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Asking the right person about the celebrity idea, but i see where you're going. sam, i wanted to come to you about patreon in a bit more detail now. because that is, to an extent, meant to change at least some of it, as i understand it. you launched it back, i think it was 2013, with a university friend, jack conte. he was a musician, but was only earning tiny sums on youtube. was that how the idea began, to try and do something differently here? yes, i mean, even for myself personally i had studied... jack and i met in college because we were matched in a creative dorm. but i had studied 15 y...

Earning tiny sums on youtube. was that how the idea began, to try and do something differently here? yes, i mean, even for myself personally i had studied... jack and i met in college because we were matched in a creative dorm. but i had studied 15 years of classical piano. my college essay was about how my mum chopped off part of my middle finger in a door hinge, but then i continued studying music and played in carnegie hall. but i didn't decide to do music as my career because at that time certainly you had to be the absolute best to even consider a possible path forward. where this was you...

You can buy an advert - on youtube that costs an awful lot of money, you can buy an advert on tiktok that l will be slotted into the feed videos that you see. - those things cost an awful lot. of money to buy for businesses and the money that they makej from that is basically ploughed into profits for the platform. youtube makes billions of dollars in advertisingj revenue every single year off the back of, | essentially, free labour of millions of people. l i was going to say, it is unpaid labour, isn't it, by those of us who are posting stuff? it is, but then, - there's the opportunity. why d...

Rich and getting those - million—dollar mansions that becky was talking about. i don't think you're asking the right person about the celebrity idea, but i see where you're going. sam, i wanted to come to you about patreon in a bit more detail now. because that is, to an extent, meant to change at least some of it, as i understand it. you launched it back, i think it was 2013, with a university friend, jack conte. he was a musician, but was only earning tiny sums on youtube. was that how the idea began, to try and do something differently here? yes, i mean, even for myself personally i had s...