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Amber Atherton of Zyper and Iba Masood of TARA on Raising a Series A as a Female Founder · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:59 Amber Atherton So like the YouTube memo picked that up and, uh, really kind of
- ▶ 46:00 unnamed speaker And try YouTube.
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:00 Craig Cannon I think you see it today with YouTube, right? 4 times in the scene
Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
- ▶ 38:39 unnamed speaker So what do you say about YouTube then? 2 times in the scene
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:01 Craig Cannon Um, and just to clarify for people listening and watching, uh, we always put all this content on YouTube. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:27 Kevin Hale So he, um, did a video on the YouTube about, um, I think pivoting a little bit. 2 times in the scene
Advice on Organizing and Running Growth Teams from Dan Hockenmaier and Gustaf Alströmer · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:49 Gustaf Alströmer I would, I, I, I, we have this, uh, YouTube video when I talk about growth in startup school, and there's the first couple of slides that they talk about, so like the evolution of, of Facebook and their growth.
- ▶ 48:08 Gustaf Alströmer Yeah, and I, I, that's actually the, the, the example I give on the Facebook graph on my, on my, um, YouTube video, uh, from startup school.
Simone Giertz on Her Robots and Returning to Work After Brain Surgery · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:13 Craig Cannon Yeah, I wouldn't have guessed that YouTube entrepreneurship would lead you here.
- ▶ 0:53 Craig Cannon Which obviously led you to making videos about yourself on YouTube. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:19 Simone Giertz And that was the first, like, shitty robot project that I published, and it kind of, like, I think within four months after that, I started working full time with my YouTube channel, which is crazy. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:36 Simone Giertz Um, so establishing boundaries really early on, uh, was, was one of those things, like, just to make sure I still enjoyed it, and that was, like, what part of that was never committing to an uploading schedule, which a lot of YouTubers… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:53 Simone Giertz I mean, for, for me, it was very early, like really trying to keep things flexible in terms of what I do on YouTube, but also like, I just would, I just want to make sure that if I wake up in the morning or one day and I'm like, no, I… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:38 Craig Cannon Like, I think a lot of people are just like, ah, I'm going to be a YouTuber. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:26 Craig Cannon Um, do you think you like had any big learnings aside from making YouTube videos about it, like on how to better deal?
- ▶ 32:03 Simone Giertz Yeah, gave myself permission, and it's really, it was really scary to step away from something that you know works, and that has, like, proven to be successful to some extent, and that was, like, shitty robots for me, but, um, and trying…
- ▶ 37:21 Simone Giertz And I feel like that is such a, as much as it's like, I mean, I, I run a YouTube channel.
- ▶ 43:57 Craig Cannon During that boredom period, do you allow yourself to get on your phone and like hang out on YouTube and stuff like that? 3 times in the scene
Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:00 Jonathan Gill It's not someone leaving YouTube on and just autoplaying video to video.
- ▶ 13:33 Craig Cannon I'm curious about that hypothesis, because if you look at YouTube and who's actually earning on YouTube a living, there's not that many people. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:51 Jonathan Gill So YouTube is absolutely centralized and controlled by, by the big G. 4 times in the scene
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:14 Kevin Hale Yeah, I mean, that was, that was a huge motivator for us to do YouTube versus just a podcast. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:15 Brian Halligan I would be tempted to do something, a video cast, so you're on YouTube once a week, something like that. 2 times in the scene
Software Engineer Turned Youtuber - Jarvis Johnson · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:03 Craig Cannon So, uh, today Jarvis Johnson, who is a software engineer and YouTube creator. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:53 Jarvis Johnson I don't know, like, um, because it had always been, I had been a fan of, like, my YouTube and tech career, like, very intertwined, because I knew about Patreon because I've been following Hank and John Green, uh, who are, you know,… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:37 Jarvis Johnson I think that's honestly what I go through a lot now with YouTube is that a lot of the time I'm spending on anything is not necessarily on creating content.
- ▶ 21:30 Jarvis Johnson So, uh, I, I've mentioned before that I'm like a very risk-averse person, so it took me a while to think of doing YouTube stuff full-time as a clean break. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:46 Jarvis Johnson Uh, and so I have like an immense gratitude to him cause I just remember having like 2000 YouTube subscribers and like having a one on one with him just like about YouTube where I was just like, I don't know, like where they all clued in… 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:19 Jarvis Johnson Um, I like YouTube comments hurt my feelings sometimes, but, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:21 Craig Cannon Which like for people who don't pay attention to YouTubers, that's nothing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:13 Craig Cannon And it, and it can be deceptive cause you see your thumbnails and you're like, ah, this is just some like YouTube stuff, but it's a little more thoughtful than that.
- ▶ 48:26 Jarvis Johnson I mean, for me the most is that, uh, you know, I've, I've, I've made videos that are called like, this is the worst channel on YouTube where that's like,
- ▶ 53:41 Jarvis Johnson I, it really was just coming from a point of like, I want to make some YouTube videos.
- ▶ 58:25 Craig Cannon What, what is the predictions of both like YouTube creators and then content creation in general in the next handful of years? 10 times in the scene
Marques Brownlee on Building an Audience and Other Advice for Creators · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:18 Craig Cannon What would you attribute your success to on YouTube? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:49 Marques Brownlee Maybe I'm cooking, but I just want to like open the YouTube app real quick and search for something like now what?
- ▶ 16:11 Marques Brownlee Well, there's also hope because there are plenty of much older, you know, tech journalists and tech YouTubers who are, who are doing their thing. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:41 Craig Cannon But like Marques individual YouTube guy, like just to fly to LA and like film on the PCH, like the question is like, how do you do that? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:13 Craig Cannon Which is a nice format for YouTube.
- ▶ 29:07 Craig Cannon I appreciate the modesty, but like, there are, I don't know how many million YouTube channels of people reviewing phones. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:05 Marques Brownlee I wonder if an eight minute video would have been watchable, like knowing, you know, all the other things that go into YouTube and retention and, and how long people watch and the attention span of the internet. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:06 Craig Cannon So, Austin Ryder asks, in the early years of the channel, uh, Marquez took a several month hiatus from YouTube.
- ▶ 46:20 Marques Brownlee It's even shakier on YouTube, especially lately, just sort of because of where we're at, and I get it. 6 times in the scene
Tracking Political Manipulation Through Social Media - Samantha Bradshaw · Y Combinator
- ▶ 5:09 Samantha Bradshaw So not just, um, liking and sharing, but using specific keywords to get content trending, to try to get things at the top of Google's, uh, search, uh, algorithm, trying to get things at the top of YouTube.
- ▶ 9:22 Samantha Bradshaw Uh, we're also seeing, you know, more videos on YouTube and, uh, more