because he dropped out/failed his engineering degree
I don't have a link, but I do remember clearly that he said that he was close to failing and he effectively spent all his time studying car-stuff, rather than what he was supposed to be doing.
(Iirc, he jokingly said he almost had a master degree in the car stuff, but lacked the knowledge in other engineering areas that are necessary to obtain an undergrad degree)
Interesting that in this video he decided to say that he wanted to leave university.
Btw, I think it is manchild behavior to fail a degree that would allow you to work your dream job (idk, in a F1 team?) just because you cannot study for a few exams across 3-4 years.
when the company introduced new processes to prevent or right incorrect information and formalize fact-checking
That it is an interesting point. I think everyone starts working thinking all the procedures are boring and slow things down. However, after a few years, you start to understand why they are there. If you are intelligent and geared towards building a better career, you will start thinking how to improve those procedures.
I respect that he created a company where he gets to do things he likes more. I will be waiting about what happens in 5 years, where he either 1) realizes he has done the same thing for 5 years, 2) expands, so same issue of being the manager and not the do-er, or 3) business goes down and job goes bye-bye.
Also, who will be doing taxes, insurance, etc? Or arrange for a company to do those? There are boring parts in every job.
Taran is still the best ex-employee. His story was very inspiring and he was one of the first major personalities to leave. He had improved a lot all the procedures, created all of his keyboard macros to automate things, etc.
Another interesting thing is that Alex says that Jonathan Horst (from Mac Address) was let go due to the closing of the channel. He also says that he is the one who gave a lot of great advice on how to manage a production... why not keep him then? Was the company doing so badly that you cannot keep a talent who has been in other channels and is a fairly familiar faces, that knows not only writing, but also presenting, and producing?
Or maybe it was that he wanted more money than Linus could offer.
It is insightful that the 100+ employees at LTT could not figure out that filming things on the same day would save money, instead of filming later. It seemed that they wanted to shoot B-roll afterwards because they don't know in advance what is needed. By doing it later, the writer does not have to think in advance what will be needed - aka making it a lot easier and lower risk for the writer. This is the behavior of someone who cannot think if they would be hungry if they did not have breakfast.
" which is just a kind of comment that every single person on the internet receives regularly, especially people that put themselves out there on big YouTube channels.
