454: Flippin’ Heck

Hank Green· Host0:00

Real quick, everybody, straight message here from Hank Green. I have had a really weird career. I've done a lot of really cool things, but by far the thing that I get thanked for the most in public, and am most proud of, and am most amazed by, because of course, like, this is not a thing that I did, it is a thing that many people did that I, I helped with, is Crash Course, youtube.com/crashcourse. It is really good. It, it helps people learn in situations where they need that help. It helps lower the barrier to getting information in your head. We've never charged anybody for it. We've never advertised it. We've never convinced a school board to buy it. The only reason people use Crash Course is because a student decides to use it because they think that it's gonna help them, or a teacher decides to use it because they think they're gonna help their student. That's how we want Crash Course to be. The only reason it's successful is because people are choosing to use it, and I know that sounds crazy, but in educational media, that is not often how things go. But there are two true things about the world. Number one, making Crash Course is expensive. It's a lot more expensive than making the average YouTube video because you gotta get things right, you gotta have consultants, you gotta have a lot of review. And a second thing that's true is that some people, and not most, but some people have extra money, and this is the only reason that Crash Course works. It is because some people who can pay for it so that not everyone else has to. And now that Complexly is a nonprofit, that's a thing that happened this year, Complexly, the parent company of Crash Course, is a nonprofit, so we belong structurally, officially to the public, and so that's gonna help out with