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Linus Sebastion Turned Down $100M Offer
vk6zgo:
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--- Quote from: Ed.Kloonk on May 26, 2023, 04:46:40 pm ---But not Linus' and Yvonne's life. That's a whole different scale by itself, you've made my point for me. These lump sum amounts go fast, especially if you have the mindset that it's an unbelievable amount.
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That's because it is. Even if you blow 100k$ a month, 60M$ will last 50 years, ignoring any interest which can be made. Even at 2%/year you can be blowing 100K$/month forever, as it will bring you 1.2M$ a year in capital gains.
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You hear about huge lotto winners becoming broke within like 5 years or something.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lotto+winner+who+blew+it+all
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It would be seriously hard work to blow all that much money.
If you bought houses, they would still be there, as would a Lamborghini or a Rolls Royce.
All of them are assets you could sell & if you were a Lotto winner, still be far better off than you were prior to the win.
Of course, if it went on booze, or up your nose, I guess that could do it.
I'm too old for fancy cars, drugs, yachts or Mistresses, but I've always fancied a Money Bin like Scrooge McDuck.
I suppose for a lousy $100,000000 or so, I could make do with a Money Garden Shed"! ;D
EEVblog:
--- Quote from: Ice-Tea on August 17, 2023, 11:55:01 am ---GN also has a tendency to set high bars for themselves and everybody else and seem to be willing to burn everything below that bar to the ground. Per example: they burn LTT for not reshooting sections of a video when the host makes an error or misspeaks. Is overlaying a not as good as reshooting? Obviously not. But should Linus lick Steves boot to appologise? Erh, no.
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Agreed. LTT has unfortunately bought into the drama with the huge new apology tour from every layer of management, even halting videos.
They also bought in to the whole 8K RED camera massive production value thing. Nothing I've ever seen them do warrants anything remotely close to this.
Just have fun making videos, try and get them right, and an overlay correction of voice over is fine if needed.
The example of the graphics cards metric chart is something you have to get absolutely right though, as those are screen shoted and shared everywhere, it's the money shot of the review videos.
Mis-speaks here and there, nah, just overlay it.
wraper:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 17, 2023, 01:25:53 pm ---Just have fun making videos, try and get them right, and an overlay correction of voice over is fine if needed.
The example of the graphics cards metric chart is something you have to get absolutely right though, as those are screen shoted and shared everywhere, it's the money shot of the review videos.
Mis-speaks here and there, nah, just overlay it.
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It isn't fine to just use an overlay correction if it's a clusterfuck type of an error (LTT made plenty of those lately) and makes a hardware review video fundamentally misleading.
thm_w:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 17, 2023, 11:03:05 am ---I get the impression that LTT is a very "blokey" high pressure nerd environment (no surprise?), and she seems to be completely incompatible with that environment?
Perhaps there was some resentment by the other nerdy employees that she was hired without the required nerd skills?
Are there any other presenters that don't have the nerd chops? Maybe that's why she was quickly shunted from that to handling the social media account?
Not excusing any of the serious sexual harassment claims of course, but apart from that it seems like a non-compatibility thing I've seen countless times.
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Totally does seem that way.
I took about 2 seconds considering whether or not I'd want to work there when I saw their local EE postings, hell no, it looks like a startup level environment. Lots of time pressure, stress, unpaid overtime, lower pay, etc. Fit for some people but not me.
--- Quote from: Ice-Tea on August 17, 2023, 11:55:01 am ---Finally, regarding the non-monetization of their video I'm gonna leave this here...
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/linus-sebastion-turned-down-$100m-offer/?action=dlattach;attach=1853353;image
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That is his desk, the stuff is always on there. Would you spend 30mins cleaning up just to put the stuff back the next shoot?
TBH don't really care if either one monetizes the video or not.
Bud:
Nothing burger. I though the sky was falling when this thread exploded.
The channel name is "Linus Tech Tips" . Can anyone remember last time when Linus gave you a tech tip?
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