A biography for Hank Greenhasn’t been written yet.
“I am somewhat surprised to have employees.”
“I make and watch and think about YouTube for a living. So, when YouTube is launching a new feature I might have any emotion ranging from Christmas-morning enthusiasm to utter terror.”
“Gone are the days when every successful creator got their own New York Times profile. Nowadays, professional Internet creator is just another job.”
“The problem with educating in online video is that online video is funded by advertising almost exclusively.”
“Creators of content on the Internet are very commonly creators of community. Often times, this community is the most interesting and the most valuable part of making stuff, and many creators require that relationship to inspire them to make stuff.”
“If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.”
“As long as we continue to invest in good content that increases excitement about and understanding of science, we're on the right side of this fight, and I have no problem at all stealing from the toolbox of the clickbaiters.”
“I love online video. I've been obsessed with it since day one.”
“As the economy grows, as I employ more people, make more money... the income of my country should increase as well.”
“It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.”
“The path to success isn't through my lizard brain, it's through high quality collaboration and making good stuff and understanding difficult situations fully enough to come up with good (or even great) solutions quickly.”
“The process of seeking fame is a process of seeking dehumanization. You are looking for it. You want it. But you only want the good parts of it. You want the part where people see you as just a collection of positive things and nothing else.”
“Hiring and retaining talent in the tech industry is expensive and vital. Those people have real power over their bosses, especially because it is often fairly easy for them to find work elsewhere, and employee walkouts are terrible PR for these leaders who are often obsessed with their public image.”
“It's really interesting to bring an Internet community into the real world.”
“Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it's the other way around, that the anonymity removes the 'self' from the people we're talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.”
“People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.”
“I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.”
“I spent my youth reading books in which corporations became governments, it's an old idea in science fiction.”
“There's something exceptional about watching a video and simultaneously thinking 'That was genius!' and 'I could have done that!'”
“Possibly the only genre that efficiently converted from TV to YouTube / Vine is sketch comedy, which has always had more to do with the skills of its creators than its budgets.”