Mark Rober
19 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 15, 2024 by Mark Rober · said 5 times in 5 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Mark Rober's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
Mentions by year
brought up most by Guy Raz (3), Hank and John Green (1), Adam Goldberg (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2024 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
Everything said about Mark Rober, oldest first
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Rober stopped taking YouTube sponsorships to exclusively advertise CrunchLabs
“At this point, the YouTube channel is just there to advertise for Crunch Labs. I don't run it to make money, I basically, because I don't make money from sponsorships anymore, because I always just talk about Crunch Labs, because I realized, I see, it's a lot …”
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Morphsuits acquired Digital Duds, earning Rober half a million dollars total
“I think it was like a 250,000 dollar signing bonus at that would work against the earn out. And honestly, in the end, I don't mind saying these numbers. I think in the end I made A total of a half a million dollars from it.”
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024 negative
Burnout occurs when unsustainable effort outlasts the initial dopamine reward
“Sometimes what people do is they take on all these ideas and they're cranking the treadmill up to a sprinting speed. And that's cool for a little bit. And you're getting the dopamine hit and you're getting that reward for that. But pretty soon the dopamine wea…”
Apr 15, 2024 positive
CrunchLabs is spending $10 million to create free middle school curriculum
“For example, for the classroom, all of the middle school science standards, we're making like a Mark Rober style video of those to teach them, and we're going to have lessons plans with it for all these teachers, and that's probably going to cost like Ten mill…”
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Rober: Reframing failure like a video game accelerates skill acquisition
“I talk about this being like the Super Mario effect where it's like, no one ever picks up a video game and falls in the first pit and is like, I'm so ashamed. I'm just not good at this. They're like, no, I remember there's a pit there. I need to come with a li…”
Apr 15, 2024 negative
Rober: Hiring large production teams alienates YouTubers and degrades content
“And this is a problem a lot of YouTubers do, where it's like, they see a little bit of success, so it's like, well, what's the playbook say? Ok, I need to hire a manager, and I need to hire five editors, and a video guy, and a script guy. And then you're left …”
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Rober intended to be a NASA lifer with no entrepreneurial ambitions
“And I had no problems working for the man, right? Like I kind of liked going in and just having a team and just being part of a bigger thing. Right. Right. I think a lot of people are like, ah, I've got to do my entrepreneurial thing, because I can't, you know…”
Apr 15, 2024 positive
Rober's YouTube earnings surpassed his Apple engineering salary around 2017
“Yeah, and that deal, that one specifically, I think, was a brand deal for, like, 40,000 dollars, which to me was, like, really big money, like, to make that much money on a brand deal. So I started to make more money on YouTube than I was at Apple, for starter…”
Apr 15, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Rober still writes every video himself and spends 60 hours editing
“Which is like, to this day, I still write all the videos and I spend probably 60 hours in the edits. And I'm never gonna give that up. Like, why would I? I'm happy to not make, make fewer videos and do what I love than to just be a guy who just, like, manages …”