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Apple bought out Rober's Morphsuits contract and initially banned YouTube videos
“I still had a year left in my contract with Morph Suits, so I interviewed at Apple. They liked me, so they bought me out of the contract. But one of the stipulations was like, you can't make YouTube videos anymore.”
Mark Rober Apr 15, 2024 ▶ 26:15 CrunchLabs: Mark Rober
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Rober manages 60 employees but only has one direct report
“And to this day, now, We have like, 60 employees, and still only one person reports to me, and everyone else reports to the other person.”
Mark Rober Apr 15, 2024 ▶ 42:34 CrunchLabs: Mark Rober
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Rober's 'Blow Your Own Sail' video generated $67,000 in AdSense revenue
“That video has made me 67,000 dollars.”
Mark Rober Apr 15, 2024 ▶ 59:52 CrunchLabs: Mark Rober
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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…”
Mark Rober Apr 15, 2024 ▶ 32:27 CrunchLabs: Mark Rober
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Rober's median YouTube viewer is 23 years old
“The analytics on average, it's like a 23 year old is like my median watcher.”
Mark Rober Apr 15, 2024 ▶ 43:09 CrunchLabs: Mark Rober
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