Scaling YouTube: Build or Sell to Private Equity? - WOW Happens Episode 2

Welcome back!

On today’s episode we talk about private equity on YouTube, it’s implications on the creator economy, and what or even if there are alternative, have a watch or listen and let us know your thoughts on the topic! 🙂

And as always, thanks for watching and listening! ❤️

WOW WOW WOW!
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Episode Chapters
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0:00 One Battle After Another Movie Review 🍿
0:58 Todays Topics!
1:28 Victor's Home Recording Struggles
4:10 What is Private Equity on YouTube? 💰
4:40 The Private Equity Model: Selling a Stake to Get Funding and Support
6:22 Followers Don't Matter: The EBITDA ($100k Earnings) Minimum Requirement
7:31 Veritasium's Success with PE vs. Donut Media
9:49 Scaling Yourself: Linus Media Group (Building In-House) vs. PE
11:46 The "Key Person Problem": Why Scaling Hosts is Necessary (MKBHD, Hot Ones)
15:20 Three Waves of Creator Business: Closet, Media Company, and Private Equity
18:38 The Danger of PE Leading to Creative "Look-Alikes" (Electrify & Blender Farm)
23:46 The A24 Approach for YouTube Creators? (W24)
25:07 WOW WOW WOWs: Apple Music's new Spotify Library Transfer Feature 🎶
26:48 Cool Tool: CyberDuck for Super-Fast Cloud Storage Transfers (Google/OneDrive)

About WOW Happens
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This is WOW Happens! A weekly podcast by Steffi and Victor, 2 friends who love to discuss video productions, the marketing behind them, and how technology changes it daily.

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