Hank Green

“You have no obligations to your former self, they are dumber than you and they don’t exist.”

“One of the wonderful things about the Internet is that it allows us to create lots of different kinds of content for lots of different kinds of people.”

“No one really knows how trademarks work. I don't mean, 'Come along with me on this journey and you will be one of the righteous few who truly understands!' I mean, no one really understands how trademarks work.”

“I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.”

“There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.”

“There's nothing more dangerous than a powerful person who is imagining themselves as being powerless.”

“You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because you know everything there is to know about them.”

“YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized.”

“When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.”

“I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.”

“I started paying my bills with YouTube money around the time I hit a million views a month.”

“Podcasts, and the way they are distributed, are extremely simple technologically. Indeed, 'RSS,' the feed protocol that connects podcast apps to the audio files that they need, stands for 'Really Simple Syndication.'”

“Teaching is probably the most difficult of all current jobs for an AI to manage. If you don't believe that, then you have never truly taught.”

“The complexity and nuance of YouTube's culture, creators, drama, genres, styles, and memes is what makes it wonderful for people on the inside, but it is also a wall that keeps people on the outside.”

“I am hopeful about the future of humanity.”

“People are curious and want to know about stuff.”

“When I'm in L.A., I see Teslas like they're Hondas.”

“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”

“We had such a dedicated and interested audience that they provided the opportunity to do cool new things - and we like doing cool new things.”

“I have always really enjoyed building great teams that execute a great vision.”