John Green
Author & Creator, Crash Course · Author & Co-Founder, Complexly. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
John Green is an author, video creator, and educator who co-founded Crash Course. He is actively involved in global health advocacy focused on ending tuberculosis.
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12said about them ↓ Everything John Green said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Green: Chinese groups immediately hire workers laid off by USAID cuts
“The folks who have been laid off as a result of the USAID cuts, and I don't mean folks in the United States, I mean folks globally, they're being hired immediately, and they're being hired by Chinese aid organizations because that's, because China still does u…”
John Green: Over 150 Million Died of TB Since 1950s Cure
“Tuberculosis, which has been curable since the 19 fifties. But in the decades since it became curable, we've allowed over a hundred fifty million people to die of it.”
John Green: The Social Internet Shrinks Empathy Gaps by Scaling Proximity
“Well, I think the biggest solution I've seen to shrinking the empathy gap and look, I'm not going to say that it's perfect because I don't labor under the delusion that the social internet is good news, but is the social internet.
you know, people become prox…”
Green: Governments must intervene to make TB treatments more profitable than cosmetics
“The only way to resolve that disconnect, in my opinion, is to have governments or other international authorities involved in reshaping the incentive structure so that it becomes profitable to treat tuberculosis, more profitable to treat tuberculosis than it i…”
Green: Eight TB drug classes developed 1945-1965, zero from 1965-2012
“Between 1945 and 19 65, we developed eight classes of drugs to treat tuberculosis because there was a real market incentive to do so. And then between 1965 and 2012, we developed none.”
Green: J&J abandoned secondary bedaquiline patents, cutting price over 55%
“Eventually J&J abandoned all of their secondary patents on bodacolin, and today the price of it has dropped by over 55%.”
John Green: Vast majority of USAID funding stays within the US
“The criticism of USAID for many years and other related organizations that are funded by the US government is that the vast majority of that money stays in the US one way or another. It pays farmers, it pays contractors, it pays, you know, very little of that …”
John Green: Foreign generosity is among the US's most effective power tools
“One of the most effective ways the US has expressed its power over the last 60 years is through its generosity.”
John Green: TB Kills Over One Million People Annually
“Somewhere along the links in the chain, it keeps failing and failing and failing, and that's why we lose over a million people a year to TB.”
Green: AI cures are useless without equitable global distribution
“And it really lays bare the truth of inequitable access to healthcare in our world, which is that we can come up with all the AI fueled cures that we want, but if we don't get those cures to the people who most need them, we're just fundamentally failing ourse…”
John Green: Reducing poverty cuts tuberculosis rates without medical intervention
“We know that when we cut the rates of impoverishment, even without medical intervention, we cut the rates of TB.”
John Green: Proximity Drives Generosity While Distance Breeds Indifference to Suffering
“When we are proximal to suffering as a species, we are so
Generous.
I mean, think about how, how many GoFundMes, I mean, it's a shame that we need GoFundMe to be a sort of addendum to the healthcare system in the United States, but think of how many GoFundMes …”
John Green: Antibiotic economics fail because effective drugs must be used least
“Because from a market perspective, you want a drug that everyone takes all the time. And from an antibiotic perspective, you want a drug that almost no one takes except in cases of everything else failing so that you can protect the antibiotic. And there's jus…”
John Green: TB Elimination Blueprints in Lesotho Can Apply Globally
“If we can provide a blueprint for how we eliminate tuberculosis and say Lesotho, then that can apply to the entire world.”
Green: One in seven humans who ever lived died of TB
“I mean, one out of every seven people or somewhere in that vicinity has died of tuberculosis of the people who've ever been born.”
John Green: UN estimates TB eradication requires $25B annually
“It would take twenty-five billion dollars a year according to the UN to really eradicate tuberculosis globally.”
John Green: India accounts for nearly one-third of global TB deaths
“Almost a third of the people who die of tuberculosis this year will die in India.”
John Green: Lesotho has the world's highest tuberculosis rate
“The highest rates we see of tuberculosis are in Lesotho, which is a small country in southern Africa where a lot of people work in mining.”
John Green: Vulnerable Communities Have the Smallest Voice on Social Platforms
“The problem is the people with the megaphones tend not to be people in impoverished communities. I mean, the poorest and most vulnerable among us are the people we're least likely to hear from when it comes to the social internet.”
John Green: US Nearly Eliminated TB via Mobile Chest X-Ray Units
“And this is exactly how we eliminated tuberculosis or nearly eliminated tuberculosis in the United States. We sent out these mobile, like, Winnebago's with chest x-ray machines inside of them all throughout the country to places where there were high rates of …”
John Green presold 150,000 books by promising to sign every single copy
“When it became an Amazon bestseller months before it came out, That was for two reasons. One was that I announced that I was going to sign the entire first printing of the book. So that was a 150,000 copies. And then the second reason was that I read the first…”
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John Green: Flawed books make storytelling mechanics easier to analyze
“The thing about books that aren't that good is you can see the strings of the puppets a little easier.”
John Green: Maximizing output and doing good at all costs is unsustainable
“I'm alive to do as much good as I can as fast as I can for as long as I can. And man, that is not a, that's not a sustainable strategy. It's not a good way to live a life.”
John Green takes a $27,000 annual salary from his multi-million-dollar businesses
“I think I make 27,000 dollars a year. Yeah, John takes a very small salary.”
All Green brothers' ventures have been bootstrapped and profitable from inception
“We've never taken on substantial investment for any of our things. Everything that we do has been profitable from the beginning. It's grown with its own, I guess they call it bootstrapped where you take the profit and use that to grow the company rather than t…”
John Green's second novel sold just 125 copies in its first week
“Similarly, I think Catherine's sold a 125 copies the week it came out, so not great,”
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| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Author & Creator, Crash Course | 1 | 20 | 67% 6/9 | full record on Masters of Scale → |
| HOW I BUILT THISLEDGER | Author & Co-Founder, Complexly | 1 | 1 | — | full record on How I Built This → |