Content Creator Interviews
The New Rules of YouTube (2027) | Edited Transcript
Colin and Samir speak with YouTube strategist Paddy Galloway about TV viewing, longer videos, returning audiences, branded shows, thumbnails, AI, and curation.
Content Creator Interviews
How creators build, distribute, and adapt
Full interviews with creators, investors, and media operators working through changes in storytelling, audience, production, and creative technology.
Content Creator Interviews
How Markiplier Made a Movie Hollywood Couldn't Ignore | Edited Transcript
Mark Fischbach explains why he self-financed and directed Iron Lung, how the film expanded to roughly 4,700 theaters and earned about $51-52 million theatrically, why creator-audience trust mattered to its release, and what he learned about production, collaboration, horror, and making memorable work.
Content Creator Interviews
The YouTube Playbook in 37 Minutes | Edited Transcript
Colin and Samir compile practical advice from professional YouTubers on ideation, packaging, channel launches, retention, storytelling, authenticity, and building a durable creator business.
Content Creator Interviews
How These 1-Minute Movies Are Making Billions | Edited Transcript
Colin and Samir examine the global rise of vertical microdramas with director Danny Farber, tracing their production economics, cliffhanger structure, mobile-first audience, China origins, Hollywood constraints, and micropayment model.
Content Creator Interviews
10 harsh YouTube lessons we wish we knew at 21 | Edited Transcript
Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry revisit ten lessons from building a career on YouTube, including storytelling, context and packaging, performance pressure, creative community, meaningful views, and patience.
Content Creator Interviews
Mark Rober's $60 Million Dollar Experiment | Edited Transcript
Mark Rober and CrunchLabs Chief Content Officer Scott Lewers discuss the $60 million Class CrunchLabs science curriculum, scaling a creator-led media company, YouTube and Netflix, attention, impact, and advice for creators.
Content Creator Interviews
The Internet Era Nobody Asked For | Edited Transcript
Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry examine AI-generated content and the abundance era, including virtual creators, digital twins, Hollywood labor, creator loyalty, scale versus scarcity, and the rising value of real-world connection.
Content Creator Interviews
The New Rules of YouTube (2025) | Edited Transcript
Colin and Samir speak with YouTube strategist Paddy Galloway about ideas, packaging, experimentation, audience expectations, and how creators and brands can build repeatable shows on YouTube.
Content Creator Interviews
How to Make it on YouTube in 2025 (Jack Conte Interview) | Edited Transcript
Colin and Samir speak with Patreon co-founder and CEO Jack Conte about the decline of follower-based distribution, discovery algorithms, durable creative careers, direct-to-fan businesses, community, AI tools, and Patreon's product challenges.
Content Creator Interviews
MrBeast Reflects on the State of YouTube | Edited Transcript
A professionally copyedited transcript of Colin and Samir's conversation with Jimmy Donaldson about Beast Games, Feastables, creator-led businesses, streaming distribution, and the changing relationship between YouTube and Hollywood.
Content Creator Interviews
An Unfiltered Conversation with Linus Tech Tips | Edited Transcript
A professionally copyedited transcript of Colin and Samir's conversation with Linus Sebastian about the origins of Linus Tech Tips, high-volume production, editorial independence, creator commerce, organizational scale, and the future of creator-led companies.
Content Creator Interviews
WTF Is App Mafia? Four App Founders on Building, Marketing, and Scaling Consumer Apps | Edited Transcript
Ti Morse interviews Zach Yadegari, Blake Anderson, Alex Slater, and Connor McLaren about App Mafia, bootstrapped consumer apps, direct-response marketing, the $500,000 MrBeast promotion, controversy as distribution, product retention, execution speed, and what they want to build next.
Content Creator Interviews
a16z Partner Justine Moore: Hollywood Is Secretly Replacing Films With AI | Edited Transcript
Justine Moore and Ollie Forsyth discuss AI microdramas, how generative media changes production economics, creator disclosure, AI slop, startup opportunities, personal agents, and ElevenLabs.