Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Today, I’m talking with Hank Green, a longtime friend of Decoder and the co-founder and now former owner of Complexly, an online education company he started with his brother John in 2012. I say former owner because Hank and John have just converted Complexly into a nonprofit and given up their ownership of the company in the process.

That’s some of the purest Decoder bait that ever was, because it’s all about how you structure a company and how you make decisions about changing that structure. So of course I had to bring Hank back on to talk all about it.

Links: 

• Greens’ studio becomes nonprofit as they aim to make ‘trustworthy content’ | AP
• Hank Green makes Nilay Patel explain why websites have a future | Decoder (2024)
• Why Hank Green can’t quit YouTube for TikTok | Decoder (2022)
• Hank Green and Sam Reich on running content companies | Decoder
• Hank Green and Sal Khan on AI in educational video | Decoder
  

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