A biography for Hank Greenhasn’t been written yet.
“I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s - like the first time someone recognized me in public was probably when I was 29 years old.”
“I think it's vital that we be critical of the things that we love.”
“I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.”
“Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn't all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it's about inviting a broader variety of viewers to the platform.”
“Robots have solved and will continue to solve so many human problems. Except for all the ones that they cause.”
“Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously the moment I write something down that is unique and from my brain. Trademarks are far more restrictive.”
“The online video ecosystems thrives largely on ads.”
“I'm a professional maker of online video and I love platform diversity of every kind.”
“In the Big City, different feels good, like blazing a trail. In a small town, though, different can feel like trying real hard to look special. Or even like rubbing your neighbor's nose in your success.”
“My father was the Florida state director of The Nature Conservancy.”
“My brother and I semi-coined a phrase back in 2007, 'Don't Forget to be Awesome.'”
“Anyone can put up a podcast, any application can locate and download it. It's a decentralized, hacked together, open system and, as podcaster and a listener, I think it works perfectly.”
“I think that we rightly spend more time thinking about and criticising the stuff that is really successful, because we want to make sure that we understand all the ways that it is both a positive and negative influence. It isn't always a bad thing.”
“I know that cursing isn't for everybody, but it is definitely for me.”
“I was 27 when I uploaded my first YouTube video. I had a master's degree and was running a small business. I had had good jobs and bad jobs and was fairly secure in my identity and understood who I was. When my audience or the algorithm wanted me to be something, I knew with a fair amount of certainty whether I wanted to be that thing or not.”
“Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things - everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.”
“Conventions are expensive to run and attend.”
“Fueled by Ramen was maybe the first company to see YouTube as a place where music videos would go. The music video, which could never quite find a place on TV, has found its final form on YouTube.”
“Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other economic and social platforms are not trying to build businesses, they are trying to build countries. Countries with laws, law enforcement, borders, and economic policy.”
“The landscape of professional creation continues to get more complex. Organizations and platforms of all sorts are vying for a slice of the value created by the relationship between creators and their audiences.”