Linus Sebastian is stepping down as CEO of Linus Media Group, rejects $100 million takeover...

[DEMinSoCal]

Maybe the channel will chill out on the product shilling, they make some good content but geez the constant pushes for water bottles and other stuff is super annoying.

but thats how all the bigger youtube channels are.

and youtube itself, so the apples really dont fall far from the tree.

How do you think he made that $85M? Companies don't pay you for NOT mentioning their products.

 

[Plutoisaplanet]

Wish him good luck in his new life chapter.
I wonder who made the $100 million buyout proposal. Very interesting to find who.

I'd guess Rumble, I know they want to go more mainstream and they've offered similar deals before. But LTT doesn't exactly have the same audience that Joe Rogan had when they offered him that sum.

 

[DSirius]

I'd guess Rumble, I know they want to go more mainstream and they've offered similar deals before. But LTT doesn't exactly have the same audience that Joe Rogan had when they offered him that sum.

Very interesting, thank you for the info, I'll keep them under my radar from now on

 

[DSirius]

Kyle Bennet founder of HardOCP. Became a brand ambassador for Intel but left the job after a year.

Thx for the info, found a lot of "interesting" things about the guy, no I am reading some of his articles.

 

[noel24]

Sooo... He dropped the ball on handling the group? Yeah, that's Him.

 

[Achaios]

Kyle Bennet founder of HardOCP. Became a brand ambassador for Intel but left the job after a year.

I know Kyle. He is good, like really, really good.

I haven't heard of him for like years. Really sorry to hear he lost his INTEL job.

Intel, don't get me started, those people they really don't understand PC enthusiasts and the PC gaming market segement.

If they had, Kyle would never lose his job.

 

[NumberSix]

I got excited for a moment that I wouldn't be seeing his stupid facial expressions in his video thumbnails ever again. Alas, that excitement was short-lived.

I stopped watching his videos because of this, a personal thing I know but I just cant take someone serious or believe in what they are saying if they need a dickhead thumbnail to push a video, the channel didn't need it.

 

[m3tavision]

I know Kyle. He is good, like really, really good.

I haven't heard of him for like years. Really sorry to hear he lost his INTEL job.

Intel, don't get me started, those people they really don't understand PC enthusiasts and the PC gaming market segement.

If they had, Kyle would never lose his job.

Yeah, but Kyle sold out.....

He sold out the community and sold out his friends. He is a sell-out. He should've never took that job... because he knew what iNTEL was doing. Trying to "pull him off the air"... so he wasn't a thorn in their side....

Then they fire him... with a non-compete clause, 5 year NDA and $$...

 

[Khamul]

LTT ain't a sellout??? He is the biggest shill next to J2C. Hahaha

 

[punctualturn]

Thx for the info, found a lot of "interesting" things about the guy, no I am reading some of his articles.

HardOCP was a nice site, but Kyle was also one of the first tech reviewers that started taking money from nvidia.

Hell, he banned me from his forums because I was posting how to remove the telemetry software that nvidia was secretly installing with their drivers every time that they released new drivers.

Fast forward to when nvidia tried to blacklist HU and he was talking trash to Linus (in Twitter) claiming that he has always called nvidia out.

Anyways, he paved the way to the current mess that we are (nvidia total market control) with almost all reviewers and Tubers being deep in nvidia pockets.

 

[bviktor]

You know you're doing something right when $100m wouldn't change your life...

 

[McMurdeR]

Been fascinating to watch his channel grow. He seems like a very very nice guy, and he's a genuine enthusiast. I have noticed he's been looking kind of fed up recently!

I think he's right though, and the channels badly need a fresh direction. I wish they'd focus more on their PC hardware roots and dial down some the clownishness.

 

[McMurdeR]

I stopped watching his videos because of this, a personal thing I know but I just cant take someone serious or believe in what they are saying if they need a dickhead thumbnail to push a video, the channel didn't need it.

I hate that too, it's an extremely irritating trend. Every second YouTube thumbnail looks like someone sat on a broomstick handle.

 

[Dimitrios]

I was using archive dot org to research on "BALSTOPS 22" (Nord Stream Pipeline sabatoge) by "selecting Search text contents" But later on when bored I somehow wondered off and found one of his first video's with him reviewing a product at his old job at a warehouse at night. I had no idea he was doing reviews at a very young age. Great guy but no one is worth $100M in my opinion lol.

 

[Shirley Dulcey]

Maybe the channel will chill out on the product shilling, they make some good content but geez the constant pushes for water bottles and other stuff is super annoying.

At least he keeps the pitches for the LTT products short. And they work; merchandise is the company's largest source of revenue, representing 32%. (I'm sure its percentage of profits is lower; making and shipping merchandise costs money.) The next three largest sources: in-video sponsor ads (21%), YouTube advertising (18%), and sponsored projects (14%). Everything else is 5% or less.

Source: https://naibuzz.com/much-money-linus-tech-tips-makes-youtube/ - they got the numbers from an LTT video.