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John Green

Author & Co-Founder, Complexly · 1 appearance on the record.

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Everything John Green said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Not checkable as stated
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…”
John Green Jan 16, 2023 ▶ 1:00:03 Complexly: Hank and John Green

The other half of the tape: John Green's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 5 times in 3 episodes on How I Built This. 7 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about John Green, by other people (7)

Insight
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.”
Hank and John Green Jan 16, 2023 ▶ 16:26 Complexly: Hank and John Green
Insight
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.”
Hank and John Green Jan 16, 2023 ▶ 1:17:49 Complexly: Hank and John Green
Disclosure
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.”
Hank and John Green Jan 16, 2023 ▶ 1:15:47 Complexly: Hank and John Green
Disclosure
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…”
Hank and John Green Jan 16, 2023 ▶ 45:21 Complexly: Hank and John Green
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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,”
Hank and John Green Jan 16, 2023 ▶ 21:31 Complexly: Hank and John Green
Assertion Not checkable as stated
John Green: Looking for Alaska sold 7,000 copies in year one
“7000.”
Hank and John Green Jan 16, 2023 ▶ 20:58 Complexly: Hank and John Green
Disclosure
John Green: My writing process requires deleting almost the entire draft
“I have a very inefficient process in the sense that I write a draft, and then I delete almost all of it, and that's the only way I know how to write a story.”
Hank and John Green Jan 16, 2023 ▶ 18:25 Complexly: Hank and John Green

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Complexly: Hank and John Green Jan 16, 2023 3s
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