Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

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Chickenpolar said:
Moving to North Carolina would be a huge W for Luke. He'd be able to afford more than a shoebox to live in.

Plus the getting away from the narcissist boss/owner piece.
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I would kill for Steve to do a tell-all interview with Luke after a departure like that. Is it petty to quit and then immediately shit talk your old boss? Abso-fucking-lutely. But I think that kind of petty is justified when its in response to working three jobs and being denied a salary increase because you happen to be friends after a decade of working together.

If you are ever in Linus and Lukes situation, and there's worries about a conflict of interest in compensation discussions for someone who's otherwise very important to the organization, that's when you bring in a third party from outside the company. There's no shortage of staffing and consulting firms that'd gladly take a couple week job to assess the position and the market and let you know what it'd be worth, and pocket twenty grand for the privilege. You could also bring in a lawyer or firm, but they tend to be more specialized in adversarial salary negotiations, while consulting firms will give better results cheaper in a mutually agreed situation.

Of course this is only needed if anyone else in the organization actually feels like there'd be a serious nepotism or favoritism risk of just actually negotiating with the guy. LTT's not a small company anymore, but certainly its still a small club among the leadership. I really doubt anyone will actually bitch and moan that the guy they've all known forever is finally getting paid a reasonable sum. The real reason is likely that Luke is far from the only underpaid leadership position in the org, and that its only unfair in the context of "everyone is getting fucked".
 
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GosuGopher said:
This is 100% related to the fact Luke has been acting-chief of LTT Labs for a year now. Replacing Gary Key; someone who was getting paid hundreds-of-thousands of dollars, and yet is still making a paltry salary that he *self-admits* is not enough to move out of the tiny apartment he, his girlfriend, and a 3rd roommate rent together.
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This is fucking insanity is what it is. Dude has been there forever, seems to actually do work, and is stuck living in an apartment with his GF and another roommate just to pay rent? I'm not saying this guy should have his own mansion but holy shit.

The only real takeaway after that is he isn't actually doing fuck all, or has zero confidence in his ability to do anything in life without following Linus around like a lost puppy. And sure, you shouldn't just give your friend giant pay raises, but at the same time should also be payable them a competitive rate for their position and work done.

Also the company bringing in 32-65 million(that's a pretty damn big range) isn't particularly important. It's what their actual revenue is after all of their liabilities are accounted for. How much are they actually wasting on stupid shit, how much is their actual payroll for their 100 employees, building leases, Linus' dumb projects he uses to business to spend for, and so on.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
If you are ever in Linus and Lukes situation, and there's worries about a conflict of interest in compensation discussions for someone who's otherwise very important to the organization, that's when you bring in a third party from outside the company. There's no shortage of staffing and consulting firms that'd gladly take a couple week job to assess the position and the market and let you know what it'd be worth, and pocket twenty grand for the privilege. You could also bring in a lawyer or firm, but they tend to be more specialized in adversarial salary negotiations, while consulting firms will give better results cheaper in a mutually agreed situation.
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Did someone say a "Third Party?"

 
p1138 said:
How much are they actually wasting on stupid shit, how much is their actual payroll for their 100 employees, building leases, Linus' dumb projects he uses to business to spend for, and so on.
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I spent some time trying to number autism, but honestly I don't think anyone really cares. The only interesting takeaway is that his margins on his merch business and his dead inventory on that side is pretty much the entire make and break of his corporate finances. One bad merch call with an overinvestment, and he's massively in the hole. Hell, hes' going to face a real fucking problem as the US closes the customs gap that small merch importers like Temu abuse horribly. He might be based in Canada, but most of that merch is assuredly going stateside, and he's not gonna be able to just slip under that personal exemption anymore he's gonna have to either charge up or cut margins, which'll hurt sales either way.
 
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I think its funny that linus was able to make such a believable april fools video because he likes spending copious amounts of money on dumb shit. I wouldn't be surprised if he actually does end up doing a firetruck in the near future.
 
So is the firetruck rented or did he actually compulsively buy that?
It seems he wants to make a LAN gaming center out of that so i think he actually bought this
 
Kuritan Deplorable said:
I spent some time trying to number autism, but honestly I don't think anyone really cares. The only interesting takeaway is that his margins on his merch business and his dead inventory on that side is pretty much the entire make and break of his corporate finances. One bad merch call with an overinvestment, and he's massively in the hole. Hell, hes' going to face a real fucking problem as the US closes the customs gap that small merch importers like Temu abuse horribly. He might be based in Canada, but most of that merch is assuredly going stateside, and he's not gonna be able to just slip under that personal exemption anymore he's gonna have to either charge up or cut margins, which'll hurt sales either way.
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That's what I mean though. He's got a significant amount of his income tied to stupid merch, while constantly spending absurd amounts of money on headcount and equipment that sits around doing nothing in what seems like multiple buildings he's paying leases on. How much of a hit can he actually take to an aspect of the business and still keep in the black?

Maybe this is the reason his dumb brain keep going to "LAN party" as an idea to make more money on the side? It seemed like he wanted to do LAN parties at the badminton place, was talking about a LAN party boat, joked about a LAN party firetruck. I know Quakecon and LANfest are still things(god knows why but that's a separate matter), but those are events and not businesses open to the public daily. The cybercafe shit never worked in the US as a sustainable business model, and I can't imagine Canada is much different in that regard as the markets seem too similar.
 
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0da2 said:
He owns all of the buildings.
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Ok, so then he's still having to pay for all of the upkeep and insurance of multiple buildings. The cost doesn't suddenly go to 0 just because he owns the property.
0da2 said:
It's easy content. You stuff a boat or firetruck with PCs and it's now a LAN boat and LAN truck.
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We've been over that in this thread, it is not "easy content" and no amount of money he could make from a youtube video would have covered the berthing fees alone of a 120 foot yacht. It was a wasteful spending idea that even he realized was idiotic.
 
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Haven't listened to WAN Show but it looks like they're in that gay firetruck, probably acting gay about tariffs.

Meanwhile for being completely tone deaf to the situation Trump's trying to fix, here's a rich nepo baby (who looks to be 45-50) using his daddy's prestige to build a LAN home in Austin.


Probably will troon out any day now:

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1983 Opel Kadett said:
"...beat me to it, but built it better than I could have dreamed"

No shit linus, everything you have ever done has been half assed botch job.
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I'm sure they also don't have extension cords running through their walls. I don't see how some building inspector hasn't come to his house and made him fix all of the shit he's done thats clearly against code.
 
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p1138 said:
The cybercafe shit never worked in the US as a sustainable business model, and I can't imagine Canada is much different in that regard as the markets seem too similar.
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Neither would Badminton (a game for dandies); the difference between Canada and the USA is how a large majority of Canada's population is within like, 100 miles of the USA border, meaning their populations aren't as spread out as the USA's despite their available land mass. What this has done, has made it so all the imports they let into their country have fewer places to go; jeets aside, there's also a large amount of Han Chinese, and while they may move, they also seek refuge in familiar things. One of which are cyber cafes, and I imagine Badminton is as well, if not something for the new arrivals to look more gentrified than everyone else. Linus's big mistake is wanting to cross-contaminate the gamers and dandies, instead of accepting that there's probably little, if any, cross-over. I can't prove it'd work, but if Linus really wanted to have a gaming cafe / LAN Center, what he needs to do is go the route that the Barcades in the USA does; get your liquor license and just be an alcohol center with gaming PCs or whatever. I promise you, for the ones that stay above water; it's the not the allure of CPS2/3 or NAOMI systems that get people in barcades, the alcohol carries the weight, while the old men can keep the dream of an arcade in their hearts.
 
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p1138 said:
his ability to do anything in life without following Linus around like a lost puppy
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Probably the reason that Linus packed him away to deal with Floatplane was because he was nervous how popular Luke was getting and didn't want him to be able to leave and take his audience with him. That's how Linus himself created his business in the first place, after all.
 
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