was pretty cool dude I love hearing those stories like when watching our videos people get inspired to go way deeper than I ever could that's incredible Rishi says could you tell tell us something that changed you significantly during the past 10 years Wow how about you do you want to go on this one um well I mean there's the obvious starting LMG has changed this significantly over the last 10 years I feel like I've aged way more in the last 10 years having kids yep it's crazy to me that we're still the only people in oMG who have kids well a lot of people that are younger than us they are younger but we had kids already we also have kids we had kids a lot sooner than most people nowadays had kids I think what I was 24 yeah most people are in there like late 20s early 30s so funny so between her being 24 and being Asian which means that like as far as I can tell Asian girls turned 17 and then turn 65 so there's kind of like this look it's it's it's it can't be racist if it's true right so anyway between her being 24 and being Asian she would go to like the baby time classes you know rec center yeah library or whatever and all the moms would look at me really really weird like like pity or like judgy ears like yo look you know the rings on the finger okay also I'm 24 like this is not a big deal it's actually like prime prime birthing years you know biologically so no I don't think you've ever done that in your life it's like it's so funny to think is like even though the social norm at least here in Western Canada anyway has been to have kids older you know biologically it's actually more difficult on your body the older you get and I remember one of the funniest things that her OBGYN said during was this pregnancy number two q so you're 26 yeah at this point and turning 20 26 27 somewhere in that range anyway she goes yeah this one's like way more difficult I'm getting more sciatica pains and just I feel my fatigue it's harder any kind of a nice clipboard or whatever he's like yeah well you know you're no spring chicken so it's to be expected excuse me he was awesome yeah I loved him yeah just totally to the point yeah we're all about just straight talk communication you know if if it's hard because we're old then we want to know yeah that was actually one of the questions from the last stream to is how are what was it was it our communication or a relationship has been starting a company together yeah there have been times okay look there's been tears yeah no doubt it's been a lot of stress it's been a lot of fun a lot of stress there's been there's been fights yeah obviously you know making hard decisions you know particularly when it comes to HR because there's a relationship component to it making hard decisions with respect to money like we were very close to running out of money in the first six months like I forgot how close it was yeah until I was thinking yeah two hundred thousand subscribers like I was looking back at the kind of adsense numbers we did at that point I was like holy crap we had no money there was nothing it was hard and you know that's actually that was one of the things that I'm gonna totally derail this but that was one of the things that really made me reflect on the community again I still remember the first time we uploaded a pre-roll like a baked in pre-roll on one of our videos aside from just YouTube ads that ran against them we actually uploaded it as a dedicated video because I don't know how had felt about it but I was pretty proud proud of the animation job he'd done on this like intel snowboard campaign or whatever it was was weird campaign and the video was basically like look these are coming we're gonna try our best to make them you know have a tuning yeah and good production values and be entertaining but like we need to eat and that was what it was about at that point and the vast majority of the feedback we got from our community was actually positive and I kind of like Wow thank you because you know that was a very fragile moment for us where if we hadn't been allowed to diversify our revenue streams we might not have made it I might have had to go crawling back to NCIX and we all know how that would have right well they didn't survive we have outlived my previous employer which you know I'm sad about a lot of aspects of that there are some great good people who worked at NCIX who lost their jobs because of frankly mismanagement but there's also a certain sense of pride that I and everyone that I managed to pull out with a fire with me I'm doing better than ever before oh boy do you want to go back to the previous word I knew when I keep going and just answer some of these yeah go back to the previous one turist um so actually I'd say that it's made our relationship a lot better like it's forced us to talk about a lot of things and be on the same page because if we're not then how is that 20 other people supposed to be on the same page as us and it's made this groats made us grow together like it's easy I think too it's when you divide and conquer your tasks as a couple and you know far be it yeah you don't have to take my relationship advice I'm not some kind of relationship guru or anything but I think when you it was actually one of my ex-girlfriends parents that was really inspirational to me in this way I remember having a conversation with her that was like her parents didn't want to come get us from somewhere because it was a real hassle because her mom was in the middle of something and I was just like why is this a big deal like your dad's not doing anything why doesn't he just come get us and she can stay at home and she's just like oh well they don't do that I was like oh oh yeah I don't think I've ever seen them not just like when they have to go out and run an errand together they just go and do it together and I was like that's really cool to be married for 40 plus years or whatever and still crave each other's company to that degree and I don't think something like that happens by accident I think you grow together and there's a temptation to divide and conquer like there are times when Yvonne will go out and do the shopping and I'll stay at home and I do things hey you gave me crap last weekend but I had cleaned the kitchen even if you couldn't tell so my fault it was so messy that she couldn't tell it had been cleaned up she's cooking anyway the point is there's a temptation to divide and conquer and sometimes we split up but there's also an incredible value to just tackling problems or hobbies or challenges together and so we're we really had a turning point was when we went from we can't be spending so much time on work it feels like everything we do is work - okay we need to start treating work as like this epic hobby slash adventure slash surrogate social life for better or for worse slash all these other sort of more positive ways that we can look at it because there is a lot of positive there even if it would be so easy to dismiss it as work we have the coolest jobs in the world and we are so lucky and we work with the coolest people in the world my team is see I did it again my team our team our team is hands-down world-class absolutely world-class and one of the best things I ever heard was from a review last year where somebody said that at their old job there was always or at their previous jobs not just their old one there was always this one guy absolutely hated but at lmg could literally sit down and have a beer with anyone because they're just awesome and we take a lot of pride in that TK says buy some v bucks for your wife what Hervey bucks I don't know okay I feel old right now right Troy says you've inspired me to learn and research more about tech happy to hear that Mapes sent more money what are you doing dude uh Jeff go crazy we're watching you guys grow for the last decade - the only man that looks fourteen years old acts ten years old the aches moans and groans like a 60 year old I was born old man like straight up I was born an old man Guddu says congrats from india and you live in Richmond or Surrey so we live out I don't know how specific I want to get about it but we don't live in Richmond thanks Paul thanks other Ben Cloverdale thanks tough thanks Casals thanks Finn Amy where do you hope to be in the next five years it's so tempting to say like on a beach like I don't think that sipping coconut won't juice whatever butterflies would actually like that I think it's an honor style yeah you like to be really hands-on be involved and so do I I joke about it so much with my team like I walked into our Monday morning meeting I think two weeks ago it was like okay so first order of business everyone's laid off we're shutting it down I've made enough money see ya and no one even like blinked because they just like you I am whatever he does this all the time and like I always talk about like these pipe dreams that I have like I just want to like drive a school bus or flip burgers and I just want to have like all these crappy jobs because I haven't had a lot of jobs actually I was a lifeguard and then I painted houses and then I worked at NCIX where I actually did a number of different jobs but I worked for the same company and then Linus media group like that's all I did I never worked fast-food I never okay I worked retail but only for six months and NCIX like I didn't work and honestly it was hardly work like I applied there because I spent so much time on their forum advising people about what computers to buy I figured I might as well stand in their store into it and get paid but like like a child these things I'm gonna like work on a road crew and like you know people are gonna come and be like hey we do like famous on the Internet at one point without nah man don't know you talking about you and I talk about this stuff all the time but I don't think I don't know and like you know for being completely honest like I'm not at a stage where I have to go this hard anymore so I guess that would be the one thing I'd love to see over the next five years is for us to have more life balance especially with three young kids like we're never gonna get to enjoy the stage of their life in again yeah so that's something I really like to see meanwhile you're streaming with me yeah well this is fun too you have to think of this as our hobby yeah we tackle together this was this was my spin this was actually when I finally finally won the like look- media group really needs our attention to survive and it's not a bad thing Sebastian just want to try this feature paid two bucks to try the future thanks tough red gamer Daniel what would it take to have my six-year-old daughter meet you next time you're in San Fran oh man I just honestly I just don't know how to manage something like that for context yes blue to San Fran so he left Tuesday night I think you took the arrived and I left the office at 5:20 to get to the airport get to the airport flight was that what like it was delayed 8:30 anyway the point was he landed around 11:00 right 11:30 11:30 okay so filmed all day to the next day yeah I think what time did you finish filming well we finished filming at around 4:45 4:45 what time do you drive to the airport five o'clock o'clock for a 7:00 7:15 flight and then I was back on my doorstep 29 hours after I would have left it yeah and that's the way that I do things not because it's pleasant but because it means that I get more time with my family it means that I get to spend more time with my team helping them making sure that the content is as good as it can be I get more time with my kids like I would love I have never seen the Golden Gate Bridge I have been to San Francisco over a dozen times for sure probably over 20 times and I have yet to actually see the Golden Gate Bridge yeah oh end a I think I like saw it at night or something at one point but I'd like couldn't really see it so sorry Daniel it's just it's not really my style we do LTX once a year and that's army done that's the best I can really offer and we've had young kids come aboard and they've had a great time so yeah don't be shy thanks Matthew thanks rampage deluxe thanks subhan Andrew and she says where is Luke Luke wazzup flute playing media he's doing fine Denholm says hi from Australia yo dude Yvonne are you loving the other side dragon no I know like what are we gonna do with it so I noticed that I want to have a smile and Center okay yeah that's what you told me you were gonna do and then in Jake's mock-up of the land center it's not in there I'm gonna put in me okay he told me that it's going to be tucked under the stairs oh oh yeah oh yeah there well I'm gonna let you guys fight that one out ah Dave what are your strategies for keeping creatives on task in producing make sure okay so this is actually something that's been really challenging over the years never let it get boring creatives are really hard to manage no offense to my team love my team I might need to remove this world class but creatives are alike you know I kind of separate people into two groups you've got your geniuses and then you've got your others I have a word I use but I'm not gonna use it it's rude so you've got your geniuses and then you've got everyone else and the way that I see it genius doesn't mean IQ over a hundred and forty or whatever it is that doesn't matter that's not the point geniuses can think for themselves they can problem solve they can they can innovate they can identify a gap and they can fill it they can come up with new ideas everyone else just kind of does whatever you tell them until you tell them to stop and of course you'll have varying levels of focus in either of these groups but the good thing about geniuses is that they come up with new ideas they keep the content fresh I don't think it's an accident that Linus media group quarter-over-quarter has never gone down in viewership not once we've been told many times your videos suck now unsubscribing this is why - tech tips is going downhill because of this video - tech tips has literally never gone downhill so I can kind of let those kinds of comments roll off my back pretty easily sometimes I mean it's not like you don't read some of the comments and tweak things quite sure we take feedback yeah but I don't let hate get to me because numbers don't lie anyway a big part of why we've been able to sustain that kind of growth has been that we hire creatives we hire geniuses we hire people who can bring their own fresh perspectives their own fresh jokes their own ideas their own expertise and we let them contribute it of course in a controlled and like harnessed manner like we can't let people just go off the rails and start wearing dinosaur suits all the time and jumping out at cars or whatever the thing that was actually happened and happened I did not approve anyway you can't let people go off the rails but you got a you got to harness that energy right and so the thing about creatives is that they're geniuses but they are more difficult to manage and to get bored really fast and so you can't just take Alex I'm gonna use Alex as an example me to pick on Alex so I could have Alex pump out something to them to the tune of three to four laptop reviews per week because really you can kind of run them in parallel there's only a handful of things about a laptop review that are subjective you got kind of your keyboard and your touchpad and like sort of the fit and finish and then like that kind of stuff but other than that you benchmark it you check the thermals you check the battery life you open it up you see how upgradeable it is like it's kind of assembly line but even at times when we're kind of like we really need a video and then a laptop on the shelf I have to kind of step back and go okay hold on a second how hard am i pushing him right now to crank out assembly-line content no i need to assign him something that really lets them flex his muscles even if it is a terrible investment from like how much it costs me to pay him to work on it how much it cost me to pay a shooter to stand there for three days while he works on it how much it cost me to have an editor go through all that bloody footage and how few people are gonna watch the damn thing but you have to let people flex their creative muscles and you will find that the productivity stays higher of course yes still have to have conversations like yo your comment on your phone and I couldn't help noticing that you actually didn't contribute any posts to the company Twitter last week so you're probably not working on that you should probably put your phone away like maybe clean up some gear or something you know obviously you have to do that but I find letting people try things I mean I have greenlit so many projects that I think are outright bad ideas but and some of them I've been totally right and other times I've been wrong and that's where other people get fulfilment from their jobs is when they get to be creative and they get to see it work and they get to prove their boss wrong seriously job satisfaction what would you rather I think about it really think about it would you rather like a 10% pay increase or would you rather have the satisfaction of proving your boss wrong on a regular basis be pretty fun in front of everyone in front of hundreds of thousands of people okay and I think that keeps our audience from getting bored too because we're always trying new things Erin Lee visit Australia's and I'd love to I have never been to Australia I don't know how that is but it has never managed to happen Joey says huge thanks for the videos they really drove me to IT and I've been assistant min same company for five years wow that's incredible smokey says Congrats Thank You smokey little Aiden Thank You juicebox Thank You Thom this way plays Thank You God's law says I actually think I recognize that username thanks for the content watched you since the NCIX days Jackson - you still use an app watch I was wearing the Apple watch just as like a tone I hadn't Android phone in my pocket for like weeks right now I'm actually not wearing one because I don't know where my galaxy watches I don't even know if I'm gonna review it after all I really wanted to it looked so promising I'm just so frustrated by it like I was I was I had I was like I was eating a burrito or something so I had like burrito sauce all over one of my hands and then I was like holding a book in my other hand or like a phone or something and my watch buzzed and I was like okay this is an email from someone no idea if it's important no way to interact with no way to get this information without touching a touchscreen how do the smart watchmakers fail so badly pebble had this figured out half a decade ago the point of a SmartWatch is that my hands don't need to be involved I need to get the crucial information that tells me do I need to take out my phone without my hands anyway super brawler thank you spicy Thank You Yvonne will you ever do reviews no I don't think so right cut oh no I actually wrote one review for it was the hardware connects that in one case I wrote down review a really long time ago I don't even know if it's still up I loved that case I actually gave it away though I kind of wish I hadn't because now we have a girl and I bet she loved it um do you want to show them what it looks like I don't think the pictures are even still on the hosting service okay but have likes weird about Swarovski crystals or ski crystals and they had like really pretty painted flowers and the case was pearly way like it was just cute cute but yeah I helped her with some parts of it but here are the external impressions I'm pretty sure your exterior impressions I can I can read off oh no please don't people will go find it themselves the first thing I noticed about the metallic gray case was the fact that was actually more white than gray it has a beautiful white matte finish that appear shiny and reflects light from every angle well they don't look like much in the pictures the Swarovski crystals shine brilliantly and are stunning they actually add to the classy high-end impression in win was going for when designing this case also since this is an N ATX case it is quite small when compared to its ATX present I probably helped with that last sentence the flower pattern is flat to the touch and is also very nicely done it is strategically placed so that it doesn't make the case look too busy or too plain while adding a feminine touch to an elegant looking case without it coming off as cheesy okay we're good we made them suffer enough so this is why I don't do it just cuz I'll make fun of you that's yeah I did try it well we talked about it earlier on in the stream I did try to write uh what was it I think it was a FAP I tried to write a fat one we don't really use that terminology readily I'm sorry fast as possible for our tech quickie channel yes real quickie ones anyway yep yeah okay it's channel super fun dad asks Nathan yes epic weird random vids thank you - can you do a house - I actually did a house tour once and she flipped out yeah because it's pretty easy to find someone's house from an internal house tour especially if they just bought it because you can look through recent listings in like sort of the general area you wouldn't be able to find that house to her anymore and you wouldn't be able to find that listing anymore so still no mabe what are you doing mate sending more dude chill out Rishi says we need more channels super fun yeah adds dip thanks soo - thanks Kyle Thanks Thunder mayor of Colton says wanted to say I love that you took YouTube to a new level and making legitimate company out of it that really has been the goal we're gonna keep we're gonna keep changing so stay tuned for that Joey - what would you say to someone who has lost hope in programming due to chemical drugget I have no idea well I think the first thing to do would be to get help for the diction yes I think it's easy to lose hope when you're in that drugged cycle yeah I guess you know more about drugs and addiction than probably I do well you just want to come out of that you might find more positive things or find more interest in other things because that's I mean I've never done that I've never been in that cycle but I hear that when you're addicted to something like you just that's all you can focus on that's all you're interested in the closest thing I've probably experienced would have been the depression that I went through during my second year of house painting yeah second you know a second year of house painting just like kind of feeling like everything's pointless and like why would you even get up and just kind of can't do it anymore can't face the day like that kind of thing I it's funny because it was during that time where you swore you never wanted to start a business ever again I know right that was one of the big things that really stressed me out probably her too because she was a big part of supporting me out of that the first time around but that was one of the big things that really stressed me out about starting lanús Media Group was that I knew that there were certain things that it's like it's funny um people probably don't think of me as shy or socially awkward and I've come a long way in the last 10 years but go watch my first video the Sun beam tunak tower over on the NCIX tech tips channel that's me that's what I'm more like that's me trying really hard to come out of my shell and like do a good job of presenting I don't think that's you anymore you've grown a lot from that right but that's my teacher that's what you started yeah and honestly one of the things that's made it really a lot easier for me is that if bears like like okay perfect example just happened so for the employee lounge the land center that we're working on um I had told Yvonne I was like we should get the same spray that we have on the walls the same acoustic spray in the rafters because it'll turn it black which will make it less noticeable that we don't really have a ceiling on it kind of like in restaurants or they just like paint their trusses and the roof black so you don't really like kind of see them so it'll do that and then it'll also mean the acoustics in here will be better and then the guy who does our spraying for us hates doing small jobs hates working with us for some reason I'm actually not a hundred percent sure why I think because we've changed the scope of projects on him at the last minute in the past and also because it was really busy he's really busy and I demand that he do a good job yeah so we had him like come back and do like touch up something touch up so the thing is that normally I think in his line of work just like spray they spray what Park aids and things like yeah they probably don't care about these statics or anything like that exactly but we did we did yeah so anyway he didn't want to come back but she talked him into it I got a quote and everything like that and had the dime set and I was scheduled for Monday that's Monday this Monday that's coming Monday and so I come back to her and I'm like I don't think we should do the spray because if we ever wanted to go back and pull permit for this mezzanine as long as it's completely exposed we could retroactively Lee get a permit for it whereas if we spray the whole bottom of it you won't be able to see how it's fastened you won't be able to you won't be able to inspect it properly have you already arranged the spray she goes yeah can you call and tell them not to like I I make Yvonne play the bad guy for me so much because I just get this like social anxiety about like tough calls and tough decisions and stuff like that so yeah I don't really remember I was going with this anymore but that's been a big part of why we've been able to be a success that probably isn't visible from the outside oh you were talking about the student works depression thing so actually even though that was a bad experience yeah I think the skills you learn from there have transferred a lot absolutely do Fahmy Joe Fahmy says what are you coming to Australia I have no idea I'll brief thoughts on t-series vs. PewDiePie I don't really have a lot of thoughts on that all of that all of that takes place at a level of youtuber that I'm just never gonna be it's kind of cool going back and looking at that stuff from like 10 years ago and seeing that top performers on the entire platform have like 1.3 million views me like yeah I'm like you know 4 to 5 times that or whatever now see I said it again you know like 5 times that no but like that was like 10 years ago like those guys are operating on a completely different level so we got here have you gotten rid of the pink piece of tasks Dione it's sitting in the parking lot at the office right now yeah I Strada complained about it recently asked if we had storage insurance on it we do we do we do yeah I think there's some plans for it in January I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about them yet yeah we're gonna run over it with a tank okay it'll be sponsored AAF says I don't know if you watch Top Gear but my wife says you're the Jeremy Clarkson of computer so funny story I don't watch Top Gear I've seen like clips here and there but I actually consume very little TV or movies but that doesn't prevent me from wanting because I know I kind of reverse-engineer content so I don't actually watch a ton of YouTube I don't watch a ton of TV but I do watch I do eat a lot of comments on YouTube videos like I will I will actually click on a video that I'm curious about and I might watch the first 30 seconds or something like yeah okay I think I kind of get it and then I'll just read opponents will go what do people like or not like about this about this concept how do they feel about this person and so a lot of the times I'll kind of reverse engineer it so that doesn't prevent me from saying yes Ltd's goal is to be kind of the top gear of tech so I think even though I don't watch the show I think that was the goal you set two years ago so to see that comment is kind of amazing great it's great that is exactly what we're going for so even though I don't watch Top Gear I'm glad it works on that it's good thing other people on your team do willpower pc's says please update lions cat tips although that's hard to do because we don't have our cats anymore yeah they they both ran away at one point or another and didn't come back so yeah we're actually talking about getting a new cat my daughter broke down at breakfast earlier this week just about broke my heart she's telling me I don't know where rocket and Rumble are and I don't know if they're ever gonna come back and I kind of go oh me neither sweetheart so that's the thing that happened logan asks what's the best gift for our family about to have their third kid babysitting for a week well you buy them tickets and hotel for a vacation you have the best gift not realistic gift mike says hope you two are doing well been enjoying LTT watching youtube what has been the hardest part of being the leader at LTT [Music] helping people helping people continue to reach their own goals that's hard you know in the cases of some people in particular it's been like you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink and you see so much potential and you you think you know these people are brilliant and talented but they kind of they kind of get stuck in their ways or they get comfortable pushing people it's the hardest part of our jobs yeah and you don't always even though that's your even though you're trying to help them grow and develop them they don't necessarily always see you as the good guy when that happens that's really roughest I feel like that gets put on me a lot more than you so yeah that's been really hard for me yeah I get to be like the the pump up guy like I inspirational speech like nobody's business I could pull those out of my butt but like when it comes to you know if someone's like on the verge of tears they always go straight to work mom yeah that's my nickname not boss lady they're both pretty brutal Sean asked how slow-playing doing bulwark creators be joining soon we've had some stumbles we're still hard at work on it more creators will be joining as soon as we feel like we're ready we don't really want more creators on the platform when it's some not quite ready yeah Tyrone says for maker content get in touch with a ve would love to try my best to get in touch with AV no response whatsoever if anyone like knows him feel free to tell him go - is trying to get in touch it was actually a while back when he was complaining about his editing machine I was like yo I head over there just like build you an airing machine I didn't want anything out of it just here we go but I couldn't get in touch Michael says thanks for the redemption stream yeah welcome we did elaborate on the male/female thing but we didn't quite a bit earlier I don't know if we ever finished it did we well the gist of it is just that we hire based on male replies who applies and merit and merit yeah and passion yeah and if you don't have a passion for tech it's a lot harder to get hired at - Media Group . ah Zach hey guys now that you're considering major content would you create an extra channel no very unlikely extra channels are spectacularly expensive and not just from a money perspective from a time perspective and from an opportunity cost perspective so if you're not familiar with the concept of opportunity cost its how much it costs to not be doing something else that you should probably be focused on and I don't is again I don't necessarily mean that in terms of money but let's talk money first because that's the easiest to understand if I'm spending my time let's say 10% of it a week working on - make tips which frankly 10% of my time is not enough time to do a good job of running a YouTube channel obviously I mean right now - tech tips I think does a good job and requires probably more like 75 percent of my time so 10% is already not enough time so we have to consider not just the cost of that content that we're producing in the space and the the crew and all that stuff that we're doing we also have to consider the cost to Linus tech tips if we were doing an extra sponsored video that month or if we were doing an extra live stream creating content for the 7 million viewers that have subscribed to that versus the you know 20 to 30 thousand that we could probably get right away with like a new channel announcement there's an opportunity cost by not taking advantage of this opportunity and spending my time on that there's also the opportunity cost of just me having a life so I could not compromise on LTT go work on the new channel and then not see my kids anymore but that's an opportunity cost that I'm not willing to pay [Music] did you finesse Yvonne with the socks and sandals asks Ibrahim did you actually wear socks and sandals only first minute no I did not I used to wear like grandpa shoes yeah yeah yeah yeah black leather grandpa no let's say that but you told me that you would like see me on campus and be like so don't even lie okay it made a bit I remember you with your big winter big oversized winter jacket I don't know I don't know if that's the look I was giving yeah find them you tell the story the way you like be honest though well I like your face you could dress better Travis Sen LTX corrupt desks what happens to super chat money we put it in a big pile honestly we can't we don't even read some of them like full full disclosure guys we don't even read some of them like we are so far from getting to all of them on this stream and like we're not going to be able to get to them all because they come in faster than we can read them if we want to do a good job of answering them so given that we we can't know sort of what they're for they just go into the LMG coffers you know the way you could think about it is okay we're using a bunch of it to build the employee lounge which is costing not an insignificant amount of money but is all about making the people who work at lmg happier and have more fun and be more passionate and be excited to bring you guys great content every day so everything that gets contributed to us whether it's an eyeball watching an ad or a sponsorship placement or you know buying something off of new meg with our affiliate link or sending in a super chat whatever it is it all contributes to us being able to do a better job of what we're doing and be able to provide for the people that work with us like there are now so whole sorry I gotta go an order of like hired a maybe one I try to help you find you at your clinic you I think there are six people at Linus Media Group who have used LMG money to buy a house hmm that's huge you guys did that straight up because without you those people are still struggling as renters in Vancouver and I expect as we continue to grow as we continue to do better that there will be more and yeah most of the people that have managed to pull that off have been the people that have been working here since very early on but like you know we always that's another thing with creatives you always have to give them room to advance and grow and I feel like we've tried that's okay back to hardest thing about your job that's really hard is finding ways for people to continue to advance and grow without letting the overhead of running your company outstrip the revenue that it can bring in I mean I think we take a lot of flack for how shamelessly we generate revenue we've got you know Adsense we've got sponsors we've got merch we've got direct contributions we've got floatplane we've got all these different ways that people can help lmg make money but it's also no accident that we help the people we have a big team so that people have can achieve work-life balance and we compensate them well so that they can achieve they can have a good life that they're balancing with that work and that's really important that's important to us hi sunder Schwar Daniel asks have you updated your personal ring yet no it's actually funny because we painted the upstairs gently and to do that we have to remove everything from the room including our desks or computer setup and sometimes like three months ago yeah I don't think you ever put that yeah I haven't missed it honestly it's funny I've been fighting this battle with you on how we need a third bedroom for our kids because right now we have three kids and they're all in this one big room we combined two rooms into one just select the mega room yeah they could share and have a good time you know sibling bonding all that but eventually we're gonna need another bedroom I don't have to move there's no way we'll see okay we'll see yeah we'll see let's see the point is I've been fighting you about having another bedroom and you inadvertently gave it you don't need it you've proven that you don't need it I need it for other things not necessarily as a computer room I think we should still have a computer in there in fact you were whining to me that you missed having a desktop yes and I'm not putting down here here no communal desktop family desktop then what year is it 1998 we'll see we'll see anyway so to be clear we don't agree about everything key a door says it's not a question I just want to say thanks your videos are helping me through the death of my wife yo dude I'm sorry pretty heavy glad we can do something I'm sorry to hear that Ankit says seeing mkbhd do hot ones in Joe Rogan do you plan on doing something similar for promotion LTX and the channelings feel more mainstream very underrated e yeah I we've gotten remains dream but I don't know if we ever aspire to the completely mainstream like the day that I upload a video where I'm geeking out over like PCI Express bifurcation or something stupid like that and the entire comment section is like wTF is he talking about is probably the day I quit like to me our community is about sharing passion for tag not like having a phone like that's not passion for tag and so the viewers we want to engage have to be the ones that can appreciate even if they don't fully understand it yet but have like a spark somewhere that can be ignited for technology and there's one person internally who really wants to get me on Joe Rogan experience in particular and I was like sure yeah whatevs I've never watched the podcast or anything like that I'd like know who he is but like I don't know like I never watched him fight or anything like I'm not into MMA or anything like that so yeah sure whatever but I really don't think we're a great fit for them because it's just not that mainstream and I'm actually okay with that like every time we'd reached a new milestone I'd go well this is it this is the plateau billion subscribers there can't be more than a million people in the world who are this interested in a motherboard though okay we're gonna be happy with this forever and we're never gonna grow any more and every time I keep being blown away at how whether we are contributing to it or whether it's happening naturally the tech community just keeps growing and we're big enough now that we don't need to go more mainstream just totally unnecessary if we went more mainstream it would probably be a completely separate channel and a spin-off business and like I wouldn't want to interrupt what we're doing now and quite frankly you asked about another channel earlier I don't even want to do that for all the same reasons that I wouldn't want to do another channel so would you consider starting a gaming channel partnering with an existing channel with its own audiences can't think of a name probably not that sounds like more hassle than it's worth we've always had our best success just doing things from scratch and doing them our way in some ways that's kind of my superpower that I don't watch youtube videos and don't watch game streams because for better or for worse I end up reinventing the wheel a lot and people asked how do you stand out on YouTube and I go well do your own thing it's a lot easier to do your own thing if you don't know what other people think yes there's also things that I really could have learned a lot faster by watching others but that's kind of a double-edged sword Phillipe thank you Peter says you should look at fpga boards they're super interesting at some point maybe tres says tried to meet you in Vancouver or the crews doing a shoot didn't know where you were I got to Mexico oh okay that's cool ah the German dude my PC isn't great can you help me with reboot I'm actually not even involved in the selection process for a rig reboot so you'll have to suck up to it probably cold actually Colton I think had a few judges this year thanks Chris Newsom yeah tracers little over a month ago I didn't know anything about computers today I built my first gaming PC that's awesome awesome yeah thanks Samuel thanks Kota Broudy Brian Louie oh sorry go ahead oh no she's gonna say this person asks if you have a degree I don't I have a degree from the school of hard knocks I flunked out so hard she's even a good tutor great tutor couldn't get me through calculus hey you got it for all of five minutes and that was longer than five minutes woman okay it was at least an hour okay I like it clicked I was like I get this I can do all these problems and then the next day I woke up went to my exam and had no idea what I was looking at it's like okay well that was short-lived so same thing with the stroke butterfly and swimming stroke butterfly I have done a grand total of three lengths of Awesome butterfly in my life and every time I've tried before or since it's just been that flappy mess anyone who's ever done fly knows once you get it you feel it and I've been there I got to experience it just once and it was and then it was gone it was so fleeting it was or calculus someone asked didn't I go to be CIT no I went to UBC yeah sort of I went there sometimes yeah didn't show up for a lot of classes fell asleep in the pool it's so warm in there and I love the smell of pool I was a lifeguard chlorine it's beautiful I'll tell you guys I'm gonna let you guys a little secret when I go swimming I actually don't tell off the chlorine I just put on my clothes and I just let myself smell like chlorine all day I love it it's like it's one of those it's one of those guilty pleasure smells like gunpowder like it's not supposed to smell good I don't think but Oh God full of burning gunpowder's beautiful brian says first time meeting you was at an NCI hex fair way back when I would have been like eight years ago crazy to see how far you've come thank you so yeah I tried to get a science degree but I sucked well you sucked at math I sucked you got it you got physics way better at math I understand things conceptually but I have a really hard time with numbers yeah let's see auras Elias says how good are you at badminton how long even playing for I've been playing for about 10 years and I'm pretty good I'm high level recreational but like very low level competitive King Peng son says congratulations hope we can see the scene every year no promises can't promise that we will do a stream like this every year Wow did we actually catch up somebody else oh I think we missed a bunch of the I think we missed a bunch of the Super chats cuz it just scrolled us down to the bottom mike says the look of love on Yvonne's face when - talks yeah I'm going up I think we missed a lot of them very all says I would like to give an extremely belated apology for the most Awkward hello I gave you about a year ago or so while I was teaching your kids swimming lessons no problem and you were not the most awkward the most awkward was like straight up at the airport on my way back actually wasn't even the most awkward it was so funny kids like walking past is like oh my god - for - tech tips I'm like hey man what's up and he's like this is so awkward right now and then he just walks he just leaves like well I didn't tell you that so good so funny yeah Wow this is so many comments that I just cannot get to them all I'm so sorry guys the tech fro says congrats on 10 years you inspired me to make a tech channel that's cool I wish you the best of luck you seem like you're getting overwhelmed with them right now yeah I'm just late just pick a spot and start going I know I'm trying I was trying to focus on the super chest just cuz it like makes it easier because the other things moving so slowly but now I feel terrible because I've done some and not others but like it's like a bad person well thanks and thanks Timothy okay maybe okay I'm gonna try I'm gonna try look at some regular chance okay oh dang do you like potatoes now that's what I got I like potatoes she's not much yep any new events coming to LTX 2018 yeah or 2019 yes it's gonna be huge casting couch says Stefan well we didn't own this couch yet when she applied for the job of my girlfriend okay thanks fun fact oh wait Melissa's oh no second okay I was a super chat so I can probably see that one oh wow even those are going too fast fun fact the aromatic chlorine molecules are the result of chlorine reacting the worse the smell the more dirty the pool is that makes so much sense because the pool I worked at I mean I worked at it probably wasn't that clean I wasn't in charge of cleaning I just mean I knew that it that's great when are you getting the new motorcycle so I've done a little bit more research on lightning bikes and a hundred percent sure their glass door reviews are terrible if anyone's worked there and can sort of contradict that then I would be happy to open them up as a possibility to purchase from again but right now I'm just sort of on the fence about those guys and I don't know of any other electric bikes that have really tickled my fancy I also now that I have an electric car sort of it's plug-in hybrid but it drives pure electric mode I'm less excited about an electric bike it's kind of boring I never thought I'd be like I'm not a I'm not a gearhead I never thought I'd be one of those guys that's like yeah without the sound of the engine what's the point but on the bike without the sound of the engine what's the point I just got a bigger bike seriously I'd get like a like a big internal combustion engine bike I tweet appreciate your dedication to the tech community you and Jo my go-to guys stays a good guy you could have much worse guys than us geez I think there's ever a potential LTX part two for adults are you talking like a like a sex LTX like adults only like whatever we're talking about here okay regular LTX is supposed to be for adults and kids but it does tend to skew towards a younger audience because I think a lot of the adults are at work if you're talking about a summer party type stuff then we think there might be an after party this year um Matt says can we say this moans with my cable mod no congratulations on all the success - 10 more years you know what's funny I love what I do I have the greatest job in the world but thinking about 10 more years of this is actually exhausting but things are really hard right now or have been really hard hopefully when you get more work-life balance you'll feel better about yeah oh man okay well you know what you guys all 14,000 of you that are watching in the middle of the night you guys are absolutely amazing but I think after an hour and a half we're probably gonna have to call it has it really been an hour now Wow elapsed time an hour and 36 minutes of complete stability streaming from the blade stealth this time rather than the phone phone Android YouTube app oh one more act when does elem do you give internships no unpaid internships are illegal in Canada and if you want to be paid then you might as well employ apply as an employee that's the way I see it well I think the difference is that internships don't have to work there permanently think you have to identify things it like if I want you then I want you permanently what do I want with someone who's really good and then goes away so from that employer perspective I'm not like I just don't really get it jørgen what tips are advice to you after starting a company any regrets things you do differently I'm really happy that we retained ownership little company there was a time during the negotiation when NCIX was pushing really hard to have a stake in - Media Group and that could have really screwed us when their creditors came calling so like not having outside parties involved - Media Group has always been self-starter so no matter what sort of financial milestones we ever made it would be straight up self-made and we're really proud of that ah okay yeah okay thank you go Salome kriti says didn't mean sex just something with fewer kids yeah it's it's tough to do because we do have more adults in our audience than I think a lot of people realize because they'll see live meetups will be like it's all kids they're well but like it's during the day well this one is uh okay how much are we allowed to see look can I tell how many the other good no no no no they're gonna know you're gonna know about the event later I just mean like naturally something like VidCon has a lot more kids even if lots of adults watch YouTube it just is what it is I think adults just have stuff to do sometimes and they can't make it yeah like that's all there is to it I think kids just have a greater degree of flexibility in terms of being able to you know bug off and like go to a convention and I'm not saying adults don't go to conventions I'm just saying greater degree of flexibility so I think the audience in the audience at a live event tends to skew younger than the audience at home that is like you know just gotten home after a long day's work and wants to wind down and watch some YouTube videos it doesn't mean that either of them are any less of a fan of the channel it just means that you get these different audiences showing up in different places it's just like how the demographics are different on mobile versus desktop for example just as what it is alright alright thank you yeah really thank you for everything

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