Green: A $20K Cisco sponsorship made the first VidCon profitable
Hank and John Green · Complexly: Hank and John Green · Jan 16, 2023 · at 49:44
Hank and John Green describe how they secured early funding to make the first VidCon conference financially viable in 2010.
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“I remember the actual difference between making money and not making money that first year was that I said on a Vlogbrothers video, if anybody knows anybody who would like to sponsor an online video convention, please email me. And the daughter of an executive at Cisco was like, here's my dad, maybe. And they came in for 20,000 dollars and that was it. That was the thing that pushed us over the line.”
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