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I got my first trademark in 2005: 'EcoGeek.' It was the name of a blog that had become my job. I had a dream of turning it into a big business. After spending a huge amount of time and money attempting to 'protect' that trademark, I let it lapse. It was still 2005.

Hank Green

Time Money Business

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Copyright and Trademark are completely different things. Copyright prevents anyone from copying this article and posting it somewhere else. Copyright happens instantaneously the moment I write something down that is unique and from my brain. Trademarks are far more restrictive.

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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and other economic and social platforms are not trying to build businesses, they are trying to build countries. Countries with laws, law enforcement, borders, and economic policy.

Men Business YouTube

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The complexity and nuance of YouTube's culture, creators, drama, genres, styles, and memes is what makes it wonderful for people on the inside, but it is also a wall that keeps people on the outside.

YouTube You Wonderful

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I was and am an ardent environmentalist and I am terrified of the instability that climate change will bring.

Men Environmental Change

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I've watched people quit YouTube to become doctors.

YouTube You Watched

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I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.

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Podcasts are a lovely corner of the Internet.

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I got my first trademark in 2005: 'EcoGeek.' It was the name of a blog that had become my job. I had a dream of turning it into a big business. After spending a huge amount of time and money attempting to 'protect' that trademark, I let it lapse. It was still 2005.

Time Money Business

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Ultimately, our ideas about robots are not about robots. The robot is a canvas onto which we project our hopes and our dreams and our fears... they become embodiments of those hopes and dreams and fears.

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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.

Morning Christmas YouTube

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It's really interesting to bring an Internet community into the real world.

World Unity Unit

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I just want people to be excited about hard stuff, that's what engineering is.

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I want to feel good about paying taxes.

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I like new products, I like when YouTube changes, I like when people have big ideas and try things out.

Change YouTube You

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No one really knows how trademarks work. I don't mean, 'Come along with me on this journey and you will be one of the righteous few who truly understands!' I mean, no one really understands how trademarks work.

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Teachers are asked to do so much, and they can't be good at every single thing.

Teacher Good Very

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Let's be honest with ourselves, YouTubers click on the trending tab for one single reason... to analyze what is on the trending tab and then complain that it isn't what we think it should be.

YouTube You Wit

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The problem with educating in online video is that online video is funded by advertising almost exclusively.

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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.

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I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way.

Men Health Anger

We had such a dedicated and interested audience that they provided the opportunity to do cool new things - and we like doing cool new things.

I want paying taxes to feel like the accomplishment of a civic duty.

As the economy grows, as I employ more people, make more money... the income of my country should increase as well.

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because you know everything there is to know about them.

On paper, I am a Tesla guy. I've got money, I'm a nerd, and for years I professionally ran a blog advocating for technology that helps decrease our impact on the environment. I love what Tesla does.

I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.

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.

I was 27 when I uploaded my first YouTube video. I had a master's degree and was running a small business. I had had good jobs and bad jobs and was fairly secure in my identity and understood who I was. When my audience or the algorithm wanted me to be something, I knew with a fair amount of certainty whether I wanted to be that thing or not.

Podcasts, and the way they are distributed, are extremely simple technologically. Indeed, 'RSS,' the feed protocol that connects podcast apps to the audio files that they need, stands for 'Really Simple Syndication.'

Anyone can put up a podcast, any application can locate and download it. It's a decentralized, hacked together, open system and, as podcaster and a listener, I think it works perfectly.

When money, rather than innovation or value, is your competitive advantage, that's when things get boring and stagnant, and monopolies take root.

Chemistry is not torture but instead the amazing and beautiful science of stuff, and if you give it a chance, it will not only blow your mind but also give you a deeper understanding of your world.

I still do believe in the power of the Internet for good. I believe it's a net positive. I believe that it does connect people. It does give people a chance to be more of themselves. It does allow for content to be created for audiences that were being completely ignored and neglected.

I found out about Logan Paul in the traditional news.

There are lots of YouTubers that no one knows about who are getting hundreds of thousands of views on content that we would be really upset to see. And no one's holding them accountable because their audience shares all the same biases.

I'm Hank, I do a bunch of stuff.

Notoriety is such a prized thing. Society suddenly wants your opinion on things - everyone from your mom to an editor at The New York Times.

YouTube is very culturally recognized. When we started in 2007 YouTube was very relevant, but completely unrecognized.

No one wants to be the creator with the reputation for bad mouthing sponsors!

The landscape of professional creation continues to get more complex. Organizations and platforms of all sorts are vying for a slice of the value created by the relationship between creators and their audiences.

Gone are the days when every successful creator got their own New York Times profile. Nowadays, professional Internet creator is just another job.

I started paying my bills with YouTube money around the time I hit a million views a month.

I love iPhones. I love iPhone 6 Pluses and iPhone 6s and iPhone 5s's and iPhone 5cs. I also love iPhone 4s. I'm sure if I had been savvy enough to own one, I would've loved the original iPhone.

Don't feel bad about getting someone to click on something if the thing they're clicking on doesn't suck.

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.

We shouldn't be ashamed of getting people to click on content that we're proud of.

There's something exceptional about watching a video and simultaneously thinking 'That was genius!' and 'I could have done that!'

There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.

It is much easier to hire your 20th person than your 1st.

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.