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I left Coupang for a 300k pay cut. AMA.
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Trump may consider shaking up the federal reserve if elected.
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Low Net worth @35
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Please accept Indians. I can’t go back. 🇺🇸🙏
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Open AI GPT updates -- what's next? Any ideas?
It blows my mind that YouTube is paying out millions to these kids. Like millions a year Should we pivot careers?
YouTube Money today, nothing tomorrow. Tech job = money always. It like: “Would you date a 9 for a day and be single for the rest of your life OR would you date a 7 for the rest of your life?”
Why not both?
Because if you draw a Venn diagram of YouTubers raking in the cash AND also work at FAANG or something, the intersection is very small. Content creation and growing your user base takes a lot of effort and time. Something we can’t afford to do with all the LeetCode!
Good luck trying to get viewers
its basically like winning the lottery, except you’re buying tickets with time
19-year old athletes and singers also make a ton of money. Should we pivot careers?
I have a YouTube channel over 130 videos - I was making money on it for a year. YouTube changed their policies and now I make nothing on it. Not really worth it.
What did they change that made you not make that money anymore?
They have a threshold of 1K subscribers and 4k hours of viewing time. I have the viewing time but Im shy of 1K. It’s hard when your new to get people to subscribe - even if they like your videos.
When I first started I used monetisation as a driving factor to drive quality videos. Even though I made less than 100 a year when I started YouTube it was still motivating enough to know I can directly affect earnings. YouTube felt that it wasn’t worth their time to invest in small earning creators and to focus on their ad payouts on their big creators. This happened shortly after YouTube severed the relationship with Paul Logan to stay off media radars after he seeked and exposed a suicide by hanging in his VLOG. This sudden shift caused lots of mayhem in the YouTube community which ultimately led to the Nasim Najafi YouTube shooting. Anyways... long story short YouTube needs to get their shit together and it’s not worth it.
Are you asking for a buddy here for your YouTube channel?